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by 205guy 13y ago
A lot of people are judging the personalities involved, the event itself, and the media behavior, but few objective facts are revealed. More worrisome is that objective facts are seemingly being covered over with weasel words. First off, I
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by 205guy 13y ago
I will be the contrarian and say it was a great choice of font color for at least 2 reasons. The first is purpose: those dark images really stand out on the dark page, and the text is easily ignored, creating lots of attention on the photos
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by 205guy 13y ago
I'll copy what I wrote in another comment: Um, did you know that "awards" in the software industry are a sort of marketing gray area where companies pay a lot for a submission to some "organization" who then hands o
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by 205guy 13y ago
Um, did you know that "awards" in the software industry are a sort of marketing gray area where companies pay a lot for a submission to some "organization" who then hands out "awards" and "nomiations"
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by 205guy 13y ago
My point was we're trying to judge the merit of an entire system by one tiny facet. What's a fair amount of money for this guy to get if it's not X? What if I was a QA tester and I complained on my blog that my dev team was u
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by 205guy 13y ago
You brought up an interesting point about the idea for reddit, but you're wrong about the title of this thread.
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by 205guy 13y ago
What I think is missing from this whole discussion is the ability to make a living. Sure the industry is opaque to outsiders, and some of the established practices are weird (radio paying only songwriters, not performers), and now it's
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by 205guy 13y ago
I was thinking the same thing. The text is way too sharp, so it's rather anachronistic to see the right color scheme with modern fonts. There has to be a slightly pixelated font out there, based on the pixel pattern of the green CRTs.
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by 205guy 13y ago
Sounds like US citizens should have an unencrypted email signature saying: My name is XXX, I am a US citizen. My address is YYY. By the rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and supported by federal courts, the contents of this email are
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by 205guy 13y ago
I'm not a big fan of AirBnB, but I also think hotels have room to offer better services and compete better with home-stay options. Somebody already suggested live-work suites, but it doesn't have to be every room. Depending on the
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by 205guy 13y ago
You have to believe they do monitor all public postings, though that is a job in itself. 2 thoughts about that: 1) they could probably justify secret rooms and data gathering on the volume of public traffic alone. In other words if they are
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by 205guy 13y ago
Strawman. Free parking is perfectly fine in low density non-commercial neighborhoods. The problem is how AirBnB enables commercial use of residential property.
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by 205guy 13y ago
Yeah, not sure what I should think about HN when NSA surveillance threads had more points, but Apple announcement thread (MacPro) had more comments (and typical fanboy and haters comments).
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Indeed. At first, I thought the use of "literally" was hyperbole. Then it almost sounded like Apple had stolen his thunder graphic (in which case, it would've been an awesome title). But no, so back to hyperbole. I do feel fo
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by 205guy 13y ago
Further thinking along this line: most people in the world today are dependent on their phones and internet for information and communication. A lot of people suspected total listening capabilities and now we mostly know that's the cas
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by 205guy 13y ago
Everytime I see you reply to this thread, I have to remind myself that you are actually out in the woods right now, probably sitting by that lake as you type the comment.
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by 205guy 13y ago
When marinas become full of thrify tech workers, slip fees increase, people bid up any available slip (used boat), and real boaters are forced out, then you will have encouraged people enough.
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by 205guy 13y ago
Something I've wondered about shut-downs like this: why don't they sell the whole product off as an independent business? That's what brick and mortar places usually try to do before closing (if they didn't go bankrupt). I could imagine an
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by 205guy 13y ago
While socialist_coder does have a valid anecdote that counters the disgruntled QA guy's anecdote, it is quite incomprehensible to see someone named socialist_coder oppose someone advocating for organized labor. My take on the whole affair:
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by 205guy 13y ago
There are many, many reasons to oppose GMOs: 1) The IP system and the companies who exploit it to essentially disrupt agriculture (licences to grow seeds, cannot replant, must buy seeds annually, aggressive lobbying, regulatory capture). Th
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by 205guy 13y ago
No, no. The future is 1.21 jigawatts, IIRC.
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by 205guy 13y ago
I think you meant: it just seems weird to actually have a face to go along with the search results. And when I think about it, that's the whole issue: I'm beginning to think that images (of authors or webmasters or product logos) don't belo
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by 205guy 13y ago
I'm not the only one. Hey, you can still run pine if you want.
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I feel the OP raised 2 strawmen: 1) Many jobs are at startups now, and those startups are roughly similar, therefore it's not cool anymore ("is the novelty even there"). That is just bad logic. It may be that startups replicated high pressu
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by 205guy 13y ago
Thanks for the link to the curriculum, I haven't looked into CS education in a long time. My observation is that CS is getting to be a huge field. There was a time when it wasn't much more than OS and compilers (I exaggerate). Now they try
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by 205guy 13y ago
In my case, it was a "Master's" of Software Engineering that I got in France. I did my BS in the US where I learned all about algorithms, networking, databases, processors, bytecode, assembler, functional languages, and object-oriented lang
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by 205guy 13y ago
As I replied to enraged_camel's thread (linked in his/her comment), what you want is essentially a BS in CS. What's wrong with having multiple BS degrees? How does a BS in one field prepare you for an MS in another? The real issue is that t
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by 205guy 13y ago
As someone who has studied in the US and France, informatics and computer science are the same thing. Informatics is generally a European term and computer science is used predominently in the US--not sure about UK. There could be slight nu
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I don't think it's a criticism of the people who read the article, rather of those who posted it. Just like logging a bug, you should make sure someone hasn't logged it already. A bit of repetition on a yearly basis would be fine, but if al
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by 205guy 13y ago
I don't disagree with the article, but I had 2 thoughts form in my mind while reading it: 1) I don't think entrepreneurs (and tech ones at that) have solved any problems, even for the upper classes they cater to. Instead, they have become p

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