CodeMage

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by CodeMage 9y ago
> How do you propose fixing the problem? Teach your kids better. There are several factors at play here. One is the technological ignorance you mentioned. Kids don't understand caches, archives, downloading media? Teach them. It s
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Fire up Terminate, call my favorite BBS, log on, check messages, play some Trade Wars 2002. Those were the days. For a brief time, I had my own BBS and I was really proud when it became a FidoNet point.
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Not that I disagree with all of your points, but I can't say I've seen any evidence that there is such a thing as Standard Developer Interview™. Over the past month, I've been interviewing with 8 different companies, 3 of whi
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by CodeMage 9y ago
I always get skeptical when people discuss raw numbers instead of purchasing power. Even within US, 100k USD is not very meaningful unless you specify the state.
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Hi Peter, Thank you for taking the time to answer the questions. Mine is: how long should a Green Card holder stay with the company that sponsored the GC to avoid future problems with USCIS?
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by CodeMage 9y ago
One can have principled objections against capitalism without objecting against democracy.
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by CodeMage 9y ago
> For me, her main buildup was hiring women to meet a "diversity goal" resulted in pressures to hire some women who couldn't do the work. I've learned to be especially leery of arguments that sound reasonable and
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by CodeMage 9y ago
The best way to find out what your brain does with languages is to try to pay attention to your dreams. It's hard to do that, but the few times I managed that (not on purpose), I realized that I would switch languages multiple times wi
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Well, @eunoia seems to think so. I happen to disagree. But at least now we can discuss it without the emotional baggage of calling someone a thief. For whatever reason, people get worked up over that label more than "trespasser" o
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by CodeMage 9y ago
I really wish people would stop slapping the "theft" label on things that aren't. It's intellectual laziness that just cheapens the discussion. Sitting in an airport lounge you shouldn't have access to isn't st
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by CodeMage 9y ago
As my dad always says, "you can call me a jar, as long as you don't smash me to bits". Since Slavic proverbs don't always translate well to English, it might be best to clarify: what you call yourself is not as important
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by CodeMage 9y ago
All modern software is built on layers upon layers of leaky abstractions. If you view fundamentals as nothing more than hazing rituals, you won't even be aware of just where the abstractions start to leak and you'll end up writing
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by CodeMage 9y ago
I'm not defending such comments, but there's more to them than just gatekeeping. Speaking from my own point of view, the "I was a geek and it wasn't cool" sentiment comes from feeling betrayed by having your lifesty
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by CodeMage 9y ago
At the risk of sounding like a cranky old codger, I'd like to point a couple of things out. If all you have are "plug and play code monkeys", all you'll have is shitty software. The fact that shitty software is "eno
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by CodeMage 9y ago
I'm pretty sure @pjmlp is using the word "mistake" to say "a decision that turned out to be bad". English is not my native language, but judging by the ways I've seen it used and what dictionary definitions I c
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by CodeMage 9y ago
I would respectfully disagree that US citizens "should" recite the pledge of allegiance every day at school. I understand that you probably meant something along the lines of "it makes no sense for non-US citizens to recite t
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Supposing that's true, you might need to get acquainted with Poe's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Those are all examples of problems learners hit only when they've successfully learned English. By the time a non-native speaker has to worry about subjunctive or less vs. fewer, they've already reached a level of proficiency that
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Just out of curiosity, which language are your examples from? I'm asking because my native language is Serbian and it also features "male" tables and "female" government.
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by CodeMage 9y ago
I don't know whether you're a native English speaker or not, but you certainly reason like one. I started learning English when I was 6 years old and have had very few problems with it. My wife started learning it when she was 39.
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Just a small observation: whiteboard coding is not inherently wrong. Bad experiences with whiteboard coding usually come from dealing with companies with broken hiring process, where simply eliminating whiteboard coding and replacing it w
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Why? You already gave the candidate a "take home assignment". That assignment should involve interesting trade-offs. If it doesn't, tweak it until it does. Why not discuss that code? I'm the kind of guy who still likes t
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Or, to take your alcohol metaphor closer to what Facebook tries to be, imagine if Budweiser was actively striving to curate all the content you consume, to be your main source of news, to be your main channel of communication with other peo
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Facebook is a lot more than what you portray in your comment. A random grandmother who logs into Facebook to see photos of her grandkids could get that same value from many other sources: Google Photos, Instagram and just plain old e-mail c
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by CodeMage 9y ago
Four years ago, Moxie Marlinspike offered a good explanation of why this "vote with your feet" approach doesn't really work, at DEFCON 18. His talk is called "Changing Threats to Privacy" and I highly recommend watc
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by CodeMage 9y ago
For a post that claims that you can explain the Liar Paradox "without getting too technical", it got way too technical really fast.
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by CodeMage 9y ago
I am not entirely sure how much of your comment is sarcasm. Most of the author's complaints about Windows 10 are on point. Comparing Windows 7 and Windows 10 leads me to similar conclusions: the UI is more cluttered, there's unnec
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by CodeMage 9y ago
> 'If you're not a paying user' doesn't immediately lead you to 'They're going to scan my email and sell the data to fucking Uber' and shouldn't require the user to scan the ToS / rack their
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Excellent point! Let me first quickly explain that the only reason I appear fixated on content-creation is because the vast majority of "save the ads" crowd use the "but the content creators will stop" argument ;) The an
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by CodeMage 10y ago
Why? I really don't understand why people think that ads of all things need saving. I understand the desire to make money flow towards the content creators. I understand the desire for free content. I understand that the ads seem to

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