Deestan

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by Deestan 14y ago
I'd rather have a colleague come in to work drunk than pull an all-nighter to work on core functionality. Yes , we really need to get this thing improved as soon as possible, but having effectively brain-damaged people introduce bugs all
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by Deestan 14y ago
I would go all the way past 140, to prevent people from making fun of it on Twitter.
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by Deestan 14y ago
The other two being cache invalidation and off-by-one errors, according to Jonathan Blow.
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by Deestan 14y ago
> Is it even a game? Technically , yes: It has a goal (collect orbs) a challenge (navigate environment) and a difficulty curve (increased distortion). But it's really a tech demo, though.
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by Deestan 14y ago
> It was sloppy to do all that and then not either properly parameterise what should be published or include a requirement that the copy be agreed or reviewed before publication. No, it was pretty clear what message Apple were supposed
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by Deestan 14y ago
> If you cause "annoyance" or "inconvenience" to someone, you can be fined or jailed up to three years! Only if you do it via electronic communication. Books, leaflets, etc have no corresponding laws.
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by Deestan 14y ago
A <Language> program can be really slow, especially when it's written by non-experts who don't understand <CorePrinciple> well.
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by Deestan 14y ago
> it's pretty common in Europe that sacking a worker requires going through a lot of legal hoops If the position is truly superfluous (1) and you can't use the employee in another position (2), sacking is entirely hassle-free. (1) This
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by Deestan 14y ago
In Sweden, that is pretty close to 2 months' salary for a software developer.
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by Deestan 14y ago
> go off on a tangent hoping all small business disappears? No he didn't say hope all , he said most should .
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by Deestan 14y ago
To the episode in the anecdote? No, the affected guy, a personal acquaintance, never blogged about it or anything.
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by Deestan 14y ago
> we can actually get into the datacenter to fix it. But better and faster than Amazon? I'd rather spend three hours at home saying "Shit. Well, we'll just wait for Amazon to fix that", than dropping my dinner, driving to the datacenter
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by Deestan 14y ago
So while it's still legal , it tends to conflict with service most services TOS agreements. Were I to make "unauthorized backups" of my games, Steam would shut down my account completely, by means of the "we can do what we want for no give
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by Deestan 14y ago
And now the first result links back to your comment here. :)
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by Deestan 14y ago
The scale and precision of this maneuver is mind-boggling. Anyone want to try for themselves, I can recommend the amazing Kerbal Space Program (0). I just yesterday watched episode #38 (1) of kurtjmac's Let's Play where he attempts an orbi
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by Deestan 14y ago
> Now if you have reached the speed of light, doubling the speed will never make you go back in time, it will just halve the time it takes you yet again. It actually makes sense in that regard, because while accelerating, you will shrin
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by Deestan 14y ago
There was a post recently comparing that to "the carpets are just naturally clean all the time, so we laid off the cleaning staff".
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by Deestan 14y ago
> acknowledging the subjectivity of their opinions rather than presuming to present an indisputable statement of truth. I actually try hard to use I wherever possible for that particular reason. Saying "I think a message-passing styl
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by Deestan 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony Dramatic Irony seems to fit. > Dramatic irony is a disparity of awareness between actor and observer: when words and actions possess significance that the listener or audience understands, but the sp
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by Deestan 14y ago
While often given as a joke, this is effectively what many of these "best interview question" posts really are: Find any random old way to save time and effort in the interviewing process, then come up with some clever-sounding rationaliz
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by Deestan 14y ago
That would be a very useful reply. It would effectively communicate to me whether you would make a good hire.
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by Deestan 14y ago
> I recently had an intelligent, highly educated, highly paid woman tell me that "Macs are immune to viruses". I don't doubt that, but you can't really refute a general argument with a single data point. It's not as if I said "all Mac
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by Deestan 14y ago
> Mac users probably have more money (on a broad average). I sadly suspect this is part of the reason. They have more money and chose a Mac because they are educated and can get a decent salary and mentally independent enough to make
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by Deestan 14y ago
> pretend you are following their instructions for as long as possible It's not just fun, it's a very responsible thing to do. Every minute they spend with you is a minute they don't spend screwing over someone else. But don't end with
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by Deestan 14y ago
Unless the steam process shuts down unexpectedly, or you suddenly lose internet connection, or your computer reboots too quickly for Steam to keep up. Then Steam will decide it needs to ... validate something ... with the online servers be
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by Deestan 14y ago
To me, this list comes off as "Signs Your Employees Do Not Consider You the Alpha Male". Some of the best managers I've seen "fail" at at least one of these. #1 - People don't immediately drop their work to brown-nose you? Good . #2 - Peo
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by Deestan 14y ago
That statement implies an impotent God.
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by Deestan 14y ago
This is a waste of your time for certain questions, though. The ones ending in "urgent please help" just scream that the poster is going to wait 15 minutes, briefly scan the answer sections for code snippets, and move on.
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by Deestan 14y ago
No, but there are many forms of corruption and immoral tax-avoidance that are technically legal.
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by Deestan 14y ago
Openness and transparency makes corruption more difficult.

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