EpicEng

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901.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Ok, so we agree that they didn't explode in the early 90's. Good.
902.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>mobile exploded immediately (in the early nineties) The only people I knew who had cell phones in the early nineties were my rich uncle and Zack Morris.
903.
by EpicEng 8y ago
On the other end, my kid has played my launch day version nearly every day and haven't had an issue yet.
904.
by EpicEng 8y ago
How easy do you imagine it is to get that many people to put their name on a list saying they want you for president?
905.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Not proud of it, but I fit somewhere in that bucket. I do consider it and I have made (slightly) inconventient choices in the name of privacy, but when it comes down to it, I typically say "screw it" because I want what I want.
906.
by EpicEng 8y ago
It's difficult for the average person to understand the long term implications of this sort of data collection. They don't realize how powerful all these little details can be when put together.
907.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Of course you have a choice, but in reality who leaves a site because they see that warning? I imagine almost no one. Hell, I understand the implications and I don't care because site X has what I'm after and perhaps no one else d
908.
by EpicEng 8y ago
I thought that had to do with either trademark (e.g. logo for a competing company) or the method by which a color is manufactured (assuming it is not simple/obvious.) I don't believe you can literally lock down a color with no exc
909.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>presumably a trained neural network counts as a derived work I just spent about 15 minutes trying to confirm that and... I have no idea. I suppose it's not surprising that a software engineer would not be able to suss that out in 1
910.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Nothing you describe there requires write/admin access though. I'm not religious about this. My team automates anything we have to do more than a couple of times, and from time to time we do have to manually alter something in a p
911.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Working fine in Austin TX
912.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>If the bribe taker donated all of the money to charity, would that make it any less unethical for the University/basketball coach Yes, it would. That wouldn't make it ethical or legal of course.
913.
by EpicEng 8y ago
To be fair, if you were donating data then you shouldn't exactly be expecting something in return. If there was an expectation then someone on your end didn't do their job or something on the Stanford end changed.
914.
by EpicEng 8y ago
So you routinely log in as an admin and run sql queries directly on a production DB? That seems quite a bit more "bad" than the example.
915.
by EpicEng 8y ago
I don't think you understand the context behind the meme... at all.
916.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Snow in Central Texas is rare and it's astounding when it sticks for a whole 24 hours. Compared to nearly everywhere else in the US, it's a warm climate. I can't even believe I'm debating whether or not Texas is "to
917.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>The sooner they go under, the sooner drivers start making livable incomes again. What do you imagine they'll do? Are there other, better paying jobs these people can be doing? If there are, what are they waiting for? Would the coll
918.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Why is VC funding your only metric? I work in Austin and we don't take much VC funding. You know why? We're _profitable_. Yes, a tech startup that actually makes money. We don't feel the need to grow at some arbitrary and rid
919.
by EpicEng 8y ago
It certainly does get hot, but too cold? My goodness. Winters are something like 50 degrees on average with a handful of cold spells (_maybe_ hits freezing overnight) here and there. If that's too cold then most of the world is off lim
920.
by EpicEng 8y ago
They don't lose billions each year on engineering. Not even close.
921.
by EpicEng 8y ago
That seems completely unreasonable. Lyft contracts with more than 700k drivers. How in the world could they give each driver a meaningful share of options while also maintaining a controlling interest in the company? Let's also be real
922.
by EpicEng 8y ago
That few would opt for. I don't see how this would actually solve anything.
923.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Or a Switch. My five year old loves Mario U on mine. I also built him a raspberry pi console with NES, SNES, SG, and PS1.
924.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Doesn't work for most games though. Nearly every "WoW killer" in the last decade has gone free to play because subs couldn't sustain them.
925.
by EpicEng 8y ago
You right of course, but Hearthstone is a card game. If it were an actual card game you would buy packs just like people did thirty years ago. There's not much to do in the way of cosmetics in a game like that.
926.
by EpicEng 8y ago
In what way does that alter or qualify the statement "There is a stigma around working at McDonalds, not skilled trades"?
927.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Perfection isn't required. None of the systems we design are perfect. What's relevant is whether or not it's better for the users. In a direct way, for the average user, I don't think you can reasonably argue that it&#
928.
by EpicEng 8y ago
> I blame the recession more than any stigma. There is a stigma around working at McDonalds, not skilled trades. For at least thirty years we have been telling our children that, in order to be successful, they need to go to college. We
929.
by EpicEng 8y ago
My wife is a teacher. You'd be surprised. Kids are pushed along to the next grade for valid and silly reasons alike. Sometimes it's a function of an unstable home life, but no one likes to admit that some people just aren't t
930.
by EpicEng 8y ago
At what point in time has the world as a whole been more educated than we are now? It seems to me that we've made great strides toward this goal, but the reality is that A) not everyone is cut out for it, and B) until we live in a Star

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