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by GuiA 9y ago
This is how you know there isn’t actually a talent shortage in tech, despite what companies like to claim.
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by GuiA 9y ago
and probably pay a lot more taxes This is a misconception about the US. Compared to Europe, engineers tend to proportionally pay as much taxes, and sometimes even a bit more (!) in the US. You get tremendously LESS for your taxes though,
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by GuiA 9y ago
Man it’s kinda crazy that in 2017, it’s worthy of attention when a design has hover/touch down states for its buttons, but here we are. Stripe’s design team does good work for sure, but what’s really striking is how most people buildin
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by GuiA 9y ago
India is similar to China in that they both have a rich heritage of wonderful art, and a huge population to carry on that tradition. It's surprising to me that we don't have more goods from India. I agree with your premise - Ind
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by GuiA 9y ago
There’s certainly a small and beautifully designed “I have read the [terms and conditions]” checkbox next to the field where you input your email (and no non tech savvy user/lawyer has ever bothered to click those links)
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by GuiA 9y ago
1 million “neurons” that communicate via 256 million “synapses.” Human brain = an estimated 100 billion neurons for over 100 trillion synapses according to Wikipedia So a 5 orders of magnitude difference for neuron count, but only 1 small
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by GuiA 9y ago
> But it turned out that the tablet future never happened. I see as many tablets walking around town, taking the subway, etc as I do laptops, when 6 years ago I saw none, so the tablet future definitely happened, and we are living in i
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by GuiA 9y ago
Prefer smaller, more specific meet ups (eg functional video game programming) over larger, broader ones (eg Python meetup) if you can. Even better, try to start your own meet up for one of your interests! In any reasonably sized city it’s n
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by GuiA 9y ago
Besides the fact that “no special angles, lighting, design” is nonsensical (what makes an angle or lighting “special”?...) - how do you think stock photography businesses make money exactly? Feel free to use all the “non special” photos fro
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by GuiA 9y ago
“Creative” in copyright law means that it results from an act of creation, which taking a photo - no matter how “neutral” - is.
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There is nothing clear about this being fair use. In fact, it seems to pretty clearly not fall under fair use. https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-...
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It doesn’t matter, and the artistic value of it doesn’t come into play at all. If you are selling things based on a photo of a napkin I scribbled on while drunk, you’re still violating my copyright. The author here holds the copyright for t
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by GuiA 9y ago
One asked: “Why are we not allowed to sit when it is quiet and not busy? We are human beings, not slaves and animals.” That’s because Amazon would much rather have robots instead of human beings. In the meantime, it is falling back on hum
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by GuiA 9y ago
It’s hard to say what the exact threshold of complexity/data volume/network connectivity required is when it comes to making computational media easily archivable, but it is pretty clear that we are long past it. But that’s okay,
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by GuiA 9y ago
Using your comment as a jumping off point for the discussion of this aspect particularly - as long as the construction is done with fairly environmentally friendly materials, I don’t find that especially problematic. Maybe because I am typi
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by GuiA 9y ago
Neat article. For people deeply interested in video game translation, particularly with some knowledge of Japanese, I highly recommend the “Legends of Localization” books, where the author goes into extreme details about how Zelda (first bo
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by GuiA 9y ago
A typeface is the design, a font is a specific incarnation of it. Helvetica Bold 12pt and Helvetica 18pt are two different fonts from the same typeface, Helvetica. This comes from letterpress days where “font” referred to a collection of le
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by GuiA 9y ago
From "Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing" : I – Obeys operator The operator shall retain full control of the machine at all times. In particular, the handling of the keyboard, mouse, and other human interface devices must t
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by GuiA 9y ago
TL;DR: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, on which the House favorably voted today, includes a repeal of Section 117(d)(5) of the current tax code, which makes tuition exemption at universities for grad students non taxable. Pretty much every singl
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by GuiA 9y ago
> Unrefined opium is in the same ballpark as alcohol for addicitiveness. Which is not a good thing! Alcohol is pretty terrible dependency wise, outclassing many drugs by far. If we lived in a parallel universe where alcohol had just be
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by GuiA 9y ago
Very naive question as someone who last wrote production JavaScript in 2008: so basically web developers are reinventing debug symbols?
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by GuiA 9y ago
It doesn't really matter to me why they're rich as long as a proportional amount of their earnings is reinvested in their local community, jobs, and infrastructure :)
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by GuiA 9y ago
That's wild to me too, but rich lazy people who subcontract out everything is much better for society than rich people who hoard their money forever, so I'm certainly not going to shame them about it :)
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by GuiA 9y ago
Obviously not to discount your experience - but I come from a family of carpenters, on my mom's side, and do not observe the issues you describe in my family. My grandfather, for instance, is still extremely healthy in every way at 82
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by GuiA 9y ago
The PUBG game design is very compelling. I think it’s going to become a new classic in the years to come, much like Minecraft style builders or DotA style games have. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few AAA games built on that model.
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by GuiA 9y ago
Interesting - are you stating that not many people experience the snow, or not many people don’t go for weeks without noticing? I’ve always experienced it, and remember playing as a kid squinting my eyes really hard to make random colors an
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by GuiA 9y ago
> It's not like one crowds the other out, like a coffee shop with a shared physical space might. Everybody has their own little view of the world from inside FB, curated to their own preferences and propagated by AI similarity rec
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Taking the subway in Tokyo, I still see people playing Pokémon Go many times a day. Not sure what your definition of “disappeared” is.
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So will the workers get shorter days, or more paid time off? :)
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And yet everyone and their dog knows about Pokémon Go. In addition to having proved the things you outlined (I completely agree with you, just in case it's unclear), Niantic is also the perfect reminder for every entrepreneur out there

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