Kurtz79

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by Kurtz79 12y ago
If you are speaking about stands with fans at the bottom, in my experience they do next to nothing. All they do is "cooling" the aluminum bottom case, which has no contact (or though holes) with the inside parts of the laptop gene
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Exactly. After all, are they supposed to "excuse" it at all ? "Sorry <dude>, you are a really strong candidate and we were happy to talk with you, but in the end we decided to go forward with other candidates that are a
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
You could look for embedded software positions. I graduated in Electronics but it was clear for me that I liked software more, and embedded is a good compromise. After a while, if you do ok with your job you could ask to move to more HW fo
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
When something it's clearly better than a previous technology, you "get used to it" pretty quickly. Nobody complained when the first LCD monitors started replacing CRTs. When then first "retina" displays appeared, t
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Congrats and best luck for the future. In a way it's kind of belwildering how radically different seem to be the job hunting experience for many HW users. You see so many posts like "I had multiple six-figure offers", or &quo
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
There are plenty of apps for which geographic vicinity is crucial to the service they provide: meetup, yelp, uber... apps for which the end goal is for the user to interact with, or obtaining information about, something/someone close
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It's not very effective, but I don't think it's that bad. In the end as a developer your job is to solve problems, and getting hired is simply another problem (solving which has self-evident benefits, so you shouldn't la
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I know you mean well, but seriously, why should I hide where I'm from ? Although they tend to be annoying in the long run, these kind of jokes usually are done without any malice. I just think it's sad how stereotypes tend to be t
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
As a Sicilian living abroad (which must suffer through a healthy share of Mafia/Mamma jokes regularly) thank YOU for projecting a more positive image of the isle and the country.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It it was so it wouldn't be a big problem, but in reality it is bundled even with supposedly respectable software: https://www.change.org/p/oracle-corporation-stop-bundling-as... I'm always suprised when I op
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I'm a vim guy, but the strength of emacs is that is basically running on its own lisp, so it's completely programmable. He's likely to be running a customized version.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Then you might also want to check where the device you are typing from (or your monitor, router, smartphone...) has been manufactured.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
...which it's a relatively small part of the world. For example in many parts of Europe, although it is relatively uncommon for a programmer to be unemployed, salaries are a far cry from the 100k+ of Silicon Valley, meaning that the (l
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Not all corporate jobs are soulless, mind crushing Orwellian nightmares, and nothing prevents you from looking for a fulfilling job if you are unhappy with your present one, especially in our field.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I might be naive, but I don't see having to choose self-employment or salaried work as a all-or-nothing, no-going-back decision. You could easily secure a well paid job for a few years, and save enough to support working on a start-up
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
"... and this is why it was so totally worth it". This is something that is difficult to explain, but absolutely clear to you once you have achieved some degree of efficiency. Muscle memory makes the editor disappear and let you f
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
According to your reasoning, WW2 should not have existed at all, since it came on the heels of another devastating conflict. If anything, it's the post WW1 that was taken as a lesson: instead of further afflicting the defeated, fomenti
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
For "country", I meant the United Kingdom, at least in this context. Although I agree that the term is open to interpretation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Regardless of the difficulty of designing faster CPUs (that is to say, not by just increasing the clock, which has not been an option for a while), for a company that also manufactures the actual silicon, the cost associated to the fabricat
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Not in my experience, it's actually more likely that they will speak some measure of English (which tends to be by far the most common foreign language taught in school), rather than another latin-derived language. The fact that it&#x2
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Yes, of course there are, in any country which has some measure of immigration, people which will speak their original language, in addition to the language of the country they moved in. Just as well, the people of some region of the same c
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
"I'm not sure why you would say that. Here in Europe most people, even the working class, have some understanding of multiple languages." Sorry, but this is just not true for "Europe" in general. If you go to Italy,
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Same here: when I was growing up, Italian translation were done occasionally, but they were far from common. Now I'm glad. I surely lost some enjoyment by missing some of the puns at the time, but it's very satisfying being able t
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
For me the most impressive thing about Maniac Mansion is how more advanced in terms of gameplay it is, compared to many graphic adventures that came later, since you can select different characters and still beat the game, by solving diffe
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It took me only a few seconds to recognize the name (the other would be Edward Packard). "Choose your own adventure" were my introduction to "real" books as a kid, I loved them, I probably read each one of the several do
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
If you don't particularly care WHEN you are getting to destination, it's reasonably cheap. A bus is a terribly ineffective way to move around London, especially for commuting to/from the center. A single fare tube ride is 2.2
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I lived in Golders Green (Zone 3), and going to/from the tube station I always encountered few people. Since most of the sidelane was made up of single-family houses, it´s not so surprising. Also, I had the ginormous Hampsted Heath par
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It is subtler than that, I think. It´s not really age discrimination as much as a particular (stupid) view of what carrer development should be for a technical guy, in some places. That is to say, it is expected that in your late carrer you
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Unfortunately it seems to me that consulting is not really a thing in Spain. There are a lot of consulting jobs, but they are usually the domain of consulting companies (known as "cárnicas", meat factories, among developers), that
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Many Spanish young developer do this because salaries are substantially higher in UK, and an experience in an English speaking country is highly valued by companies in Spain (if they ever plan to come back), and of course for the experienc

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