MetaCosm

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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I don't think it is, I think it is about this specific issue. This issue isn't considered "political issue" anymore (by many), it is a moral issue. A hate issue. Akin to racism, sexism, etc. He was unlucky enough to
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
The trick is public perception of it. Once the public considers an issue no longer political, and rapidly coalesces behind a point of view... if you are on the wrong side of the point of view, expect to suffer repercussions. I would put fo
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
TL;DR: It isn't really a political issue anymore, it has become just intolerance and homophobia. I think this issue has crossed a threshold. 61% of young Republican leaning Americans (18-29) support marriage equality. The issue has a
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Which, in the end just sounds like an extension of privilege given to those who can attend universities.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Where were you two years ago... 11 hours day one. It was many days before a day two.
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I didn't say strongest indicator, I said negative correlation. These are people I hired because they interviewed well, I liked them initially -- or I wouldn't have hired them. Yet, out of the small handful of people I have had t
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Reading some of the ideas made me update my .vimrc a bit. The point that buffers versus files is mostly useless now is on point. The rest of the points about minimal UI I already use. Create files same way you find them, sure!
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
As a non-hiring manager, who has hired 159 software developers and interviewed probably over 1000. I have found high GPA to have negative correlation with success. When I started, I had absolutely no idea how to hire -- so I just kept tra
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
That is one way to look at it -- a rather unproductive one, but you are welcome to it. Lots of great teams work at large companies and have no control over the first pass of resumes. The reasons are often somewhat complex. Their applicati
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The recruiters do that because lots of HR departments are explicit: docx or deleted. Once you get through the screen, you can show them your fancy resume, but at that point, no one cares about your resume -- you already caught their attenti
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I have to disagree with your disagree! Many (most) jobs go through a pre-screen. The project manager is far too busy to filter all the crap, HR does that. HR sees a unfamiliar format, and simply bins that resume. If they specifically all
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Indeed, if nothing else than for access to the Github community.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
True, this is the most amazing one I can remember.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Sure, I agree with you on all points. That doesn't mean that marriage equality doesn't solve any issues. It solves one. Solving one problem is exponentially better than solving zero. As for Mormon polygamy and hippy communes --
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
TL;DR: Of he can be (and IMHO should be) criticized, he is on the wrong side of history. He made a public statement (money as speech), and now the community can (and will) hold him accountable for it. The bottom line is -- being homophobic
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
C isn't popular at colleges... and why should be it? So many more interesting, fun, crazy languages to play with... lisp, haskell, rust, ocaml, etc. That said, once you are in the real world and you bump into your first real hard prob
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and... ordered.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Still really rough. I have shipped two large production Erlang apps, smaller scale F# and Haskell apps. It is tough in three ways: (1) Just finding people who can do it, (2) finding people INTERESTED in using it, (3) affording people who
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Wasn't their slogan even at one point basically "like a dial tone"? Hinting at simplicity and reliability.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I really respect the way this was posted. A simple side by side. Most of the times stuff like this is posted, it is a horrifically convoluted example to try to show the massive code savings, this one is just -- honest. You save a few lin
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Indeed, THAT is who you cover a somewhat dry topic.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
The author is either very clever or very dumb, and I honestly can't tell which. She points out that sending a women to deal with another women is sexist. The (presumed) reasoning is that women are people, and shouldn't have be gi
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Hopefully Intel can help. Still experimental but at least we are discussing 800Gbps cables. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/intels...
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Yes. But it also addresses the quality of the journalism, which in this case is disgustingly poor. The link to random open source repos hosted on github, the inability to nail down a title... just poor journalism.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Because for two years she said the opposite? She is, was, or is and was obviously lying, it is just a matter of when and how much. Was she lying before when she said everything was awesome, or is she lying now? You could play the super lo
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Wow, you were not kidding, explosive growth in the last year. Some really great stuff and tooling "just works" now.
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They went into this with zero experience and have just been trying to hire to fill the gaps, and it shows. They will get better at the contracts (make non-fulfillment hurt contractually) and stuff will improve. It is really hard to be a ne
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Xamarin is really the "killer app" for .NET at the moment. Being able to use a common codebase for Windows RT, Windows Phone, Windows, OS-X, Android, iOS is amazing. Being able to do full native work on top of that on every plat
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I suspect the article is just clueless, it was my understanding (might be incorrect) that it was almost all XP Embedded, which has support through 2016.
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Additionally, XP Embedded left "mainstream" support in 2011, and has "extended" support until 2016. It was my understanding that nearly all references to "XP" on ATMs referenced XP Embedded, and the sun-settin

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