MrDom

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by MrDom 12y ago
I'm not trying to be "provocative", but do you have any examples of this ever happening? And by that I mean any examples where a company has purposefully broken a law, was shut down and then laws were changed as a direct resu
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by MrDom 12y ago
I can confirm that with a couple dozen n=1 anecdotes. I used to have a mirror on my monitor so I could see people coming up behind me. That calmed the lizard brain down a bit, but I was still distracted every time somebody walked behind me.
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by MrDom 12y ago
> The justification is always "speed" but my point is that is wrong. Not necessarily. Proper architecture takes time and planning and reasoning. If it didn't, we could make a program do it for us. There is absolutely a tim
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by MrDom 12y ago
> I suggest to my friends that if nobody could afford to live here I would expect less traffic on city streets. Perversely, it's the exact opposite that's true. If nobody can afford to live here, they commute in from farther an
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by MrDom 12y ago
You're ruining this man's beautiful rant with logic and reason. :P
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by MrDom 12y ago
Which companies pay that, though? I just spoke to a company in Hamburg that was offering me about 1/2 what I'd make in SF after calculating the cost of living difference and conversion to USD.
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by MrDom 12y ago
Another issue I had with a portrait monitor is, once you hit a certain size, you don't use the extra vertical real estate. You wind up moving your head up and down (mostly down) and you leave your head like that for a while sometimes.
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by MrDom 12y ago
> I have never heard drivers yelling at pedestrians when they are crossing a cross-walk. That's because they're inside soundproof boxes. They do it too, you just can't hear them. I know because I've done it. Same with
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by MrDom 12y ago
Darn, I thought this was going to be about audio consoles[1]. [1]: http://arrakis-systems.com
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by MrDom 12y ago
He beats that horse to death in the other two videos, which can be found at the link below. https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888/videos
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by MrDom 12y ago
This is the third video in the series. Go to his youtube page to find the two videos previous to this where he talks about all that to death. Each video is between 1.5 and 2 hours. Also, keep in mind he's talking about a language speci
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by MrDom 12y ago
Another benefit is standing desks are a boon for in person collaboration. For whatever reason, my co-workers prefer to come over and see new features on my screen where multiple people can stand without feeling like they're looming ove
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by MrDom 12y ago
This study[0] shows that it takes about 4 hours of complete inactivity to see a large decrease in LPL (lipoprotein lipase) in the legs. It then takes about 4 hours of low intensity activity to replenish previous levels. Of course, then the
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by MrDom 12y ago
It's interesting that this got posted so soon after the Plover stenographic keyboard The plover and perky links can be found in the comments section of the "Engelbart's Violin" article. It's like the gift that kee
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by MrDom 12y ago
The reason I don't is battery life. Running a server of any kind kills my phone in record time. I could leave it plugged in, but then it becomes a very expensive and underpowered server. I prefer to use old laptops because the cost&#x2
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by MrDom 12y ago
He's an end user, not a programmer. He doesn't care about your pedantic terminology. He's asking for us to come up with a better solution. What you are looking for is a windows manager or theme, not an underlying OS He most
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by MrDom 12y ago
It's not just mono they need, it's the IDE. The default IDE that comes with Unity is MonoDevelop. If they upgraded the runtime, they'd have to pay for Xamarin's IDE. I wonder if embedding the java runtime would have been
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by MrDom 12y ago
Compared to free. The version they're using doesn't require any licensing.
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by MrDom 12y ago
> why do people get to engage in fun with ridiculously overpowered vehicles when I'm in a more practical commuting vehicle right next to them driving to work? Why do people get to tell me what I can and can't drive? Lots of peo
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by MrDom 12y ago
Why the downvote? It's an honest question. If my assumptions are wrong, I'd like to know.
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by MrDom 12y ago
Yet more catch-22. Just out of curiosity, have you had success using recruiters to find jobs?
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by MrDom 12y ago
Fair enough. You could go to meetups, go to conferences, engage other devs on social media. Send thoughtful emails to people who know people. Ramit Sethi has a couple of blog posts showing email scripts for getting busy people to say yes to
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by MrDom 12y ago
Having tried to drink from the firehose in the past, I can say that I have never once had a recruiter lead actually result in a job offer. It's one gigantic catch-22. The companies themselves aren't great at hiring, or they wouldn
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by MrDom 12y ago
Or you could call them up, ask them how they're doing, meet them for a coffee, then ask if their company is hiring for X and if they could refer you. At the very least this gets your resume put in front of the hiring manager and lets y
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by MrDom 12y ago
I knew one young guy in particular who prized indirection over all things. Debugging his code for something relatively simple involved jumping up and down at least 10 rungs of indirection or "abstraction" and was by and large a ni
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by MrDom 12y ago
How is that? Is it interesting work? Is it in demand?
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by MrDom 12y ago
Do you have any tips for identifying career advancing projects? Identifying grunt and growth work is easy enough, but correctly guessing what might become a high profile project is a skill that has always eluded me.
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by MrDom 12y ago
http://bit.ly/WorkAtGlassdoor works (missed a caps on At)
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by MrDom 12y ago
Location: Middle of nowhere New York State Remote: yes! Willing to relocate: to anywhere rural. No major cities. Technologies: Javascript, nodejs, angularjs, jquery, PHP, mysql, Java, C#, whatever you're using. I love learning. Resume:
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by MrDom 12y ago
I'm curious, how does this sort of thing work when you're in japan? Or remote in general. Send them a coffee voucher and get them on the phone?

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