MrFoof

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by MrFoof 16y ago
I wanted to simply bring up the story for anecdotal purposes, not publicly out someone. Everyone else I work with is an non-fan of the behavior, but this week I said that we should stop slamming his actions and instead try to find a way to
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by MrFoof 16y ago
This is indeed true, and I'll never fault anyone for it. Though rarely have I encountered a rejection in which I didn't feel the same way -- actually, if I have a sense that something is amiss I prod around for it rather deliberately to se
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Ah yes, symbolic actions. This is what is going on this weekend. My Facebook news feed is being spammed with people changing their profile avatars to cartoon characters, signifying that they're thinking of the children - honest! It remind
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Assuming who I think it is, your mom isn't the only one. A lot of their subsidiaries are being sold off. I'm assuming less attractive ones are being shut down if they can't find buyers. I'm consulting for a firm that has bought one of th
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by MrFoof 16y ago
The only reason I have pay-for television is I'm punished if I don't. Boston is referred to as the "hole in the fiber donut", where Mayor "Mumbles" Menino refuses to give Verizon a tax break, which is reciprocated by a complete lack of a FI
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by MrFoof 16y ago
There are also Henge Docks: http://hengedocks.com/
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Not all humans sit alike. At work, I've had an Herman Miller Aeron for about 18 months. It's a solid chair, as is the Think, the Leap, the Mirra... except for me. I don't sit completely upright, and I tend to have my posture degrade into
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by MrFoof 16y ago
I wasn't looking at it from a co-op or car sharing perspective. I was looking at it from a "how can a car cost $1000 a month perspective". The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and Subaru WRX STis are probably the best known examples of post-pu
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Rather trivially, even without insurance surcharges. I had a Lancer Evolution VIII MR for a few years... * Insurance was $150/mo. This was without an age surcharge, no speeding tickets, no accidents. As low as it was getting. * Payments
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Having disassembled a mid-2010 Mac Mini, the main limiting factor right now is without question the optical drive. The space required for an optical disk drastically increases its footprint. Replacing a 2.5" disk with a mini-PCIE SSD a la
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by MrFoof 16y ago
I came to say this. The reality is your programmers should instead have a low-level understanding of what their code does, and how it performs. They should then be using profilers and monitoring tools to ensure it's behaving inline with th
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by MrFoof 16y ago
I'm fairly certain that the SSD is basically a Mini PCI-E card. The overall dimensions are uncommon, but I believe there's no common standard for the size of Mini-PCIe SSDs in the first place. In theory, the drive could be upgraded. Secur
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by MrFoof 16y ago
If I recall correctly, Arrandale does not yet have support for OpenCL. It's in the works, but it's not there yet. In terms of raw performance, Arrandale is competitive with the 320M (maybe a wee bit slower). Overall, Arrandale will be at
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by MrFoof 16y ago
> Maybe I'm just selling out, and this is definitely a vent post, but does anyone here feels the same at their current job, and if so - what do you do? I did... 12 days ago. I had numerous discussions with my manager (even a few partne
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Unfortunately not. Work tends to take over my life, so I've little free time to myself. Except for now, where I got sick of work taking over my life and I've placed myself back on the market.
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Less closet space being wasted. It's nearly 2AM, so I'm not as coherent as I'd normally be. Though if you have an overly packed closet, it could result in some garments needing to be ironed more from being crammed together all the time.
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by MrFoof 16y ago
There's an old William Morris quote that I tend to live by: Have nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful and believe to be beautiful. In the past 2 1/2 years or so I have been slowly paring down my possessions. As a resu
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Well, the response from the TwitterDeck developer was essentially, "Steve, it wasn't that bad. Trust us." I don't think that extra effort/cost can be completely discounted -- or the two developers could've simply been phenomenal -- but it
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Do I really want to read anything before using a phone? No. I won't say that Apple is immune to this either. iOS's increase in functionality means there's a fair number of Settings, and even the default applications (like Mail or Safari)
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Minecraft uses a Java-wrapper for OpenGL. On all platforms. I say this primarily using OS X day to day. I've been running it on a Mid-2010 Mac Mini without issue. Most of the slowdown for the FAR render distance is I/O related. The perf
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Having picked it up a few weeks ago, the game is an odd blend of open-ended creative sandbox, epic-scale exploration and survival horror. It taps into that feeling of opening up a bin of Lego and not having a specific model instruction boo
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by MrFoof 16y ago
So as I've mentioned, I've done this before without the "work for myself" part. Twice actually. One of the contacts I made today was the only technical recruiter I've ever met that understands the industry he caters to. I'm looking on my
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Ask HN: Who here struck out on their own without a plan?
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by MrFoof 16y ago
It's far simpler than that. When you are not in contact with the antenna bridge, signal quality and throughput is much higher than any other iPhone. By a large margin. When you come in contact with the antenna bridge, signal quality degrad
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Documentation is one of the things that everyone wants, but no one provides themselves. Nearly every organization suffers this. "Read the code" is not a good answer when time is a factor. I write obnoxious amounts of documentation as I w
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by MrFoof 16y ago
I wouldn't consider things to be all that frugal over here. I do live in a very nice - but modestly-sized - apartment. I have a sports car that I genuinely love (and would still have the one I bought in 2004 if someone didn't run a red li
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by MrFoof 16y ago
Don't get me wrong. I agree with this. By and large it's still a pipe dream, but some dreams do come true. With that in mind, I won't bank on the fact that something won't materialize that lowers the barriers a bit. Granted, more complex
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by MrFoof 16y ago
I've a similar mindset, though where I'll deviate is I'm 28. For me I think the reality is that I expect computer literacy to continue to increase, while some slick abstractions will be developed in the next 25 years. Granted, software dev
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by MrFoof 16y ago
"I would need to, very much, be conscious of playing the game and pretty much doing anything but presenting an unashamed and straightforward version of self-expression." Bingo. You nailed it, and I can say that is the mindset you need. I
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by MrFoof 16y ago
ArrowStreet Capital in Boston is looking for a very analytical-minded developer that really knows what they're doing with C# and SQL Server. You'd be working in the research department of a quantitative asset management firm. * Great offic

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