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by NBJack 4y ago
I can see it now: HewlPackCoin, a crypto coin pegged to the current price per ounce of Hewlett Packard ink cartridges. They seem to synergize well. In theory, if you tweak the parameters correctly, you can print a transaction output equal t
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by NBJack 4y ago
Great concept, but the obscurity of the terminology at times will make this....trying. Plus, it does not appear to validate words nor automatically fill out variants. For me, this was fun until I got past guess 200 or so.
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by NBJack 4y ago
This is fair advice, but this also makes the big assumption that the severance pay will actually be, well, paid. The company is legally obligated, but what happens if they choose not to send a check? What would it cost to hire a lawyer to g
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by NBJack 4y ago
Let's also not forget some of these parts add weight, which both affects handling characteristics and wear.
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by NBJack 4y ago
This looks dubious. Let's not forget how many other infinity based logos are out there too. Did they file a lawsuit against them as well? Surely at least one other also overlaps with 'Internet Computer blockchain'. https:&#x
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by NBJack 5y ago
Never trust Google for critical services if you can help it. They suck at customer support of any kind. Once their automation decides something, nothing short of a PR disaster tends to change it. Then there is the ever growing Google Gravey
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by NBJack 5y ago
Thought the same. Chrome mobile rendering doesn't have a menu to browse by. Hopefully they will fix it soon.
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by NBJack 5y ago
Anecdotally, my short answer to this is 'no'. At least a Downloads folder has a loosely defined purpose. I have often gone back to try and find something I downloaded that's no longer available (or too big to download again),
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by NBJack 5y ago
While I appreciate what the article is trying to accomplish, I believe it misses some key differences that simplify the comparison: Vector Clocks: Only update on arrival of external Events (new vector: max of other participant clocks, incre
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by NBJack 5y ago
You are making assumptions that the log upload system is working in the first place. It's just another moving part in the equation. Since logging normally shouldn't affect production traffic latency, you usually want to offload r
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by NBJack 5y ago
This was shockingly delightful. I have to agree that house identification is a real pain sometimes for deliveries; it would probably be a step in the right direction if folks could just use an app to get latitude/longitude to clear thi
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by NBJack 5y ago
It's subtle, but 242 is the country calling code for the Bahamas. I don't know why, but it comes up often in the culture.
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by NBJack 5y ago
This was a huge help for me. It's amazing how my attitude to going to a trainer changed when I paid up front. I was actually getting upset one day when I thought I had gotten less than the hour I paid for. With video workouts and month
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by NBJack 5y ago
The factors are latency and assumptions of perfect future data. Their point stands; if your environment ends up 5-10 degrees warmer or cooler than expected, it takes time to course correct, even with a smarter control system.
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by NBJack 5y ago
That puts you at roughly 180 dpi, which isn't that far from the 'retina' standard of roughly 220 dpi. But I imagine I can get you sharp text on a lowly 1080p 20 inch display with Windows or Linux at only 110 dpi (or worse) fo
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by NBJack 5y ago
This goes out the window the moment you attach a second monitor for most folks. 1080p is very common; if we start talking about achieving retina at that resolution (say 220 DPI, a rough average across modern Macbooks), we're talking 10
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by NBJack 5y ago
Have to agree. Font rendering is one of the top reasons I don't favor the Mac experience at all. At least Windows and Linux give me options, and honestly Windows is the only one so far I believe gets the fluctuation in DPIs 'right
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by NBJack 5y ago
Unity aside, I believe it's useful in a lot of areas of gamedev. Anecdotally, in a lower-level game engine I wrote at one point in C#, object pooling significantly reduced memory overhead (and IIRC increased framerates on complex scene
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by NBJack 5y ago
Dithering can be applied to any palettesd imaged; in the earlier days of the net, restricted color palettes could indeed help reduce size. Dithering however can interfere with run length encoding (RLE) compression used in certain formats (i
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by NBJack 5y ago
To each their own, but it does seem to open more doors at companies big and small.
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by NBJack 5y ago
I wish that was the case. I've seen brilliant people forced out of their jobs because a particular project was botched: a principal engineer, a former founder of a company bought by Amazon, an amazing director. And those were just the
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by NBJack 5y ago
FWIW, even though it certainly wasn't that used, the Windows 'Mixed' Reality offering has this today. Specifically, it has great support for just bringing up as many windows to apps as you'd like (I believe this was one
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by NBJack 5y ago
I love this site. The options are amazing, and it gets even better when you mix it up. Plus, the equalizer-style mixer gives you a lot of control over anything you find distracting (i.e. Don't like the buzzing bees? Want more thunder?
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by NBJack 5y ago
I agree this seems to largely be a manager issue, though I would go as far to say it's more prevalent in the company culture. That said, I also agree this isn't exactly fair on Amazon's part as they were informed, up front, t
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by NBJack 5y ago
I'm a little surprised they didn't mention Wordpress. It's blog-oriented, but the sheer volume of plugins for it (plus the ease at which you can just make your own) make it remarkably versatile, and its pretty flexible with h
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by NBJack 5y ago
Not sure what your basing that claim on. It is a natively supported format, even amidst its inconsistencies, and has been for decades. Are you referring to a particular format variant?
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by NBJack 5y ago
I read their book. It's awesome; it's essentially the only book out there I've encountered so far that actually tries to both define what the role is and teach you how to succeed.
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by NBJack 5y ago
... that's it? That's the article? Books are not inherently superior, especially given how easy it is to self publish. And a surprisingly small number of them (in my experience) are actually both up to date and deal with architect
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by NBJack 5y ago
Tell that to the non-senior SDEs whom either (1) don't have the clout with management yet, (2) don't know any better, or (3) have drunk the the lines of "work hard, have fun, make history" a little too deeply. Enjoy your
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by NBJack 5y ago
That still doesn't address my concern. I cannot test my S3 implementation without either mocks or a very specific emulator of the protocol. AWS happens to be popular enough that some libraries exist to do the latter, but I assert this

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