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by ScottFree 7y ago
What's your diet like?
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by ScottFree 7y ago
I'm a little surprised. In that same comment, he says he took a swing at it and missed. He spoke about the failure of starfighter at length at the time[0]. He made it sound like there would need to be a fundamental social shift in the
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Berlin to compensate victims of paedophile foster scheme(thetimes.co.uk)
1 points by ScottFree 7y ago|0 comments
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Irish Conservatives Sting Antifa with Honeypot Project(bigleaguepolitics.com)
3 points by ScottFree 7y ago|0 comments
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Analysis of selected armed civilians’ engagements against active killers(zbrojnice.com)
2 points by ScottFree 7y ago|0 comments
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Please let me know if you happen to stumble upon one. Every once in a while, I get the desire to take a small clip of a larger video to use as a gifv. I've yet to find a single video editing program that makes this very simple thing ea
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by ScottFree 7y ago
It would be useful for somebody who has no experience in video editing, but would like to cut together some footage taken on their phone. And yet, even the video editing software aimed at beginners and novices are crazy complicated.
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by ScottFree 7y ago
We passed productive conversation 5 comments ago. The context of this subthread is the longevity of Tesla vehicles in a prolonged winter environment, such as northern europe or Toronto. You, yourself, agreed you can't compare the occas
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by ScottFree 7y ago
They aren't popular at all in North America, even in the cold and salty parts like Canada. I've never encountered a car that had it, new or used. I don't know why. My perception of them is that they don't work well enoug
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Nobody said otherwise. Why so defensive?
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by ScottFree 7y ago
You can't compare the effects of the occasional weekend in Tahoe to that of a decade of winters in Toronto.
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by ScottFree 7y ago
I'd really like to see a write-up like this on one of the model S's from northern europe. The biggest longevity concern for me is rust and corrosion of the frame due to winter road salt.
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by ScottFree 7y ago
> Software is getting more complex each year, yet the time to build complex software decreases due to existence of better libraries/tools/knowledge-base. Which, in turn, drives the number of bugs and flaws way, way up, which dr
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by ScottFree 7y ago
> most of the senior engineers I know have spent considerable time on both sides of the interviewing table. At different points in their career, they've been the ones asking questions as well as the ones being interviewed. This lead
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by ScottFree 7y ago
> we once rejected someone on ethical grounds after they passed all the interviews What did they do? Suggest sacrificing a puppy to moloch to make a feature release go smoothly?
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by ScottFree 7y ago
From TFA: "“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?”, my inner monologue screamed. My thoughts spiraled out of control: “YOU’VE JUST RUINED YOUR CAREER! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT ALL!? THEY ARE ALL GOING TO JUDGE YOU TO NO END! YOU FORGOT T
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Do they, though? Do they have formal management training for engineers who want to become product managers?
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Let's say a programmer was looking to make that change. Where would he start? Are there training programs? What kind of company would provide a gentle introduction? Is it easier to navigate the politics of a small company creating thei
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Calvin Coolidge said it better: "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will
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by ScottFree 7y ago
I have his book and refer to it often.
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by ScottFree 7y ago
> Software Engineering is new. I believe one of the examples for extreme reliability used in the XKCD cartoon included in the article is air travel, which is about as old as computers. I was told once that the reason air travel is so rel
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by ScottFree 7y ago
This. Throwing facts and figures at them won't work. You have to make them feel it. I usually ask them if they have any problem with revenge porn sites.
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by ScottFree 7y ago
What's your idea of a good UI development environment? I've asked this question in the past and the variety of answers I got astounded me. I got everything from MacOS to Lazarus to hypercard.
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Do you mean the internet or the web? Either way, how would you rewrite it?
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by ScottFree 7y ago
I downvoted both this post and the one above because it's completely off topic.
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Just because somebody tries to phrase it in a polite way doesn't make it any less of a demand.
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by ScottFree 7y ago
> There are deeper issues that need to be addressed. That's true, but those can only be addressed by the browser makers and the standard committees. It's hard, slow work that will take years to bear any fruit. Frameworks are wa
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by ScottFree 7y ago
Does anybody know of an application I can use as both a PDF/ePub reader and a manually sortable reading list? It seems so simple, but I haven't found any program that does both.
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A Reply to “Let’s stop copying C”(gingerbill.org)
78 points by ScottFree 7y ago|126 comments
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Newly Minted Freelancers Badly Miss the Point(daedtech.com)
1 points by ScottFree 7y ago|0 comments

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