TwistedWeasel

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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
I can't speak for the community at large but I can tell you my path, my plan and my worries about that plan. I just turned 36. I had been a manager for seven years across a few companies, managing teams ranging in size from 4 engineers
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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
Quite right, learning from our mistakes is what makes us better.
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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
The article assumes that the best people to hire are twenty-somethings that want to live in the city. What about catering to the 30 and 40 something senior engineers? In my experience it's much easier to hire a newly graduated, smart y
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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
I dont get why 5 is a reason. I can currently move freely all over California and the rest of the US. How would splitting California up make movement between these areas any more free?
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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
Exactly, even if it's not their own story, if they are able to talk intelligently about the subject matter and explain the problem and solution well then i've gained valuable information about the candidate. Unfortunately i'v
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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
My favorite technical interview question is to ask the candidate about the worst bug they ever wrote. I let them choose their own definition of "worst", and see if they choose something that was hard to debug, or caused a lot of t
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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
No Microsoft.com? Late to the party?
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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
I was thinking about this too, and I'm guessing that dumb 20 year old me would have sold those domains in the late 90's for thousands thinking I was making a huge profit instead of waiting a few more years until those Coca Cola pe
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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
you read "audio" books?
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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
When will we reach a point where the use of WebGL is no longer a headlining feature? WebGL is cool and all but I have never wanted to play a game based on the current coolness factor of it's underlying technology. Games should be about
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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
If you don't like reading idle speculation then you should probably avoid 95% of tech blogs.
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by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
Apparently you can buy fish online. http://www.pikeplacefish.com/buy/
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
I worked in the games industry for 12 years and I know a lot of designers that fit this criteria. They had no programming or art skills so they became testers, after that it seems the career path for a tester is either QA lead, or designer.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
So, they want lots of engineers to do work for them and then only pay the one they like?
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
You may not care but your employer might.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
I think it's a bit of an overused term: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22...
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Sublime Text Version https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
I never found the keymap cheat sheets useful. It tells me what happens if I press a certain key, but what I need is the reverse. Tell we what key to press if I want X to happen. When using a cheat sheet like that I waste a lot of time scour
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Maybe co-sleeping is great for some families, maybe not for others. My kids (4 and 2) are impossible to sleep next to, they wriggle and kick and force me to the edge of the bed. In their own rooms they sleep just fine but they are still the
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
That makes more sense to me now. Thinking about it I see it being useful to help with some currently painful tasks like converting old wiki content that has a non-standard wiki markup syntax (or no markup at all) into markdown.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
It's interesting and seems well implemented but I don't understand the use case? Why would you need this? If you want plain text inside HTML isn't what the <pre> tag is for?
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
I had never thought about it that way. We've found ourselves in a situation where we're more embarrassed to be caught watching something with nudity than violence because we made assumptions about other people that may be incorrect.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
It's always amazed me that we seem to try harder to protect children from seeing a nipple than we do to prevent them from seeing depictions of people being killed.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Don't Macs come with an Internet Recovery partition? It's about 500Mb and boots to enough of an OS to download the rest and reinstall needed.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
You can always use the inedible parts to make vegetable stock
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
All of the above, but most of all not keeping within the required parameters that would have made their solution usable.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Spending money on research is always good, Microsoft Research has always had a lot of good ideas and generated some truly amazing prototypes and research papers. It's a good thing for the community in general the have people working on this
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Thankyou. I find it somewhat frustrating to follow a link that sounds interesting only to find a slide deck that makes little sense to me without the talk that goes with it.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Honestly curious - what kind of abuse could cause a calibration error? My kids abuse my iPad pretty heavily but generally smacking on the screen with their hands and fingers a lot but I still have never seen it mis-calculate a touch.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
The consumer electronics industry has shipped hundreds of millions of touch screens in the last few years and i've not seen a single article complaining that they opened up their new tablet/phone to find it mis-calibrated and that their tou

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