VRay

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by VRay 8y ago
He was probably at some swanky overpriced restaurant I've definitely seen $8+ lattes at some super expensive restaurants in various cities around the world A little bit of rounding up, excessive generalization, and not backing down, an
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by VRay 8y ago
Man, I would delete my ad blockers right now and never use them again if everyone just served inert images, text, or even video without tracking affordances. I mainly block ads so I can cling to my last tiny shred of privacy and security
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by VRay 8y ago
I'll upvote THAT sentiment!
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by VRay 8y ago
Sounds like G Suite really just isn't suitable for a larger enterprise.. I'm enjoying it, but my company is just myself and 3 others
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by VRay 8y ago
I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted. I have begun to wonder if I am the only sane man remaining. Can the others not see?
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by VRay 8y ago
I think a rock that makes you immortal would be worth a hell of a lot more than its weight in gold..
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by VRay 8y ago
Everyone I know quit using Skype too.. it's tough to have this argument without access to expensive market research reports, though More anecdotally, the only time I used Skype in the last few years was when I had a remote job intervie
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by VRay 8y ago
Speaking as an OS engineer who's worked on both kernels a lot, Windows is way better under the hood for low-latency, responsive end user stuff than linux Then again, WinMo 7 was way faster and more responsive than Android at the time,
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by VRay 8y ago
I take it you don't know anyone who works at MSFT?
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by VRay 8y ago
Some people on this thread think of "comfortable" as: "Own a decent house/condo within 20 minutes of work", and they're right, Seattle/SF isn't "comfortable" at 93k Everyone ELSE on this t
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by VRay 8y ago
If that's the situation, maybe you should just quit your job, rent out your house, move way out to the middle of nowhere, and live off the rental profits
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by VRay 8y ago
Well, surely Microsoft wouldn't randomly pull the rug out from under a small subset of its own customers! Unrelated, anyone know how I can get my Windows 10 Mobile phone to sync Zune songs to my Windows Media Center? My Xbox360 stoppe
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by VRay 8y ago
You're saying to walk away from $250k+ at Google so you can pull in 120 at a failed startup? If someone doesn't have the weaseling skills to weasel up the ladder at Google, they're going to be horribly exploited at a smaller
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by VRay 8y ago
FWIW, as a driver/firmware engineer, I haven't ever needed a good reference from my former employer I've just been giving out former coworkers' contact info instead, and usually they don't even get called. I'm
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by VRay 8y ago
I wish these market forces were a hell of a lot stronger I seem to be able to get $250k+ in Silicon Valley and ~$200k in Seattle (which is almost the same after cost of living and state tax), but last time I looked in Tokyo I couldn't
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by VRay 8y ago
Yeah, it's really rough. Most people just don't have a combination of confidence, stubbornness, willpower, and raw spite that allows them to uproot and seek out a better position for themselves. I used to think that I could encou
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by VRay 8y ago
Good point! Now turn off all your privacy addons, Google up info on a disease or a new baby or engagement rings, and check out the ads you start getting
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by VRay 8y ago
What country are you in? I've never seen a commercial on Netflix in the USA, Japan, or a few weeks in Europe. I guess there's probably some product placement here and there, and the auto-playing trailers are almost as obnoxious
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by VRay 8y ago
> therefore you clearly should trust it enough to permit it to execute arbitrary executables on your machine" is false Unless you run your browser without an ad blocker
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by VRay 8y ago
I slogged through implementing this for a game earlier this year. Man oh man, I bit off way more than I could chew comfortably.. I know this is well known among scientists and a lot of software engineers, and I should have remembered it fr
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by VRay 8y ago
That's a good point. Depending on permissions, it would be hard to keep some malicious apps from stealing your nude photos too, but we don't take it for granted that "Of course the file explorer app looks for and surreptitio
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by VRay 8y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that anyone surfing HackerNews for fun can easily get their favorite games working in wine, so I'm not sure who that guy is warning off
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by VRay 8y ago
They might be able to actually make a profit off the float in this case, too Or maybe they're going to be able to sell people's transaction histories...
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by VRay 8y ago
I don't want to sound like a jerk here, but indoor cats live WAY longer than outdoor cats. You're looking at a 15-20+ year lifespan for an indoor cat
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by VRay 8y ago
I've also been bothered lately by the tendency for people to look for/latch on to the first easy answer they find online It's especially bad among coders.. There seems to be a lot of people who got sucked into software work f
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by VRay 8y ago
"If only they'd built it with 6001 hulls!"
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by VRay 8y ago
Dude, there's no way Heinlein designed a house like that. The value and importance of standardized, easily-replaceable parts is a plot point in his book, The Door into Summer (BTW, I strongly recommend everyone here read it. The main
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by VRay 8y ago
He's saying if you spent a few weeks getting hooked up to the exchange directly, you possibly could have gotten your order filled for $10 a share
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by VRay 8y ago
Hey man, when I was working in that field, we had really strict controls on who could access the data. I had to sign A PIECE OF PAPER agreeing not to misuse customers' personal data before I could get at it. Plus I'm pretty sure
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by VRay 8y ago
The problem is that "software engineer" encompasses both the architects who design skyscrapers and the construction workers who install drywall in them I have a lot of engineer friends in silicon valley making $220-280k, anecdotal

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