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by WWLink 6y ago
Between monoliths, this discussion, and other complaining about git I see around here, I wonder just how many of you are using subversion lol.
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by WWLink 6y ago
lol, I've never had such a good experience renting a car. I suppose because I've never really rented from an airport. They somehow almost always take at least 30-45 minutes. And don't get me started about enterprise.
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"the biggest technological problem we have now is how to keep eyeballs throughout the globe glued to your app or service" It's funny because there's so many more meaningful problems you can solve as a programmer. However
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by WWLink 6y ago
When I was in college I remember "changing the world, one line of code at a time" being a popular bio on linkedin.
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by WWLink 6y ago
Ahh man that's a tough call! My personal laptop is a 2014 that I bought in 2015 (or was it 2016?) for dirt cheap because it was on clearance. So I totally agree with you there! On the other hand, my biggest issue with the 2016-18 keybo
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by WWLink 6y ago
"I think this is pretty much a human universal; the only exceptions I know are quite far on the autism spectrum." So, you're a psychiatrist? How fascinating! I don't know any programmers who hold a psychiatry degree.
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by WWLink 6y ago
I don't want my coworkers touching me. :P
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by WWLink 6y ago
In other words: Oh dear my fuzzy PID has gone sentient! lol. :)
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by WWLink 6y ago
That's ridiculous. What the hell kinda court would accept that claim? The packet is clearly 0x44 0x45 0x4c 0x4c 0x01 0x41 0x43 0x65 0xc3 0x21 <23 bytes> 0x01!
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by WWLink 6y ago
I could probably count on my hands the number of times I've pair programmed in the last 6 years. I've only ever really used it when triaging a problem. And even then we're usually doing it at our own computers while communica
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Plus if you throw all the poor people in 1 building you're not solving anything.
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by WWLink 6y ago
lol, I can relate. I worked at a company that moved to a nice big new office. They replaced the carpets and the ceiling tiles, and I still had nasty allergies for the first few weeks. Place used to be owned by a dog friendly business. OMG d
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by WWLink 6y ago
You know what makes an open office tolerable? Having lots of personal space! Where I work we have really big desks, with ~2ft tall frosted glass walls, so it's not so bad. I worked for a little while at a company that had small 5ft des
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Ah yes, and at home I am not obligated to use the company desk/chair that everyone else has, so I have a more comfortable setup. Plus I get to pick the temperature, and I can use my speakers instead of wearing headphones. I can take my
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by WWLink 6y ago
Programming teams almost certainly talked over IRC back then though?
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I think this is also why programmers don't get paid like salespeople and upper management. It's hard to measure impact with some code.
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by WWLink 6y ago
"In my experience thrift is the overriding factor." It sure is. It's like the idiotic startup I worked at for 6 months that gave everyone i7 laptops with 32gb ram and 5400rpm 500gb hard drives to save $100/laptop. True f
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by WWLink 6y ago
The problem with those cars is that the windshield is raked so much that a lot of the front length is wasted. It's why our cadillac xts feels tiny compared to the chrysler 300 it replaced. And damn I want another 300 lol.
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by WWLink 6y ago
A lot of companies don't have a public image because nobody knows or cares what they do. So they have nothing to fear from a few bad glassdoor reviews.
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It was a different place and time, for sure. Many of these products were made by random small companies around the US. They sold through other small computer shops. I often envy my friends 10 years younger than me, but at the same time, I a
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by WWLink 6y ago
Sometimes I think the higher end embedded chips are even more fun, because you have an FPGA with shared memory to the processor and tons of IO pins. You can do some truly ridiculous things, including emulating other processors in the fpga f
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by WWLink 6y ago
One problem: The curve hasn't actually flattened in some places. Those places should continue to encourage as few people out and about as possible.
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Dude, you don't understand. THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS! One wrong move and he will strike you off his list :O Oh my gosh! So important :o
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Ideally we'd ban a company from making both hardware, operating systems, and app stores. Walled garden ecosystems should be totally illegal.
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by WWLink 6y ago
So the algorithm decides that an app you wrote was "malware" by some arbitrary bullshit screening process. Now you've lost your job and you're banned for life from making android apps? SOUNDS UTTERLY FANTASTIC! (actually
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lol google's "make new product to get promoted" thing seems hella toxic.
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by WWLink 6y ago
I've never claimed to be an expert in anything, but if I read a book on SQL from cover to cover, I'd probably still not remember wtf BETWEEN ROWS was unless I was using it daily. -- The guy that uses C and C++ all the time and oft
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There were some utterly ridiculous loan products available in the early-mid 2000s. The crash came because people who wanted to refinance out of those loans couldn't. Edit: Of course, they were dumb for signing up for those loans in the
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The products back then were totally ridiculous. For example, 5/1 interest only loans with reverse amortization. What does that mean? A normal adjustable-rate mortgage starts off with a fixed rate period, say 5 years. Then the remainder
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by WWLink 6y ago
This is exactly it. I rent a house that costs $900,000 and it’s a 60 year old death trap. Just like most of the other houses in the neighborhood. It was built when LA County was more of a “build baby build!” Place lol. When you buy a house

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