Zimahl

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by Zimahl 8y ago
I'm with you. I get that people chase the resume builder companies, even years later it'll be a highlight on a resume that HR folks salivate over. Outside of a handful of the big well-known bay area tech companies, I can't r
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by Zimahl 8y ago
Why? So you don't get to work at a big name tech company, big whoop. Go find one of the myriad of companies that are still doing great work, pay well, and where overtime isn't expected. There are literally thousands of them, you
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by Zimahl 8y ago
I'm not the person you are asking but I'll lay out how I understand this argument from what I've read about the housing market in Portland, OR, which has a big housing crisis right now. Available housing, apartments, condos,
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by Zimahl 8y ago
There's really not much equivalence to anywhere, other than the different biomes resemble ones you'd see in the US (outside of a side mission to Guarma, a fictional island near Cuba). There's a swamp area similar to Louisian
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by Zimahl 8y ago
You aren't going to get a lot of support for OO in places where it isn't really necessary like games, and especially games with single developers. At that point the management of data is on the developer. Essentially one is say
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by Zimahl 8y ago
> The Widespread distribution of it on the open Internet was because of a bug in the code. It's presumed that the Israelis got a little bit greedy and, even though it was doing it's job, tried to make the virus do it's job
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by Zimahl 8y ago
If the US media only likes US news stories, why was there a huge following for the soccer team in Thailand who were trapped in the cave? It's just a matter of how many other things are in the news right now, and the news cycle right n
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by Zimahl 8y ago
> It seems that the fraud problems weren’t as bad as we thought Fraud is only as bad as we know. And it's very bad, payment providers just aren't going to go around telling you about it. I worked for a payment provider and it&
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by Zimahl 8y ago
Weddings became a market to manipulate just like any other. From the rings to the honeymoon, everything has been commoditized, including an entire industry that perpetuates the 'ideal' (magazines, pinterest, etc.). What used to b
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by Zimahl 8y ago
> The real draw of Minecraft comes from a number of core features, most importantly the crafting and the survival needs that motivate the crafting and building. Playing on my own, I thought the same thing. But then a coworker hosted the
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by Zimahl 8y ago
Lebron has been on one 'super team', the Heat. The Cavs were never even close to a super team, and the Lakers aren't shaping up to be either. I grew up watching Michael Jordan but I think the game is much more difficult now.
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by Zimahl 8y ago
Doesn't make gyms $4 billion businesses.
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by Zimahl 8y ago
> This is why a steak will actually result in more insulin release than a plate of spaghetti. As the husband of a type-1 diabetic I can assure you this is absolutely wrong. Fats and proteins are practically insignificant to carbohydrate
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by Zimahl 8y ago
> Maybe businesses have tried the plaintext approach, and their business was improved by adding fonts, stylesheets, API calls, spinners, scripts, high-res images, and god knows what else. All i can say is that I work at a small-ish multi
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by Zimahl 8y ago
What's the scam here? The scammer gets access to someone's Craigslist account... and then what? They take down or change their posts?
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by Zimahl 8y ago
> Technical debt is not a loan, it is an anchor. This is a great analogy. You can still sail a ship with one anchor, maybe two, but eventually you are going to have so many anchors that ship isn't going to ever get to its destinati
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by Zimahl 8y ago
Ambien is serious stuff. It works and people take it because some sleep is better than no sleep but a large subset of them have serious side effects. I'm not talking about the litany of 'standard' side effects you hear in R
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by Zimahl 8y ago
It's not a dismissal of those who 'did not attend university'. It's a dismissal of people who are devaluing a university education because they did not attend university. There is no reason to believe that 'the
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by Zimahl 8y ago
That's the anti-college talking point that republicans like to preach to the uneducated masses. It's absolutely designed to devalue what is actually being taught in higher education, allow for the easy dismissal of soft sciences.
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by Zimahl 8y ago
> I find it very easy to imagine management making a series of requests for changes to the software that seem innocent but allow for this exact outcome: changing the way the system performs when being tested for emissions. Off the top of
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by Zimahl 8y ago
> Watch what happens when the body of startups funded by global pools of capital ... sees the NPV of software startups vanish as lower expected investment returns smack up against higher risk-free rates. I don't know exactly what th
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by Zimahl 8y ago
It's really not a fine line. Narcotic dissemination is a major problem and there are justifiable reasons for tracking them, but I don't believe that tracking forces an individual to justify a decision between their doctor and the
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by Zimahl 8y ago
With respect to Roe v Wade , the expectation of privacy has already been established with your doctor. Since there are legitimate, non-trivial reasons for abortion, and that's a decision between a person and their doctor, the gov&#x2
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by Zimahl 8y ago
> multi-year roundtrips to our nearest interstellar neighbors. At lightspeed it's an instantaneous trip to the traveler. It's only a multi-year trip to those who are still on Earth.
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by Zimahl 9y ago
I think his point was that there's a bell curve and chasing this idea that there is a load of top talent is absurd. There obviously are really great, amazing developers out there, but there are magnitudes more 'mediocre' dev
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by Zimahl 9y ago
Pro athletes ... seem OK with it. Pro athletes are a terrible example. There has been decades of litigation, lockouts, negotiations, etc. across almost all leagues to get to where we are now and there are many that continue to think the
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by Zimahl 9y ago
Ads and the data used for those ads aren't the really the issue, and that's a problem that people don't realize. The issue is that entities can utilize the Facebook platform to target specific individuals (or specific groups
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by Zimahl 9y ago
Yet he only asked about conservative causes and people that were affected by Facebook policies. It gives the appearance that Facebook is only policing conservative content. I'm sure if one looked, you could find liberal causes and pe
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by Zimahl 9y ago
Ted Cruz clearly showing that he's a partisan hack. Didn't give a crap about users' privacy or the issues at hand, he had to make it about 'liberal Silicon Valley' and 'conservative persecution'. What a
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by Zimahl 9y ago
Fair enough. I'll add the caveat that the product they sell or use for revenue needs to be the tech they are developing. So, once again, Nike sells athletic apparel, and while they use tech to do so, I wouldn't consider them a te

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