aero142

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by aero142 16y ago
I look for code over personality but I have learned that there are intolerable people who you just can't hire. Some people are literally crazy. They come in flavors of "don't touch my code", screaming rage fits, and crying emotional break
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by aero142 16y ago
I think the goal of design is to make the aesthetics match the functionality. In software, the greatest challenge is making something that at it's core is very complex, with all of the code that it takes to make it happen, and make it simp
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by aero142 16y ago
Here is one chart that supports that computer programmers are above average. http://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/19/iq-distribution-of-vario...
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by aero142 16y ago
I really hope that things don't change and the US continues to be a location for these high value jobs. Yes, this is very hard to maintain. I couldn't agree more. The point I am trying to make is that outsourcing is a sign that the US ha
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by aero142 16y ago
I don't think that we do. My post was largely spent explaining why jobs move overseas, which is not the same as agreeing on what to do about it. He concludes that protectionist policies will result in manufacturing jobs staying in the US,
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by aero142 16y ago
I really like the fair tax, but it bothers me that it is regressive. I know it is the same % for everyone, and there is the rebate at the poverty line, but the wealthy spend a much smaller percentage of their money at the retail level. Wh
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by aero142 16y ago
I find this line of thinking very disturbing. Mr. Grove follows others in believing a common fallacy, by ignoring secondary effects, and fails to see how issues in macroeconomics affect each other. Where to start... The American standard
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by aero142 16y ago
It sounds like you are new to the area. It has been unusually wet recently, but give it time. It will be back to hot and dry soon enough.
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by aero142 16y ago
Yeah. It's all fun and games until someone shares an image and it goes to the front page of Reddit.
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Unless you are Pixar.
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by aero142 16y ago
Malcolm Gladwell covered a great story in Blink about the success of decision trees in diagnosing Chest Pain at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. The doctors were very resistant to using the tools. I wonder if we will just have to wait for
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by aero142 16y ago
Login can be a verb, we just haven't collectively decided how to conjugate it. Correct in language is usually more a function of convention rather than functionality. There just aren't rules to handle this. It can either be "he logs in"
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by aero142 16y ago
This is what works for me. Get up Saturday morning and go edit you hosts file and block off the 3 most common sites that you waste time on. Now, pack up your laptop and go to a coffee shop. This will eventually lead you to break the habi
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by aero142 16y ago
It annoys me that every 40 year old thinks that the world is getting worse. I used to think it was just the less intelligent people who's minds couldn't keep up with the rate of change. But to hear Jobs say it was disheartening. Death rat
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by aero142 16y ago
That is a nice theory, but I don't do that when reading. Why would I highlight on screen, but not use a ruler edge when reading?
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by aero142 16y ago
Yes, and then they learn all about source control. It's really not that hard and is pretty easy to learn. Hence why you don't need to pay someone to teach it to you.
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by aero142 16y ago
So, BP wouldn't allow anyone other than them to inspect the leak and give an estimate of the flow rate, the 5,000 number is "unreliable", but they know for sure that it is less than before. I hope it's true but mark me down as skeptical.
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by aero142 16y ago
I think there are two points. The conventional use of this argument is the one you are talking about, and that is why I said at the end of my post that it IS useful for that. However, the article specifically says “So, I guess we're not c
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by aero142 16y ago
I always understood a dimension as "a variable that you can change to avoid occupying the spot." In 3d space, two objects cannot be in the same spot so either their x,y, or z coordinate must be different. If I add time as a fourth dimensi
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by aero142 16y ago
This argument is fun but not much more. "Why don't you have any children?. This seems strange to me." "Well, there are billions of children in the world that are not yours, I just have one less than you. We're basically the same." The dif
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by aero142 16y ago
I agree that is what he is saying, but as far as I can tell, that is crap. What is so magical about native apis? If a middleware application calls an api and it changes, it breaks, but the same is true for a native application.
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by aero142 16y ago
Agreed, this whole flash things is a distraction from the real effect, which is vendor lockin.
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by aero142 16y ago
This article highlights my problem with Apple. They really suck at cloud services. Google on the other hand is the leader and runs amazing cloud services. The reason my next device will be an Android, is because Apple has decided to bloc
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by aero142 17y ago
Yeah, it's the default email signature for iPhone and many others and you can change it under Settings->Mail, Contacts-> Signature. I'm not sure who added it first, but I find it obnoxious regardless of what company does it.
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by aero142 17y ago
It's funny, even though Apple has resisted messing up the hardware, there is still that "Sent from my iPhone" message which always struck me as having no taste at all. It is different because you can remove it, but still.
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The other thing I see all the time is people who think their way is the only way, or that the things that they care about are the things that really matter. Sometimes you have to learn one way of writing for one professor and another for t
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by aero142 17y ago
Yes, but Apple has a smaller install base so they are targeted less often. In practice, I think you are more secure on OSX at the moment. If their install base grows, I expect that will change.
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by aero142 17y ago
I'm slightly torn about this. This does appear to be theft, however, but Gruber also seems to imply that Apple is a bit of a victim. This reminds me of the relationship between celebrities and the paparazzi. Celebrities hate the downside
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by aero142 17y ago
Yeah, this took me by surprise that my little meta game theory comment was rejected so much. I know it wasn't that clever, but still. With down-votes like that, you would think my username was jasoncalcacanis or that I had insulted pg's m
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by aero142 17y ago
Crap, now we need 3rd party review.

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