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by afro88 11y ago
Meanwhile in Berlin... http://www.payscale.com/research/DE/Job=Senior_Software_Engi...
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by afro88 11y ago
Spotify does that already too - right click a song and "Start Song Radio". This will automatically pick songs that are similar. I know it seems like this is what you want, but for me I've never been satisfied with this simpli
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by afro88 11y ago
> "predict where the this drone should strike next" If there aren't military contractors or in house teams using machine learning for exactly that purpose I'll eat my hat. In fact they were probably doing it 10 years
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by afro88 11y ago
This is so awesome. Does anyone remember Algomusic? It was a PD program for Amiga from the early 90s that did generative rave tunes. This reminds me a lot of that, in a good way. Great job!
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by afro88 11y ago
What this translates to for the casual weed smoker: only take 1 or 2 drags of a joint. And only a joint (no pipes or bongs or whatever).
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by afro88 11y ago
It's unhealthy to choose to not be skeptical because you're annoyed that it's becoming popular to care about security and privacy. It's a good thing that people care about privacy and security. It's a good thing tha
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by afro88 11y ago
I have the same, but I don't think the fear is totally irrational. For me the fear is of being disliked and/or embarrassed by something I say or do. This is exacerbated by having the opposite of what the author of the article has
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by afro88 11y ago
> Platforms with millions of users never fail quickly. Yes they do. When a better product arrives that gains enough traction, users migrate very quickly. Myspace, Altavista, Aol etc.
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by afro88 11y ago
Can you recommend an accurate translation? I've always wanted to read the bible
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by afro88 11y ago
Let's assume what he says is true. Then the managers of those engineers are incompetent and their managers also. If you hire people who do this sort of thing, and you don't even notice, then the problem is yours. There's no s
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by afro88 11y ago
Not sure why people are sticking up for this design. Even in a neoprene sleeve or backpack pouch it looks much easier to damage with downward force on the top or bottom than a normal laptop where the force would be distributed through the e
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by afro88 11y ago
Yes, for software developers in Germany with a permanent contract and higher education it is really quite easy. I recently acquired a blue card kind of accidentally, after landing a permanent contract with a company as an iOS dev. The HR pe
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by afro88 11y ago
I used to be too, until my girlfriend enlightened me - there are "indoor cat" breeds that genuinely prefer to be indoors and don't run away when doors are open. Her Persian Blue is one of them, and he just kind of pokes his h
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by afro88 11y ago
`instancetype` was a few years ago. I'd be worried if they're only supporting ObjC without any modernisations like that and subscripts etc. But that's not what I'm talking about. Here they've literally replaced all
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by afro88 11y ago
Why did they change a lot of the variable class types to id? Is that an optimisation I haven't heard of?
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by afro88 11y ago
Not changing from the default is as much a choice as changing to something else. They shouldn't have changed it for updates, but for new installs.
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by afro88 11y ago
This looks great, thanks for posting
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by afro88 11y ago
Fair enough. I know my post was quite negative, but the first thing people see is that first page. It's definitely worth making that initial image look like something you can and would want to use. Text so small as to be unreadable, on
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by afro88 11y ago
> (I think you got it from Neil Tyson or something) Lol no, I haven't actually watched any stuff from him, I'm more of a Brian Cox guy. My point wasn't "whenever we make predictions we get them wrong", it was tha
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by afro88 11y ago
I think we're approaching another shift in our perception of our surroundings: * The world is flat -> no, round * The sun revolves around the earth -> no, Earth revolves around the sun * Earth is a special unique snowflake ->
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by afro88 11y ago
Free OS on your phone is great and all, but it's got that quirky linux UI problem where usability is an after thought to "me too" features. For example, I can't read any of the text on the phone image on the front page,
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by afro88 11y ago
> Yes, motivating creators is a problem, but there are many possible solutions. As a creator with a day job, money isn't a motivator. But having my name tied to my works certainly is. And for all the programmers you listed it is as
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by afro88 11y ago
Yeah 2014 MBP here and it's a horrible laggy experience on Safari. This is on El Capitan beta though.
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by afro88 11y ago
> Description > The first thing you’ll notice in Firefox is all the malware we try and install without you noticing
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by afro88 11y ago
How do I choose a date that's 30 odd years ago - a birthdate for example.
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by afro88 11y ago
Well, no. I've been reading this book about the daily schedules of the greats [1] and there are many artists who had very active social lives while in their prime. Some more so than others - Francis Bacon would wake at 7am and work har
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by afro88 11y ago
I like this analogy. It works with my experience of consciously retraining myself. If you want to change the way you think about or do something, you have to be totally focussed and present, ignoring subconscious messages and doing everythi
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by afro88 11y ago
As someone who doesn't know a whole lot about fonts, but who is interested in a decent font being made open source, I would never think to look in the "hinted" directory. Out of interest, why is it called "hinted" a
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by afro88 12y ago
Really insightful perspective on luck. Thank you for posting that.
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by afro88 12y ago
You're focussing on physical addiction. A drug hitting you nearly instantly (IV use) vs over a period of time is definitely more psychologically addictive. There's really no argument there.. >Both in your nose and in your mouth

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