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by alnayyir 16y ago
Stow the politics, this is NOT the place
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by alnayyir 16y ago
>, and they probably can't afford a house. I moved to the bay area recently, and I'm an engineer. I was kind of wondering how people actually live out here. I came here from New York, so I get how people can rent for their whole lives,
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by alnayyir 16y ago
>The subject is interesting given the current economic climate You mean the one that's improving apace with expectations?
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by alnayyir 16y ago
>Why are you trying to discredit everything I have done in the last ~5 years? I'm not, I'm trying to instill caution and judgment in the use of terminology that has real meaning. Don't claim something is real-time when it is not. You ar
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Why are you writing about "soft real time" when you don't seem to have done any work in RTOS/embedded? Your listed project is transloadit, which is a file uploader that does some sort of magic I don't care about. (I'm provincial.) You also
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by alnayyir 16y ago
It's okay, I'll tromp all over your next "Glorious Defender of .NET" grumpy guy routine.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Amusingly, the comments on that article/benchmark are served by Disqus, which is obviously Python/Django.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
It's a canard. Most should know better.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
> Seriously, though, the New York Times is on one end of the left <-> right media polarization spectrum (w/ Fox on the other end). Comically untrue from the perspective of someone disconnected from that spectrum.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I worked some pretty bad jobs when I was a kid, similar to his experience at Starbucks, he's totally right about the nice people really getting you through your day.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
People haven't seen it, many aren't using a DVCS of some sort. That's like refusing to keep making foie gras after you've distributed a single package of it. Not everybody gets to be as hipster-early to everything as you were in this case,
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I would rather spork myself in the eye than attempt to read that again. Rather cruel of you to subject us to this. Rather scummy title too, doesn't describe the article at all fairly. Flagged for the absurd sadism and blatantly inaccurate t
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Flagged accordingly, upvoted for sparing me the sleuthing. I've gotten gun-shy about explaining my flags (even though I consider it polite to do so) because I keep getting downvoted for it. Which is baffling, since the spammers shouldn't ha
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by alnayyir 16y ago
> I really wish GitHub would add support for Mercurial. Hrm...ah here we go. http://hg-git.github.com/ > but it's clear that GitHub is the innovator and market leader in the field of online source repos. You were saying?
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by alnayyir 16y ago
>. There are many better ways to monetize the experience here. AdWords-style keyword based stuff being the most obvious, and most likely to be virtuous. Did you read the comment?
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by alnayyir 16y ago
4x AA can't fix 640p resolution on a 1080p display.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
4x AA is standard to 360 games.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
> 5. Make small change to the code on the off-chance that it might solve the problem Guess and check, supported by a scaffolding of tests is not the path to being a better or more professional programmer and this is precisely what he's
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by alnayyir 16y ago
If they're not programmers then I'm not talking about an HN caliber programmer am I? Programming is like sex. Once you've found somebody enthusiastic about it, true excellence will come naturally with time and practice.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Not accurate.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
>My guess is this may have repelled some experienced devs that, otherwise, might have applied. I told them as much too.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
He's still not an HN caliber programmer and it wasn't his primary contribution to the company...which is the point.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
To be fair, a lot of Wave's problems could've been nipped long before it got to the designers. The app was just plain slow. Speed is a quality all of its own.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
That's so completely besides the point that I feel I should be sending a quote with context to somebody compiling a rhetoritician's dictionary. Let me help you, since you are being so pointedly blind to your own offensiveness. (Which only h
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Does the OP have a transcript or do I need to make one again? Edit: n/m, spammer that isn't contributing to the conversation here. Flagged.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Politics not welcome, caustic attitudes even less so.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Stow the politics, this isn't the place for it. Take it to Reddit. A few points: 1. Consumer Reports messes up, your dishwasher might break down before the end of the warranty. 2. A drug company messes up, hundreds, potentially thousands di
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by alnayyir 16y ago
>It might be worth spending the two or three minutes it would take to make a transcript and put that on the site, too. Did it myself, because I despise being forced to watch/listen to A/V without being given a choice to read the transcr
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by alnayyir 16y ago
This is not the place for your partisan religious/political bickering.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I don't use software that requires a gmail/facebook/twitter login. I'll keep using one of the deployed clones.

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