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by alxlaz 8y ago
They will be reviewing them for free or, at best, for peanuts. (Usually, if peanuts are involved, they're literally peanuts)
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by alxlaz 8y ago
AFAIK, no, at least not for the general market, but they're pretty easy to get on Ebay, AliExpress & friends.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I think one of the greatest things about the M68K today is that it's a relatively powerful processor that's relatively straightforward to program and it's pretty easy to design hardware that uses it. A single board comput
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> in my experience most people won't bother reading past the first page. Those people should not be involved in hiring. I know it sucks to read page after page of seemingly irrelevant stuff until you find that one good candidate, bu
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I absolutely agree. Every single good programmer I know is also exceptionally adept at written communication (and, indeed, really nice). They tend to be good at oral communication, too, but it's a little hard to get an accurate reading
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It's a very good recommendation. Simply being aware that TeX/LaTeX is a thing (it's very recognizable) is something that I tend to appreciate in an engineer.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Here is what I love to see: 1. An understanding of the fields of work and of their evolution. Don't look for candidates based on languages and libraries -- those might be OK to get an initial shortlist, but: a) Any programmer past ju
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I was going to write a long and detailed post about how so many of these things are so very wrong from a technical standpoint, but basically, let me sum up the recruiting industry in a single quote from this material: > Watch for spellin
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Essentially yes. It's the same in C99, too. There's a bit of nuance here though. The function that the author chose to reimplement provides the platform-specific implementation of a function that's actually specified as part
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by alxlaz 8y ago
You are not the first one to think so. It's been tried, in various forms, since the late 1980s, by Microsoft, by third-party companies writing software for Windows, by Apple, by virtually every major open source desktop, with precise
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by alxlaz 8y ago
That's not true. Gnome 3 has seen usability studies, too. See e.g. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/usability-gnome . I won't comment on the methodology -- just saying an attempt was made :-).
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Could cut straight to the GNOME logo after that sentence. This is sort of what they do, yeah. And they do have their niche with that, which is big enterprise-y, centrally administered systems. Does Gnome really have a niche there? I kn
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I come from one of those countries. Basically all companies offer the same price regardless of location. Around here, population density may affect coverage -- as in, superfast Internet access may simply not be available in the middle of no
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> But second to that, I'm not sure why you think nginx_enable='YES' is fundamentally less opaque than an nginx.service file. Both are parsed by another application. That's true of both plain-text configuration files a
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> I don't think I've ever had an issue with systemd itself You've been very lucky :-). My favourite gem, which I haven't been able to figure out by the time I'd finally decided I've had enough and ditched th
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Eshell was only really useful for moving text between Emacs and external processes and in order to have a reasonably sensible shell on things like Windows 2000 boxes (it was never meant as a replacement for a system shell, but honestly, an
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I meant it more like a recollection than a lamentation, but it was cathartic here and there :-). I don't know if it's obvious from it, so I'd rather spell it out -- there are times when "turds" are useful and not to
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Unfortunately, it's what Yocto uses by default nowadays, so it's actually very ubiquitous. It has made my life miserable more than once, but looking at how many hours I've spent working around it, I can see why consulting com
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I am happy to pay directly for content that is interesting and useful to me. For a long time, I subscribed to computer magazines like Byte, even when I had Internet access and supposedly had all the information at my fingertips. These days,
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by alxlaz 8y ago
There's turds and turds. I've seen many of them and no two turds are alike: 1. A long time ago, we had this turd of a hardware abstraction layer that is every systems developer's nightmare. Windows drivers behind a middleware
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by alxlaz 8y ago
You can use that line of reasoning to justify a lot of things. Most of them aren't appropriate for a civilized country. Neither is this one.
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by alxlaz 9y ago
That ad is just deliberately deceptive. Not dishonest, it's misleading, and quite some work has been put in the wording, because it's nothing that anyone would ever say in a serious manner. Hardware alone has nothing to do with it
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by alxlaz 9y ago
Of course there's a bill being handed out someplace, since hospitals pay medics in money not booze. Yes. The insurance operator (public or private) gets the bill. It may not look like much to those of us who hang out on HN, but if y
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by alxlaz 9y ago
Am European, can confirm. The idea that the first thing a kid gets in this world is a bill for healthcare services is amusing in a chilly sort of way. I mean, it's not like the poor kid had a choice in the matter of whether he's b
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by alxlaz 9y ago
Does libvte does this all the time? I was under the impression that, since the dawn of unlimited scrollback in terminal emulators, you only write terminal contents to disk if you need to store an unlimited amount of scrollback content. If y
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by alxlaz 9y ago
Hey, I remember M:OOP! Many, many years later (~2003 I think, I was barely in high school) my dad brought me a small book, edited by one of the local universities, which was essentially a student's guide to the diploma exam (sort of
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by alxlaz 9y ago
I'm going to post just to say a quick word about QTerminal ( https://github.com/lxqt/qterminal ). It's part of the LXQT project but you don't need to use LXQT for it; in fact, I think its only runtime depe
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by alxlaz 9y ago
These companies unwillingly get involved in nuclear confrontations of this kind as soon as one of their products ends up looking remotely like it could eat some of the big suckers' lunch.
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by alxlaz 9y ago
The silver is somewhat dulled by the fact that an Electron application is barely better than no application at all, only slightly less heavy than running VirtualBox in seamless mode, and has about the same level of native integration.
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by alxlaz 9y ago
That's bloody terrible, whenever I need something I have no idea where I'll find it.

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