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by amorphid 8y ago
You're not wrong. I returned the two sub-$100 phones for a full refund. I had rooted the $240 phone, which broke it's ability to (easily) get system updates. I sold it on eBay for maybe half what I paid for it. So my downside
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by amorphid 8y ago
I have an LG G5. I'm very happy with it. At one year, I replaced the battery, and only because I could. If you are in the USA, what mobile carrier/network do you have? I use AT&T, and the network has been good enough. I tr
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by amorphid 8y ago
I never thought about scaling down as a skill until just now. I kind of assumed "scaling up" implied up && down, our maybe "scaling out" implied out && in. Interesting thought.
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by amorphid 8y ago
I went through that process. After I stopped buy good phones subsidized by the phone company & started paying full retail phones upfront, I became less interested in having a top of the line phone. I just don't wanna fork out $90
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by amorphid 8y ago
I saw Shane Robison give a talk about the HP+Compaq merger. [1] He advantage that came from the merger was getting more shelf space in retail stores. Having some influence and/or control of what got displayed in the HP shelfspace and
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by amorphid 8y ago
Cheap price?
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by amorphid 8y ago
Every book in the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold. It character driven sci-fi. My non-sci-fi friends introduced me to it, and being a sci-fi lover myself, I enjoyed it that much more. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by amorphid 8y ago
>> copy-paste sucks balls, in some applications it's ctrl-c in others its shift-ctrl-c and some applications will copy to clipboard if you select a string > this is not correct. Ctrl+C/V are the standard, the exception (n
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by amorphid 8y ago
I mean 2+ concurrent uploads, which I've used before on S3, but not on GCP. [1] [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/mpuoverview....
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by amorphid 8y ago
I haven't tried this myself, but could you have your client(s) get around this via multipart upload?
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Ask HN: How well could we tackle government challenges with bug tracking?
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by amorphid 8y ago
> We’re dumb in comparison to the systems we’ve created. I prefer not to think like that. I'd say we're doing our best to navigate hard problems, and it's not yet clear how to do things more effectively. Worst case scena
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by amorphid 8y ago
It's hard to imagine leaving them in there AND living with the knowledge that they had been left in there. Attempting a rescue seems like a pretty human thing to do, and I found it hard to blame people for being people. I certainly d
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by amorphid 8y ago
For any non-trivial program, I usually end up with: working jank, maintainable jank, fast jank. If I can write something that works AND isn't a ball of mud, I'm pretty happy.
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by amorphid 8y ago
I think it also might be easier to get interviews and job offers for specialist positions where there's less demand. I'm not prepared to make a strong case for that, but I did feel like selling myself as a Ruby on Rails developer
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by amorphid 8y ago
I am not an expert on this subject, but the answer depends on the country or countries where you hold citizenship. If you are a US citizen, it's almost certainly less hard to get jobs when you can physically interview, so moving to Si
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by amorphid 8y ago
It's not a bad deal, especially when you consider you could live with minimal expenses while in the military. Saving a lot is not hard even on modest military pay when your living costs are all covered. I can't think of any othe
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by amorphid 8y ago
High scalability is somewhat subjective, and often not that interesting. It's relatively easy to design an inefficient solution and "scale" it by throwing more machines at it. It's hard to reduce the footprint of somet
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by amorphid 8y ago
I don't want to risk spoilers. Any Game Of Thrones fan will relate to that concept.
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by amorphid 8y ago
I had a base PCjr with 128K of RAM, one 360K floppy disk drive, and no hard drive. Copying disks took FOREVER. I was so jealous of my friend who had two disk drives on his PC.
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by amorphid 8y ago
I've eaten there. Good food at a good price. Friendly ambience.
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by amorphid 8y ago
I love the Handmaid's Tale, but it drives me bonkers that they release new episodes at the rate of one per week. Release all the episodes in one day darn it! Making me wait pisses me off and (as I'm discovering) want to complain
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by amorphid 8y ago
My lease has one.
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by amorphid 8y ago
I liked it, too. I didn't expect to feel anything for Ted's side of the story, but I felt the series did a good job of making him come across as a human being (who just happens to blow people up by sending them bombs in the mail)
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by amorphid 8y ago
My parents got one of those from a timeshare, too. It wqs given to me as my first stereo.
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by amorphid 8y ago
If you can't assess what it might be like to work with someone, you can only build that skill by working with someone. I say start a conversation with the VC. If you get to the point where they wanna offer you money, ask yourself if
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by amorphid 8y ago
> Cause handling people and their issues is about 5000 times harder than handling code I'm of the opinion that any job is super hard if you apply yourself.
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by amorphid 8y ago
One of the keys on my MacBook Air keyboard broke about 6 months ago. The busted key made it unusable as a laptop, and I don't need/want a desktop (aka attach it to a keyboard & monitor). Authorized Apple repairs were a few h
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by amorphid 8y ago
Recuiters peform an agent-like role.
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by amorphid 8y ago
I see you've never had student loans in the USA :) There's no way to escape those unless you're in a permanent coma and Obama is still POTUS.

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