angersock

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by angersock 8y ago
All of the major urban areas in Texas (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin) tend Democrat (see the 2016 results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele... ). I'm a bit skeptical and concerne
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by angersock 8y ago
> Any thoughts? Would this burden parsing or serialization? It's solving a problem we don't have. > Of course, it's simple to add a "name" or "type" field. However, the name of the object ought to b
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by angersock 8y ago
He is selling himself and his services. He uses pageviews of blogspam like this to justify selling his services to create more blogspam. Poke around his site (hell, follow his own links on this submission) and this si readily apparent. The
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by angersock 8y ago
A community which won't fight to preserve itself and filter out garbage is doomed. A Prime Directive only can be taken seriously when existential threats are minor.
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by angersock 8y ago
Juniors are wonderful, but they make messes and are a training and maintenance burden on more experienced developers. They really are like puppies, and if your org can't take care of them you shouldn't adopt one.
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by angersock 8y ago
https://www.fastcompany.com/3056389/why-google-was-smart-to-... Not really misinformation, thanks for sticking up for a helpless company though.
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by angersock 8y ago
More like cuttle buddies.
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by angersock 8y ago
> If what I read is true then this is the first thing that has truly rocked my confidence that the company generally tries to do the right thing Officially removing "Don't be evil" wasn't enough of a hint for you?
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by angersock 8y ago
I'm disappointed he was included because he just piggy-backed off of a popular television show and then were complete assholes in-person to other badgelife folks.
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by angersock 8y ago
I'm slowly coming around to be thankful we don't build software like we build bridges.
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by angersock 8y ago
Ha, awesome! Kids are super neat--it's just interesting seeing if that was from marrying into additional kids (have seen this with second and third marriage couples) or if they come from the marriage directly.
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by angersock 8y ago
Not quite what I was getting at. It's more that, as a hiring fair thing, you're gonna be running up against the folks that are looking for enterprisey (say, Schlumberger) or FANG jobs. The culture there isn't one that is supe
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by angersock 8y ago
What is your recommendation to companies that go to Rice for hiring? If it's for CS, don't bother. The kids're mainly set on FANG and while they're somewhat skilled the ones that show up at fairs are pretty milquetoast
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by angersock 8y ago
Why'd you have so many kids? No cable? :P
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by angersock 8y ago
Bingo. William Marsh Rice left his entire fortune (after a really fascinating story of his murder) to make the entity today known as Rice. Historically, tuition was free but limited to white only. As Wikipedia has it: > The original cha
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by angersock 8y ago
Model 3 still a bit rocky, eh?
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by angersock 8y ago
My own startup about five years ago (I've worked at several others, all different types of failures): Running out of money. We were bootstrapped, and the style of work we were doing had some decent capital costs. We failed for a &quo
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by angersock 8y ago
The library in question is nowhere near 2MB. You're tilting at windmmills.
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by angersock 8y ago
After gzipping none of the variants are that large, and let's be real: the 3rd party ads and analytics and cat pictures are gonna strictly dominate the load time.
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by angersock 8y ago
Uncle Bob's stuff missing on purpose? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884 was kinda a classic for the Rails community.
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by angersock 8y ago
Surely not all burners come off this smugly?
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by angersock 8y ago
Probably from engineering in the 30s/40s, I'd bet. Say you had two gun turrets with servos, and used a synchro slaved to another synchro to have one track whatever the other was pointing at. It's pretty obvious terminology fo
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by angersock 8y ago
It's easier than being skilled enough to contribute code or write good software. This is the future we chose. :(
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China Is Detaining Muslims in Vast Numbers. The Goal: ‘Transformation.’(nytimes.com)
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by angersock 8y ago
Facebook is still quite the problem though.
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by angersock 8y ago
You must not use good SQL IDEs...try Datagrip.
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by angersock 8y ago
Careful, this advice is dangerously close to proper DBA knowledge.
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by angersock 8y ago
And yet the entire reason for using JSX in the first place is that it looks like HTML. This is a reasonable change.
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by angersock 8y ago
Look outside just the React team: it's okay, even useful, for the React folks to get to work on things from Facebook--and to release them to the ecosystem at large--in no small part due it establishing both programmer cred and (arguabl
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by angersock 8y ago
> The truth is, most of the sponsorship money that funds these events comes from recruiters. So that's the thing, right? These events used to be fueled by passion about hacking. Then, at some point, MLH or a similar org says "

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