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by asdkl234890 13y ago
Yes.
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
I worked for a large corporation which used a hard core water fall method to produce software. And yet it called it Agile. Why? Because why not.
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
Same here. C11 has driven me into mobile app development with Java and Objective C. And that's after 10+ years of C++ experience and most people consider me a C++ expert.
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
This is making fun of small teams creating revolutionary technology. Maybe not intentionally, maybe they only intend to promote a new movie or video game or something, but intentionally or not, they are making fun of startups. Startups li
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
basically lisp with the biggest standard library you've ever imagined, That's what I was thinking too. And I also think it could mostly be re-implement as open source, with say Python.
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
Bitcoin is like a dividend-free stock or commodity Yes, it is an asset. A very easy to trade purely electronic asset. Due to its easy tradeability it is similar to a currency, but much like stocks, it is not a currency.
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
I am not sure it is rational to spend a lot effort to teach your management. If you are their manager, sure. If you love the job, sure. If you work a industry where jobs are rare and it is hard finding a new one, sure. But if you are softw
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
>but it would probably take a decade or three. That is seems like very long. Why would it take three decades?
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
Well there is no such thing as federally legal marijuana yet, right?
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
In every single apparent I have rented I have turned of the fire alarm. Usually after the second or third time it goes off thanks to me cooking. The same is true for my friends. Once they found a hidden old alarm where they wanted to bury t
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
she later told me that I was anti-authoritarian and more likely to do what I thought was right rather than what I had been instructed to do. I am still baffled to this day about how that is an undesirable attribute Ugh.... I have some bad
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
Why is this news? Seriously, haven't we known that social isolation results in depression since.... for ever?
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by asdkl234890 13y ago
I bet $100k that Marcus Badperson will die on the morning of 15 June 2013"; best way to collect is to do the deed yourself (or subcontract.) But don't you need someone else to take the other side of the bet? You can't just bet X and get m
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
Just because you don't romanticize Singapore, does not mean you do romanticize San Francisco. I personally only romanticize Switzerland. (This is turning into Libertarian bingo.)
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
I'm in my mid 30s and have already noticed a slight decline in short term memory. I have tons more experience and am sure I am a much better hacker than I was at 21, but getting older has real costs.
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
A few days ago my gf tried to book a flight. Like most people, she starts with googleing flight tickets. And sees Google flights for the first time and starts using it. Gets to the point where Google kicks you off to the airline's own page,
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
That would put me in the awkward position of having published a private conversation by a deceased gentleman who generously paid for several dozen poor students to go to college, including me. It's not like you told us he secretly punched
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
Berlin's cheap because it's located in the middle of former East Germany, which has cheaper rents than West Germany. Right, but the original comment claims is cheaper even than most East European capitals, most of which were and still are
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
But a lack of buildings (due to the Wall) should mean rents are higher . Same for bombing destroying buildings, this results in fewer building on the market. As to pre-war architecture, all of Europe, including Eastern Europe is full of it
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
If you earn $100,000 at retirement, you need about $2 million beyond what you will receive from Social Security. Sounds about right. And also why I have no plans to retire. If I can find a job at some point because I'm too old, then I wil
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
Why? I think this is a real psychological effect. Humans are not Vulcans. I think a similar psychological effect also works with minorities. Or really anyone about whom stereotypes exist. This is interesting in terms of game theory. Where t
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
Every time I touch Qt, it feels more like Java than C++ I just wish they something as powerful as the GridBagLayout. No, QGridLayout is not it.
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
Just use this as a counter to the "rising tide of crap" on HN. Then again what makes HN special to me is that it is free of otherwise very popular and frequently also great topics I agree with. Exactly because they are popular. Why should
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
Someone losing a benefit on short notice does not constitute an argument for tax-payer subsidization of that benefit. You know there is a whole continent where most people think of healthcare as a right, not a benefit. And the Hippocratic
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by asdkl234890 14y ago
Gaming? So fast food with no exercise would not have killed him if he had just not played games? I had a friend with diabetes, he was way over weight. One day we talked about his new apartment, WOW and girls. He mentioned he had a good view
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by asdkl234890 15y ago
and announced plans to ride it solo into the planet’s deepest recess Why? What can he do in the sub, that he couldn't do remotely? Nothing obviously, he wants to be in the sub, because he wants to be in the sub.
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by asdkl234890 15y ago
The company I work for now is a big, fast growing and very profitable corporation. It also has a problem retaining top talent. While big and growing and profitable it is noticeably disturbed that the best people keep leaving. It is trying t
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by asdkl234890 15y ago
The company I work for now is very profitable and growing fast. I can not wait to leave. If I cared mostly about money, I would want to stay.

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