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by balls187 5y ago
> So a plumber is an engineer Yeah, we call them civil engineers. In the US, in order to be an engineer one either had to have a license to call themselves an engineer, or a company could confer that title to employees. These days, it&#x
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by balls187 5y ago
> I guess what I'm asking is: If you were fresh out of college, how would you go about getting a job? Contact my schools career services, and make sure I was available for all interviews during career fairs.
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by balls187 5y ago
Or ad hominem attacks.
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by balls187 5y ago
Apple's stance was (IIRC from my days as a mobile dev--it may have since changed) was instead of side-loading of apps, that there is the web, and people would be free to utilize webapps. ios Safari puts in place some limitation (sandbo
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by balls187 5y ago
> Instead of adding an infinite loop to purposely sabotage other projects, he should have either walked away or changed the license for future versions of faker into a much more restricted one Then from the context, you can clearly read
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by balls187 5y ago
> I'm genuinely interested in hearing from people who believe that Apple I'm old. I like that I can generally trust installing apps on my phone because Apple vets them. It is one less thing for me to think about. Likewise, I ha
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by balls187 5y ago
Not worrying about endian conversion or the format of your floating point is a very good thing (Yes, I'm old enough to have dealt with software developed on Intel machines having to be ported to run on VAX based machines).
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by balls187 5y ago
But you do get to criticize poor judgement and provide reasonable alternative courses of action.
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by balls187 5y ago
> And then one day the person just chucks your package in the river instead of delivering it. That analogy makes little sense. In my county, what you described is malicious mischief, and is a crime. A homeless person is not entitled to a
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by balls187 5y ago
The title inflation would make sense, but also paying director of marketing at a small company $100,000? Glassdoor has that salary around $75k on average for a small company.
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by balls187 5y ago
> But I know a lot of people who did 2 years at community college, and then got screwed over by transfer credits enough that they ended up doing 3 years at a normal college This was the case for me, though I wouldn't classify as bei
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by balls187 5y ago
> 2) There are better options than college for many. I agree there are better options than college for many. Thought if I were a betting man, on average, College is the better decision. > One of my daughters did a six month digital m
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by balls187 5y ago
Yes. Just find any search box in firefox, right click on it and select "Add a keyword for this search." This feature has been implemented since I started using firefox, circa 2004.
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by balls187 5y ago
Firefox had this nearly 20 years ago, and morphed into keyword search.
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by balls187 5y ago
My startup sublet from a company that did dark matter development. Not sexy work, but they had low turnover, and tended to be in and out of the office at normal hours. J. Fogerty, if you're reading this, I miss overhearing your enginee
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by balls187 5y ago
I'm assuming this recruiter doesn't recruit for a company, but instead works for a recruiting company. It's been my experience that they tend to be myopic with their skillset and end up setting up a cycle--experience finding
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by balls187 5y ago
I use paybyphone on the reg. background: I'm friends with Kush.
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by balls187 5y ago
> Meanwhile, Apple or their "third-party provider" could of course play this game, but historically tech companies have been super uninterested in doing this. Apple notoriously "extorts" developers to be in the app st
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by balls187 5y ago
Most of what you wrote has merit, but I dont believe the author was trying to impart much of what you wrote. I let my comments inline with yours. > a) blindly 'updating' and deploying code without testing is a horrible idea Thi
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by balls187 5y ago
So which corporations are leaching off of open source, without contributing back to open source? Why punish the majority of developers who contribute back to open source with patches, bug reports, comments, answers on Stack Overflow, etc?
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by balls187 5y ago
> I think Marak is teaching an important and principled lesson here. What lesson is that?
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by balls187 5y ago
I only have one side of the story, so I'll take it at face value. It sounds like both your boss and your manager suck at their jobs, and this is not a good place to be long term. I'm going to assume that as your first job out of c
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by balls187 5y ago
> Between 10:00 PM and 10:30 PM, in those 30 minutes, what did I own? Interesting question. I would argue, you owned the installer binary.
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by balls187 5y ago
> and there is no way to obtain the original ROM? and flash it and everything is ok again? If it was permanently bricked, then no. The device would be in a state that it could not restart the flash process. If reflashing were possible wi
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by balls187 5y ago
> What does it mean to permanently brick the hardware? Colloquially means rendering a device in useless state which cannot be recovered. "Bricking" typically occurs when performing some sort of software update that goes awry, s
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by balls187 5y ago
I'm aware, and I can eat my body weight in malaysian style satay, nasi lemak, roti chani, and muthrabak. But, eating that food for an entire year would get old quickly, especially for young kids who are (presumably) groomed on American
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by balls187 5y ago
Why Penang?
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by balls187 5y ago
Yes the terms use allows copying and remixing. As of now, it's Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike. https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
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by balls187 5y ago
I am on the upper rep band, and I typically copy from the question and paste into my answer. It appears as though Stack Exchange accounted for that use case when showing User rep. I assume the 0-rep users doing the copy and pasting are the
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by balls187 5y ago
> Honestly, I don't see how "for babies" could be trademarked since it's a literal phrase describing the product. "For Dummies" is not used literally. Neither is "For Babies" specific to the series

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