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by bondolo 7y ago
The brightness of the UI should match the ambient light in the environment. Light UI in daylight, Dark UI at night. Brightness adjustments applied to both based on the ambient light. Some people may also prefer hue adjustments (blue reducti
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by bondolo 7y ago
No less safe until it the code is running in production on a Tuesday at 3AM and a library pukes up an exception it has never thrown before and your code doesn't handle it. I prefer exceptions to be declared, just like types. Having exc
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by bondolo 7y ago
PDFs are an accessibility nightmare and most production pipelines are terrible at preserving the semantic structure of the document or, in many cases, even preserving the text. A PDF is in many cases as series of page images which aren&#x27
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by bondolo 7y ago
I had associated Oliver Sacks with swimming based upon this New Yorker article : https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/swimming-with-ol...
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by bondolo 7y ago
Thank you to the authors for being entirely explicit about the implementation to the point of providing pseudo code and not having any expectation that implementors or users will know anything about cryptography.
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by bondolo 8y ago
aka "Don't ask to ask, just ask" the mantra of IRC for at least 25 years.
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by bondolo 8y ago
Having the bay area terminus in the east bay was always a better idea than getting to San Francisco. Connect to BART in San Leandro, or for extra credit, get to the port of Oakland before connecting to BART. Going up the peninsula seemed li
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by bondolo 8y ago
The couple of now former Apple Titan employees I know all took new jobs in the last six months. This has been coming for a while.
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by bondolo 8y ago
It would be expected that employers would quantify the costs and adjust compensation to factor that in. However, many (most?) employers use employer sponsored permanent residency as effectively an indentured servitude program and their gain
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by bondolo 8y ago
I am a former Oracle employee, white male from Canada, who was underpaid based on my immigration status and that continued after I became a permanent resident. This seemed routine–Oracle tries to underpay everyone and will use whatever ad
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by bondolo 8y ago
Yes, it is a port wine stain birthmark.
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by bondolo 8y ago
I'd love to see what it does with my face: https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/250420?s=800&v=4
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by bondolo 8y ago
I was one of the students in those classes and appreciated having someone with more technical depth in the class. I ended up making notes in every lecture of questions to ask the real experts during the breaks. I remember questions to Randy
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by bondolo 8y ago
What are your life savings for if they can't be used to save your life? Every other use is fortuitous but until you have more money than you could spend to save your life then that is the purpose of that money.
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by bondolo 8y ago
Certainly not new. I learned this technique from a self hypnosis book in the early 1980s. It does work. My mental recitation is "One. One. One. One…" I used to use this for naps but found I wasn't as rested than natural sleep
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by bondolo 8y ago
I have a similar story about Brad Templeton's C64 Assembler. It was the first development tool I ever bought and, at the time, very expensive for me as a high school student. I later came to claim that I would always pay for any softwa
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by bondolo 8y ago
The $140M being "alleged" is the most blockchain part of the title
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by bondolo 8y ago
I left a Canadian university in 1989 without graduating because the opportunity to do a startup was more aligned with my career goals than the dated CompSci program that was preparing me only for working for government, banking or an oil co
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by bondolo 9y ago
Spellcheck had indeed "corrected" the spelling of his last name from "Minow" to "Minnow". Now fixed.
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by bondolo 9y ago
Martin Minow liked to tell the story of the time he got a call from Steve Jobs right after Steve's return to Apple. Martin was working on Copeland which hadn't been cancelled yet. Steve called out the blue one afternoon and said &
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by bondolo 9y ago
I have never used Windows 10 nor made significant use of any Windows version since Windows XP. Nonetheless my parents asked me to look at some issues they were having with their laptops. The trend of increasing clutter that has plagued Wind
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by bondolo 9y ago
The iPad I use for watching cartoons in bed is a minimum spec 1st generation iPad. It runs iOS 5.1 and hasn't updated in about 5 years. Most of the apps are no longer supported. I can still use NetFlix, Amazon Prime Video and Crackle.
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by bondolo 9y ago
It is working in my community. http://www.berkeleyside.com/ has run a (very modest) profit for the last two years and continued to expand. Their focus is the greater Berkeley area; a population of about 350,000. It is a mor
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by bondolo 9y ago
I've been using a 100cm/39" Seiki 4K for about 3 years and wish for a physically smaller 4K screen. Using eye glasses with progressive lens I have to move my head too much with this screen and after long periods of use I find
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by bondolo 9y ago
Location: Sunnyvale, CA; Big Island, HI Remote: possible for some positions Liquid Robotics (A Boeing Company) builds a marine robot, the Wave Glider, an autonomous, unmanned surface vehicle (USV) that operates individually or in fleets del
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by bondolo 9y ago
This seems like it could be very useful for accessibility applications.
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by bondolo 10y ago
Liquid Robotics Inc | Sunnyvale, CA | Maritime Robotics https://www.liquid-robotics.com Staff Software Engineer | http://jobs.jobvite.com/liquid-robotics-inc/job/oPep3fwf | ONSITE, REMOTE Java back-end
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by bondolo 10y ago
I know that I am excited that they will be providing soft realtime threads. I've felt this is a necessary addition for consumer media operating systems for a long time.
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by bondolo 10y ago
Considering how competitive physics graduate programs are at top schools it is a shame to hear that so few are pursuing careers in physics and some appear to be calculating in advance their move to CS. I love CS but if I had a passion for p
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by bondolo 10y ago
Culture matters. In 1997 I had offers from both Apple and Sun. I was working at a Macintosh ISV which was very badly impacted by Steve cancelling the Mac clones. I knew from friends about the secrecy and siloed environment at NeXT and in St

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