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by brantonb 7y ago
The rule for pacers is that they must start the race at the same time and be able to keep up with the runner being paced, though they don’t have to finish it. Swapping fresh legs in mid-race isn’t allowed. In a college indoor track 5K, one
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by brantonb 7y ago
It’s very common to wear sunglasses in an ultramarathon. Runners usually also wear a vest to carry their water, food, safety gear, headlamp, etc.
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by brantonb 7y ago
Xcode 10 changed their per-line annotation feature from Blame to Authors.
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by brantonb 7y ago
They changed the preorder time to 8am eastern time this year. It’s 5am on the west coast.
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by brantonb 7y ago
I love my iPad with the keyboard case. When I hook it up to an external monitor and my Kinesis keyboard, it’s even better. I’m looking forward to mouse support in iOS 13. One of my favorite apps when it comes to the keyboard is Blink. It’s
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by brantonb 7y ago
I was turned off by their smugness back before they had a Windows version. Their justification was that the platform didn’t allow them to build the type of beautiful software their high standards required. They’ve always had these attitudes
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by brantonb 7y ago
If a billion people watch the same YouTube video, the NSA isn’t going to store a billion copies of it.
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by brantonb 7y ago
I’m an iOS developer and I use AppCode as my primary IDE. It does have a dependency on Xcode, so it has to be installed.
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by brantonb 7y ago
I use Blink[1] to Mosh to an EC2 instance where I use Jekyll, Vim, and Git to edit a static website that’s built and deployed when I push master. I can transfer images from my Photos library using the local shell, which I then resize on the
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by brantonb 8y ago
I commented to another reply. This formerly said “Interviews...” I didn’t pull that out of thin air. Something changed after my comment.
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by brantonb 8y ago
Ok, I know I saw that somewhere when I commented. Did the headline change? It’s clearly not in the article now.
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by brantonb 8y ago
>Interviews One of the people featured is a friend and former coworker at a different company. When I sent him this link, he said they never talked to him. They just pulled info off of his blog.
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by brantonb 8y ago
My boss today wondered why he made a particular decision for a commit he made 3 years ago. He pulled up Evernote, searched for the bug number, and had his notes from when he was working on it. Mystery solved. With OneNote, he’d have to have
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by brantonb 8y ago
Here is a git simulator that GitHub consulting uses in their courses. I particularly like the “Free Explore with Remote” mode. https://git-school.github.io/visualizing-git/
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by brantonb 8y ago
No, I won’t. I haven’t said a word to anyone at work. I haven’t filed an HR complaint. I put my headphones on and deal with it. I only mentioned it here because it seemed relevant to the discussion. I’ve got all the proof I need to know I h
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by brantonb 8y ago
Misophonia is a thing. I wish food wasn’t allowed at our desks. I end up with headphones on for much of the day because we have free crunchy snacks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia
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by brantonb 8y ago
I left Microsoft a couple years ago, with no desire to work at Amazon. I had no problem finding interesting companies in Seattle for interviews. Facebook, Google, Apple, and Twitter are all here. Not to mention a bunch of startups that are
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by brantonb 9y ago
Quote is at: https://1.1.1.1
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by brantonb 9y ago
As an insider: Windows developers hated the full-screen start menu and were vocal about it. We were the first ones to experience it and generally thought, "They're not going to ship this... right?" At some point, we were told
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by brantonb 9y ago
That's in the "Direct" section which has this footnote: >From 2010 (when Amazon moved its headquarters to downtown Seattle) to 2017.