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by cesarbs 10y ago
Would X-rays corrupt the data on the floppy disk? Honest question, I have no idea.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Seems to be. Funny though how I've never watched it and construction is my #1 mental escape for burn out. #2 is military.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
> Burnout and dream of working in construction... Is this a thing? Working in construction is usually my first day dream when I'm feeling fed up with work or a little burned out.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
QuickSynergy: https://github.com/cesarbs/quicksynergy-gtk A simple and straighforward UI to use synergy on Linux for the most common use cases. I haven't properly updated it in years (made some small changes last
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by cesarbs 10y ago
QBasic was my first exposure to programming, when I was 9 years old. Fond memories. Despite it having what today I consider terrible syntax, it made programming extremely approachable. After a quick "hello, world" intro from an IT
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by cesarbs 10y ago
I suffer from severe hypochondria. If I did this test and found out I have a higher change of developing some kind of cancer, I don't think I would be able to sleep well again for the rest of my life.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
On a related note, we go through great lengths in the Kestrel HTTP server [0] (which also uses libuv) to have fast HTTP parsing. As an example, we attempt to read the method and the HTTP version as longs and compare them to pre-computed lon
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by cesarbs 10y ago
My first night in any hotel is almost always terrible. But on subsequent nights I sleep like a baby.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Does this mean I'm better off not having any money in a savings account (except perhaps 1 month's expenses or so) and putting that money in stocks and bonds? I've been thinking recently of moving (part of) my 5-month emergenc
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by cesarbs 10y ago
I love your dictionary-like sample sentence :)
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by cesarbs 10y ago
I wasn't advocating writing extremely rigid, non-extensible code. I was alluding to unnecessarily abstract code bases where e.g. there's a class hierarchy with 7 classes when in fact 3 would properly describe the problem domain. S
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by cesarbs 10y ago
> needless abstraction layers In my experience this is one of the most offending things in large code bases. I've worked on code that does what it's supposed to do, but you can't see that it's doing it because the sol
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by cesarbs 10y ago
I'm kinda bummed to hear that. I have mentioned how it's done in the Netherlands on several occasions. I thought it had worked - sad it didn't.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Yeah, listening is very different from reading. Most audiobooks I play at 1.5x-2x because narrations are usually super slow.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
It's the fifth bullet point in the list at the top of the page.
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by cesarbs 10y ago
Yep.
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The Writer Automaton, Switzerland(chonday.com)
1 points by cesarbs 10y ago|0 comments
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Going a bit off topic here (since my kid is still in elementary), but I wish schools started later for more selfish reasons. Our kid naturally wakes up early but the Mrs. and I are night owls. We've been miserable since our kid started
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Am I the only one confused by the title? I honestly thought it would be an April Fool's joke :) The title makes me think it's about coloring colored images.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
> It seems that as hardware improves, software degenerates. Spot on. I find myself frequently and increasingly frustrated with how slow most software is nowadays. Every app in my phone takes 2-3 seconds to load. Lots of websites/web
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by cesarbs 11y ago
That's pretty much my personal approach to writing code (with special devotion to the "how can we avoid building it" part). I wish everyone I worked with had the same attitude.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
The troubling thing, at least for me, is that as I get older I realize that most puzzles one encounters as a software engineer are related to non-problems. When I was fresh out of college I would jump at any such puzzle that was presented t
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Do you buy hardware based on what it looks?
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by cesarbs 11y ago
I've stopped buying 100% cotton t-shirts because they shrink so much. polyester/cotton or tri-blend last so much longer. Also, I find them more comfortable to use (cotton sticks to the skin when it gets humid).
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by cesarbs 11y ago
Brazil is collapsing and there's no light at the end of the tunnel yet.
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by cesarbs 11y ago
That "diversity" you put there is really snarky. You seem to be implying that non-diversity (which you're very likely thinking of as white males) hires all perform well and only diversity hires underperform.
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Ask HN: How does one go about opening a company similar to Betterment?
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by cesarbs 11y ago
> When someone who is a diversity hire What are you trying to imply here?
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by cesarbs 11y ago
> 5. They aren't Incompetent. They are just good at what they do, for long time, which new comers might dispute as being lazy, not passionate about technology. I'm fairly sure I would fall in OP's "incompetent" b
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by cesarbs 11y ago
High protein or high in red meat? There's a huge difference there. If I eat a high protein diet with my protein coming from e.g. soy, am I still under the same risk?

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