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by chasingthewind 7y ago
The part that has me twitching are the magic numbers in the calls to generateLightColorPart :P
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by chasingthewind 7y ago
https://justdetention.org/ This is a charity dedicated to ending the prison rape crisis in the US. There's discussion in some threads about prison rape and rather than replying there I think it's better if this is
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by chasingthewind 7y ago
Bad UFOs also covers this ongoing story from a skeptical perspective. https://badufos.blogspot.com/
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by chasingthewind 7y ago
Once upon a time our team was starting a new project and there were several Senior Engineers including myself working with an offshore team. One of the other Senior Engineers took a very assertive stance as the project got started and was s
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Ask HN: What is the most complex commonplace consumer product?
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
I'm not going to defend Boeing's conduct here for one moment, but I do think your statement is an over-reaction. The company employs 150,000 people, it contributes billions to the US economy, and builds significant aerospace know-
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
My impression was that both organizations were offering reasonable salaries for the market but I wasn't directly involved in the compensation talks.
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
This really doesn't match my experience. As a tech lead / team lead over the last five years in a small East Coast market I've experienced real difficulty finding competent Software Engineers at any level. I changed jobs a ye
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
At my old company (in a small east coast market) the leadership had supported a local boot camp wholeheartedly and highly encouraged teams to bring in junior candidates from each graduating cohort. In the round I participated in we intervie
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Visible Mending: Instead of hiding rips and tears, turn them into art(vox.com)
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
Darklands is perhaps my favorite game of all time. All the criticisms he raises are pretty valid, but there was something about it that captured my imagination in a way no previous game had. It's the first game I ever remember needing
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
I think this is really commendable. When you put your money where your mouth is you really show that you're serious about your values. All the best to the forty future winners of this grant!
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
I'm using Java every day to deliver software that works to people who want solutions to their problems. It's interesting and enjoyable. No need to feel bad for me or any of the other folks happily solving real world problems in Ja
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
One assertion the article makes that I'm skeptical of is that the price of the phone used to be hidden in the monthly cost of the plan but no longer is. I have no evidence, but it definitely feels to me like my cell phone bill has been
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
If your post is intended to combat the tendency for westerners to constantly repeat stories about western contributions to science and culture and to minimize or ignore the contributions of other cultures then I'd agree but I think you
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
There is no circumstances under which a maximum speed of 112 would bother me. I drive a Honda Fit. I don't think I have ever driven it over 85 miles per hour (137km/hr). I'm not comfortable driving faster than that. What mak
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
I will probably be the lone voice here defending mock testing but probably not for the reasons you'd expect. Does mock testing end up being brittle? Yes. Do you have to refactor the tests immediately after making small changes? Yes. Is
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
The implication that being the father of daughters has some kind of special relevance for one's views on prisons strikes me as poorly thought out. At best it comes across as paternalistic.
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That loaded extremely slowly on mobile admittedly, but I do agree that you're being overly harsh. Why assume he authored the site himself? Is it a requirement that someone doing web programming has to author their own blog site? It fee
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
I find Gladwell very entertaining and enjoy his podcasts, even his most recent one about the music industry (Broken Record) despite not even really caring all that much about the topic (He makes even boring stuff interesting!) However I hav
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
Vox had some good criticisms of this book when it came out in 2017. https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/30/16224112/reeves-h...
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My first job doing intranet web development in 2000 was in a company with mandatory use of IE for all employees and all developed apps. We all grew to despise it very quickly especially as the alternatives increased in number and quality. M
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
One of my favorite railroading business yarns is the opposite of an IPO: the dissolution of the Reading Railroad. When the railroad started to collapse a group of savvy investors bought a controlling share for pennies on the dollar because
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
I once worked at a company where the new CIO came out and said very plainly that the attrition rate was too low. The implication under the circumstances was that there were too many low competence long-timers. This was followed up with a ha
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
Unions would very likely increase game prices. I will happily pay more for games in exchange for better conditions for game developers.
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
I've always really enjoyed teaching people about programming topics at work and I've often wondered about trying to volunteer at the local high school or something, but having a wife who has worked as a teacher and a mother who is
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
What if Glassdoor added a checkbox on the review that says "This review was requested by my employer" or "This review was coerced by my employer". That information would be anonymous but shown with the company rating so
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
Another really great work that's related to some of these concepts is "Naming and Necessity" by the philosopher Saul Kripke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_and_Necessity It investigates how we assi
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
This is a great solution! Now I just have to figure out how to disconnect my gas range and put it in my car every day :)
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by chasingthewind 8y ago
I worked at a company that got sold on Semantic Web and made an initial investment in tools and training. While I found the concepts intriguing, the teams tasked with making it work gave up after about six months of trying to make it work w

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