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by cunac 13y ago
Point is I am doing this for last 30 years , I choose this when computers were not 'cool' and 'hip' , internet was arpanet and BBS was well BBS. It wasn't demand or promise for richness what drove my choice of profe
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by cunac 13y ago
I am so sorry if programming stopped to be fun for you but please don't extrapolate that to all of us. I would hope that for most there is fun and less work. In immortal words of Confucius "Choose a job you love, and you will neve
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by cunac 13y ago
you wouldn't believe how much effort was put to actually make LoL matchmaking reasonably correct. Game collects a lot of data points per match and it is fine tuned frequently
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by cunac 13y ago
you just choose to not understand my point, working in mine is also hard work , working in mine for free is hard work and plain stupid I don't consider family interactions work , it can be hard but it is not my definition of work. You
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by cunac 13y ago
It is really simple(in this context of hard workers). If you are willing to work for free it is your choice but mostly that is not economically smart choice and most likely not healthy choice. Unfortunately seems that you equal hard work wi
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by cunac 13y ago
by testing and measuring performance ? In real world it is rare that you have easy way to guess actual overall impact of your optimization. sure you profile and go for hotspots but still it is very hard to actually understand full impact an
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by cunac 13y ago
I am pretty sure that if you don't provide a door key police will break door so same logic should follow that they have burden of enforcing entry
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by cunac 13y ago
30 years ago when I started I knew everything , now I know a little :-) life sucks ...
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by cunac 13y ago
thanks, I was so puzzled how she found address of LOL account knowing that Riot doesn't have that information
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by cunac 13y ago
the fact that H1B yearly quota is used in hours ?
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by cunac 13y ago
I am not US citizen but visa policy is virtually same for any issuing country. Getting visa (any kind) is privilege not right. Government has full discretionary right to refuse entry to anybody whom is not citizen. Not saying it is fair sys
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by cunac 13y ago
maybe it shows that they don't have ENOUGH data ? that is also viable viewpoint just saying
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by cunac 13y ago
Sure you realize that audience is way smaller then what you imply and you did answer to most of those questions to your doctor/lawyer etc.. Try to compare apples to apples
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by cunac 13y ago
Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me fo
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by cunac 13y ago
most likely that was best 10 minutes of your day :-)
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by cunac 13y ago
You should pay at least minimum wage which is intended for unskilled labor. Even training that person will provide value to you and you will learn so much about yourself.
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by cunac 13y ago
everyone think he is A player (guilty as charged), but cruel reality is majority is C players hiring hopefully better than that (C+,B).
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by cunac 13y ago
how 300GB is storage problem? I would understand if you say 300TB , but with 2TB HDD < 100$ and 0.5TB SSD < 400$ I can't really see that a major use case. And that is one time fixed payment.
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by cunac 13y ago
I understand that lots of people discriminates by gender,age,you name it and I don't agree with that. Where I am coming from population was (at time of my childhood) 98% white so no advantage being white :-) My high school year had 6 girls
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by cunac 13y ago
as somebody who saw ugly side of human nature (war) I can guarantee you that social norms are way weaker than any aspect of human nature. I wish it is different but I have rather big statistical sample to draw upon
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by cunac 13y ago
all I got from article is implication that somehow women are less skilled (slower in article) otherwise they would be on up escalator as well? I certainly don't agree with that implication.
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by cunac 13y ago
why you think you will not be able to compete? I am similar age and really don't see age as issue if you can do the job. Even money is not something you need to compromise
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by cunac 13y ago
developing software is not messy process. what is disturbing is that you think it is and that is normal state. Sure it is messy if you develop by accident so lets see what sticks.
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by cunac 13y ago
I don't see how this is valid patent. He just changed delivery method from mail; as described in prior art section; to more modern (SMS etc..) but he didn't invent any new process. Why change of delivery medium would be sufficient to grant
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by cunac 13y ago
or you start company in your late 40s ,early 50s when freedom kicks again :-)
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by cunac 13y ago
It is more that there is fixed number of people qualified to do job , regardless where they are. Main issue I see is that companies are more then willing to sacrifice quality by paying lower price. I don't mind competing with anybody in the
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by cunac 13y ago
typically you don't stop/start server during development cycle, hot deployment works 99% of cases
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by cunac 13y ago
ZX Specturm had ZEUSS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_Assembler ) macro assembler which we used to wrote games. Tape was different story; we made HW interface so it would use external 5.25 floppy instead :-)
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by cunac 13y ago
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall b e rendered c
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by cunac 14y ago
"I don't know how people can still write coherent code at that point." - they don't and that is a problem

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