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by dangero 12y ago
Yeah, as an engineer it sounds like a blast. If I could line up work doing that week after week I'd definitely give it a go for a while.
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by dangero 12y ago
I look at it like this: There are 4 directions that a software project can be constrained: Time, price, scope, and quality. 1. Elance or ODesk can offer you fixed time, price, and scope, but highly erratic quality. 2. An expensive contracti
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by dangero 13y ago
I think I unsubscribed years ago actually.
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by dangero 13y ago
Not only that, the email provides me no incentive to resubscribe. It's just like, "Hey! wanna get emails from us again?!!" If they gave me some good reason I might have been interested, but the way it's written it's
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by dangero 13y ago
I know! If nothing else, it's REALLY BAD PR. No other company has ever done this to me. Leave it to some manager at Microsoft to OK this.
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Can a company legally send you a message asking you to resubscribe?
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by dangero 13y ago
I'm pretty skeptical about resale value on the Model S at 5 or more years out just because their newer models will have major technical advances and the cost of a battery replacement. It's hard to speculate on that right now since
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by dangero 13y ago
100% agree. Here's a related question: How many people do you think the NSA employs to work on open source software and blend into the community, establish credibility, etc. Is the answer zero people? Given what we know about the NSA n
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by dangero 13y ago
To me that doesn't seem comparable to clear text passwords being stolen at all.
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by dangero 13y ago
He said "to keep the current price stable". Stable implies not changing over time starting from present day right? Or did you mean starting "eventually" that much money will need to enter the market to keep the price &qu
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by dangero 13y ago
That's assuming everyone who mines coins puts them up for sale and that's far from true.
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by dangero 13y ago
That's a slippery slope. By that logic no company can be critiqued for security failures. Linode was storing their shell passwords in clear text. To me that's where I draw the line. On the other hand, if there were good alternativ
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by dangero 13y ago
Outside of the standard SSD drives, DO has not had any major data breaches that I'm aware of. That's a pretty big one. At this point recommending Linode to a company I work for seems borderline negligent considering their security
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by dangero 13y ago
I don't see any mention of these "AppCoins" being a decentralized crypto-currency. It's kind of interesting that you assumed that. I did too. It shows how our perspectives have been changed by Bitcoin's existence.
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by dangero 13y ago
I'm convinced this is the best way to do it. I was testing one of those apps that repeats what you say and they did something like this. They popped up a dialog that said, "We are going to ask for access to the Microphone. We need
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by dangero 13y ago
I meant drawing skills. I agree with you it's not a fair characterization of art at all, but probably a mistake on my part due to years of "art" class in school which was typically resigned to painting/drawing/craft
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by dangero 13y ago
Yeah the photo keithwarren posted shows .NET WebClient is being contributed.
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by dangero 13y ago
Normally you get a cheap jacket or backpack, and yes, lots of opportunities to make contacts with Apple developers at labs or people from other companies. One year I was working on a kernel driver and I got acquainted with several Apple ker
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by dangero 13y ago
Since phones have clocks on them isn't a watch really just a fashion accessory now? What makes it more likely than any other wearable computer? I guess I'm just not sure if watches are a big enough market for Apple. They seem kind
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by dangero 13y ago
Wow these contributions are a huge deal for Mono. I've spent the last few months making sure C# code works well in Mono and there are a lot of things that are missing or buggy. WebClient for example on Mono is missing DNS refresh timeo
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by dangero 13y ago
This is a fantastic commentary on what makes a game fun. I'm always intrigued by titles that require nearly no art skills. "Thomas Was Alone" kind of surprised me in that way too because it was successful side by side with ot
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by dangero 13y ago
Wow so this seems actually worse than outlawing Tesla because what they are doing is giving Tesla major privileges over any future competition. Seems very monopolistic.
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by dangero 13y ago
What did you do when you found out?
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by dangero 13y ago
I contacted ODesk explaining what happened with all the evidence. By the next day the guy I had hired was contacting me saying that ODesk suspended his account indefinitely. He continued contacting me for about a year saying that he could n
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by dangero 13y ago
I once hired an offshore developer on ODesk who stole my code and resold it. I discovered he was doing this because he left my analytics code in. Same deal; I woke up one day to analytics showing traffic on a domain I didn't own, so I
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by dangero 13y ago
That's extremely interesting, but how does it jive with the emails about the Safari team? The Safari team probably has some management, but I assume it does not have a sales department.
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by dangero 13y ago
I can see your point. Even without written agreements there are unspoken agreements amongst friends in this regard. For example, if I own a small business, and so does one of my friends, it goes without saying that him poaching my team woul
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by dangero 13y ago
TechCrunch asked what? I meant crime in a figurative sense: "an action or activity that, although not illegal, is considered to be evil, shameful, or wrong.". I've quit a lot of jobs, but I've never felt a desire to corr
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by dangero 13y ago
Yeah this section really damaged her credibility for me. She says the guys were "gawking", so they were not saying anything inappropriate, just "staring openly and stupidly". I can picture a professional business environ
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by dangero 13y ago
I'm not sure I would refer to Steam as a DRM platform. Steam application deployment does have apis built in for DRM, but they are not required for release by Valve. It's up to the developer to decide if they want to DRM lock their

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