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901.
by donw 10y ago
There's a reason that Japanese has a convenient word for "working oneself to death": karoshi.
902.
by donw 10y ago
Can confirm: developers here that work with foreign companies are almost all on Macs. Windows still reigns absolutely supreme in native companies, though.
903.
by donw 10y ago
Hacking is not the same as computing or programming. The ways that the Primitive Technology Guy (PTG) has figured out how to make clay roofing tiles, charcoal, and a primitive forge blower are pretty fascinating. He's managed to build
904.
by donw 10y ago
People serve in the military for all kinds of reasons. Some, because it's a family tradition. Others, because they believe in serving their country. And many others, because it presents them with an economic opportunity they would neve
905.
by donw 10y ago
Another vote for the Leap. Just built out a new office, and while we don't have infinite amounts of money, I made sure that we got proper chairs. Expensive artwork and overpriced lounge furniture don't improve productivity or mora
906.
by donw 10y ago
Am I correct in reading that they performed this experiment only for two days, and entirely with graduate students? If so, they have missed the point of TDD. In the short term, TDD probably doesn't make a difference, one way or another
907.
by donw 10y ago
Japan has low crime, by and large, because they have only a single criminal organization: the Yakuza. They are not nice people, but as criminal organizations go, having one that views itself as the protector of the people isn't so bad.
908.
by donw 10y ago
There is a massive delta between knowing that, and being able to code examples of each from memory on a whiteboard during an interview. Also, it may surprise you, but there are many highly experienced and extremely capable programmers that
909.
by donw 10y ago
> I struggle to see how the world could be arranged such that we could all hold forth with controversial views, but such that there was never a consequence to holding those views. What would that world look like? It would be a much less
910.
by donw 10y ago
I suspect that legislation will never be able to run ahead of the human capacity to rapidly and efficiently paint oneself into a corner. Rather than trying to prevent the resulting busts at all costs, it seems that it would be more effectiv
911.
by donw 10y ago
That sounds... high. No guarantees that I can help with your current stack, but my email is in my profile if you'd like to run your setup by me.
912.
by donw 10y ago
For those that don't know: she wrote the first compiler.
913.
by donw 10y ago
I wonder how many users will come to depend on it before they shut it down.
914.
by donw 10y ago
A book titled "Hillbilly Elegy" goes into this in great detail, and is a very important read for anybody trying to make sense of the insanity that is modern American politics (on both sides of the aisle, really).
915.
by donw 10y ago
Social Security recipients feel that they have "earned" their retirement income, though, because they paid into the system during forty-seven-or-so years of their working life.
916.
by donw 10y ago
California doesn't allow citizens that live in major metro areas to carry concealed weapons, unless they are employed as armed security, or are politically connected.
917.
by donw 10y ago
Having high school education last until the onset of adulthood does have a number of benefits, but to realize those benefits, Americans need to stop treating high school as the first step towards University. The purpose of government-provid
918.
by donw 10y ago
Maybe a bit macabre, but I believe the cost of training a fighter pilot runs around $10 million total, so you can add that "savings" in as well.
919.
by donw 10y ago
The point is not that creationism is an obvious case of twisting the facts to fit theories. It is that, if you want to have any hope of bringing a creationist over to your side, you need to be able to understand and articulate both their ar
920.
by donw 10y ago
Oddly enough, I think that both of these viewpoints work together very nicely. Human beings are, generally speaking, irrational. We have a sort of flashlight'o'rationality that we can shine on specific things for periods of time,
921.
by donw 10y ago
Agreed. Lord Baden-Powell would be very disappointed at the Boy Scouts as it exists today. But I do seem to meet a large number of young adults that could benefit from a similar experience to Scouting, in terms of learning valuable life ski
922.
by donw 10y ago
I am very much pro-encryption-for-the-masses, but also consider it to be important to be able to argue multiple angles on any issue. So, playing Devil's Advocate, here is what an anti-encryption person would say in response: Nobody rea
923.
by donw 10y ago
Well, as adults that can make their own decision, that would be up to them, of course. Hopefully this isn't too political, but I will try and answer your question. Part of self-reliance is the ability to make your environment safe. Thi
924.
by donw 10y ago
> I lack the outdoorsy know-how and wisdom to feel at ease on the backroads of the desert southwest. This is one of the reasons that I am glad I was a Scout and spent a lot of time in the backcountry. I grew up thinking that this is how
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The last day of linotype at the NYT (1978) [video](vimeo.com)
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926.
by donw 10y ago
When I was working as a contractor for the federal government, I got to learn how to do accessibility testing on both desktop and mobile devices. To echo your sentiment, Apple devices were far-and-away the easiest to use from an accessibili
927.
by donw 10y ago
2FA is an extra layer of protection, not a panacea. A successful attack would require both an Authy breach and that the attacker have passwords for the services that they want to compromise. This should buy you enough time to regenerate y
928.
by donw 10y ago
Since lots of people will be rotating passwords, this is probably a good time to set up Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) as well. I recommend Authy as your 2FA app, as it lets you set a backup password, which you can use to move your 2FA tok
929.
by donw 10y ago
> I'll go a step further and say that if you're the kind of person that takes FizzBuzz as a personal insult, then you should be able to write it out in 60 seconds max, and move on with the interview. I see your step, and rais
930.
by donw 10y ago
I suspect that you are thinking of FizzBuzz differently than it was originally intended. FizzBuzz is not designed as a test of real-world programming skills; rather, it is a deliberately easy test to ensure that a candidate can solve an ele

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