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by dotdi 9y ago
I'm pretty sure going to the top of HN will sell a nice amount of copies. So while this might be an accurate account of what happened in the last few months and the suffering of the OP, it's also an effective, albeit obvious, mark
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by dotdi 9y ago
Dear developer, I hate you[1] when you interfere with scrolling. Yes, some people do it right and so on. You are not one of them. Please. Stop. Yours, A user that will close your website when scrolling is messed with. --- [1] not OP, but th
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by dotdi 9y ago
This. I specifically came here to write something very similar. Thank you. Call me a JVM fanboy, but when I see such comments, I tend to believe the author didn't want to spend time genuinely understanding the JVM and doing thorough te
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by dotdi 9y ago
Sad but true. I once had dreams of a career in academia and research. I'm a molecular biologist turned computer scientist turned software engineer in industry. I now have a very good salary, interesting challenges, plenty of work-life
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by dotdi 9y ago
Usually, institutions don't subscribe to everything a publisher has on offer, but rather a subset that is interesting for them. Therefore, if a download works with a set of credentials, it should not look suspicious. Storing the docume
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by dotdi 9y ago
I am an avid user of Sci-hub and I never saw this before.
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by dotdi 9y ago
I will neither admit nor deny supplying my credentials to Sci-hub.
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by dotdi 9y ago
In my understanding, some people have donated their academic login credentials, effectively giving Sci-hub access to their institution's subscriptions. When somebody requests an article, Sci-hub will try and see if it already has it. I
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by dotdi 9y ago
There were several factors: - This took place in Germany, where salaries don't vary to a very large extent. There are some outliers, but most people know they need to offer a certain amount of $$$ for talent. - I did my research and as
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by dotdi 9y ago
I have recently spent a long time (i.e. months) and an unholy amount of energy in an interview process that ended up offering a firm number (because of a ladder similar to the one at Google) that was significantly lower than what I was maki
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by dotdi 9y ago
> It's only logical to assume that it took him a year to write the letter. :) In German we say "gut Ding braucht Weile", i.e. "A good thing takes time".
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by dotdi 9y ago
I was dreading the big "BUT + <arbitrary rant>", and indeed, it never came. I share many of the views of the author. It's a great piece of software.
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by dotdi 9y ago
I would not equate scraping with periodic searching for a keyword. The problematic part is when you scrape data off of websites, and the owners don't want you to do it; as in, they would not even be happy if you manually copied that
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by dotdi 9y ago
That option would be useful indeed. I used to browse the community forums, propose features and vote on others. Spotify, however, has been pretty unresponsive to even the most reasonable and popular proposals, sadly, I might say.
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by dotdi 9y ago
I discovered how good Spotify's Discover Weekly was just a few days ago. Basically, I liked all but 2 songs on that list. My taste in music is also rather specific, which made it even more impressive. I shall see how the following week
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by dotdi 9y ago
In one word: neat.
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by dotdi 9y ago
Being a sucker for MOOCs, this is pretty exciting. The search algorithm doesn't seem to work right, though. Also, a bit more information would be nice, i.e. when the next offering starts, if it's paid or free, etc.
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by dotdi 9y ago
I'm really excited about the use outside of emacs and that's why I backed.
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by dotdi 9y ago
I'm not a junior developer and I recently changed jobs, partly also because I haven't had skilled and passionate coworkers. I was actually hired to bring more passion and skill - so I didn't expect milk and honey at the new c
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by dotdi 9y ago
Any links about about the LinkedIn feature or the startups?
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by dotdi 9y ago
Being a few years into my programming career, I'd be really grateful for somebody to help/guide at a higher level than, say, learning language X or pattern Y. It's a bit tough to clearly define, but I think I don't know
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by dotdi 9y ago
I hope this is not frowned upon, but I'll hijack this thread to say: I'd love to have a mentor.
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by dotdi 9y ago
I haven't seen SYCL until now, but it looks quite promising. Hopefully Codeplay will keep their interest and investment into that piece of software. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to wait for NVidia support. I have a window
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by dotdi 9y ago
I cannot wait to throw away the C++11/CUDA mess I am dealing with right now. However, this doesn't really seem ready for prime time, i.e. undocumented stuff that is "in flux". Going to keep an eye on this.
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by dotdi 9y ago
Aside from the clickbait-y title, I find it quite disturbing to base that whole piece on, what even the author describes as, problems in "codebases inherited from folks who’d internalized this idea to such an unholy extent". Indee
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by dotdi 9y ago
..and some Ryzen5 beating i7. Pretty nice.
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by dotdi 9y ago
We should really stop posting links that are behind a paywall.
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by dotdi 9y ago
Call me nitpicky, but you lost me at `Box Box1;` Instance names should be lowercase, for God's sake.
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by dotdi 10y ago
I signed up about a week ago from Germany and it worked fine. I didn't have to provide any VAT number, but they wanted my CC number, stating that they won't charge anything without my prior confirmation. Today I got an email sayin
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by dotdi 10y ago
Somebody gave me a ticket for ScalaDays 2016 Berlin, and it was awesome. Would go again this year (Copenhagen, May 30th - June 2nd, 2017) if it weren't that expensive. Edit: added date

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