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by ebbv 10y ago
When I refer to how it used to be I'm talking like 10+ years ago. It used to be one of the best tech sites bar none.
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by ebbv 10y ago
We aren't both making claims. He's making a claim and I'm saying it's an unsubstantiated internet meme. My little joke example was meant to illustrate that. I'm sure you have devices in your own life that disprove h
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by ebbv 10y ago
Guy #1: Shaking pinecones will scare snakes away. Guy #2: No it won't. Guy #3: Do you have any sources that disprove that claim? The onus is on the person making the ridiculous claim. I can tell you from personal experience I have had
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by ebbv 10y ago
Unfortunately Ars Technica is not even a shadow of the site it once was. It now reprints press releases and rumors like so many other tech sites.
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by ebbv 10y ago
This is a bullshit statistic that has somehow become a meme on the internet. It just flat out isn't true. There's EVs with over a hundred thousand miles on the original pack still doing great. Please stop repeating nonsense as if
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by ebbv 10y ago
You don't want to work for a company that has that attitude anyway, honestly. That shows they have a poor attitude towards problems and probably will overreact to things like missing deadlines or pursuing a solution that ends up not wo
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by ebbv 10y ago
I don't think I can tell you the right answer since I don't know you personally. But I can tell you how I answer it; which is I think of my best traits that apply to the position I'm interviewing for. You should follow the sa
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by ebbv 10y ago
When we interview people one of the questions we like to ask is "What's the biggest thing you've accidentally deleted?" When people answer that question honestly and with humility it is a big plus.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Considering the machines available in Q1 2016 had not received an update in quite some time and the machines available now are brand new the increase of 62k units sold is not a home run.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Pretty sure the Iggy Pop song is about heroin.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Another lesson is this one which I also learned the hard way: don't work long hours or late at night unless it is absolutely necessary. It doesn't sound like it was totally necessary for YP to be pushing this hard, and pushing tha
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by ebbv 10y ago
This is great news. The ACLU has always been important, and is even more important right now as the disregard for civil liberties continues to grow in our government (at all levels including federal, state and local.) I set up a monthly don
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by ebbv 10y ago
I'll give you my perspective as I'm nearing 40; I think there's no problem being an older developer as long as you stay up on current technologies and trends so that you can talk to your teammates and potential employers in t
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by ebbv 10y ago
If you want to really learn Linux and infrastructure stuff then you should become a systems engineer not a back end developer. Back end developers rarely become experts on those topics, since they are at least one layer beneath our area of
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by ebbv 10y ago
I think you might be suffering from a grass is greener situation. The web development community as a whole is unfortunately very obsessed with new an shiny. New frameworks and new languages come up fairly regularly and people jump all over
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by ebbv 10y ago
Reading the article it doesn't sound like this bill does anything to make it easier for the employee to find a different job once they are here (e.g. Making it easier for other employers to take on sponsorship of the H1-B visa.) The ar
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by ebbv 10y ago
That's what I assumed, but it wasn't totally clear that was your intention. Like I said it does help but it's not a panacea.
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by ebbv 10y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. Do you mean that if only people used DAOs then Parse shutting down wouldn't be a problem? It only encapsulates the problem. You still need to go through a process to switch from Parse to MariaDB or
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by ebbv 10y ago
The Parse folks seem to have handled this reasonably well but this is the perfect illustration of why building your own application around a third party service like this is not a pure win. There is a tradeoff and it can in fact bite you.
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by ebbv 10y ago
It depends on what you want to do. If your goal is to be a web developer or a game programmer then no, it's a lot of time investment and you'll come out of it still needing to learn a lot on the job. If your goal is to go into a m
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by ebbv 10y ago
> OK, so you're suggesting that we discard practicalities due to the purity of your ideology. No, I'm not. I'm suggesting we abandon your unfounded fears in the face of historical evidence that bringing in immigrants has o
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by ebbv 10y ago
Because it's the morally right thing to do and immigrants enrich our country. Read some history.
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by ebbv 10y ago
It's not an either or. We can absorb a lot more refugees than we are taking now (which is basically none) and we can also have better foreign policy than we have had for the last 20 years.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Banning people trying to escape war zones makes it worse not more acceptable. Stop watching so much TV news and reading articles by cowardly hate mongers. Most people are just like you and me and only want to provide a nice life for their
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by ebbv 10y ago
Your comment is really misleading. Urmson is not the main target that the title is referring to.
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by ebbv 10y ago
No, they didn't.
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by ebbv 10y ago
People may be downvoting you because this meme that Safari needs open development of extensions is tired and they're sick of reading it.
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by ebbv 10y ago
I like having a predictable schedule and not having to manage people. All the money in the world isn't worth the stress and misery that comes from running your own company.
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by ebbv 10y ago
There's a number of reasons. Those cars are expensive to manufacture and making an affordable car that looks like that is extremely difficult. You'd have to cut costs elsewhere compared to a more "boring" looking car. Ad
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by ebbv 10y ago
Exactly. The title and article frame this inaccurately. Obama could and should have shut it down or at least reduced the surveillance state that he inherited but it was created during the Bush years.

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