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by ebbv 10y ago
What else is new? He's been ringing this bell for 20 years. Technically he's right if by Free you mean his definition of Free and not $0.
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by ebbv 10y ago
I find points far more useful than time based estimates. The trick is to use points like categories and not try to treat them as 1 point = N of something. During my training the analogy was to categories of dogs based on size. So like a Chi
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by ebbv 10y ago
So the way you would want to explain that to a potential employer is "I had to take a break from school due to financial problems." The actual phrase "I was going through some stuff." is not good enough. It's an unp
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by ebbv 10y ago
Some will, some won't. In all honesty I think you should be glad for the ones that will reject you based on that. It shows a toxic culture focused on things that aren't really important. Much more important is where your degree is
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by ebbv 10y ago
For me your age wouldn't be a factor but your lack of experience is. Especially if your goal here is professional Assembly development, those jobs don't usually go to someone with no experience. If you really want to get into prog
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by ebbv 10y ago
The bit she has in here about knowing which companies will succeed based on who's there on the weekends is such a crock of shit. It's like she's saying all the ones that failed it's because the people involved didn'
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by ebbv 10y ago
Because most users don't want that level of granularity. Do you really want to have to give every single site you touch permission to know your screen resolution, viewport, browser type, browser version, js enabled/disabled, fonts
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by ebbv 10y ago
Those are both good but the key here is the media needs to understand that scientific papers that have not been independently verified are in a "maybe" state. Of course, they probably do know this and just choose to ignore it beca
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by ebbv 10y ago
> One part of science is observation. Including observations which cannot be, or at least have not been, repeated. For example, consider a rare event in astronomy which has only been detected once. Is that science? I say it is. But it&#x
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by ebbv 10y ago
I'm not going to deny there's a rise in misogyny on the internet recently with the MRA b.s. but personally my objections to her pay are the same as every other executive. I can't speak to anyone else's motivations.
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by ebbv 10y ago
I get that a lot of people think that's how the real world market works, but it isn't. Look how long it took Yahoo! to die. It hasn't been relevant for over a decade but it has coasted by on pure momentum, and even as its dyi
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by ebbv 10y ago
Yeah, yeah this same excuse is always used to justify insane executive pays but it's baloney. It's a self perpetuating cycle, "Oh WE Have to pay more because companies X, Y and Z are offering $N million!" Executive pay h
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by ebbv 10y ago
I agree, pretty much all fluff questions. I was really hoping for some serious questions about what is Twitter's biggest problem? Is this focus on constantly growing user counts healthy for tech in general and Twitter specifically? The
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by ebbv 10y ago
> It makes me angry and sad to see all the sniping about her $200M (or thereabouts) earnings over 4 years Why? That is $50mil/year which is an insane amount of money for any one person to receive. Yes you can point to tons of exam
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by ebbv 10y ago
This article is clickbait titled spam. There's a snippet of an interesting story there but not enough for a real story. The "analysis" at the end of the article is not really analysis at all. There's interesting details
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by ebbv 10y ago
We switched last year to start writing unit tests for all new code and refactoring old code to be testable and write tests for it whenever we go back and touch it. Here's the benefits we saw from doing this: 1) Development is not reall
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by ebbv 10y ago
> Why not? This article is a perfect example of why not.
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by ebbv 10y ago
> Why? because something like this always does. No it doesn't. Nothing has seriously challenged MS-DOS/Windows ownership of the PC space for 25+ years. Macs have always been around but they are separate hardware. MS-DOS/Wi
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by ebbv 10y ago
The relationship between depression and suicide with age is just correlation not causation, so it's silly to draw a line there and assume they are connected -- especially since we know depressed people have a higher suicide rate than p
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by ebbv 10y ago
On the fatigue issue: try pair programming. The day goes by a lot faster and with less fatigue for me. I was skeptical of the idea for many years, but once I really tried it I realized it was much better. On the time issue: employers in the
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by ebbv 10y ago
Wow this guy really misses the skeumorphic interface and really doesn't like minimalist design. Sheesh. Personally I think OS X has been improving as its gone minimal. I don't like skeumorphic apps. They seem at first glance like
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by ebbv 10y ago
Which is still on the front page...
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by ebbv 10y ago
This should not be submitted separately from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12157565 This link should be a comment on that article not a separate submission. That's just spamming the front page.
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by ebbv 10y ago
This is quite old, and paints an overly rosy picture. After this was published a lot of the SteamBox project people got canned and were less impressed with the reality of Valve: http://www.wired.com/2013/07/wireduk
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by ebbv 10y ago
I agree with you. Moreover, I think anyone who is rabidly attaching themselves to a programming paradigm of any kind is doing themselves (and anyone who has to work with them) a disservice. It's all just tools. Committing yourself full
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by ebbv 10y ago
That is a good analysis. While I was reading this article all I could think is "You wanted to do things in a bad way and then you learned how to do it the right way and you don't like the right way?" His entire problem seems
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by ebbv 10y ago
The CPUs work the same way, my friend. If you hammer one core to its full capacity it will get throttled too. It's just how CPUs and GPUs are designed. They give you an option to "overload" them for a short time, and then the
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by ebbv 10y ago
If the OP smokes there could be enough of a buildup to cause an issue. > MBPs with discrete graphics cards often overheat and have for literally years If you're hammering the GPU of course it's gonna create a lot of heat. Then
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by ebbv 10y ago
Something weird is going on, my friend. I have been using a 2012 rMBP 15" w/only 8GB of RAM (ordered the day they were announced before we found out the RAM was not upgradeable, whoops) every day, 10 hours+ a day and never have an
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by ebbv 10y ago
Whether you considered it or not has nothing to do with whether it's a failure, because Microsoft set a goal post of 1 billion installs by 2018. :P

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