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by engtech 14y ago
iPad 1 is stuck on iOS 5, which is 17 million units according to this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad
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by engtech 14y ago
I was confused because I thought violentacrez was some how related to the now-defunct mommy-blogger-hating blog http://www.violentacres.com/ Just a coincidence, I guess. And that just goes to show you the danger of writing anonymously on
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by engtech 14y ago
I had to talk to rogers about getting some money back after finally cutting all of my services with them. Because my old cellphone number was the account number, they started giving me information about the Department of National Defense em
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by engtech 14y ago
Invasion sounds a bit like Wild Cards and Bitter Seeds, both of which I loved. I hadn't realize that Wild Cards is finally back in print! http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Cards-George-R-R-Martin/dp/076536... http://www.amazon.com/Bitter-Seeds-
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The Scalzi and Bacigalupi books are so worth it. Bacigalupi is a great author. I really liked the Wind Up Girl, and about 80% of the short stories in Pump 6 were good. Old Man's War is a recent classic. I've read all the books in the series
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by engtech 14y ago
Nitpicking, but missing disclosure: OP works for a company named Instrument that does work on several things for Google. Google is a competitor to Facebook. My name is Thomas Reynolds. I'm a Technical Lead at Instrument, lucky denizen
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For me the advantage of a todo list of adequate size is staying productive in the face of blocked tasks (eg: the "it's compiling" problem). I think the real secret is to disable internet access on your dev machine (and instead keep it in an
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If you can't handle a couple of 1000 hits in a short time period... does wordpress still default to not having any caching solutions at all out of the box?
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by engtech 14y ago
When someone asks you to talk about a hobby or book that you feel passionately about, it's probably wise to stay away from politics and religion. Although I think it would be a great near miss to find out I was going to suffer religious/pol
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by engtech 14y ago
It took me about a decade to realize this, but it's a lot more fun to work for companies where your quirky hobbies fit in, rather than companies where they would look down on you because you think that casual fridays mean "sexy pichaku".
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"In an interview, the interviewer literally has all the power, and saying "no" or refusing to answer a question posed by the interviewer seems rather difficult." If you feel like the interviewer has all the power in an interview, then it'll
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by engtech 14y ago
It's the difference between having a team of people vs working alone. The comic book industry at a minimum would have a writer, artist, editor. In reality they have an entire ecosystem of people because they are a corporation. If it wasn't
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As a non-US guy, this is pretty cool. It's working really well for live updating.
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"I had fun once, it was horrible."
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by engtech 14y ago
As an owner of an iPad 1 that is blocked from getting iOS 6, it's tragic that iTunes won't automatically keep the last version of my apps before they upgrade to iOS 6. So as time goes by I'm going to lose all my software for my iPad if I up
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by engtech 14y ago
I'm not an MS developer, but Visual Studio has had achievements for a while now, including anti-achievements for things like using a goto. http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio
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by engtech 14y ago
It may be better implemented as a firefox/chrome extension? Given that the majority of sites will not likely have a tl;dr I am unlikely to click the bookmarklet every time I open a web page.
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I am looking forward to buying hats for my photo editing software.
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by engtech 14y ago
The lead is buried behind piano practice, but this is a great piece and worth reading. There are causes behind why bugs are introduced, and the cause is never as simple as "that person is stupid / bad at their job".
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Next step: create a Facebook app that lets you export your foldable.me to a facebook profile picture, maybe with something that lets you do a nice integration of profile picture + timeline cover photo. foldable.me goes viral as friends see
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by engtech 14y ago
We should be happy that it has gotten this far, but also sad that this is still an ongoing problem.
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by engtech 14y ago
Are they ranked by Alexa rank? Maybe it should be Canada's Top 100 WEB Startups? (problem with original article) I realize that having a successful internet presence is important to a company, but I don't think it is the end-all measure o
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by engtech 14y ago
Before you get your hopes too far up, here's a bunch of sci-fi writers trying to predict 2012 in 1987. http://www.writersofthefuture.com/time-capsule-predictions Humans are horrible at predicting future trends beyond a couple of years.
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Probably to practice being calm and relaxed, and to build deeper relationships with other people.
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Did I read that correctly? Not only did talking about twitter come before talking about exercise, but both sections deserved 3 paragraphs each?
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by engtech 14y ago
no, but jQuery is a great way to learn how to write javascript, because it gives you a good framework of basic functionality. The handwritten code I used to use for element detection was a thing of evil, that kept on getting cut-and-pasted
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agreed, it took a while before I realized it was fiction. good story, though.
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Does anyone know of Doxygen <-> mind mapping tools that work well? I'm a big fan of Doxygen for having the documentation live within the code, but I find it lacking for drawing the graphical connections between things. I've been loo
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I had a hard time reading this (like others did) because I felt like I was one of the brilliant jerks he is talking about. But there is something to the effect of a "bad apple" on the barrel as a whole: http://www.inc.com/matthew-swyers/to
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Very strange, I tried searching http://blog.pmarca.com for obama and romney and there were no results. But I swear that back in 2007-2008 I remember him having blog posts about meeting Obama? edit: found it at the archive http://pmarchiv

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