fat0wl

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by fat0wl 12y ago
Ha i kindof just want to repeat exactly this: "But still, $.22 for 100k followers is not very much." I understand there are technicalities but 22 cents/month is what you'd expect your complete unknown "electronica i
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by fat0wl 12y ago
if the money never gets to the artists what is the point? its good to build up an infrastructure but this is more to keep the industry's pockets lined than the artists, so i've seen at least a few who encourage to just torrent the
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yea a coworker uses YubiKey... it generates extremely strong one-time-use passwords (essentially just meaning it auto-generates a different one for every site?) & auto-enters them through a browser add-on when the device is in USB (I be
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yeah i guess it strikes me as odd that these silos are painted as such dire straits when describing a scenario that includes the backdoor of "unless you choose to go into industry and immediately make 100k+". I and the other peopl
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by fat0wl 12y ago
good points, but yeah the reason i lump them together (even though I agree that C preprocessors vs. css vs. js vs. jvm abstraction are obviously very different technologies) is that in the context of this discussion, i see them as a layer o
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yeah I agree #8 in particular should elicit a lot more debate in the js community. Back when I used to be into RoR I would get a ton of flack in interviews for writing pure js rather than Coffeescript, pure css rather than Sass. There are l
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by fat0wl 12y ago
thanks for the suggestions. I actually spent some time as an "intern" (hang out making art & doing whatever) at Harvestworks [ http://www.harvestworks.org/ ], which is very similar to EyeBeam. I just decided it
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by fat0wl 12y ago
heh yes its funny i dont karma points seriously, i was mainly interested in hearing some qualitative sort of discussion but the main complaints i got were about grammar & negativity, neither of which i am particularly apologetic about.
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by fat0wl 12y ago
thanks... I think the reason I get a bit heated is because I come from an arts background actually. There are a lot of slippery slopes in industry, and now I am on one. It disgusts me when I see that my peers are just tumbling over one anot
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by fat0wl 12y ago
thx... I think the reason I get a bit heated is because I come from an arts background actually. There are a lot of slippery slopes in industry, and I am on one. It disgusts me when I see that my peers are just tumbling over one another to
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by fat0wl 12y ago
lol that is too true.... i don't mind conversational hippie-styling but HN is the one forum where i get regularly shredded for it
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by fat0wl 12y ago
if you downvoted this can you please explain why? I am actually desperate for reasons not to be so cynical about my job so i can at least scrape something out of my days until i find a better place... I wish I had a sunnier view of things b
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by fat0wl 12y ago
i went on a rant about this stuff in a recent comment asking about Tech Bootcamps that i deleted half of cuz i knew it would just piss ppl off & was a waste of breath (all other comments were pretty much from ppl who lOoooOooOove '
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by fat0wl 12y ago
I have friends who have done them & gotten hired -- nowhere near 100k tho. Its very depressing to me though..... I freelanced as a web dev for years & turned it into a career because it came easy & now am sticking with it for a
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by fat0wl 12y ago
While I agree with your sentiment I think your analogy is a bit off... there is a big difference between adding a utility library like jQuery to your project vs. committing to the project layout of a framework like Rails. jQuery is actually
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by fat0wl 12y ago
it's kindof funny the way frameworks/libs work My thought process using Spring in Java: 1. I should try to just use pure EE to leverage the power of the web container so I don't include a heavy framework for no reason. 2. Now
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by fat0wl 12y ago
hi dan, i apologize, i must have been unclear because it seems that you (& some of the commenters below) are dissecting some of my statements quite literally whereas i put a lot of disclaimery type of statements to try to indicate that
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by fat0wl 12y ago
yes I don't want to get into a flamewar either, but I am an ex-RoR dev and since switching to enterprise Java I hear almost nothing about it largely due to enormously widespread acceptance of Spring (JavaEE is even re-gaining some trac
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by fat0wl 12y ago
well the way that it works in Grunt is actually that you have your source branch and then there is a separate build branch -- so the source is still versioned, but only the artifacts from the "build" branch are presented to public
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by fat0wl 12y ago
Some old man Java rambling for you. :) (I am ex-Rails actually) one of the big things about Java that at first I thought was tedious but now have come to love is the build process. By creating the "built" project in a new folder,
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by fat0wl 12y ago
are there any major companies providing co-location or is it kindof a diverse scene? im curious about it but only really know about cloud VM... basically just looking for a site where i can read about one of these services / pricing pl
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by fat0wl 12y ago
ah, yes. :) very nice detailed summary of some of the issues in this sect of "academia" (I put that in quotes only because all the research seems to be co-written by corps). I am into audio DSP & am planning to port a couple o
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by fat0wl 12y ago
hah i dont understand why this was (even temporarily) downvoted. You do realize that the CPU & GPU industries are at war with each other, right? I read the article now, cool technical overview -- but basically all of these processor arc
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by fat0wl 12y ago
I'm really sorry I will try to dig up the source myself, but I've read basically the opposite argument in a few technical papers -- that GPU is NOT as fast as claimed for many classic test algorithms (actual speed-up is more like
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by fat0wl 12y ago
No regrets.... if you are going to suck up to traders to get in on their pile of gold, either commit to it or don't. I used to complain about code exams until i realized "this is how you prove you want/deserve the job.... if
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by fat0wl 12y ago
isn't this issue sortof analogous to the expansion/contraction of a language core? Except in this case the core is user-generated and ever-expanding. I bet there are a lot of issues in Java history that could predict possible bump
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by fat0wl 12y ago
when I switched from RoR to Java I started to really understand these issues... with RoR I was using lots of open source code (how can someone be expected to read/comprehend all the code in c++ extension modules as well as a mound of R
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by fat0wl 12y ago
haven't we always known that twitter is just an anechoic chamber to stick narcissists in? i guess its alright for comedians/intellectuals to post amusing stuff (even then I find the tweet value to be inconsistent enough that its n
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by fat0wl 12y ago
on a news site i would rather be linked to an article about the process than a download page for the game. booooooooOOooOoOo (jk just sayin)
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by fat0wl 12y ago
i don't think this is a valid counterargument -- even if access is only given to views / stored procs you would have the same issue of a client connection directly to the HTTP api having too coarse-grained security privileges sinc

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