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by fhd2 13y ago
I tend to use a similar style of interviewing, but I'm not doing it to get right or wrong answers. I'm doing it to get a dialog going, to figure out if I can actually talk about programming with the candidate. If that works out, I
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by fhd2 13y ago
You work as many hours as you decide to, so does everybody else. Get abused as much as you like, but please don't try and make others feel bad for not doing the same.
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by fhd2 13y ago
Maybe parents are just more likely to have the guts to stand up to this kind of abuse. You're expected to work overtime? Refuse. Quit. There are no other healthy options. I do occasionally work overtime, but it's my own choice, an
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by fhd2 13y ago
Wow, not bad. I've got 2 small kids, but 4 kids sound like a different level, kids don't scale in my experience. I'm approaching my side projects strikingly similar, got just one thing to add: Time not spent physically workin
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by fhd2 13y ago
Candy Crush, Farm Ville, most prominent examples of F2P are nothing short of gambling. Zynga (and I presume King as well) has large teams of psychologist focusing solely on making the game as addictive as possible and exploiting that addict
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by fhd2 13y ago
Yes, I don't actually think this kind of stuff is going away. I merely hope it's going to be less lucrative (it's insanely lucrative right now) and more frowned upon. And I really don't think that all games will look lik
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by fhd2 13y ago
Looks like a substantial number of upvoters didn't read TFA at all [1]. I wonder what the front page would look like if only upvotes that happened after clicking the link would be counted. [1]: Or they are all LT users with light theme
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by fhd2 13y ago
It's not ideal, but I actually think it's a good thing that e.g. gambling is restricted to adults. A fairly difficult topic IMO. Ideally, people would just be educated/interested enough to identify and avoid scams. Definitely
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by fhd2 13y ago
I've got the exact same concerns. But on the other hand, I think what we're seeing is a bubble. A few powerful companies are exploiting the current casual/F2P gold rush, but I doubt humanity as a whole will be into casual sca
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by fhd2 13y ago
It's quite evident that Microsoft was pushing C++, their tooling from that time was certainly focused on it, most prominently MFC I think. Plus they never bothered to support C99 in MSVC, literally forcing people towards C++. Wasn&#x27
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by fhd2 13y ago
Languages are being forced down developer's throats all the time, I don't see how Objective-C is an exception. Microsoft did it with C++ and later C#. Google does it with Java on Android. Netscape did it with JavaScript. I could c
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by fhd2 13y ago
I think I get what you mean now, you said above that GCC doesn't want to give external tools access to intermediate formats. But is that really the "anti plugin policy" esr is talking about?
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by fhd2 13y ago
I can't claim to know anything about GCC's internals, but from what I know/read, it does have a plugin system and I don't see any indication of that being held back for political reasons (there are many other potential r
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by fhd2 13y ago
No need for the temporary file: $ echo 'Fuck you!' | gcc -xc
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by fhd2 13y ago
Sounds like the open source vs free software debate all over again. I don't have a strong position in that one, but I find GCC's position rather obvious: They want to support free tools, and they explicitly don't want to supp
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by fhd2 13y ago
Nevermind the libraries and frameworks, I find it more troubling that there are so many different patterns/conventions to emulate things that aren't part of the language, like modules or classes. But ES6 is very promising in this
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by fhd2 13y ago
As I said below, this seems like nothing but cargo culting to me. Every business is in a unique situation when you look close. I don't believe that imitating Steve Jobs or whomever will do anything but hurt the company. (I've seen
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by fhd2 13y ago
Just how he behaved in the 1999 IE anti trust case makes a certain 7 letter word starting with an 'a' seem appropriate. More on topic, this seems like the very definition of cargo culting to me. Why not just focus on what makes se
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by fhd2 13y ago
> The hardest part about working remotely is convincing the non-remote developers to stay engaged. Couldn't agree more. I could actually work one day per week from home at my last job, but interacting with everyone in the office was
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by fhd2 13y ago
Not bad, the first time I've seen most that matters about bash scripting in one place. (I miss [[ ]] though.) That said, I try not to do bash scripting. It's always been a boiling-the-frog thing for me: You start with a cute scrip
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by fhd2 13y ago
> At our office, we just equipped all of the programmers' workstations with Seiki 39" 4K televisions as monitors. [...] For the time being, there is no single higher-productivity display for a programmer. Maybe it's just m
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by fhd2 13y ago
> I have only one thing to say here, to you and to all people who are opposed to macros and new languages in general: go learn some more (let's say 5) languages and then come back[1]. Don't bother before that. You know nothing
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by fhd2 13y ago
Same here. As outlined below, we tried to use bookmarks for feature branches a few times and it either doesn't work or we can't figure it out. We used permanent branches for feature branches for a while, but too many of those (eve
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by fhd2 13y ago
From what I've seen, bookmarks are not "branches" in any sense, really just pointers to commits. I've tried several times to use bookmarks for feature branches (read: branches developed in parallel to each other and the
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by fhd2 13y ago
According to #mercurial, branches (even closed ones) begin to noticeably slow down the repository when you reach around 2000. That's not at all impossible to reach with fine-grained feature branches. Bookmarks are really just pointers
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by fhd2 13y ago
REMOTE, relocation to Germany possible if desired. Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, is looking for web developers, Android developers, C++ developers and DevOps engineers. We're in the middle of changing the world of online adver
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by fhd2 13y ago
I'm increasingly getting the impression that Google would just love extensions to disappear altogether. They probably just added them to get Firefox power users, now that Chrome is king and they're pushing it like crapware (large
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by fhd2 13y ago
Same here, certainly looks like an over the top parody of silly tech startups to me.
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by fhd2 13y ago
I started contributing to Mozilla lately and I'm amazed how good Bugzilla has become compared to when I last tried to use it (around 5 years ago). I'm also amazed at how effective Mozilla works with it.
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by fhd2 13y ago
At Eyeo (8 developers, no two in the same place), we use: - IRC (most of us use IRCCloud) - Discourse (a forum, I can really recommend this even if you have chat, and Discourse is particularly good) - Skype (only used for one on one meeting

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