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by flavor8 10y ago
He also would have kept us in Kyoto, which may have been even more consequential. I voted Nader in a blue state and regret it. Voting third party without IRV is naivety.
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Better save it for anti aging supplements first. Easier to build climate resistant infrastructure here than on Mars.
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Pagination on the list of commits in a PR would be awesome also. Oftentimes a week of work that's bundled in our develop->master RC merge will have more than 100 commits. Gitlab _only_ displays 100, and doesn't let you see the
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by flavor8 10y ago
If you want to learn on the job and are happy to accept an intern's salary, that's great. Most organizations will be able to accomodate you. If you want $140k and can't code productively, most early startups won't want y
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It would be nice if Ubuntu pruned dead / barely working products from their repos. There's an astonishing number of frustratingly bad audio apps in their main repo.
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by flavor8 10y ago
Do you have to jump through Jack shenanigans to get it working? Or does it just work, nicely?
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by flavor8 10y ago
Watching episodes 3, 4 & 5 of Captive on Netflix may disabuse you if that notion. Sure, if you end up in a situation that's politically advantageous to get you out of, and/or your family has good connections or can market your
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> Update at 11:35 AM PST: We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard. The service updates are below. We continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is impacting various AWS services. W
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Anecdotally, completely wrong. I set my tech phobic father up on Ubuntu 6 or 7 years ago. He doesn't need to care what a package manager is, because he doesn't install anything, except for security updates when prompted. He uses t
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You learn a lot more about a candidate by seeing them tackle a reasonably tough problem than you do by pop-quizzing them on language features. Language features and "how do I"s can be googled, and can reasonably be learned in the
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by flavor8 10y ago
I live on a mountain half a mile up an unpaved road (there are a half dozen or so houses on the road, not just us). UPS will drive to our door. Fedex will drive halfway up and leave packages by the side of the road (there is a gate and a tu
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by flavor8 10y ago
Well as long as they ditch USPS I'll be happy. I really want to support the idea of a federal postal service, but it consistently sucks in comparison to UPS.
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Far from it IMO. It depends on which subculture you immerse yourself in. If you subscribe to the IBM/Oracle/Red Hat thought leaders, then yes - you'll encounter enterprisey stuff, because they're all targeting legacy cor
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Which specifically? I'm curious which tools you object to.
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> You don't always have control of what libs you are using Well that's true regardless of the language. If you're not making the decisions on the codebase, there can be all kinds of gnarly dependencies and practices that y
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by flavor8 10y ago
Which tooling specifically? Going from Java to Python a couple years ago I was in shock about how immature the tooling in the Python world is by comparison.
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> The heavyness of the ecosystem in terms of the magnitude of concepts and tools being used and the enterprisy-ness of libraries. You don't have to use the enterprisey libraries though. Using Dropwizard, for example, gives you a tig
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by flavor8 10y ago
There's a great app in the Android store that has a variety of breathing based meditations - Prana Breath.
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by flavor8 10y ago
> For so many reasons, we need to end crop subsidies in this country. We also need to reduce consumption of meat, and work towards raising it more healthily. It should be common sense that an unstressed animal fed the diet that it's
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by flavor8 10y ago
Hillary ran a sub-par campaign as one of the least popular candidates in recent history, and that hurt down-ticket races. The democrats made a strategic mistake by allowing Clintonistas to take over the DNC and party establishment to the po
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by flavor8 10y ago
Google maps consistently attempts to route you onto these lanes if you are travelling on the west beltway, which is annoying. They have an option to "skip tolls", which might work but isn't the same thing -- there's a di
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by flavor8 10y ago
Doesn't this mean that Yubi has the potential to know what your private key is (since they have to bake it into firmware before selling you the device)?
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Rumour has it that Trump's planning to spend significant time in NYC, so it may turn out that there won't be as many as you fear. Trump Tower is being reglazed with bullet proof glass.
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by flavor8 10y ago
Ironically enough, when you click "buy tickets" it takes you to Ticketmaster.
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by flavor8 10y ago
I bought a Dell Inspiron 13 7000 earlier this year. i7, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, touch screen, convertible. Ubuntu works flawlessly on it with the exception of not auto-rotating the screen when you fold it (you can set up a hotkey to do that, so
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Paper or air cushions aren't going to make a substantial difference to whether a box is crushed.
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I think it's valuable to work for at least one big company early in your career. You'll get exposed to a wide range of tech and ideas that you wouldn't necessarily get in a small team, and it's also good for expanding yo
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by flavor8 10y ago
That's exactly right. If you are a competent engineer, you have your pick of jobs. And for every one of you, there are 100 others on the market, probably 80 whose resumes I'll throw away after 30s, 15 who won't make it throug

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