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by ghc 12y ago
I'm curious about where you interviewed, and how big the companies were. I've never had that experience with startups in Boston (only big companies out near Rt. 128). Engineers are in high demand here, so most "interviews&quo
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by ghc 12y ago
And then there's poor, neglected Boston. No media coverage about being the next SV. No Silicon derived nicknames (instead there's Rt. 128, Kendall Square, and Fort Point). Sometimes, thanks to the lack of media coverage, Boston&#x
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by ghc 12y ago
Get a subway pass so you can do free tranfers on the surface. The transfer between State and Park takes 5 minutes on foot.
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by ghc 12y ago
You'd put a pot of boiling water on a scale? Wouldn't that risk damaging it?
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by ghc 13y ago
There are two reasons for that: 1. Georgia Tech is just off the list. I saw another version of this list with the ivy league schools removed and it was there. 2. Many engineers that come out of Georgia Tech stay in the south, making less mo
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by ghc 13y ago
It's probably a reference to the increasingly common use of aluminum plate armor in military vehicles. Aluminum has some distinct weight advantages that make it ideal for light armor.
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by ghc 13y ago
I am astonished. I wonder if John Carmack could have ever imagined he'd work for Facebook.
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by ghc 13y ago
I know you're probably joking, but you're wrong about that. The Mayor's office of New Urban Mechanics (the most startup-like government office I've ever talked to), under the previous mayor, developed an app called Citiz
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by ghc 13y ago
Non sequitur, but... Seeing that whiteboard, after constantly feeling ashamed of my whiteboard writing next to that of my team members, I am just overjoyed to see whiteboard writing that looks as messy as mine. In fact it looks exactly like
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by ghc 13y ago
I've never thought much about my reading speed before, but after trying this and finding the deafault setting a bit slow, I decided to compare my natural reading speed. I was able to read the article I chose in about 85% of the time of
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Saying goodbye to Python(ianbicking.org)
376 points by ghc 13y ago|157 comments
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by ghc 13y ago
That would be a shame. I've had a series of VAIOs since the late 90s, and aside from the S series in the mid-2000s they've been stellar Linux machines. The VAIO Pro I replaces my Z with in November is a fantastic machine and prett
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by ghc 13y ago
No, Digital Ocean doesn't want you to blame them for poor performance, or less disk space than advertised when you choose a droplet. SSD swap can in no way replace having adequate RAM. If you really need swap it's easy enough to c
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by ghc 13y ago
Yup, if only someone had been there to stop me from doing the same. I poured everything into a failing company because I couldn't bear the thought of failure or working for someone else. I even put in the money I'd set aside for t
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by ghc 13y ago
I had a similar experience as a CS researcher at Yale. It was by far the most toxic environment university environment I've ever worked in. I really felt sorry for the poor students who weren't getting paid (or getting paid very l
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by ghc 13y ago
If nobody bothers to challenge or set boundaries with cretins like this, how will the situation ever change? I don't think this is a situation where you'd have to fear for your safety for showing a little bit of a spine. It's
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by ghc 13y ago
Page 196: An add for "The Last One", a system that claims to write your programs for you in a bug-free fashion by asking you questions in plain English. "Coming soon..." I wonder at the context behind this. The idea that
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by ghc 13y ago
I'm underwhelmed. They should have hired the firm that did http://globe.com . I'm actually puzzled they didn't considering their ownership of the Globe at the time of that redesign.
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by ghc 13y ago
> With on demand pricing and instant sign up, your lead may already be your competitor's customer before their first phone call. Sorry, but it just doesn't work this way. My company was bought by one of those companies that doe
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by ghc 13y ago
I disagree wrt Github. A lot of projects I was involved in wound up switching from git to mercurial because it was too difficult to manage git master repos on a server compared to Mercurial. Github solved this neatly, and the issue system h
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by ghc 13y ago
Debian testing (Jessie). Not a huge gnome3 fan, but once I got xmonad working it was smooth sailing.
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by ghc 13y ago
Given the state of Hacker News, this might come as a surprise, but hacker is not synonymous with programmer. I developed a weekend workshop for the Harvard Innovation Lab where I lead the students through building a pinterest clone from scr
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by ghc 13y ago
Yes, I got the one with the touch screen, but if I had to do it over I'd have gotten the non-touch version with a matte screen. Touch screens are just too reflective. The touch screen actually works fine, but gnome treats it like a mou
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by ghc 13y ago
> If you don't know Git, you don't know shit. If you have a Tumblr site you haven't updated in six months and you call yourself a programmer, you're an embarrassment to the language you claim to know. That pretty much
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by ghc 13y ago
My 2013 VAIO Pro 13" works astonishingly well with Debian. I don't think I've ever had a laptop work so well right out of the box with Linux. The PCIe SSD it comes with is much faster than past SSDs I've had, too. Note:
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by ghc 13y ago
> Web Browsers really make poor client application runtimes for all but the most basic of things. Little did he know that we'd have Microsoft to thank for the innovation (XMLHttpRequest) that would eventually bring the era of deskto
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by ghc 13y ago
I suppose you wouldn't realize it if you didn't go to Tech, but it would be strange if any Tech students weren't well acquainted with Tech Square. The school bookstore is there and we all had lots of classes in buildings ther
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by ghc 13y ago
I won't say the article is wrong exactly, but I barely heard Stanford uttered in my time at Georgia Tech. MIT was the competition and the role model. I graduated a few years before this incident happened, but I would be surprised if th
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by ghc 13y ago
A couple of years ago I built something similar, combining RSS, HN and Twitter streams into a single feed where I could save things for later. I thought it was useful so I added a way for it to learn my habits and reorganize items in my str
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by ghc 13y ago
Want more details about Riak's new Data Types? They're on GitHub: https://github.com/basho/riak/issues/354

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