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by halfnibble 8y ago
I believe voting requires far more responsibility and is much more dangerous than say, owning a firearm. So the voting age should be at least the age that your state lawmakers think is reasonable for owning a firearm. IMO.
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Ask HN: Does Amazon Hire Without BS?
15 points by halfnibble 8y ago|22 comments
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by halfnibble 8y ago
My understanding is that COBOL is paying a lot right now.
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by halfnibble 8y ago
You both lost me. Gab's position on free speech is pretty simple. If it's legal in the US (where Gab is located), then it won't be censored. If people don't like what you say, they may mute you as individuals, but no one
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by halfnibble 8y ago
Lol. Andrew Torba is banned from Hacker News so he's commenting on here now with Dissenter. Classic.
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by halfnibble 8y ago
But how many of those solutions work as well as Dissenter? Do any of them hold a strong position on free speech? Edit: I was genuinely asking because I had not heard of similar solutions prior to today. But go ahead and keep downvoting me.
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by halfnibble 8y ago
People are saying this is a "quite dated" method for creating a 3D game. Does anyone have a tutorial on creating a 3D game in one weekend (or even 1 day?) using modern tooling? It'd be cool to make a token 3D game with the ki
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by halfnibble 8y ago
I studied chemistry and landed a good job right away. But I wish people would not have told me, "Don't worry about the loan amount, you'll earn it all back after you graduate!" DO WORRY about the loan amount. There ARE c
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by halfnibble 8y ago
Thank you for clarifying!
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by halfnibble 8y ago
I've heard of Amazon paying between $200 and $300K for software engineers, but this is the first time I've heard of them paying $500K! Goodness, I don't have any work/life balance now, so it really makes me wonder if I s
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by halfnibble 8y ago
I just read an article today about a named tech company banning marketing accounts associated with said far-right candidate. But I don't think that will stop him from a landslide win. The knife was the opposition's best hope.
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by halfnibble 8y ago
Deplatforming works until new "free speech" platforms like Gab arise to replace the old.
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by halfnibble 8y ago
The police department in Reno, NV uses this in conjunction with thermal sensors from a helicopter in northern Reno and Sun Valley. Mostly for drug busts.
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by halfnibble 8y ago
It's about time. I was shocked when giving a "code along" presentation and found that none of my audience members with Windows 10 laptops could follow my presentation because the command prompt didn't have SSH. No SSH fo
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by halfnibble 8y ago
I like studying computer programming history and I'd love to become proficient at COBOL and work on old mainframes! Where do I sign up?
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by halfnibble 8y ago
I don't know how this helps T-Mobile be more competitive. Sprint uses an incompatible network, has a horrible brand, and its customers hate their carrier. Seems to me like this would slow down a 5G network implementation.
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by halfnibble 8y ago
I'm still trying to figure out why my printer never works!
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by halfnibble 8y ago
Whoah, there. Some people are extremely comfortable with complexity and yet are still zealous about simplicity and elegance.
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by halfnibble 8y ago
Ha! You've never worked as an air traffic controller. That job attracts type-A personality jerks like honey attracts flies. I've met dozens of jerks at one time. And not a single one of them would call me a jerk. Okay, maybe one o
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by halfnibble 8y ago
Somebody get this man a plastic spoon!
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by halfnibble 9y ago
MSHEAT
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by halfnibble 9y ago
This statement about software talent appears to be in direct contradiction with software development history: "But as technology advances and provides us with more advanced software components it devalues and commoditizes what we’re wo
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by halfnibble 9y ago
I agree. I worked for the Fed for 6 years. I used software that often didn't work. I'd look in the HTML comments, and oftentimes they were not in English. These big IT firms sell a premium on top of what the very best US-based dev
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by halfnibble 9y ago
My guess is that IBM believes the software works according to specification. And maybe it does. Maybe the specifications are wrong. Most likely, it's a combination of bad specs and programmed logic errors that don't always follow
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by halfnibble 9y ago
I have found that the high tolerance for recreational activities throughout the workday has made software development easy to cope with. Stuck on algorithm? Go play some ping pong. Stressing about a bug? Pick up Dr. Mario or maybe some Ms.
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by halfnibble 9y ago
I agree with 99.87% of what the author wrote. But unless all of your developers are using the exact same OS and libraries locally that are installed on your production server, then you really ought to be using "containers." Becaus
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by halfnibble 9y ago
Post the URL of the site pages that aren't using prepared statements, and I'm sure someone will make the argument for you. ;-)
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by halfnibble 9y ago
Does the author cover the spectacular lifestyles and living conditions that Dear Leader has gifted to the people of North Korea? Just curious.
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by halfnibble 9y ago
After reading this, is machine learning just the coded version of what you do in Calculus II? Analyzing a scatter plot and trying different equations to get the correlation coefficient value close to "1" and predict the next value
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by halfnibble 9y ago
Where was this last month when I was at a Microsoft Hackathon with my Macbook Pro trying to browser MS SQL hosted on Azure?

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