hamstercat

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by hamstercat 8y ago
I would not attribute malice to such an insignificant detail. My guess would be that he prefers VIM over the others. I prefer VS Code myself, but an editor is a very personal choice for a developer.
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by hamstercat 8y ago
Housing is very location-dependant so that may very well be the case in your city, but not all cities are like this. Renting in my city is cheaper than a mortgage (even without accounting for property taxes). There are multiples reason that
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by hamstercat 8y ago
Doesn't that just mean that the tests were effective? The goal of doing a test for each bug is to prevent them from happening again. Unless you meant that this project didn't apply this particular advice but was getting away with
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Police descend on YouTube headquarters amid active shooter reports(latimes.com)
13 points by hamstercat 9y ago|0 comments
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Kodi No More – April Fools(kodi.tv)
1 points by hamstercat 9y ago|0 comments
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by hamstercat 9y ago
I fail to see how anyone "needs" an alternative to Facebook, or Facebook itself. This is not a judgement on those that use it, if it's giving people value then they should continue using it, and judging from their user's
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by hamstercat 9y ago
I'm also curious about it. I think it makes great sense for services that target developers as their main audience, but I don't see it used a lot in the wild.
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by hamstercat 9y ago
In a previous job I had, I was responsible for the authentication service of the organization (big B2C company). Even if it wasn't available from the get go, over time about half of the logins were done with social media, Facebook and
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by hamstercat 9y ago
Parent is talking about the time it takes to integrate multiple ways to login, and I agree with him. When you implement only one way (be it social login with Google/Facebook/etc or an email/password combination depending on y
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The petro hasn't raised a dime(caracaschronicles.com)
7 points by hamstercat 9y ago|0 comments
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Boom Turns to Bust for Millennials Across Advanced Economies(bloomberg.com)
1 points by hamstercat 9y ago|0 comments
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by hamstercat 9y ago
I used to work in another financial-related company and "IT is a cost not a revenue center" was thrown around as often as possible. Raise, promotion, formation, a computer made in this decade, anything really would get us that ans
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by hamstercat 9y ago
I read this as "Netflix is closing down". Never been happier that I misread something.
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Volcano erupts at Japanese ski resort, one missing in avalanche(uk.reuters.com)
1 points by hamstercat 9y ago|0 comments
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by hamstercat 9y ago
I have my driver license, but I'm not buying a car anytime soon. I may at some point, but for now public transportation + renting a car when I really need one + Lyft/Uber/Taxi is a lot more cost-effective. On top of that, I&#
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LGPL violation/Missing references to Ethereumj project(github.com)
210 points by hamstercat 9y ago|60 comments
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by hamstercat 9y ago
The question you must ask yourself is why are miners renting their gear for other people to use? If it was profitable at the current price, they could simply mine themselves and skip the rental part.
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The fastest-growing and shrinking economies in 2018(economist.com)
1 points by hamstercat 9y ago|0 comments
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How Often Should You Ship?(thecodist.com)
2 points by hamstercat 9y ago|0 comments
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Candy Japan 2017 Year in Review(candyjapan.com)
216 points by hamstercat 9y ago|105 comments
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Comcast, Cox, Frontier All Raising Internet Access Rates for 2018(digitalmusicnews.com)
4 points by hamstercat 9y ago|1 comments
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by hamstercat 9y ago
Mt. Gox CEO admitted to operating a Willy Bot this summer. https://cointelegraph.com/news/mt-gox-trial-update-karpeles-...
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Short Seller Says Naive Bitcoin Traders Open a Pathway to Profit(bloomberg.com)
36 points by hamstercat 9y ago|26 comments
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by hamstercat 9y ago
The AMF had already found him guilty of the same and barred him from soliciting, directly or indirectly, investors for PlexCoin [0]. It's not the first time he gets in trouble, he had a lending "company" that was investigated
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by hamstercat 9y ago
My first boss once told me that when he looks at hiring, having a CS degree means that you know how to find solution to problems. Being able to code can be learned on the job if needed. Most junior jobs in bigcos are usually code monkey typ
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by hamstercat 9y ago
I can't comment on Cantonese, but I've heard that most people never truly learn Japanese unless they went to school in Japan. Apparently you can learn the basic in a year or two if you immerse, but learning the more complex stuff
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Apple security update related to root password(support.apple.com)
2 points by hamstercat 9y ago|0 comments
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by hamstercat 9y ago
CRA (Canadian's IRS equivalent) says bartering creates a taxable event, be it Bitcoin or turnips. Whenever you do the trade, you're supposed to calculate the value of what you're offering in Canadian Dollars. So buying in Bit
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by hamstercat 9y ago
It's pretty much the opposite you have to be afraid of. Netflix is a big player and can force anyone to play ball with them. The problem is that anyone not named Netflix will have a much bigger hurdle to reach you. Imagine you're
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by hamstercat 9y ago
In my day work we're using Angular 2 (Angular 4 technically), and while I prefer React it's not necessarily bad, just not as good in my opinion. That being said, backward compatibility is crazy non-existant. I had a library that r

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