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by heresy 16y ago
That's one problem with reading too much into people's commentary and ideas here. It's been through so many filters. Who knows how long they spent refining that comment? Seeing the end product is always more impressive than the beginning. A
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by heresy 16y ago
Interest rates won't hover near 0% forever. Getting returns of 2% a year, drops that down to $1300/month. Still steep for most people, but much more achievable, and 2% return is pretty conservative. Of course you would not save for your ret
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by heresy 16y ago
So true :) My present self is cursing my 20s self for having spent a load of time traveling and running up lifestyle inflation debts, basically boozing it up non-stop. On the other hand, I have some really good experiences and memories. But
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by heresy 16y ago
We're currently going through a hiring cycle, and while admittedly, there's a lot of people applying, I get annoyed by some of our guys doing interviews removing people from consideration for things that simply do not matter. I would likely
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by heresy 16y ago
Do the people with this problem have different physiological properties in their hands? Such as more conductivity.. No matter how I hold any of my iPhones, reported signal strength is the same. Anyone else experiencing this?
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by heresy 16y ago
Ah, but what, you're using both managed code (C#) and unmanaged code (C++) in the same address space, doing memory intensive work using third party proprietary C++ code that does lots of small allocations? In 32-bit land, it's welcome to Ou
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by heresy 16y ago
LINQ is far more useful than just as language sugar over SQL. The amount of boilerplate it removes is substantial for anything working with sequences. I actually havent used the SQL backend for it. But since I often work with large collecti
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by heresy 16y ago
I've had dropped calls on my iPhones (3G & 3GS). Inside an elevator or while walking through a tunnel surrounded by 2 metres of concrete in an underground carpark...Never at any other time. This is from using it in 3 different countries
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by heresy 16y ago
The great thing is, Brasil does not exactly have a government that will cave to US or content company interests on this. Wish our legislators would look at this as a good example to follow when revisiting our copyright laws, but not likely,
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by heresy 16y ago
Boies-Schiller up to their old tricks.
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by heresy 16y ago
In addition to the excessive padding, what bothers me, is that the typeface choices in Linux are so oversized and ugly. And the way Linux renders Segoe UI is ghastly compared to the Windows rendering. If you want a smaller font size, you're
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by heresy 16y ago
What does "web enabled" mean? SQL Server CE 4.0, you deploy the DLL with your app, that's it, no configuration, no setup required. "WebMatrix" not needed.
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by heresy 16y ago
When are we getting a ZedCam? I think the world deserves to know when Zed is taking a crap.
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by heresy 16y ago
I got pretty happy when I saw you had support for my New Zealand bank, which even Xero (an NZ startup doing the same thing) does not have. But I'm incredibly wary entering my internet banking details into your application, no offense. Someo
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by heresy 16y ago
Honestly I can't see this going very far. This will boil down to a debate on whether parliamentary privilege extends to being able to use resources of the state to advance goals which are not necessarily policy of the state or likely to bec
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by heresy 16y ago
Wow. If the association with Hashrocket continues, Hashrocket's name is toast. I feel sorry for Obie. The scale of the operation is impressive, though. If some of those accounts were personal, they made some serious bank.
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by heresy 16y ago
You have to pay for electronic transactions? I guess because the majority of transactions here (NZ) are electronic, I'm used to it being the de facto way to pay. There is no service charge or monthly fee. You get dinged only if you do anyth
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by heresy 16y ago
For those of us who want to support this, but live in countries other than the US, UK or Canada, is there any alternative to MagCloud? I know there's a donate but I want a dead tree edition too.
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by heresy 16y ago
I don't understand the price argument. I happily pay more than that for services core to my workflow, and I'm not even a company, this is just for contracts I pick up every 2-3 months. If this expense is too much for a business you are not
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by heresy 16y ago
I have a similar problem with transcribing my thought processes into little diagrams that other people can follow, yet it's the easiest thing in the world to explore the ideas with code. Not sure why that is. Are you also self-taught, by an
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by heresy 16y ago
FYI, WoW has a grand total of around 30 engineers working on the game doing development. The majority of headcount is support and ops (~4000).
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by heresy 16y ago
Calling the UK part of Europe is a stretch...
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by heresy 16y ago
I work with large 3D models in my day job. Hmm, maybe I should switch the competition's product to use software rendering, and I'll use OpenGL/DirectX, for side-by-side comparisons. Wow, I'm "destroying" my competition...
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by heresy 16y ago
I think the actual position almost never lives up to such a breathless description. Back when the economy was a bit more dire, I interviewed with a place that called itself "funky", with a team of "ninjas". Turned out to be an accountancy s
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by heresy 16y ago
As meaningless as rss/vsize is on Linux, the "supervise" process from DJB's daemontools weighs in at ~ 340k/1628k on a 32-bit system. DJB is not known for producing bloat :) I think you'd be hard pressed to go below that number.
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by heresy 16y ago
I saved a couple of hundred dollars by buying an unlocked iPhone and not going on a Vodafone contract (in NZ). It was something like $2500 total over 24 months, vs. $1700 when buying it outright and going on a cheaper contract. You'd think
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by heresy 16y ago
Korea as a whole was a nation for over two thousand years; 99% of the population on the peninsula is of Korean ethnicity. After the war, citizens of South Korea volunteered, for no pay, to rebuild infrastructure (roads, factories). From the
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by heresy 16y ago
The "Next Silicon Valley" will not be built by Ten Year Plans, it will happen organically where the following is present: * Availability of capital for investing in high risk ventures * Availability of talent to apply capital * Willingness
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by heresy 16y ago
I've seen it work well when an existing relationship exists between the company doing the outsourcing and the programmers being outsourced to. In our case, we have some Russian programmers working for us. They used to be permanent employees
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by heresy 16y ago
In 2002, I had 3 friends employed by gaming companies. In 2010, none of them are, and happier for it. One of them got an 90% pay increase by moving to a company doing kernel level development. They also got normal working hours. Hmmm, tough

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