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by iiiggglll 11y ago
> There’s growing evidence that hiring a top sport programmer is a coup for software companies. Novakovski, the retired sport programmer, brought in Neal to work with him at Quora and then later hired Scott to work with him at Addepar. “
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
> If you look in the past of anyone, you will find things they regret and things that may draw censure from the pro-diversity and intersectional feminist mindset. That's natural. That's to be expected. Serious question: is it a
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
That thing is incredible. For those who are unfamiliar, it is an empty, uncompleted, unoccupied multi-billion dollar resort-hotel on the Las Vegas strip that was left unfinished after the big real estate market bust of the late 2000s. The o
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
A great example: how long did it take Square to get their hands on square.com? Even now it's just a redirect to squareup.com.
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
Not going to name names, but there are mobile apps have their .git packaged up with them too.
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
Housing is about to get even more expensive in SF...
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
I don't understand why anyone would need Google Glass for that when you can get something like this for a fraction of the cost ($50): http://www.amazon.com/Forestfish-Pixels-Recorder-Polarized-S... Or just stick a GoPr
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
A few years ago I would have agreed with that, but I recently switched to Flywheel in SF because I was tired of the Uber drivers wandering around downtown's one-way streets for half an hour every time I hailed one of them because they
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
Not to mention the classic MacOS of that era had considerable amounts of code still written in 68k assembly, so a lot of what you're seeing is actually being emulated as 68k -> PPC -> ARM.
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
That's just silly. Apple doesn't need to do anything like that as they already have millions of captive eyeballs on their iOS devices. As soon as they put a nice big icon on the home screen, they'll have an audience. Case in
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
> That's the last payroll I ran with ADP. Nicely done. Which service did you start using instead of ADP?
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
Sound like China is planning ahead. Contrast this with the American problem of nothing new being built: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/here-s-how...
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
Wow, sounds like my relationship with my ex. Glad that's over.
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
This was actually a plot point in a little-known B-grade sci-fi movie called "Solar Crisis". There were stretches of highway far from cities with very little traffic aside from the occasional robotic cargo truck, which were implie
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
It is true that the common wisdom says Hearst destroyed Welles' career as revenge for Citizen Kane, but I'm not sure it's that cut and dried. For example, Robert Wise (who worked with him in his early career and eventually we
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by iiiggglll 11y ago
The point about unionization keeping wages up is important, and probably deserves a lot more coverage than it's getting. And on that front, us programmers are fucked, well and truly fucked. We won't unionize ever , because everyo
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by iiiggglll 12y ago
This is the future that awaits millions more as automation marches forwards.
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by iiiggglll 12y ago
Apple should do something like this. They are in fact the only major tech company not to have a bounty program[1]. That, combined with the fact that they have just recorded the single largest quarterly profit for any corporation ever