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by ild 11y ago
That is not true; at least in my case. I am an extrovert, and I hate reviews, because I personally like quick, immediate and respectful feedback on the spot, if something goes wrong.
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by ild 11y ago
Word "hacker" has become very vague lately, but the definition used 10 years ago, did not include "people who build robots, or the people who built the chips that Unix runs on". Those were called Electric Engineers AFAIR
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by ild 11y ago
Well built does not mean "not underpowered". It means it will last long and has higher quality components.
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by ild 11y ago
Did you see what the quality the late laptops have? If I could buy (in 2010) a _decently built_ basic laptop for 400, today the only well built laptop is Macbook.
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by ild 11y ago
The apartment is so hipster/yapster (bikes on the wall, the kitchen design), it is actually tacky.
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by ild 11y ago
> $40-$50 an hour No. Especially outside Bay Area. More like $10-$20/h.
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by ild 11y ago
Still, old one was faster.
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by ild 11y ago
Flash bugs are more important because the are crossbrowser. I will still use Flash though on older computers, because it needs less resources for video.
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by ild 11y ago
9y old machines is what many people (not gamers, enthusiasts etc.) have; 3+ y old include underpowered Celeron 847, AMDs (way weaker than your monstrous Q6600) and even on these machines Flash works better. _My_ _actual_ observations. >
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by ild 11y ago
Fine. I cannot argue about _your_ experience. _My_ experience is different. One of my computers is really old Pentium M laptop (9y old) and HTML5 barely works at 240p. Not only that, it has limited set of resolutions at the first place. Fla
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by ild 11y ago
> and it's easily superior to the Flash player in performance and resource usage. Not on older (3y+) machines.
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by ild 11y ago
Go to local university library. Enjoy 8-10.
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by ild 11y ago
Relax, this is another disrupting Techcrunch business. At least it is profitable.
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by ild 11y ago
"Cracker" has nothing to do with what article describes,or what Stallman, Raymond and others want it to mean. "Cracker" has very technical definition: subclass of hackers , who is involved only in removing of copy prote
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by ild 11y ago
I have a nice 1/2 inch beard, and my razor is scissors. $8/10-15 years.
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by ild 11y ago
I am talking about industry as share of GDP. Check the numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States_by... . Manufacturing kept going down.
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by ild 11y ago
> it's considered lower level to be a software engineer than to be a mechanical or electrical engineer, so the smartest kids do not study computer science (this might have changed since). Which is very interesting, because in US it
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by ild 11y ago
Serbia is Eastern Europe; you do not want to deal with cops in Eastern Europe.
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by ild 11y ago
These doctors are not working for free, are they?
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by ild 11y ago
Not sure about 10x but saw quite a bit of 10%.
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by ild 11y ago
Bay Area is ripe for reurbanization and densification, but 1. Americans do not have the necessary skills for high density urban planning; 2. too much opposition to this from the current owners.
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by ild 11y ago
LA the city and LA the county are not same thing.
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by ild 11y ago
1. Dent in rental history or police history. 2. Social repercussions with neighbors
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by ild 11y ago
Indiana has a hard cap of 1% on property tax AFAIK.
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by ild 11y ago
Chicago. Still affordable outside of the most popular areas.
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by ild 12y ago
You do not have to be a close friend.
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by ild 12y ago
/dev/random will take forever; too slow.
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by ild 12y ago
> Fine. Show me a "safe area" of Brooklyn that has a crime rate of 6 6? No, I cannot. May be somewhere on Mars. But according to city-data, overall crime rate in NYC was 256.1, so in the safer parts of Brooklyn it should be not
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by ild 12y ago
> You don't get to cherry-pick a "safe area of Brooklyn" and compare it with the whole of Elyria. Do you understand at all how big Brooklyn is? A safe area of Brooklyn is at least 250,000 people; actually perhaps 400,000 o
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by ild 12y ago
> crime-ridden cities Still living in 1980-s? Meanwhile poverty in subarbs growing faster than in cities and crime is also quite a bit growing. Safe area of Brooklyn is a lot safer than in Elyria, OH, although Elyria is a suburb of a big

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