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by jjs 16y ago
> Because Apple has nothing better to do than to deal with developers submitting apps with all kinds of idiosyncratic hoops for Apple to jump through. And how would those nasty developers like it if Apple suddenly introduced all kin
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by jjs 16y ago
> And not some bullshit where he interviews the company. A good candidate does that during any job interview. Two-way filtering helps all parties find better matches faster.
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by jjs 16y ago
Or he could be a night owl, or live in a timezone that doesn't match prime upvoting hours.
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by jjs 16y ago
> How long should we wait? We have copious evidence of how flawed the current system is. You could minimize the damage done by "the current system" (control group) by making the majority of schools into testing grounds for various com
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by jjs 16y ago
Update your resume. Much better companies than your current one are starved for good developers. You're not helping anyone by remaining underemployed. (Be sure to have a job offer in writing before you quit, however. :)
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by jjs 16y ago
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" —Butler Lampson, quoting David Wheeler
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by jjs 16y ago
This must be the 'survival horror' aspect they were talking about.
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by jjs 16y ago
> That said, please don't make excuses about how little time you spent on it. It might be true, but it shows lack of respect for your audience. antirez's readership probably overlaps significantly with his userbase. For purely selfish
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by jjs 16y ago
My great-to-the-nth grandpappy didn't claw his slimy tetrapod ass out of the Devonian sea just so his no-good descendants could sit in a cube playing Farmville all day!
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by jjs 16y ago
~/i # internal (stuff I made) ~/x # external (stuff I downloaded, etc.) # exceptions to the above: ~/i/collab ~/i/mashup ~/bin ~/tmp That's it for top-level directories. I also really like the (new?) trend of p
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by jjs 16y ago
You could tie the bonuses to profits. Problem is, your employees might game the system by making the company more profitable!
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by jjs 16y ago
Or use xrandr to virtually hold your screen upside down. :)
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by jjs 16y ago
Do smartphones count? ;)
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by jjs 16y ago
> Add few new features Or devise some novel features that would allow this marvelous invention to interoperate with existing software! Then patent the combination and fuck them with it. >:D
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by jjs 16y ago
In my case, it's the throughput that was a problem; there was practically zero latency or cost of sending a message using node and WebSockets. I was considering doing some sort of curve-fitting to (lossily) compress the drawing commands. S
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by jjs 16y ago
I made one of these last week to play with nodejs and WebSockets. My heavily-unoptimized wire protocol used uncompressed JSON objects sent at each mousemove event on the canvas while drawing, which means it's great fun on the LAN, but would
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by jjs 16y ago
> For example, you can't re-use the same image in other CSS files without duplicating the image's download cost as it's the surrounding CSS file that's cached, not the image itself. On the other hand, you could create css classes like
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by jjs 16y ago
The most dangerous traps now are new behaviors that bypass our alarms about self-indulgence by mimicking more virtuous types. I quit playing all Facebook games when I realized why they are so bad for me: so many of them are glorified wor
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by jjs 16y ago
That shouldn't be overlooked. A species that is social enough to cooperate and build a civilization, and curious enough to develop science, might stay their hand out of loneliness or curiosity. OR Or perhaps this is a grim answer to Ferm
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by jjs 16y ago
IIRC, .flv files have an index that is used for seeking (including seeking into a stream, in cooperation with the server). Some encoders might not create the index properly, and some players might have tricks to seek (offline?) even without
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by jjs 16y ago
For formal occasions, wear your Starfleet Dress Uniform.
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by jjs 16y ago
It's a lyric from the classic rock song "Stuck in the Middle with You."
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by jjs 16y ago
Property is for the benefit of its owner. But property , as a concept and related body of law, exists for the benefit of society—we tacitly agree not to take each other's stuff because lacking that rule would suck for (most of) us. Inte
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by jjs 16y ago
And what's this talk about benefiting "society"? If someone invents a magic trick, he owns that intellectual property. If not for the benefit of society, then please explain your theory of why society should tolerate or enforce intellectu
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by jjs 16y ago
They kind of paint Metacritic in a poor light. It's not Metacritic's fault THQ has the policies they do. Nah, they just gave Metacritic a B-minus. It's not Ars's fault that Metacritic interprets that as a 67 out of 100.
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by jjs 16y ago
Why "They" Triumphed?
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by jjs 16y ago
How about Amazon? When you visit their site, do you think of rain forests or Xena?
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by jjs 16y ago
Plato thought that true reality lay in universal abstractions called Forms, or Ideas. The Buddhist sutras take the position that "objects of mind" are just leaky abstractions created by our limited minds, which struggle to make sense of the
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by jjs 16y ago
To find out your impending spouse had signed a contract that bound them to create an ironclad prenup with you, would mark you as the most suspicious, manipulative bastard on earth. "On the contrary, my dear. Look at Section 4, Paragraph
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by jjs 16y ago
It appears that you can fix that now in the privacy settings. That said, I still consider the initial "outing" of fan pages to be a huge breach of trust.

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