khedoros

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by khedoros 10y ago
Recharging the phone and the cost of the phone are the things that are not going to change, regardless of what happens with the headphones, so I'm not sure why you're bringing it up. > Bluetooth is easier than plugging in headp
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by khedoros 10y ago
"Keylogger" may be a little bit of an inflammatory way to put it, but it gets the point across: Windows sends an unspecified selection of your keyboard inputs to Microsoft's servers, and it doesn't inform you what it&#x2
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by khedoros 10y ago
I like the bottom-up approach more than the top-down. Begin with a simpler form of a system. Show how abstractions are built on top of it, and allow you to handle increased complexity with a similar cognitive load. That's easy to exten
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by khedoros 10y ago
Sure, you have a right. > When did I ever presume it would be simple? Your tone implies a process like this: 1. Get a job at Amazon 2. Never be bored, and have a good chance for input. You may be lucky and have an experience like that, b
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by khedoros 10y ago
> I meant design discussions, etc. I think that was understood (at least, that's how I read it). In a good environment at any company, your ideas will be fairly weighed against other options. Most environments aren't "go
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by khedoros 10y ago
I've heard both good and bad (bad from the internet, good from some friends working there). I get about the same feeling from their interview process as I do from most other large corporations, but the news stories about their warehous
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by khedoros 10y ago
$600k is about 1500 sq ft, where I live, while median US home size is somewhere in the mid-2000's of square footage. Maybe when I'm house hunting, I should point out that I could get the same thing elsewhere for $200k.
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by khedoros 10y ago
I've had a few rounds of interviews with different parts of their company. None of them ever involved a camera (with the exception of a 2-way video conference with someone in a different office, during an on-site interview).
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by khedoros 10y ago
There are a lot of sites (dozens, maybe) that I would be willing to pay $1-$10 a month for, except that I'm not willing to sign up for all of them individually, and not all of them are willing to sell me their information/servic
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by khedoros 10y ago
And there, you've got hundreds of African men yelling "kasa kasa!" any time a sprinkle starts, selling super-cheap 500 yen umbrellas. It was odd to see, when I visited a few years ago.
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by khedoros 10y ago
Maybe "goaty" would be better.
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by khedoros 10y ago
> I hear this a lot in retrospectives but was this really that challenging? I guess what I remember around that age was using various games' bootdisk utilities to generate disks, then looking at the contents, blindly fooling around
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by khedoros 10y ago
What does programming in my spare time have to do with studying for my job? I think the idea that the article was trying to convey was that the best programmers love the work enough that they'd be doing it on their own, even if they we
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by khedoros 10y ago
> But coffee took much longer — centuries longer — to catch on in Germany, France or England, where people were hooked on beer, wine and tea, respectively. From what I understood, coffee was common in England before tea was, and tea was
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by khedoros 10y ago
Yes. I know of a local empanada/pizzeria place, a burger place, a furniture store, and a taco place that have stops inside of them (that is, marked on the map as being inside of the building). Also, hotels and office buildings with ind
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by khedoros 10y ago
Hard to imagine, when I see all the stories about tiny modules in Node.js...but easy to imagine when I see how many JS frameworks are out there. Still, so much of what we do these days is just tying together other people's libraries, c
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by khedoros 10y ago
Automation is an effort multiplier, but it's not a cure-all, and it's not free. Building and maintaining the system will ultimately take some sort of time, work, or money input from people. So, if someone isn't going to someh
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by khedoros 10y ago
> google isn't unaware, I'll try not to put words in his mouth, but a google exec said something along the lines that we aren't very far from needing half of the programmers/ IT people we have today In one way, that&#
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by khedoros 10y ago
Or it could be rejections even earlier in the process, like not receiving a response after sending in your resume to a job posting.
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by khedoros 10y ago
He's taking a much broader view. You aren't forced into that job, but how are you going to survive if you don't do some form of work that's accepted by society as such? If people own essentially all the livable land
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by khedoros 10y ago
In those terms, we are enslaved by the existence of personal property. Or maybe by the existence of society, in general. Society's requirements force you into a certain set of paths. > Why exactly is it so hard to survive without a
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by khedoros 10y ago
If they were streaming spy data like that, I suspect that they wouldn't report the data usage. IMO, battery life is the strongest indicator that they aren't.
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by khedoros 10y ago
If I've ever heard it before, then I've forgotten it. I don't know if most people know about it, but "phytophotodermatitis" (plant+light+skin+inflammation) is a pretty cool word.
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by khedoros 10y ago
And the same can be said about the digital version. You can use it in ways that you can't use a physical one. Which is better is completely a matter of preference, IMO. Physical: It's pleasant, intuitive, and the tactile aspects c
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by khedoros 10y ago
If I don't think about it, yes, a physical version seems to be worth more, because I feel like I'm actually buying a "thing", rather than just paying for access to information. It feels nicer to know that printing it c
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by khedoros 10y ago
> I might pay $99 for a hard copy of this, but no way I'd pay $49 for a PDF. Generally, I like physical books more than electronic ones, and I'd be willing to pay a premium for it. From what you're saying, a PDF of the boo
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by khedoros 10y ago
> but to be fair to Sublime, the license isn't really required. I understand that, and that's great for trying it out and deciding if I'd like to stick with it or not. Eventually, I'd buy the license, if I liked it we
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by khedoros 10y ago
15 years ago, one of my biggest reasons to be on the internet was sharing flash animations and games with friends over IM. With how popular those things were back then, it seems like there's been comparatively little effort to preserve
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by khedoros 10y ago
Well, it's not like it's Soylent Green .
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by khedoros 10y ago
That doesn't capture what I think of when someone says "brogrammer". At the very least, I think it also denotes a strong sense of machismo, with a connotation of disrespect for others and boorishness. It's not a positive

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