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by laumars 5y ago
It wouldn’t have helped in the interview if they did use the NATO phonetic alphabet because when you read CLI commands or talk about them in the office, you don’t spell it out using the NATO alphabet. The point was the interviewer read a wr
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by laumars 5y ago
Again, it shouldn’t be a matter of office politics. If you have a healthy team then everyone will chip in their individual strengths. Yours might be git but someone else might be stronger with Bash, package management, or whatever. Eventual
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by laumars 5y ago
I’ve written a few Linux file systems and I’m not even sure I’d have answered that question correctly. I’ve also failed job interviews where I was told there was no coding expected in the face to face and then got given a piece of paper and
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by laumars 5y ago
What happens when the GP runs into an issue themselves. Do their colleagues help him or return the same cold shoulder? Computers are sufficiently advanced that there will always be blind spots in your team. Sometimes that means working toge
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by laumars 5y ago
I get you disagree with the GPs post but “noob” isn’t offensive. What’s offensive is their lack of support for colleagues (which reads like a potential issue with their own ego: where they didnt want to be shown up in an unfamiliar UI). But
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by laumars 5y ago
When I moved house literally the first post I had sent to me at my new address was Rick Astleys album. Took me years to find out who Rickrolled me IRL too.
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by laumars 5y ago
> The technology stack to support Google Glass is almost entirely distinct from the technology stack which supports in-phone AR. Maybe both are AR, but then all that means is it's not a particularly useful term, because it can mean
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by laumars 5y ago
This is why there are a multitude of different open source software licences. Because some people care more than others about the terms in which their code is used by others.
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by laumars 5y ago
I’m all for advancing machine learning but given how much big corporations aggressively defend their IP, it’s a hard pill to swallow if someone shrugs off a potential misuse of open source code. The law is the law and if it’s ok for Microso
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by laumars 5y ago
In other news, Google “recommends” Duck Duck Go and Bing… if you happen to type them into the Google search engine as a search term. /s Point being, the items on HNs front page are user aggregated content and has naff all to do with HN
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by laumars 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27969587
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by laumars 5y ago
Counting CVEs is a trivially easy argument to debunk. It’s a topic well written about by many open source contributors and security researchers. It’s a topic discussed on here frequently too. And it’s a topic that common sense alone should
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by laumars 5y ago
Some researchers get paid per CVE and thus are encouraged to release hundreds of frivolous reports. Some companies publish frivolous ones in order to raise their own profile. Also the software in question is a complicated subsystem to write
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by laumars 5y ago
The GPs point is that writing software is a thousand times more complicated than installing a door knob. And frankly I think they’re being generous to you; writing a frame buffer is even more complicated than their estimation.
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by laumars 5y ago
The hardware has been there for a decade already. You might have AR tools already in your pocket (eg Google Translate)
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by laumars 5y ago
All of the AR examples are legitimately AR. It’s a massive field. VR, on the other hand, isn’t such a broad field. Take your 360 videos for example, there’s no interaction with the content. Even 90s era VR was very specifically referring to
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by laumars 5y ago
Counting the number of CVEs to measure the security of a piece of software makes as much sense as counting lines of code to measure a developer’s performance.
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by laumars 5y ago
I disagree. AR mobile games have been around for a few years and VR first hit the market 2 decades before AR. If anything, VR has been a harder technology to break through. Which, in my personal opinion, is because it’s more likely to make
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by laumars 5y ago
I’ve seen people use Gameboys as instruments.
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by laumars 5y ago
This is way too cool. Gutted I threw out my MIDI keyboard 2 weeks ago :(
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by laumars 5y ago
AR has been in the consumer space a lot longer than VR. In fact I’m more surprised that AR had never taken off in a big way than I was about VR. Sure we’ve seen some games like Pokemon Go take advantage of it. But AR should have been a game
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by laumars 5y ago
2018 and much of the claims in here are now disputed
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by laumars 5y ago
It’s relevant because that’s his defence. As cited in the article we are discussing.
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by laumars 5y ago
Also I’d recommend ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’ and ‘Silicon Cowboys’
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by laumars 5y ago
I didn’t say “people”, I said “regions”. Indians generally have a large and collaborative communities, which is a concept totally alien to many westerners who don’t even talk to their neighbours. This is also part of the reason COVID is so
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by laumars 5y ago
I’m not talking about farmland. I’m talking about the basics like having a few trees that grow fruit. Yes it’s not much, but it can be the difference between life and death when you’re talking about starvation.
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by laumars 5y ago
A lot of the remoter and poor regions grow their own crops. What they lack is - education (understanding how to slow the spread the virus with many not even wearing a mask when looking after family members who are ill) - money (to pay for a
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by laumars 5y ago
A great many European countries have proven it is practical. In fact in some cities it’s more beneficial not to drive (London and Amsterdam to give two examples of wildly different cities yet both favour public transport)
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by laumars 5y ago
You’re being rather unfair with your interpretation of my post there. I’ve clearly demonstrated in my writing that I’m in favour of other languages growing. There’s a huuuge gulf of difference between my point about praising platform stabil
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by laumars 5y ago
> Funny how we can get stuck with a language from the early 70s and we're still in the process of replacing it half a century later. I see that as a good thing. I’d much rather have a battle tested framework than everything being

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