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by lj3 10y ago
If you can't afford a home in Auckland, you can't afford one in the bay area either.
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by lj3 10y ago
Apparently. The last few jobs I tried to get in the twin cities was met with resounding silence.
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by lj3 10y ago
> everytime I look at moving back to NZ I just get depressed about housing costs. How does it compare to bay area housing costs?
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by lj3 10y ago
I don't think that's a problem, personally. Something like canvas should be an all-or-nothing proposition. There's very little overlap between what you need for content-based static web pages and applications that just happ
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by lj3 10y ago
Wouldn't Canvas need more advanced text handling for that to be practical? I know that's a big reason canvas based frameworks never took off.
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by lj3 10y ago
I'm seriously tempted. If it does contact and calendar syncing with google, then sign me up!
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by lj3 10y ago
I see the same thing on /r/cscareerquestions and /r/programming. Who benefits the most from pushing the image that the average silicon valley programmer makes this much?
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by lj3 10y ago
Didn't Moxie come up with something like this a while back? It was a bit of a non-starter since you had to install a custom version of Android in order to get it work
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by lj3 10y ago
What happens when the government itself is guilty of all three? When the same people responsible for defining and enforcing what is true and what is false decide they can profit from enforcing a lie as if it were truth? This is very common
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by lj3 10y ago
Because of screen glare, maybe? In Masters of Doom , the author describes how Romero created his perfect office environment with lots of natural light. The employees then stapled dark felt over the top of their cubicles because the screen
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by lj3 10y ago
> A month later, I was feeling trapped, anxious, and deeply, deeply lonely -- and I'm an introvert! I'm going on 3 years working from home and I don't miss an office one bit. I don't feel trapped, anxious or lonely. I
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by lj3 10y ago
> Additionally, when they are saying that they are not censored, can I censor it to my preferences? Yes. There is no such thing as blocking, but you can mute users, words, phrases, tags, etc. I don't think you can set up user-specif
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by lj3 10y ago
This. Who my manager is and who I'm potentially going to be working with on a daily basis is far more important to me than which version of Angular they use or that they have a ping pong table. But, I've never seen that in a job a
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by lj3 10y ago
> There may be free cash in the couch cushions so to speak. There's always money in the banana stand.
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by lj3 10y ago
The cycle looks more like this: 1. Google what they want. 2. Download the first link they find. 3. If it's crap, they search again and download the second link they find. Or they just give up. 4. Repeat 3 until they find a decent app o
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by lj3 10y ago
Because html/css was never intended to be used for layout. It's primarily a content styling system for static documents.
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by lj3 10y ago
There's a huge separation between who designs the frontend and who implements the frontend. To date, none of the frontend editors are good enough to completely replace the need for a programmer to wire up actions. Even back in the Flas
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by lj3 10y ago
For all the other flaws the SV startup game has, it's probably the only place you can realistically become a CTO or CEO in your mid-20's.
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by lj3 10y ago
The first (Finding) has been the hardest one for me. The second one is just business as usual and the third one is best covered by this video: "Fuck You, Pay Me by Mike Monteiro". https://vimeo.com/158221814
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by lj3 10y ago
I think you mean "Effective Modern C++". The two you mention predate C++11. https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Modern-Specific-Ways-Improv...
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by lj3 10y ago
> and more maintainable React hasn't been around long enough to make that claim. Angular 1.X has and, imho, it's no more maintainable than your typical jquery program. I suspect we'll find the same thing is true with react
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by lj3 10y ago
You guys (rust guys) are starting to sound an awful lot like the Haskell guys do. I'd urge you not to brush off complaints about the language being difficult or complicated to use. Learn from their mistakes.
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by lj3 10y ago
Better marketplace discovery systems. Apple's App Store, the Google Play store and Steam all suffer from the same problem: it's very hard for the people who would enjoy your app to find your app. This probably also applies to stre
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by lj3 10y ago
Speed, responsiveness and the ability to work offline. These things sort of work for webapps on the desktop because desktops aren't cpu and memory restricted. Phones are. As a result, webapps are just too damned slow and frustrating to
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by lj3 10y ago
I like that even less. If you haven't manually added an app association, it defaults to opening the app specified in the digital assets file without any notification to the user. This is the opposite of a sane default. The first time a
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by lj3 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. I'm excited about the idea of streaming apps, but the execution here is terrible. How do you control which url opens which app? If somebody sends you a reddit or hn link, which app does it run? There are doz
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by lj3 10y ago
There's no trade-off. You can use platforms like facebook or twitter to increase your exposure and reach, but make sure the real content is either hosted on or duplicated on a site you control. That way, if one platform decides to kick
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Trump fires acting attorney general: She 'betrayed' the DOJ(washingtonexaminer.com)
20 points by lj3 10y ago|4 comments
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by lj3 10y ago
In the last week, it's gone from 'time-to-time' to 'multiple times a day'. Great stuff, but it's getting very hard to keep up with.
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by lj3 10y ago
It my case, things went beyond odd looks. You're technically obeying the company policy, so they can't punish you officially, but there are lots of ways to punish you unofficially for violating an unwritten social convention. In m

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