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by lj3 10y ago
It took me years to realize the reason programmers do this is because the tools that "seem cool" make their lives easier at the expense of everything else. This is where the popular traits of "laziness and hubris" become
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by lj3 10y ago
> having a device which is restrictive in this regard, might be a very positive experience. It's funny you should say that. A guy I know hired some programmers to come up with custom software for a hacked Boox. It was a universal in
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by lj3 10y ago
I haven't forgotten. Even today, creating dynamic apps in flex using xml and actionscript is easier, more performant and saner than using HTML5. If only the flash player wasn't a minefield of bugs and security vulnerabilities. :(
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by lj3 10y ago
That's a limitation of e-ink that has yet to be explored. The Dasung paperlike[0] is a usb driven eink screen. From what I've seen of it so far, the refresh rate is on par with other usb-driven monitors I've used. It's a
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by lj3 10y ago
> "Without a substantial credit history, it is much harder to take out a home mortgage, for example." Why is this? In theory, it shows you can pay them back. In practice, I wonder if credit works that way. My first job was work
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by lj3 10y ago
There are eink readers that are easier to hack, like the Kobo, but they're all limited in that they're e-readers and have the minimal processing power to match. The only full on eink tablet I know of is this one[0] which technical
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by lj3 10y ago
"may" being the key word here. The library you choose "may" have already dealt with those edge cases. Or you may spend hours or days debugging the god damned thing. In my experience in javascript development, the latter
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by lj3 10y ago
This guy thinks so: https://tinyapps.org/docs/e-ink-monitor.html
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by lj3 10y ago
I saw a brilliant graphic a while back, but can't find it now. It shows 4 stages of development methodology in a big loop. It goes... Spaghetti code -> MVC -> DI -> advanced framework Personally, I embrace the suck and
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by lj3 10y ago
Please tell Google to publish a spec for the pepper api and to rewrite it so it doesn't require the blink rendering engine. As much as I dislike Mozilla, I give them props for trying to reverse engineer the pepper api from what was imp
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by lj3 10y ago
Why limit ourselves to a single UI format? Forget the part I said about a plugin. What if browsers were able to load and execute LLVM bitcode natively in a sandbox? You could get native performance in the browser using any language you&#x27
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by lj3 10y ago
What do you think about a browser plugin that runs arbitrary .exe code via a plugin? It would have to be sandboxed, of course, but it would give you all of the benefits of a browser distribution model without having to deal with the DOM.
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by lj3 10y ago
Correction: he needs engaging work in a nice environment for a company that's currently hiring . I like to call those companies 'the real tech unicorns'.
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by lj3 10y ago
Twice. One time it was because I previously worked with the hiring manager. That was an awesome gig. The other time, I was hired after two phone calls. I talked about my previous work. I sent them a code sample I had laying around. That was
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by lj3 10y ago
> I'm in an industry that lots of people want to be in. What industry are you in? > A critical part of the filter is to determine if applicant who WANTS to be here will fuck things up for the people I NEED to be here. How do you
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by lj3 10y ago
Look for a company that's rapidly expanding. They'll be the ones who just got 10+ million in funding for the first time. It's hard to be rigorous about hiring practices when you're looking to hire 300-600 new employees i
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by lj3 10y ago
Then don't frequent that bar. It is absolutely the venue's prerogative to set the atmosphere in any way they like that doesn't violate the law. The customers vote with their dollars. Time will tell if there's enough peop
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by lj3 10y ago
It doesn't matter. If you have the exact experience and expertise they're looking for, they'll overlook everything else. Otherwise, they'll use anything as an excuse to reject your resume.
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by lj3 10y ago
Their post didn't make it even remotely clear that they were only talking to businesses and not the public at large. Maybe that was by design; this is giving them a huge amount of publicity.
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by lj3 10y ago
Artists and designers also live in the bay area and work for bay area tech companies, but they don't get paid the same salaries developers do. The video game industry is also in the bay area, but they don't need to pay as much to
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by lj3 10y ago
> I don't see it as more and more people becoming jerks, I see it as more and more people becoming thin skinned. People claim to be "thin skinned" because it works as far as effecting an overall narrative. You can limit th
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by lj3 10y ago
That actively selects for dishonest employees. Then again, it does seem to work for the financial sector.
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The most bizarre technical interview I went on(medium.com)
38 points by lj3 10y ago|33 comments
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by lj3 10y ago
handmade hero[0]! Casey Muratori records many hour long sessions where he goes through the steps of making a video game from scratch in C. Practical, hands on experience from a guy who knows his stuff. [0]: https://handmadehero.o
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by lj3 10y ago
He mentioned all of those things because there are active twitter accounts who use all of those words and more and yet avoid suspensions themselves. You didn't answer my question.
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by lj3 10y ago
If you kept reading, most of the content he tweeted were pictures of white girls with captions like "White: It's a beautiful thing." The post you refer to cites statistical fact of which even the BBC admits[0]. It's also
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by lj3 10y ago
It's the white equivalent of the 'black is beautiful' campaigns we see ad companies run all the time. It wasn't even in the least bit controversial, yet it's gone.
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Twitter Censorship(medium.com)
1 points by lj3 10y ago|6 comments
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by lj3 10y ago
There are no good options these days. I know that's been the song of developers since the beginning of software, but it does seem we've hit a bit of a valley in terms of desktop OS's. Linux still can't quite get its foot
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by lj3 10y ago
You're assuming every developer is a "good" developer. The top 10% could probably find remote work, but the rest of us are stuck with what we can get. I've been trying to go that route for 3 years now and I'm at the

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