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by lyndonh 13y ago
Candy crush saga run via Facebook seems to really hit the processor hard. It seems to me that we could save half the artic if we could ban it.
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by lyndonh 13y ago
If only the author of 2048 had used a thinner font, think of all the electrons that could've been saved
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by lyndonh 13y ago
I was excited about Oculus even though I wasn't necessarily going to buy one. But this acquisition is like Elon Musk announcing that Tesla will build a small 1 litre diesel car next, or SpaceX's next mission is to Detroit. I mean,
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by lyndonh 13y ago
> Which is a proprietary addon for their playstation. Not interesting at all. Yes, Sony products can never be rooted. Kinnect was a proprietary addon for XBox and look what happened there.
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by lyndonh 13y ago
Dear (insert your name), I am working with a company in (roughly your area but not specific and probably more than 100 miles from your nearest city) seeking candidates who have good skills in (very broad term 1), (very broad term 2), C++ an
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by lyndonh 13y ago
"... it gets massively harder to lock down access to the data on a system where tons of people know how to rebuild the kernel and modify drivers and otherwise try to intercept it." Because proprietary systems never get cracked; an
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by lyndonh 13y ago
"no DRM solution is available on Linux" DRM is basically digital signing w/encryption right ? Linux doesn't have that ?
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by lyndonh 13y ago
He said he had 3 beers over 3 hours. Assuming he is of average build for someone working "in an early stage start up" then I would think he wasn't wasted at all. Given that he called 911, he definitely had some connection to
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by lyndonh 13y ago
So does this mean that all purchases on the iOS Pebble App Store have to go through the iTunes App Store and thus Pebble pay a cut to Apple ? Because iTunes App Store T&C say all purchases go through them, right ?
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by lyndonh 13y ago
Absolutely. These articles are always aimed at the candidate. Where are the articles about "The most important question the interviewer has to be able to answer" ? e.g. How are (you/the guy who's going to manage me) goin
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by lyndonh 13y ago
> If I can eat for free 5 days a weekend, that's a lot of money I don't have to pay! How much salary are you on ?
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by lyndonh 13y ago
I agree about needing to know the culture. I don't care about perks because I'm interested in the work and the culture. Job ads use the perks as the main justification why you should want to work there. I can find my own gym and t
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by lyndonh 13y ago
I'm constantly seeing agencies repost job ads and the only location information is the location of the agency ; or sometimes they give a location of Townsville because Townsville is "only" a 2 hour drive from the true locati
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by lyndonh 13y ago
Can I have a quick micro rant here: I don't want to know about perks when I'm job hunting. Tell me about the type of work (not a wishlist of skills you want), the ball park pay (not a range), the location (I'm looking at you,
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by lyndonh 13y ago
Seven interviews sounds like a broken process. What did they learn in interview number 6 that they didn't/couldn't know at the end of interview number 5 ? Also, spending a whole day interviewing in Seattle and not meeting any
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by lyndonh 13y ago
What I said was if he didn't follow the rules then he's only got himself to blame. If he had followed the rules then he has been wronged. I didn't mindlessly side with the government but I did read the article. If YOU had rea
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by lyndonh 13y ago
You have been put into a very difficult situation (by other people). As you say, if things come to a head you will be the one forced to leave. Stress is not an excuse; OK maybe the odd outburst but not what you describe. Clearly, you are st
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by lyndonh 13y ago
I thought you had to have a paid account to put up commercial videos like this on Vimeo ?
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by lyndonh 13y ago
Every country has export/import regulations at their borders. They usually don't check that what you take out is permissable to bring back in. If he didn't have the proper documentation or follow the rules, he's only got
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by lyndonh 13y ago
This isn't news. There are plenty of poor quality conferences and publications willing to take your money and publish without checking. Even the good quality conferences send out batches of papers to be reviewed and then the reviewers
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by lyndonh 13y ago
I don't feel that my degree was in vain at all, you're trying to put words into my mouth. Lab sessions in which you must apply knowledge yourself give you the chance to investigate, experiment and see for yourself if what you we
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by lyndonh 13y ago
OK, interesting article and some quite effective tricks but this is not "optimization". Optimization means getting the best possible result from something, by some criterion. For example, blurring an image and then getting a bit b
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by lyndonh 13y ago
"Real knowledge is gained from tinkering, trial and error. A degree from a recognized academic institution is largely a social credit that is earned through memorization and the ability to recall and recite those references." I fi
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by lyndonh 13y ago
I was open to the idea that the article might be making a good point until I reached the stereotype that Engineers don't have people skills. In my experience, most Engineers have very good people skills and understand that you can&#x27
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by lyndonh 13y ago
It's all very well when it's a simple variable but quite often I have come up against variables that would take a whole paragraph of text to explain their purpose and don't have a concise or obvious name.
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by lyndonh 13y ago
Well UTF-16 and UTF-32 are less complex than UTF-8. My point is that codings aside, it's just a big table of characters plus some command codes.
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by lyndonh 13y ago
I was reading this and I'm like, Unicode (I assume UTF-8) isn't really that complicated at all. The UTF-8 system is straightforward, no more complex than simple run length coding. I'm also thinking that Unicode is basically a
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by lyndonh 13y ago
I love the fake "we can't show the name or number of our patents because of IP concerns" excuse. a.) If the patent is easy to work around then it's not worth the paper it's written on b.) You can't be saying yo
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by lyndonh 13y ago
It's not working...
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by lyndonh 13y ago
Most web designers assume you are browsing full screen. Dumbasses.

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