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by mdip 7y ago
So incredible. It still feels like it happened to somebody else. While writing that, yesterday, I realized that I was a participant in the whole situation most of the time. Not the first CIO meeting; George was downright crazy for doing
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by mdip 7y ago
I don't know that it always leads to illegal forms of discrimination. First, defining the term -- when you're interviewing, you're discriminating. When you choose one person over another, you're discriminating between t
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by mdip 7y ago
> If I had my way this would be considered employment discrimination and grounds for a lawsuit. I took issue with the tie stuff, myself, in another comment. It's unlikely to be discriminatory, except in the case -- as you mentione
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by mdip 7y ago
This was a great read and I've seen this kind of thing first-hand at a few companies I've worked/interviewed at. > Wear a suit and tie to an interview That's a personal test of mine. I have never showed up to an in
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by mdip 7y ago
Reading this over a little bit, I wanted to clarify a few points. At least a few of the things Bob was responsible for fell into the category of questionable ethics, if not outright illegal behavior. There was cases where incredibly expen
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by mdip 7y ago
Whew, I've seen this one first- and second-hand a few times. I worked for a global multi-national for around 17 years, through a few acquisitions, and through a 6-9 month lay-off cadence that often came with overall restructuring and r
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by mdip 7y ago
People's reactions to art, especially complex art[0] is going to be highly subjective. What I wonder most when reading this article is "Will I enjoy a game that successfully evokes those emotions in me?" That's my go-to
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by mdip 7y ago
> That’s right. If SSE2 is reported, KiTryForceEnableNx does nothing. How does that make sense? I don’t know. It is true that all AMD processors which have SSE2 also have NX (and it can’t be disabled). But all Intel Pentium 4 CPUs made b
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by mdip 7y ago
I came to the conclusion about comments about a year ago for a completely different reason ... though, ultimately, ended up saving me in the way he mentioned: In my IDE, comments are bolded, italicized and red with a dashed underline and a
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Webglstudio.js – Open-source 3D graphics editor in the browser(github.com)
220 points by mdip 7y ago|14 comments
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by mdip 7y ago
I thought the same thing... Kinda neat hovering the mouse around and watching the little "." move the white part. Unfortunately, they cost me some extra work. I began to realize how many times I have sneezed with the laptop on m
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by mdip 7y ago
I'm with you - in a way, goodness, sure looks like they're getting a lot of attention, but like others -- "until I hit the comments on hacker news", I thought it was satire[0]. [0] Actually, I thought it was clever adver
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by mdip 7y ago
Quick way (Linux FF/Chrome at least): CTRL+SHIFT+C[0], click the snake. (arrow keys) [0] I wish I had to look that up, but no. That's the shortcut for "Copy" in my terminals and I frequently CTRL+SHIFT+C VSCode, which
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by mdip 7y ago
I used to manage a set of tape backup robots (huge square tapes, I want to say 25 glorious GB a piece, and some Sony DAT devices @50-75GB a piece) that backed up sister data centers over a few DS-3s back in the early 2000s. The hardware&#x
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by mdip 7y ago
"That can't be real?" Really? I'll never forget the description given to me by a close friend who had left a "Government IT" job for the private sector: (1) You have standards and practices like everywhere, bu
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by mdip 7y ago
I'd normally be with you on this and I get the sensitivity to cryptocurrency (more-often-than-not-snakeoil) posts, but I think this is interesting because of the broader implications: (1) Keybase is an interesting product -- on its own
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by mdip 7y ago
You make fair points and I'll be the first to say that my experience (and preference) lies elsewhere, so I'll explore the links on Monday to see if they make life easier. The major point that I didn't make clear enough about
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by mdip 7y ago
So I clicked the link and the first thing I thought was "Cool, there'll be a bunch of ruin porn on this site", then went in, clicked into my area (was a little disappointed at the lack of two malls that I've seen quite a
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by mdip 7y ago
Ugh, that sounds awful. I've maxed out at 4, but I only belong to Slack channels for customers that I work with. I had taken this as a huge plus in my circumstances -- having them separated in their own space per organization allowed
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by mdip 7y ago
That comment got away from me in length, so to summarize: I've been an add-on developer for Microsoft's competing product since the TAP (beta) program for OCS and part of a few organizations who used it as their only telephony&#x2
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by mdip 7y ago
I have a bit of a different take on this. Personally speaking, I've only been a Slack user for 2 years. Prior to that, I lived out of Skype for Business (now Teams[0]). On one hand, I've had each of the issues he lists in his bu
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by mdip 7y ago
It'd be interesting to see more ideas like this take fold (not specifically startup related, but just "rethinking what this space could be used for") The Silverdome (former home to the Detroit Lions) was a skating rink on the
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by mdip 7y ago
They were erected and expected to produce their own mini-city and mini-community, which they did faithfully for some years as they filled a niche that is otherwise unavailable to suburbanites. That's dead on. All of the ot
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by mdip 7y ago
...regarded as treasured social institution in communities seems ridiculous to me. I'm going to hazard a guess that you were not part of that community, either due to your age or interests[0]. However, you made a point that
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by mdip 7y ago
I live next door to a large, modern, outdoor mall (which is very popular; it's a horrible pain in the butt around Christmas). These are obviously not the "dead malls" that the site is referring to. As a kid from the 90s livi
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by mdip 7y ago
Honestly, I think Mappable and Iterable are both fine. Are they perfect? Maybe to one or two developers who's past experience precisely matched up. They're "good enough" because the reason we tend to name things the
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by mdip 7y ago
Names can't transmit the complete meaning of a concept Exactly. It seems the author is stuck in a sort of "precision trap", where in their ideal world, there would be no ambiguity in names and when I referred to a
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by mdip 7y ago
I really didn't have much of an opinion on the subject but after reading this, I'm finding that the author effectively demonstrated why Functor, Monoid, Monad and most of the terms used in FP are terrible and why it's so hard
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by mdip 7y ago
As others have pointed out, it may be worth looking into whether or not your reasons for using Chromium for the devtools are simply habit. Speaking for myself, I'm in the other camp. I never really ditched Firefox for Chrome except fo
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I'm a phony. Are you? (2011)(hanselman.com)
1 points by mdip 7y ago|0 comments

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