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by mdip 9y ago
> As your professional accomplishments increase, the value of GitHub profiles (for most) as a marketing tool diminishes dramatically, but can still be helpful. While I agree that they're less important, especially if there are comme
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by mdip 9y ago
Having personally used GitHub to aid in hiring developers, I find it to be a very valuable resource ... provided it's used correctly. The author makes a few points that I would have considered somewhat obvious (i.e. social networkin
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by mdip 9y ago
Amen. I'll be the first to admit that "you don't want me doing your UX design"[0], but I found the whole violent shift from skeuomorphic to flat to be too much. Almost over night we went from nearly cartoonish to IRS fo
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by mdip 9y ago
Well, currently you have to convert cryptocurrency into hard currency to use it, but the former isn't true. I have mined all of my cryptocurrency and that's pretty common among my peers. Money changed hands for me to get that c
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by mdip 9y ago
> Fully de-centralized exchanges are coming too, how are they ever going to regulate that? That's an interesting thought that I hadn't considered. I mean, when we think of trading stocks, we tend to exclusively think of broker
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by mdip 9y ago
Oh, man, that would be amazing . I, like probably many others, don't have a choice but to use it due to my company managing their documentation through it. Now, if they can just make search a bit better, it'd hit enough bullet p
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by mdip 9y ago
> Another note app? [...snip...] dropbox, notion, google . . . Unfortunately, as far as I'm concerned, none of these (or any existing note-taking app that I've tried) hits the sweet spot for me. I've commented on several
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by mdip 9y ago
You'd be surprised just how good the user reporting is. I took a 7-hour drive through Ohio with a friend who has a very expensive, supposedly "detects everything" radar detector. We used Waze for the entire trip, as well.
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by mdip 9y ago
One of the disadvantages of having round-abouts everywhere is that they aren't as well marked as they are in the states. In my area, they finally started putting these in where we used to have four-way stops and the traffic flow is mu
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by mdip 9y ago
> "yes, now that you've shown me this ad, I would like you to stop the route I'm on now and take me 17 minutes out of my way to go to the nearest Burger King, thanks" is 0%. Oh my is that obnoxious . I'm a dail
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by mdip 9y ago
Glad to see that my anecdotal experience with Google Maps and Waze turned out to be correct[0]. I've noticed, consistently, that Waze underestimates the drive time that it quotes and I've also had the sneaking suspicion that the
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by mdip 9y ago
I have to say, pretty neat. And I partly feel like I may need a shower after thinking that. I have no doubt that a product like this has a real need ... I used to write software targetted at end-users for reducing first-level support at
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by mdip 9y ago
Gotta say, on reading this I went "They did what?!" . This raised my eyebrows so much, I'm fairly certain they're now lost somewhere in my hairline. In the US, at least, I'm fairly certain they've broken mor
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by mdip 9y ago
The writing is on the wall for Barnes and Noble, and I can't help but see what they've done here as mirroring what Circuit City did just before they shut everything down. IIRC, they ditched their most experienced sales-people, wh
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by mdip 9y ago
There's a bit of apples to oranges comparison going on here between open hardware and open source software with regard to liability. The situation here is falling into the same trap that the RIAA/MPAA/Copyright institutes fa
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by mdip 9y ago
I'm an rx geek and can often craft what I'm looking to get without a lot of help, but I have used this tool many times before -- it's very slick. It would be nice if it supported something other than JavaScript[0], but hey
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by mdip 9y ago
I'm not entirely sure what state its in (and the code is brutally hacked together -- I spent far more time reading up on how to mangle the ffmpeg CLI to get what I wanted than I did bothering to write anything resembling quality sh
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by mdip 9y ago
Good point, here. As is often said, when the documentation says "undefined behavior", it means the compiler can do whatever it wants, including "work just fine"; and sometimes it'll cause time travel[0]. Hence the
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by mdip 9y ago
To be fair, I believe you and the individual you are replying to are treating the word 'safe' differently. Correct; C++ doesn't have a built-in concept of "safe" that is compiler guaranteed and anything written i
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by mdip 9y ago
I'll be an anti-crustangelist and say that I've actually avoided moving a C++ project I've been working on over to Rust because (1) I'm finding that fixing some of the previous code's pre-C++xx practices is suitable
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by mdip 9y ago
About a year ago I wrote a zsh script to analyse files in my collection and format/selectively re-encode them based on a set of rules. Basically, I wanted .mp4 files that the Roku Plex app could play back without having to do any kind
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by mdip 9y ago
D'Oh! Thanks for the correction -- somewhat changes my response a bit!
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by mdip 9y ago
Gotta love the patent system. Reading the summary made my eyes roll so far into the back of my head. Basically, they've patented shadow-banning via CAPTCHA. And I'm left also wondering if they've taken the "that's
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by mdip 9y ago
By that same token, they're not other miners' friends, either. I own three 1070s and a 1060 which I purchased primarily for mining[0] but also because other things I do benefit from the added compute capability. I purchased the
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by mdip 9y ago
It's fun reading these retrospectives, especially having lived somewhat close to them. I was as much a full time developer back during the NT to Vista days as I am, today. Most of my development career centered around Windows technol
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by mdip 9y ago
I was quite happy with that, actually. Given the options available for installing an application, what would you have preferred? If it had been a GitHub repository with a releases item, it would have either been a tarball'd source I h
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by mdip 9y ago
I'm with you on this -- I have found mind maps useful when brainstorming (particularly with a small group of people), but I like my notes in a format that can be grepped and easily version managed, so I use VS Code/Markdown, git,
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by mdip 9y ago
I live out of my notes, but part of that is due to the format of my notes and how I work, in general. While learning a new subject (almost always from a big, fat, e-book), I take notes as I skim/scan the material. I'll go from
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by mdip 9y ago
I'm with you, here - I've got vim opened in guake available at a hotkey on the laptop I'm typing on right now. Though, I also have VS Code pulled up on Desktop #2 -- it's just not as hot-key accessible.
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by mdip 9y ago
I'm feeling strange defending Electron, because I have crapped all over it in the past, too. There are certainly too many simple little apps written in electron that come with a 65MB download to do things I don't care about, but

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