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by mdip 10y ago
I forgot about the Store apps and I remember when that came out, I thought "They got that mostly right". "Mostly Right" from the perspective that there is a standardized software install/repository for applications
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by mdip 10y ago
Good point and it's my use of Visual Studio that kind of screws me. I've got ReSharper installed, which bogs down the editor quite a bit, as well as an extension that I wrote that isn't nearly as efficient as it should be (a
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by mdip 10y ago
It's such a frustrating thing. Rebooting doesn't really take that long on a PC with an SSD, but it's the upheaval of my environment while I'm in the middle of developing that makes that interruption take way too long to
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by mdip 10y ago
From the perspective of a long-time Windows user who at one point managed the services my former employer used to keep hosts up to date, this is an excellent development. Execution will be important here and IMHO, and it has been done prett
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by mdip 10y ago
I see the point you're making and it's valid, however, there's one component that's missing. Unlike prior to Fiber, there's now Gigabit offerings from Comcast and AT&T and in many places, Comcast and AT&T a
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by mdip 10y ago
I was an employee for Level 3, coming from the Global Crossing acquisition, for around 17 years, choosing to leave early last year (and unlike most former Level 3/Global Crossing employees, this choice was not forced upon me). Internal
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by mdip 10y ago
I'd still switch to Google Fiber. As someone who spent over a year dealing with what AT&T calls "support"[0], concerns that Google could be any worse would be minimal for me. In all likelihood, if they do completely
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by mdip 10y ago
I think there are two big reasons: The market changed. When they launched Fiber, they're announcement was reminiscent of GMail when it launched. Back then, getting a 15-30MB free web mailbox was normal and Google announced a start at
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by mdip 10y ago
Is this due to the FCC reclassification of internet as a common carrier? I wondered a little bit about this, myself, when Fiber was launched. They have a lot more motivation without network neutrality as a matter of regulation because
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by mdip 10y ago
I'm not so sure about Project Fi disappearing. The fact is, they have a national rollout of Project Fi because they were able to operate in a way that allowed them to resell existing carriers' products as an MVNO. And they were
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by mdip 10y ago
Or if there's a sudden lack of dolphin related accidents it might be good to look into whether or not the end of the world is eminent[0]. [0] http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Dolphins
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by mdip 10y ago
Absolutely! I hate being an evangelist for a medication, but this stuff has dramatically changed my life and entirely for the positive , so I'll be sharing my experience and my notes (I kept a journal for the first 6 months of taking
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by mdip 10y ago
It's kind of amazing what it does for your marriage. I've seen both sides of it, myself. In both cases, my wife was also stay-at-home. My first marriage was actually damaged by working at home. My wife was an introvert and I
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by mdip 10y ago
I'm a little surprised at the down-voting. Your feelings on the subject are completely valid and shared by many. I've written enough comments on the subject within this thread that I won't repeat myself yet again, but brief
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by mdip 10y ago
You're not an outlier. I know several software developers who feel exactly the same way. I would have probably been one of them but after doing it for ten years or so, I love working at home and have found ways to adjust to the thi
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by mdip 10y ago
I tend to be hesitant of this model, but I've seen it work. It depends on the team and the people. In the cases where it works the hallmark of success is a team that is highly engaged. If it's a start-up or a company where every
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by mdip 10y ago
I've seen this play out a few times and I hesitate to offer advice only because I don't wish it to be taken negatively, so please accept this as respectfully as I can offer it. I worked at a company that performed layoffs about ev
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by mdip 10y ago
Finding good remote workers is very difficult This. A lot of the problem employers have with "work from home" employees is centered around this fact. Working from home almost always requires extremely good communication skill
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by mdip 10y ago
This is the one area where I think a pay-cut might be warranted . If the cost of living is sufficiently different from the employer's location and my own, I'd expect a pay cut. However, the impression I get from the article is t
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by mdip 10y ago
I hear ya on the podcasts. When I had a 2-hour round-trip commute for several years, I listened to a few hundred audio books. Up to that point I had read probably two fiction books over the course of my entire life (outside of required re
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by mdip 10y ago
Absolutely not. I've advised everyone looking for remote work to never undercut their salary or treat the remote job as a "perk"[0]. There are downsides to working at home -- disconnection from the team (if the team is not
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by mdip 10y ago
Perhaps I fell well outside of the normal patient in this case but I've been taking a small-ish dose (500mg/day) for about two years for treatment of Migraine. As my previous comment states, I make it a point not to read the si
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by mdip 10y ago
This is interesting - I just posted a comment about being prescribed Depakote to handle Migraine (which has completely eliminated my bi-weekly attacks for the last two years). I haven't paid particular attention to this kind of effec
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by mdip 10y ago
That's an interesting point - I had found that getting a very serious massage while I had symptoms had helped them. I didn't get them nearly enough to be able to say "for sure" that it really helped, or if it was just p
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by mdip 10y ago
I'm pleased to say that I am a former Migraine sufferer. I've had the condition since I was 17 years old, when the first one hit. It was such an intense pain that I begged my mom to take me to the emergency room -- certain my b
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Replica of Windows 10 in the browser(users.csc.calpoly.edu)
3 points by mdip 10y ago|0 comments
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by mdip 10y ago
Sounded like a logical thing to do, and we thought of that as well. There were really two reasons: The "dumb" one was "Corporate Standards" which always seemed to serve as a method to ensure the worst possible product w
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by mdip 10y ago
Even worse - this assumes you can get your 56K modem to connect at 56K (and remain connected at that speed). Seventeen or so years ago when I had dial-up, I was lucky to get a stable 24k connection due to a variety of issues related to poor
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by mdip 10y ago
I'll try to answer your question and provide advice on each of your points but to your broader question, yes, absolutely someone can be not cut out for software engineering. The people I know who were "not cut out for it"
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by mdip 10y ago
Yeah, that was the painful part. Almost nobody had access to that entire suite and those that did underwent stringent background checks and were very technical, so physical security once you were in the suite was limited. IIRC, I believe i

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