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The beginnings of starting a church with Richard Dawkins(blog.rongarret.info)
1 points by mech4bg 14y ago|0 comments
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by mech4bg 14y ago
It worries/amazes me that along with all the nostalgia that this thread has brought up, it's made me realize I can still remember parts of my 28.8k modem's initialization string. AT&F&C1&D2 from memory. Reading someone else's p
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by mech4bg 14y ago
Very impressive stuff, congrats.
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by mech4bg 14y ago
Did I miss something here...? "In 1991, I started work at NeXT, as Product Manager for Interpersonal Computing. It was the internet, before there was much of an internet. We called it Interpersonal Computing, but nobody paid attention until
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by mech4bg 14y ago
You just waited that long to download music. That was all there was to it. MP3 was mindblowing when it was first released, in terms of how good it sounded for the size. Obviously many people just ripped their own CDs. Many CD-ROMs didn't
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by mech4bg 14y ago
People saying that the service is free and Google owes you nothing are missing the point. If Google continues this practice and makes things worse, then people will lose trust in them, move away from their services, and they will suffer fi
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Presidential Poll Tracker: Understanding Shifts in Voting Trends(blog.surveymonkey.com)
1 points by mech4bg 14y ago|0 comments
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by mech4bg 14y ago
I was coming here to post the exact same thing. Perfectly summed up - why are they stressing themselves out about such an inconsequential thing right now? Yes Comcast handled it badly, but if I were worried my house was about to be destroy
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by mech4bg 14y ago
Funny, a lot of the technical questions I had to do in pre-screens and in the interview itself were naturally solved via recursion and were what the interviewer was looking for. This is both with Google and large financial companies.
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by mech4bg 14y ago
I think I consider photos to be some of the most important stuff to be backed up... obviously you can live without them, but as you said, some photos are irreplaceable, and can hold so much meaning. At least with Facebook / Picasa Web Albu
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by mech4bg 14y ago
As an interviewer, it always surprised me how little people would prepare for an interview. For every interview I have done as an interviewee I have studied what I am likely to be asked, what their interview technique is, boned up on the la
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by mech4bg 14y ago
It surprises me that someone would rely entirely on dropbox as their backup tool AND primary file location, especially when it happy manipulates the files locally. I backup to an external HDD and to the cloud and still have the originals (a
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by mech4bg 14y ago
As others have said, this article was remarkably sensationalist and cherry picked many of their facts. However there is a grain of truth in here - while Europe had MUCH higher internet / phone / cable costs 10 years ago, from what I've lear
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by mech4bg 14y ago
Haha I thought this post was real, but when I read the other blog post I thought it must be satire... it's right on the line though.
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by mech4bg 15y ago
How is German a particularly difficult language? It's relatively simple and very similar to English - some things are more complicated, some are simpler, but as mhd says it's a moot point due to local translation skills, etc. I think he's
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by mech4bg 15y ago
Ouch, I'm not sure what that says that I immediately wondered if you were a minority. Oh, and I had a similar experience re: Melbourne. I'm a US citizen living in Australia, and was landing in San Fran for a 3 week visit about 8 years ago.
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by mech4bg 15y ago
There are so many mistakes in this it's not funny. "In 2003 Iceland’s debt was equal to 200 times its GNP, but in 2007, it was 900 percent."? In that case it's gone from 200 times down to 9. This person should not be writing an article a
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by mech4bg 16y ago
My german definitely becomes much, much better after a few beers. Too many though and it starts getting worse. No one's mentioned the Ballmer Peak yet?
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by mech4bg 16y ago
The problem with Rolling Stone pieces if even when they have a good point to make, they're far too emotional and devoid of details. There's a real bias to how they attack their stories, and rarely seem to do much fact checking. I wish more
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by mech4bg 16y ago
I like Google's viewpoint on this... "incorrect documentation is a bug, and should be fixed." Complaining about the code diverging from the comments therefore comments are worthless is silly imo. While documentation should not be over the
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by mech4bg 16y ago
Even more interesting, this was written in 1996 by the looks of things?
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by mech4bg 16y ago
Haha exactly what I thought when I read this. Also with lines like this: >We hear this unhappiness expressed in phrases like "no sense of place" and "the loss of community." People are ALWAYS complaining about something, and usually tal
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by mech4bg 16y ago
The thing that sucks is when the interviewer doesn't care about that, but instead cares about specific answers to their particular list of questions. It can be astonishingly random who gets through an interview. Bizarre that just a few wor
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by mech4bg 16y ago
I've had some astonishing questions asked in interviews lately. Very esoteric and obscure parts of C++ that if you followed good design you wouldn't even see or need to know about - and if you did, it's a short google query away. Testing
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by mech4bg 16y ago
Agreed to this - Google asks you straightforward (but difficult) computer science stuff.
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by mech4bg 16y ago
I know the initial post was tongue in cheek, but Google Translate seems to be worse than 1999-2000 era Babelfish at times. I often (try to) use it to double check my German before sending off an email and it inevitably fails dramatically a