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by melted 11y ago
This would be a good lesson for other companies with SJWs on staff: do what _you_ believe is right, don't let them drive the discussion.
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by melted 11y ago
That's not what I'd call a bug that "crept in". Surface Book I bought crashed unprovoked _several times a day_. That's deliberately shipping a completely faulty product that any self-respecting customer will take ri
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by melted 11y ago
IMO the whole situation could easily be avoided if employers provided salary ranges up front. I heard that's what they do in Japan, and several recruiter pings I have received from there did contain the ranges. Alas they were too low t
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by melted 11y ago
Couch infantry is at it again. Stock price doesn't mean a damn to a company unless it's about to issue more shares. It only has any meaning to people who own its stock. Model X is a good product, and one without peer in the luxur
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by melted 11y ago
It depends on whether you want your BI to be generated by a battle tested product, or by a melange of a rickety, buggy, half baked stuff that hardly anyone is able to use without paying $10K+/yr for a support contract.
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by melted 11y ago
They also have no monitor though. And I challenge the notion that most people even _need_ a computer outside work.
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by melted 11y ago
Lucky you, VMWare is getting rid of Fusion anyway.
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by melted 11y ago
Yep. That's likely why there are no Skylake MacBook yet.
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by melted 11y ago
You should take your Mac to the store and have them take a look. Or at least run hardware diagnostics. I've been using Macs for well over a decade and in that time I have maybe seen 4-5 crashes total, across multiple laptops and deskto
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by melted 11y ago
They should probably consider using that "static driver verifier" because Surface Pro 4 is crashy as hell.
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by melted 11y ago
Oh, I didn't know companies had to be profitable from day one, I'm sorry. Maybe you should apply for a position of Musk's business development advisor, clearly you know business side of things better than he does. And Tesla i
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by melted 11y ago
Dude has started THREE iconic companies, two of which are in hard-ass, "real engineering" fields that were previously believed to be impenetrable. This is most certainly not a fluke. Henry Ford is nothing to be ashamed of, if you
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by melted 11y ago
If you want to build _strength_ you'll do high weight/low reps. If you want primarily size, you need to have the volume (about 8 reps pre set for most exercises, and 3-5 sets), which could be pretty time consuming.
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by melted 11y ago
Just ask any competitive bodybuilder how to lose fat without losing much muscle and they will tell you about their "cut" diet, cycling, periodization, etc. Some of them (eg Ben Pakulski) work with scientists in fact, and go to rid
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by melted 11y ago
It's trying to tell you that you should be doing pull-ups or chin-ups if you want your upper back to look decent.
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by melted 11y ago
Whoa, a Chrome extension that doesn't require a permission to read everything everywhere. That's something I haven't seen before.
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by melted 11y ago
Absolutely ridiculous price for something most people don't even know about.
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by melted 11y ago
And so do I, along with Reddit and a few other sites. Should probably add HN to the list as well.
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by melted 11y ago
It's only asynchronous is you have willpower, which is finite and easily exhausted, and if there's no expectation of realtime response on the other end, which there nearly always is these days. Whoever comes out with a viable syst
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by melted 11y ago
Apple shot itself (and everybody else) in the foot by making tablets that last forever. My first gen Air sees quite a bit of use, and it's working fine, so I don't see a reason to upgrade. The only thing I wish it had is the finge
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by melted 11y ago
This ignores mountains of evidence that shows realtime, synchronous communication makes you less productive due to reducing (or eliminating) your ability to focus.
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by melted 11y ago
When it comes to evil, Microsoft was as organized as Sheldon Cooper's desk drawers when I worked there. Disclaimer: that was well over a decade ago. Most product discussions (and therefore decisions), for example, were in terms of kill
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by melted 11y ago
This truly must be the second coming of Jesus Christ. Billions of dollars in investment and nothing to publicly show for it yet.
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by melted 11y ago
Because Google Finance is obviously abandonware, and Yahoo Finance has a great iOS (and I assume Android) mobile app.
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by melted 11y ago
So how about them balloons tho? PR train running out of steam already? Starting a new one? Pay no attention to ad revenue behind the curtain.
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by melted 11y ago
My only hope wrt Yahoo is that Yahoo Finance gets sold to someone before the company implodes. It's basically the only top notch, useful site they run.
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by melted 11y ago
Didn't know Microsoft Research web site was served from a potato.
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by melted 11y ago
As someone who has spent almost 20 years (on and off) writing C and C++, I don't believe it. C/C++ lets you go as close to hardware as you would possibly want. Want SIMD? Easy. Want custom memory allocation (a big deal if you allo
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by melted 11y ago
Even Cython will be several times slower than a carefully tuned C/C++, Java, C# or Go program for most practical problems. And at least in the case of C/C++ it'll also likely use several times more RAM. Now for a company like
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by melted 11y ago
TL;DR: Things get faster if you disable validation and parse dates using more specialized code. Duh. It's humorous when someone who presumably cares about performance tells you they use Python. Python is a wonderful language, but perfo

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