mighty_bander

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by mighty_bander 7y ago
There's actually a long and interesting history of tools which abstract away the text editing involved in code. Microsoft in particular has consistently produced visual tools to build code - usually, but not always, specialized to som
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
That's the most fun I've had in days. Thank you!
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
My bad, there's a drop two years after the source I looked at. Seems like the problem is international. So I guess the question is: what can we do about it?
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
What about Canada? The United States has traded with us to great profit for both parties, but you could hardly call that a subsidy.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Glad to live in Canada. As of 2016, life expectancy was nearly four years ahead of the US, and trending in the right direction.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
I'm ashamed to say I horrifiedly read that entire thing without getting it, although that did grant me the opportunity to read it again from a whole new perspective. Funny stuff. That was awesome.
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by mighty_bander 7y ago
Usually, when reading about Georgia, a glance at the article provides enough context to determine whether it's about the American state or the former Soviet bloc nation. Not in this case, it would seem.
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by mighty_bander 8y ago
My God, the people on this thread. There are people out there, working as software "engineers," who think that if they can't personally find a vuln in 5 seconds, the system must be secure. How is this #1 on the site right n
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by mighty_bander 8y ago
If you're ever running this, and you've left it open to a LAN or the internet, your entire system is vulnerable for use in whatever way someone wants. There are bots looking for stuff like this all the time.
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by mighty_bander 8y ago
Ugh. I know a lot of people who went to electrical or mechanical engineering and wound up doing software, and the pay's better. I might focus on embedded work, or math maybe, because this web dev world full of bright-eyed, bushy-taile
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by mighty_bander 8y ago
I've seen this same opinion, and similar ones, posted across a lot of the boards I like to visit. Social media can probably be done right, but not by dragging people into an advertising market like facebook does. I have come to the co
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by mighty_bander 8y ago
If you were a bad actor or a member of a group with malicious intent, how could you abuse or circumvent the policy you have just proposed? This editor is either a front or insane, but a hundred edits to an article on the subject of one&#x2
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by mighty_bander 8y ago
Well, we started prioritizing code cleanliness over everything else and throwing away good tooling because it was old. Blocking performance optimizations because they're "unmaintainable," or just not thinking about resource
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
I was hired by my current employer following a take-home coding challenge. I consider the experience very positive, and it has allowed us to hire skilled developers. However, I notice a few differences between my experience and those of p
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
I visit a few forums that are extremely slow. I recommend it. There's a stronger local culture to these places, since you can get to know individual posters, whether by username or style. There's more room for slow, drawn-out c
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
> It would therefore be both hypocritical and meaningless to go through the comments looking for embarrassments. But also fun, so let's go. This is going to be awesome.
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
Both of those studies also had tiny sample sizes, so sure enough we know nothing. But instead of discounting potentially valid research, just look at it critically. You won't always be able to tell but all of these are so bad as to b
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
Also, despite this they still didn't manage to prove anything. Their own data shows that ALL objective scores - sleep deprived, men, women, etc. are within one standard deviation of each other. This is so obviously bad that I am tempt
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
It costs me about 600 dollars a month to commute to work where I live. So yes, if push came to shove, I would take a hit roughly equivalent to that, all else being equal. I might even go above that, because I greatly value working from ho
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
The difference between a local variable and a function argument is that altering the argument has an effect outside the function, and that the effect is invisible in that calling the function doesn't tell you that it will change the ar
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
> 2017 > Arguing flippantly
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
I think this is satire. If it is, it's damned good. If not, it's at worst practical.
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
The WeWork environment is a nightmare. Fishtank offices, music they must buy by the MB blasted all over the place... and they charge as much as a nice private office in some corner of a larger business. All to be surrounded by hipsters wi
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
While I agree that it's better not to be rude to people, I think it's common for intelligent people to become impatient when forced to share their understanding in what is to them excruciating detail. It is correct to overcome th
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
The article points out the damage that being an Alice can cause - some people (most people, really) are affected by the way others treat them, so when you are right, and someone else is wrong (and you are certain of that ;) ) you can add a
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
And a little bit below the quoted text, it states that the manager is responsible for determining the bounty for the task - for the worker, the evaluator and him/herself . I can't imagine that working very well.
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
Recently I had a series of unfortunate plumbing mishaps at my home that set me back a bunch of money. I did very minimal google searching (just confirming the spelling of the plumber's name), but ads offering emergency home loans have
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
But will they be tried as adults? That is the question.
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
Sadly this is such a fraught subject that it's difficult to have a reasonable discussion of it. Two camps are definitely present, and seem to be concerned primarily with stamping one another out. I would cite examples, but it would ge
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by mighty_bander 9y ago
You'll find a lot of people of all ages that get lost in the problem instead of considering the cost/benefit and going with a good compromise between cheap and "perfect." Of course you'll also find a lot of kids who

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