mkaziz

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by mkaziz 11y ago
I would pay 15 pounds for a life-changing book, but not for my next pulp fantasy. That's just way too much, especially when the paper book costs around the same or less.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
How did that end up working out for you? I've been thinking about such a pivot, but am concerned that my lack of domain knowledge would make it not worthwhile to pursue. Do you have any pros and cons to share?
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Reading this made me really sad. The organization's response was straight up unjust. They should've ejected the male speaker and prevented him from attending the conference at all.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Yeesh, I pay $50 to Comcast for 25mbps in northside Chicago. :(
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by mkaziz 11y ago
I disagree. Dictatorships aren't about single dictators, they're about institutions that lead to the rise of dictatorships. For example in Egypt, Mubarak is gone, but there is another general in place and nothing has changed. Inst
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by mkaziz 11y ago
With the support of the people? Do you realize Zimbabwe has a dictatorship?
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Which "The Seventh Horcrux" did you mean? I noticed at least two with a quick google search.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Imagine what they must have said 300 years ago about landing on the moon!
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by mkaziz 11y ago
How did that work for you? Isn't skype screenshare super laggy for a movie? What about audio?
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by mkaziz 11y ago
BackboneJS is a really well-written library, even if it's now beginning to lose popularity. The source code is small enough that it should be easy to read and understand within a few weeks.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Having the top of the monitor at eye level allows you to look down at the entire screen (which is what I understood to mean having the monitor at eye level).
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Depends on how colloquial you get. For fornal/poetic use, they are vastly different.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
The article barely even mentioning India, except when touching some immediate, flaring confrontation with Pakistan. And why are you even bringing Hindu religion into the discussion?
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Twitter doesn't hog that much data.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
I got offered 60k-65k as a web dev at three different companies in Chicagoland. 2 were C# consulting shops, a third was an android/ios dev shop. This was 2 years ago now.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Wow this article is ridiculously biased - it reads like a press release from Zenefits.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
To your last point: Evolution is prone to local maximums. We evolved to think beyond them.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
I would love and/or keywords. Eg. I'd like to find a job in Chicago for either C# or django work.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
How successful were the developers that got chewed out? :)
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by mkaziz 11y ago
First paragraph on the top comment is very representative: "The only problem is that you have to install something. See, it's not the same as USB drive. Most corporate laptops are locked and you can't install anything on them
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Oh wow, the cynical comments are just too much. That certainly gave me some perspective!
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Hence the fancy "click if not a robot" captcha. :)
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Unless the poor have 9-5 jobs too - then they're screwed.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
It sounds like if you open source the code, you could get some pull requests pretty easily.
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by mkaziz 11y ago
Those evil invading Anglo-Saxons immigrated to the lower half of Britannia and now rule the entire island. Why, they even have the gall to name part of it Angle-land!
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by mkaziz 11y ago
That last comment didn't make sense. Why throw in the iPhone mention for no reason?
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by mkaziz 11y ago
That's not to say they did.
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by mkaziz 12y ago
I happen to be an INFJ :D
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by mkaziz 12y ago
Star Wars!
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by mkaziz 12y ago
I think it seems more a TwitchPlaysPokemon approach to software.

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