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by mlangdon 12y ago
The really messed up part is that the app has basically every permission turned on AND ships with some on-contract phones. So although I had never once opened the app, it was running in the background on an old POS HTC I had. Pretty sure th
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by mlangdon 12y ago
The opposite also applies: don't unplug a sleeping MBP from external displays.
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by mlangdon 12y ago
There's at least a fourth even more removed culture, the plc programmer who is even more pragmatic than the software developer. He cares about the program about as much as the data scientist. It's just there to do the job.
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by mlangdon 12y ago
As somebody who can still only grow a neck beard, I've been trying to get into functional for a while now. Maybe it's because the examples are in python (a non-crazy looking language I've written a lot of lines in), but this
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by mlangdon 12y ago
I just got a pololu zumo robot for prototyping an industrial application at work. My daughter is only 3, but if she were 5-12 it would be a likely gift for her this Christmas. Just snap an arduino uno on top and you are literally off to the
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by mlangdon 12y ago
It seems strange to me they would go on so long about podcasts and really only talk about public radio-ish podcasts. I've been listening to podcasts since the time when it was best described as an on-demand public radio feed. Public Ra
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by mlangdon 12y ago
As the father of a three year old and an English BA holder in his second year professionally programming, I can relate. As someone who inputs on hiring, I would recommend that you become a serial project completer rather than just a starter
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by mlangdon 12y ago
He forgot "German Language capitalization Rules" among his interests.
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by mlangdon 12y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by index use "hints"? Or is this a feature I just haven't stumbled on yet?
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Elegy for a Dead World: A Game About Writing Fiction(kickstarter.com)
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by mlangdon 12y ago
I was thinking the former, but the latter is also of interest. Thanks!
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by mlangdon 12y ago
Can anyone point to something parallel for Python? Python-experienced C-neophyte feeling envious over here.
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by mlangdon 12y ago
I for one appreciate the hard work that was Android and Java. I spent two years intensively self-teaching, primarily on Android before starting my developer job. Having to take in large, unwieldy systems with lots of moving parts was mind e
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by mlangdon 12y ago
Hard to get over just how behind automation is. The big scada platform we use is 'disruptive' (ie cheaper and better than the entrenched players) yet they think we should be happy that the brand new version finally supports half-a
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by mlangdon 12y ago
I'm 33. I learned web basics at 15 (HTML, JS, eventually CSS) and dabbled in that on a personal website till about 25. Meanwhile, I got an English degree, including a single calculus class. At 30, just after the birth of my daughter, e
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by mlangdon 12y ago
My firm does industrial automation consulting. I've seen one of these in the wild at an in-house demo for a furniture manufacturer and we have an auto parts supplier who is looking at using them in production. They seem to have a ludic
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by mlangdon 12y ago
As long as we're looking for free stuff, my email is in my profile, if someone is incline to unburden themselves of a friend spot.
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by mlangdon 12y ago
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by mlangdon 12y ago
I love the 'try quora' advice. 'Not enjoying running our gauntlet? Maybe trying swimming in this rain filled dumpster? I wouldn't.'
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by mlangdon 12y ago
As is usually mentioned on the "Take my SO, please" discussions on HN, there is a site for that[1], which I usually forget about when I have that type of question. [1] http://www.slant.co
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by mlangdon 12y ago
This is the fundamental problem that forces me to come back to SO and face the snark, though admittedly less and less. Having such a limited understanding of a new (to me) problem niche that I don't even know what words to search with.
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by mlangdon 12y ago
There's all manner of totalitarianism-lite in the US. This is not likely one of them. Its a safer bet that this was handled directly by mail/phone/email without involving an actual court. Legal threat under possibly enforceab
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by mlangdon 12y ago
Maybe I have too much fun in my jobby job, but it would be tough to pull off entry-level dev pay (50k-ish in the US Midwest) at this level and probably not as fun as some regular jobs with minimal skin in the game. Plus (again if US) you&#x
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by mlangdon 13y ago
Complete Automation Resource ( http://completear.com ) Rockford, MI (near Grand Rapids), not remote, but frequent work-from-home opportunities Developers, PLC programmers, Controls Engineers We do industrial integration, meaning w
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by mlangdon 13y ago
You're not allowed to "other than that" preexisting conditions. I'm one and the ACA means I got to quit my shitty telesales job and take a no-insurance-provided-at-a-small-company first software development job. There ar
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by mlangdon 13y ago
This sort of thing could be useful. I like the format. Not wild about code explanations with 5 clause sentences. This kind of mental juggling is what I love about programming and reading David Foster Wallace, but the writer(s) of the app do
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by mlangdon 13y ago
Leave it to the WSJ to blame a problem that needs old school trust-busting on excess regulation. They've got libertarian rabies.
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by mlangdon 13y ago
I feel like I need wages for putting up with that UI for 30 seconds.
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by mlangdon 13y ago
13" Macbook pro 4gb ram/256 SSD, usually with 24 inch LCD attached. Eclipse for Java/Android. XCode for iOS. Sublime Text for everything else (Python mostly).
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by mlangdon 13y ago
As someone who helps recruit developers for my company and has input on hiring decisions, I would find a high SO rank (say 10k plus) to be a cause for skepticism at this point. Certainly not a disqualifier, but not at all a positive mark as

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