mquander

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by mquander 9y ago
Yeah, actually I'm the same age as you and I did most of my talking over IM too then, so my comment was poorly made. The spirit of my comment was "in a way you could have done it in 2000, whichever you prefer", e.g. email, ph
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by mquander 9y ago
For example Hangouts makes me lose at least half a hour of productity a day but if I uninstalled it and never checked it then I would never talk to all of my friends on Hangouts which is not a trade-off that I am willing to take. A lot of
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by mquander 9y ago
It would be nice if our culture taught people how to be happy with less expensive things, since it's kind of a waste from a utilitarian point of view if a multi-millionaire is spending all of their money on giant houses they live in on
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by mquander 9y ago
You are just naming a bunch of things and then assigning arbitrary numbers which you could possibly spend on those things, if you really loved spending money. I am your exact demographic target audience, and I and my partner spend on the or
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by mquander 9y ago
I and all my VR startup coworkers used Blades (mostly 14", a few 17") as daily drivers for the past year (since the 14" ones are one of the few non-huge laptops that can run a Rift) and we are basically all happy with them, s
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by mquander 9y ago
No it shouldn't. The entire liquid stock market exists to make it possible for people to identify incorrect prices and make money by correcting them.
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by mquander 9y ago
Indeed, if you expect intelligent people to follow stupid rules, you need to be sure to give them a lot of "morale".
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by mquander 9y ago
What is the sad admission here? That not everyone establishes 100% of their belief system from first principles, and instead adopts some of it empirically based on other reasoners' beliefs? I don't consider that a bug. If I don&#x
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by mquander 9y ago
> Of course our kids need to do their chores and homework. Citation needed.
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by mquander 9y ago
You don't think that the company's algorithm for hiring your coworkers tells you much about whether to take the position? That's almost literally the most important thing I know how to find out during an interview.
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by mquander 9y ago
I don't think it feels like satire since it sounds like a fun game? I'm actually astonished that I never played a game in this family before.
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by mquander 9y ago
Is the built-in Firefox "tracking protection" feature not as good as Safari at this?
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by mquander 9y ago
I don't think it's true that everyone seems happy with this. In the past 10 years culture has shifted dramatically towards encapsulating and minimizing JS state (modules, moving away from imperative jQuery code and toward MVC, Rea
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by mquander 9y ago
Hey, my grandparent comment clearly instructed you to email me responses, not post them here. Now you go ahead and "send" me this response, but you don't even email me a copy, i.e. do not follow instructions. Clear no hire.
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by mquander 9y ago
I'm sure he could have done a better job communicating to the recruiter. You could tell he was slightly irritated, and maybe somehow he could have figured out a different framing that the recruiter would understand. (But note that at t
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by mquander 9y ago
Verbatim exchange: Thanks for the quick response and clarifications. Experience with Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems is largely transferrable thanks to the standardization that resulted from the POSIX specification. As a result
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by mquander 9y ago
Whether or not it's surprising is immaterial to whether or not it's good.
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by mquander 9y ago
I sympathize. The new kid-targeted stuff is strange and I would be pretty weirded out to see my kid obsessed with it, that's for sure.
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by mquander 9y ago
I spent a lot of the decade of the 90s having the best times of my life immersing myself in video games and the Internet, and looking back it seems to me like I'm the better for it. I think it should rightfully be heartbreaking to deny
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by mquander 9y ago
New hardware is coming -- the next iteration is going to be wireless, inside-out tracked headsets and hand tracking, and it's going to be here in 2018. It's not on the shelves yet, but the prototypes work.
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by mquander 9y ago
Given that they said explicitly that the bot invented all of its behavior for itself from scratch, it seems more likely to me that it did so.
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by mquander 9y ago
You know, the tech industry has a lot of people on the autism spectrum, and not everyone has hardware-accelerated mind modules to identify non-verbal forms of discomfort in realtime. Nor do I think that should be a hard job requirement for
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by mquander 9y ago
Is there some reason you are excluding mounting the Leap camera on the front of your headset?
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by mquander 9y ago
That's not really rare in Go.
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by mquander 9y ago
There's nothing that would prohibit maintaining a Backbone or Knockout app (or just one written with a bunch of non-spaghetti-code jQuery) today, and it's hard to say that any other choice for writing a piece of software with a GU
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by mquander 9y ago
It does? That attacker made off with 0 ETH. Admittedly they made off with some ETC.
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by mquander 9y ago
The different currency is the Ethereum users. That's what Ethereum is for, stuff like this.
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by mquander 9y ago
Really? What about tabloids? What about Rush Limbaugh? What about Bill O'Reilly? A shitload of people consumed primarily absurdly terrible news sources before they were on the Internet.
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by mquander 9y ago
Sure, the idea is that now it's easy to mint your own currency to do stuff with. That wasn't so easy before! So Kik is minting a currency to serve as Weird Premium Kik Points, and GameCredits is minting a currency that you get by
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by mquander 9y ago
Except this isn't actually happening in practice. I am yet to see any "new kinds of decentralized applications", just toy applications that have no practical purpose besides internet roulette So, uh, how about all those ERC

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