mreiland

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by mreiland 12y ago
Just a few days ago I had someone from Cox call me up out of the blue to ask me how I liked their service and to tell me about some of their other services. But first they wanted to verify they were speaking to the correct person. I refuse
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by mreiland 12y ago
RAII is about resources, not memory. If you don't want to tie memory lifetime to object lifetime then don't. That's the entire point of things like smart pointers. That's exactly the issue SFML had. This idea that RAI
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by mreiland 12y ago
You don't have to tie resource lifetime to object lifetime, that's the mistake the SFML folks made.
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by mreiland 12y ago
Everyone understands the limitations of FM radio, it is absolutely not a user experience issue for phones to enable this.
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by mreiland 12y ago
beat out? Discoverability is what the person is talking about, and it would indeed improve discoverability.
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by mreiland 12y ago
That's reality. The truth is you never know. I'm a fairly large man and I've been told on multiple occasions that people were intimidated by me the first time they met me. That affects things like interviews. Fair? Maybe
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by mreiland 12y ago
Not if those projects/SDK's have to interface with C, but that's just the reality.
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by mreiland 12y ago
I'm not a game developer, but I experienced something similar to that when playing around with SFML. Their texture objects adhere to RIAA, so copy constructors will copy the texture from GPU memory to main memory, copy it to another l
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by mreiland 12y ago
I use a samba share, it works a treat and in the 3-4 years I've been running it I've never had much maintenance on it outside of the occasional update to the OS.
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by mreiland 12y ago
I've heard MS found bugs in the hardware, so it was probably a good decision.
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by mreiland 12y ago
> The reason every one of my friends from high school went to war is because they wanted to. "wanted to" The thing about being young is that your perspective is fairly narrow. It takes time and experience for your perspective
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by mreiland 12y ago
Really good read, thanks for posting.
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by mreiland 12y ago
Json coupled with HTTP verbs should do just fine. Is there something you're needing that won't be served with this? federation of some sort perhaps?
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by mreiland 12y ago
I agree with you in that it's the doctor's irresponsibility. But you know they're human too, and the path of least resistance is still the path of least resistance. That and they're a product of their education.
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by mreiland 12y ago
As someone who leaps in and out of both Operating Systems on a daily basis, it really isn't that difficult. The thing you have to watch out for is how well your tech stack is supported. If I know I'm supporting Windows I will not
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by mreiland 12y ago
"If I had been a man, would it have mattered what I was wearing?". The answer is yes. Welcome to reality, have a nice day.
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by mreiland 12y ago
That's how I perceive Craigslist. And by no means do I avoid Craigslist. I've purchased plenty of things off of it ranging from coffee tables to what I lovingly call my "man couch" to the occasional video game. But wher
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by mreiland 12y ago
The thing about passive aggressive pricks is that they're not typically violent. That's WHY they're passive aggressive pricks.
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by mreiland 12y ago
plus I don't trust Craigslist, but I won't give a moments thought to purchasing anything from Amazon or from a 3rd party through amazon. And yes, paying an extra 10% is ABSOLUTELY. FUCKING. WORTH IT. It's exactly like payin
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by mreiland 12y ago
I worked on a VB.Net project once and went to use LINQ... I was blown away by the lambda syntax. I get the need for it from a parsing perspective, but my god.
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by mreiland 12y ago
my critique of new authors is more along the lines of how blatant they in their characterizations. I don't think I've ever read a book and thought "this person is just too long winded". Well, that's not true. Jule
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by mreiland 12y ago
I get the idea in general, but you know sometimes you bring that outsider in for knowledge you don't have in-house. I'm a full stack developer, but I'll be the first to tell you I don't have a deep knowledge of any RDB
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by mreiland 12y ago
if they're looking you up on the internet they've gone past finding a reason to chunk your resume.
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by mreiland 12y ago
My hope is that it will somehow allow me to stop dealing with the walled garden aspect of ebooks.
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by mreiland 12y ago
I think that's somewhat true of me. I'm still apt to argue and discuss until the cows come home, but I have to evaluate the other person first to determine if it's worth the emotional effort. You never know if you're arg
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by mreiland 12y ago
> I'd like to broaden something out to make a meta-point, though, because none of that explains why mreiland was so deliberate about ignoring you. In some sense, the conversation is about the right to write someone off. It's a
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by mreiland 12y ago
I specifically replied to a comment roughly stating that part of the issue with HN is people who choose option i) by stating I choose option i) and I do it fairly quickly because I have better things to do with my time than give everyone an
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by mreiland 12y ago
I would also mention looking at what you do to satsify your natural inclinations. I myself am very goal oriented. I always have to feel as if I'm moving forward on something. It took me years to realize what I enjoy most about games
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by mreiland 12y ago
If anything throwawaymaroon should be commended for attempting to spend time I'm not willing to spend on explaining it to Zeno (and I think throwawaymaroon understands my thinking). I get what you're saying, but it wasn't fai
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by mreiland 12y ago
What I like to tell people is this: If you have to tell me what my position/argument/opinion is, chances are you're involved in a strawman. In particular, I responded to someone complaining about people who dismiss others eas

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