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by mwfj 9y ago
Answering myself: According to Glassdoor: Software Engineer: 20k USD/year Senior Software Engineer: 24k USD/year Principal Engineer: 29k USD/year ( https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/HTC-Taipei-Salaries-EI_I
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by mwfj 9y ago
Hi Zack, This headline made me think that Cloudflare had finally done what I first assumed Akamai did back in the noughties, before I learned they didn't really have magic tech. :/ Anyway: here's some indirect feedback. It do
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by mwfj 9y ago
My guess: Star Citizen will eventually raise 500M USD. No full game resembling the original promises will ever be delivered. The "investors" will keep saying that with just a little more time, things will be perfect
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by mwfj 9y ago
-1 Off-topic. (I just explained why Lego is expensive. Nothing else.)
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by mwfj 9y ago
Ok, back to non-smiley world: Yes. I hope so. Too.
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AT&T Archives – The Viewtron System and Sceptre Videotex Terminal (1983)(youtube.com)
1 points by mwfj 9y ago|0 comments
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by mwfj 9y ago
I first realized Javascript/Frontend/client developers were a danger to society about 10 years ago. We were trying to figure out why some particular, quite globally popular web site did not work when transcoded in our Opera Mini t
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by mwfj 10y ago
I know you're probably just looking to replace DMOZ, and build something vast in scope/size. But please keep the idea I posted yesterday in mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13802555 Somewhat ironically&#
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by mwfj 10y ago
I miss the 1996-1997 type web sites. Ads and money has changed the web so much. I recently had the idea to start a like 1994-style Yahoo-style web site that only links to sites which fulfill these conditions: a) they have a lot of quality c
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by mwfj 10y ago
I guess their bizarre thinking is something along the lines of: "unless we have proof that noone can access the service, we won't change the indicator from green to yellow. Seriously: I don't understand why you guys stay wi
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by mwfj 10y ago
It's also $18 and closed-source. You might have wanted to disclose that since I mentioned free/open. Just saying.
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by mwfj 10y ago
There's so much selling in this post I get tired just by reading it.
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by mwfj 10y ago
They would operate a virtual machine-type layer on top of their actual linux machines. In the upper layer they could be doing whatever..
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by mwfj 10y ago
That doesn't say anything about the servers timezones. SMTP is a service on top of those.
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by mwfj 10y ago
There is really not a shortage of open source high quality C64 emulators. Does this one bring anything unique to the table?
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by mwfj 11y ago
No. According to this document, there is always at least as much encryption with this proxy enabled as it is without.
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by mwfj 11y ago
They are pricing themselves out of the market for traffic-intensive small-fish operations that way though.
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by mwfj 11y ago
Tables? Frames? That stuff didn't exist in 1993. (Tables first arrived in Mosaic 2.0 Alpha 8 in December 1994, according to http://www.barrypearson.co.uk/articles/layout_tables/history... )
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by mwfj 11y ago
Most use cases or apps don't deal well with read latencies in the thousands of seconds... From quickly reading the source code; it doesn't do any particularly clever optimizations. I'd file this in the "IP over pigeons&q
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Japan’s 105-Hour Workweek(roadsandkingdoms.com)
71 points by mwfj 11y ago|46 comments
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by mwfj 11y ago
And they even named their product in a way so that people could understand what it is about! That is so unlike them!
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by mwfj 11y ago
This can be generalised. It is also one of my favorite ways of doing developer interviews. Do they have a working/in-depth knowledge of what keeps the inter webs running? So many people have never ventured out of their main competence
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by mwfj 11y ago
It is possible to use something for a long time and still be aware of its shortcomings. (I have been using emacs since 1996.)
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by mwfj 11y ago
Emacs is nice. But it's also a fractal of bad usability design. :/
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by mwfj 12y ago
You know, in case you are working on any competing BASIC for some hot new microcomputer coming into the market later this year.
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Ecuador has received an asylum request from Snowden(twitter.com)
10 points by mwfj 13y ago|2 comments