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by mwfunk 10y ago
I thought Google Drive did as well, is that not the case?
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It doesn't matter if you agree with their reasoning or not. If someone didn't want you doing something around them and you do it anyway, it's rude behavior.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You don't. Just wait a minute, and they'll tell you (hopefully before a hiring decision is made). :)
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This was actually a much more surprising statistic to me. I've lived and worked in Silicon Valley for almost 10 years now, and I assumed that number was more like <= 1%. It's astonishing to me that 10% of the programmers in the
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This assumes that (a) they need the money and/or (b) they could even do something they want to do with the money that they aren't already doing. I could imagine all sorts of cases where neither of these things are true, and everyt
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Sure it does. There are HDMI adapters.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I don't know why you think the $54T is any less of a scandal. Just because the scope of the situation necessitated a different resolution doesn't mean the whole situation wasn't one of the biggest scandals of my lifetime.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Very true, but you're overlooking the fact that England of the 1700s was in the 1700s.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I wonder how strongly pair programming is correlated with open office plans. Depressing if true, but if pair programming offsets the distraction of open plans, there may be cases where it's more viable for a company to simply hire twic
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It's crazy but true, and it makes perfect sense- Trump said that in the event of a Russian invasion of a NATO member nation, he would consider standing up to Russia and honoring America's NATO obligations, but only if the other al
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Speaking of bygone editors, I still have (very) fond memories of using QEdit (later TSE (The Semware Editor)) in my DOS-centric early '90s larval hacking days. Looks like they still sell it for $45 a pop, I don't think the website
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by mwfunk 10y ago
In a monolithic kernel, the kernel is essentially one giant blob of code in a single address space. A userland process calls into the kernel via a syscall CPU instruction, which is sort of like a function call that also enables transitionin
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Lots of people here are describing interviews (from the perspective of the interviewee) as being an adversarial process, where people have bad experiences because the interviewer is more interested in being intimidating or showing up the in
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That's an opinion. I don't think you could get a random group of 3 AI researchers to agree on what the long term goal is, or if there even is a long term goal as opposed to this simply being a very buzzword- and marketing-friendly
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Same here. I assumed the article would be about someone who discovered the joys of being a night owl. I tend to head to bed around 1 or 2am, but if other life constraints allowed me to stay up later I almost certainly would. Once when I was
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Power is only meaningful to the degree that it gives you independence. Power means nothing except as an escape from powerlessness. It's like money: money can't buy you happiness, but poverty can buy you sadness. Power can't m
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Indeed. I find that the new annoying thing that people do is usually just a variation of the old annoying thing that people used to do. Social media is an enabler perhaps, but annoying people will always find other ways to be just as annoyi
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That's right, police doing temporary crackdowns on this scale, in this manner, and for this purpose is 100% not a good thing. This is not analogous to a speed trap or even DUI checkpoints. Are you saying that you literally can't t
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You clearly are far too young to have ever done this. :)
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by mwfunk 10y ago
No, but originally there were a lot of Apple employees who participated in MacPorts in their spare time, and the project leaders included people from the open source world who were working at Apple. I think that's still the case but pr
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I would put that number closer to 99.9%, if not 99.99%. :)
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You have got to be kidding me. There's a difference between "having a plan" and "planning to do something". National militaries are obligated to have a plan for everything. That doesn't mean the military wants
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Just because you want to argue about politics with people doesn't mean that people want to argue about politics with you! Maybe they do, sometimes, in some contexts, but if the social cues (i.e., downvotes) indicate otherwise, then may
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Some people are both, it's just easier to project bad qualities onto some expressions of pride than others. There are plenty of people for whom their nice car is just a nice car that they enjoy, and there are plenty of people who take
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Political correctness has nothing to do with it. This isn't just idle paranoia, this may be an actual symptom of mental illness if any of this seems remotely, marginally plausible to you, on any level at all whatsoever. Like, the real
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by mwfunk 10y ago
That article is a little misleading- it's actually about podcasters who want them to embrace/extend podcasting itself so that they (the podcasters, not the company) could better monetize podcasts. I can't imagine that the way
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It sounds like he got into it because it piqued his interest so he did a deep dive on the subject. Nothing wrong with that. I will get frustrated with people sometimes for not doing things that they ought to be doing, but I would never sh*t
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I interpreted that as, someday it might yet be a mega hit. It's still a relatively new product that's only had one iteration, and even though it didn't set the world on fire, it didn't bomb either. Most tech companies it
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I agree that the TV-above-the-fireplace thing is insane for exactly the reasons you mentioned, but I fear that the real problem there is that too many homeowners haven't really thought it through and want to do exactly that. :( I can a
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I am all in favor of safety-critical software being open source, but I dislike the argument of forcing the issue by claiming the right to tinker, or really any variation on "I bought it therefore I can do whatever I want to with it&quo

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