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by mwfunk 10y ago
A year ago I would've agreed with you, but lldb seems just as solid these days. I use lldb just about every day in all sorts of oddball, convoluted debugging scenarios, and I just haven't been hitting the issues I used to with it.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
On Xcode nowadays the debugger is lldb, not gdb, but it's a very similar debugger in the sense that it's fundamentally command-line-based. Xcode just happens to integrate with it to provide a GUI front end. There are plenty of nic
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by mwfunk 10y ago
The last 10,000 years (hell, the last 100 years, or even the last 10 years) of societal change would beg to differ!
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Short answer: because it's absurd. People don't have to explain downvotes for conspiracy theories based on peoples' gut feelings/fears/paranoia regarding what's really going on below the visible surface of worl
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Absolutely. That is a valid and empathetic perspective, and one I've heard before through many years of living in the south. I was never able to work up any sympathy for the CSA as a nation, but had a lot of appreciation for the histor
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by mwfunk 10y ago
They almost always are in my experience.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
In my experience, the majority of people who interview at the big tech companies don't get offers. It's not even necessarily because the interviewee made any mistakes, just for whatever reason many companies like that are super pi
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I'm curious about trademark issues WRT the company having the same name as a well-known Nintendo character. IANAL, and I know that the context in which a name is used affects whether or not the name is protected, but I've got to t
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I stand corrected! If /r/Android says it, it must be true.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
If you're getting downvotes (none from me), it's likely from exasperation that anyone is even bringing this up in the first place. Read comment threads on the Verge where people complain about bias- they almost always appear to be
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by mwfunk 10y ago
One of the many weird things about the stock market is that it doesn't really reflect how investors feel about a given company, so much as it reflects how investors are predicting how other investors will feel about a company in the co
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This is all based on highly subjective impressions of course, but in my experience the problem with SV drivers is the opposite of what you're insinuating. If there's a stereotypical SV driver, it's someone who is mellow to th
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by mwfunk 10y ago
We don't know the answer to that, because it would be determined by how much the public trusts technology that doesn't exist yet (at least not in a form ready to be deployed en masse by Uber). And if they did trust it, there'
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by mwfunk 10y ago
At least read Future Shock, IIRC it's a pretty fast read and very focused/concise compared to his followups. The later books (Third Wave and Powershift) were more about taking the fundamentals from Future Shock and extrapolating h
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I think everything on this page is about encouraging reasoning rather than just collecting facts. If someone takes each one as a truism and blindly follows it, then yes, it would turn these mechanisms (which are supposed to help us identify
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Really? Because I know plenty of people in the US who have built cabins in the woods, and they didn't have to ask any hampaters [?] for permission.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It is an additional thing to be concerned about, but the alternative (static linking everywhere) is so much worse! At least, for most (but not all) situations. It's sort of like democracy (or capitalism?): the worst system in the world
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by mwfunk 10y ago
They ought to, or they simply have at least one possible motivation to? IMO just because something is in someone's best interest by one metric doesn't mean that they should take that course of action. I don't have any opini
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by mwfunk 10y ago
This is the truth. The late '90s antitrust case arose after many, many years of what many would consider anticompetitive abuse of market dominance. One example: there were various competitors to MS-DOS and Windows throughout the '
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by mwfunk 10y ago
You're not expected to answer the question, just say "not bad" or "pretty good" and move on.
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Preface: I hate small talk as much as anyone, in part because I'm terrible at it, but also because I just fundamentally don't enjoy conversing for the sake of conversing. Having said that, I've worked with a lot of non-Americ
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by mwfunk 10y ago
The problem I usually have with conspiracy theories is that typically they're not pitched as "what-if" scenarios for people to keep in the backs of their minds as remote possibilities. Typically they're pitched as things
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by mwfunk 10y ago
He's addressing one aspect of AI that can be disturbing to some people, specifically becoming reliant on the expertise of others in your day-to-day life and thus becoming less independent. If your biggest issue with the concept of AI a
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Most likely that's because the application you are using (or the graphics stack it's running on) is not respecting the ICC color profile embedded in the image, and is instead interpreting the pixel values as being in the sRGB colo
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I'm not a fan of Ayn Rand, but I have read some insightful statements from her over the years. The one that has stuck with me the most is the idea that if you don't have a conscious, clearly defined philosophy, then your actions a
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Speaking just for myself, language is thought and thought is language. I've talked to other people about their inner monologues (or lack of one) and everyone has different experiences (or different perceptions of similar experiences, a
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Success hides failure...every company does some things right and some things wrong, but when things are going well it can be very hard to get anyone to acknowledge the wrong things. People can always point to the profits and use that as evi
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It can totally connect the world and help foster dialogue, but the humans using it have to want to connect with other humans and engage in meaningful dialogue with them. Some people do, but most of humanity probably doesn't even realiz
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by mwfunk 10y ago
The idea that there's an inverse relationship between how much someone thinks they know about a subject and how much they actually know is pretty timeless. When people refer to Dunning-Kruger I take it to mean shorthand for that phenom
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It looks like the small- or mid-sized cities on the best list are almost all part of much larger metropolitan areas though. It looks like it's dominated by cities in the Bay Area (including Silicon Valley) and the regions surrounding L

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