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by mwfunk 7y ago
If you don't care about it, can you even imagine how much other people don't care about you not caring about it? Seriously. And if you think it's silly to point that out, you're the one posting in a thread about how you
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by mwfunk 7y ago
No, that’s the whole point of advertising. Writing is about communicating ideas in good faith, otherwise I’m not interested.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
That just makes it sound like your company has terrible recruiting. If it's not true, you're creating your own problems. If it is true, get out, obviously.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I agree, some of the negativity I'm seeing about 1:1's seems to come from 1:1's not being useful, or even being a negative thing, but the person complaining about it seems to put all the blame on the other person in the 1:1.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
He's also saying that because he didn't know about them, they must not be well known, which isn't a great way to make a point.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
A quick Googling suggested that 25% of them don't have dishwashers. I don't know if that number is accurate, but 25% would be a lot more than I would have expected too.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
That's not Creationism though. Creationism really is, there is no evolution and everything was created as is. You can have a Creator but not have Creationism- that's basically what I was taught when raised as a Christian (Genesis
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if most people using PHIGS/PEX in 1989 were doing visualization for scientific computing on workstations, and any UI or graphics was an afterthought compared to the number crunching code that was generating
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by mwfunk 7y ago
IMO that probably has more to do with changes in your own reading habits or maturity level vs. 5-7 years ago. As toxic and ridiculous as any sort of electronic forum can get, I don't think it's any different now than it was on Use
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by mwfunk 7y ago
If you think that's crazy, try stealing a car or assaulting someone! Those darned government oppressors, always keeping us down with their taxes and laws and stuff. Who do they think they are anyway, the government?!?
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It's not a "these days" thing, "C-x" has been around for as long as there's been an Emacs, which is longer than you've been using "^".
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I don’t know if that comparison was intended to make China look bad, but that comment makes China look bad.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Seriously. The use of the term "opposition" here makes it sound like vaccinations are things people can have subjective opinions about. It's like having a dissenting opinion on 1+1=2 or voicing ones opposition to the sky bein
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Oh no, not ethics! Next thing you know it’ll have morals.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
And yet it’s the 5th largest economy in the world.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Even if everything you wrote is 100% true (and I think it is), that's all tangential. The point is that nobody should be curling anything in a login script, not "HAHA DERP BSD BETTER". People having emotional reactions as if
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by mwfunk 7y ago
For TIFF (and most formats) that's heavily dependent on if you're talking about implementing a reader or a writer for the format. TIFF readers need to handle JPEG streams, so in that sense implementing a general purpose TIFF reade
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Yeah. I love HN and many of the thoughts expressed on it, but if there's one thing that always jumps out at me as being an incredibly widely held cognitive bias in the tech community, it's a tendency to view certain things in a ve
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Medical ethics cares? Anyone who possess humanity and ethics and morals care? Maybe you don't care, but if so, you're a very different kind of person than I am, with very different values (or a lack of values) that I don't re
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by mwfunk 7y ago
“Linux/GNU” is a new one. Not sure if it’s a typo or a troll, but if the latter, it’s a pretty decent troll if such a thing exists? If it’s a typo, geez dude. You’re going to give RMS an aneurysm.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
As far as classes go, if I’m interviewing someone fresh out of college (or current students looking for internships), it does make a difference what classes they took. That’s somewhat specific to what I do professionally though. Pretty much
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by mwfunk 7y ago
You don’t say congratulations to newlyweds because they overcame adversity and conquered something, you say congratulations to newlyweds because that’s the customary way of communicating to them that you are happy for them. Like so many thi
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by mwfunk 7y ago
IMO it's the other way around, AR is a special case of VR. To make an AR system, you need to basically do all the work involved in making a VR system, then somehow integrate it with a video feed of the outside world, then convincingly
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by mwfunk 7y ago
You're thinking of the game from Steve Jackson Games, in the early '80s. Later on they made Car Wars, then GURPS, and Munchkin, among lots of other stuff. IIRC it was a science fiction wargame with hex maps and counters, about tan
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by mwfunk 7y ago
That was really what I was wondering about, it sounded strange to me but that's the bubble I'm in. Different industries or different countries might have very different norms surrounding this kind of thing. In my bubble, you have
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Yep. And if it’s truly an unknown, you have to assume the worst, it does no one any good to assume the best.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Bugs are inevitable in software, the best anyone can do is try to minimize them. I don’t know any companies that would fire someone for introducing a regression unless it was from malice, or a level of carelessness indistinguishable from ma
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I always thought it was from nimbyism, but that's an assumption. The biggest resistance to new housing or denser housing in an area that already contains housing often comes from residents who think it'll decrease their property v
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by mwfunk 7y ago
This makes me think part of the problem with tech debt is that it means different things to different people. Some people might describe it as a codebase just not keeping up with this month's latest and greatest JS frameworks, but I th
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That's how I think about it, and that's hopefully how a lot of people think about it, but I suspect for most people that's not true. For a lot of people debt isn't nearly as scary as it ought to be, and the idea of, inst

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