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by noarchy 12y ago
Here in Canada, I cannot advertise myself as a professional engineer without an engineering license. I'm not saying that this is the way things should be done, mind you, but being an engineer is a legal distinction in some places.
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Several users reporting ‘bricked’ Nexus 7 devices following Lollipop OTA updates(9to5google.com)
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by noarchy 12y ago
>We always talk about security theatre like it only happens at airports, but I see lots of it in regular companies as well. Excel spreadsheets, shared across the network, that contain all important company passwords - I've seen it a
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by noarchy 12y ago
Much slower, indeed. You don't have to introduce a very large file before Atom starts to crawl. And good luck executing a search on such a file. I like the look and feel of Atom quite a bit, though, and I'm hopeful that the perfor
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by noarchy 12y ago
The problem is, those title are just that - arbitrary. I've seen "senior" or "lead" developers with less than five years of experience. I don't necessarily have a problem with that if they're really that
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by noarchy 12y ago
Sounds like you haven't been crippled by Agile for these past five years. Meaning, no middleman (perhaps one with some sort of Agile "certification") has been gumming up the works. This article read like it was written by a d
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by noarchy 12y ago
The first clue I have to there being a problem is that this is the first time I've heard of Google Helpouts. I use a wide assortment of Google products, but never heard a thing about this one.
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by noarchy 12y ago
Even with years of experience in a given language under your belt, heading into a new job and facing a new set of frameworks can lead to issues. It isn't quite like starting from zero again, but you have re-learn how to do the most tri
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SOE Acquired, Becomes Daybreak Game Company(gamesindustry.biz)
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by noarchy 12y ago
>Ahh, to be 25 and single again. Trust me by the time you're 35 and have kids you'll have a different sense of what's important. Your kids will be your sunshine but also your responsibility. Early retirement, living on a c
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by noarchy 12y ago
>They did subsidize a number of major apps that come over to BlackBerry. Subsidized, and even subsequently outsourced development to other companies, though I realize this isn't necessarily unusual. It just isn't made public.
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by noarchy 12y ago
It is trivial to find systems where you can assign specific people to review code, of course. Plenty exist. But to guarantee that they truly read a line of code, rather than skimmed/scrolled through it? Even if they paused their scro
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by noarchy 12y ago
>is that actually a thing? Do people ever actually blindly accept pull requests? Speaking only for myself, I've seen it with internal git repos at companies that have some name recognition. Obviously they'd never want it known
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by noarchy 12y ago
Do we know if they do code review? Are pull requests blindly accepted?
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by noarchy 12y ago
I've noticed the number of articles on "mincome" or "basic income" ramping up quite a bit in places like reddit, and to a lesser extent on HN. I don't necessarily have a problem with this, but are there groups
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by noarchy 12y ago
I don't upvote many articles. From time to time during the day I go through the "new" articles, and I'll upvote a few articles that I'd like to see on the front page. They usually relate to programming or general sc
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by noarchy 12y ago
Agreed. I don't see why that comment, in particular, got killed. I think some groupthink was at work, in that case. This is an unfortunate trend on HN.
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by noarchy 12y ago
>I feel for you. As a Mormon who has been on missions to Korea, I can without a doubt say they are the most gullible people on the planet. They believe in some crazy stuff. "My superstition isn't crazy, but theirs is."
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by noarchy 12y ago
And what if I have an encrypted phone? Can I be compelled to turn over my password? Or my thumbprint? If I use the equivalent of a dead man's switch that wipes my phone if law enforcement tries unsuccessfully to get in, what then? Ther
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by noarchy 12y ago
Abstracting away the file system seems to be a "feature" of iOS.
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by noarchy 12y ago
The HN Pedantry Patrol never misses a chance to strike.
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by noarchy 12y ago
I'm not too worried about this. People who actually use git on a day-to-day basis shouldn't have any such misunderstanding. They may not even use GitHub for such work (I know I don't).
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by noarchy 12y ago
If you don't live along Ottawa's Transitway, though, your experience may be quite different. It is popular for Ottawans to beat up on OCTranspo. With all of that said, it will be interesting to see how the LRT changes things. Righ
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by noarchy 12y ago
>Git provides most of the infrastructure answers. I think the idea that someone would host a personal website in future is slightly backwards. Just clone their website's public repo and browse locally. Are you also assuming that Git
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by noarchy 12y ago
That is also the understanding that some startups have of 'cool startup culture'. Usually you have to at least throw in a ping pong table, too.
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by noarchy 12y ago
If we're talking about LinkedIn messages, it is easy to shrug those off. You can either ignore them, or fire off a quick reply to tell them you aren't interested. What is outrageous, on the other hand, is receiving calls at a work
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by noarchy 12y ago
I think you have a point about the entitlement that tech workers have. This is a problem that many would kill to have. We should keep that in mind. As years pass, though, it is easy to get snarky about the nonsense that passes for recruitin
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by noarchy 12y ago
You're stuck with them only if you don't build good networks. This doesn't happen overnight, but over time, you should be able to get a heads-up on new opportunities without having to deal with recruiters. Most recruiters are
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by noarchy 12y ago
By "its" do you mean the "public" or the US government? These are the government's laws, and it enforces those laws on said public.
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by noarchy 12y ago
>Why does exercising your constitutional right for legal do process make you an asshole? It doesn't, of course. There are those, however, who are under the mistaken impression that all parking tickets that are issued are justified.

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