novagameco

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by novagameco 2y ago
I don't think math is going out of business
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by novagameco 2y ago
I worked for a large company and started seeing opportunities for automation immediately. I proposed some solutions to my boss, and he told me that he agreed that these tasks could be automated, but that we have 10,000 other tasks that coul
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by novagameco 2y ago
But it's not a Macintosh; it's a Raspberry Pi emulating a Macintosh
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by novagameco 2y ago
Rights must be negated, not affirmed
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by novagameco 2y ago
Why do they not have that right?
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by novagameco 2y ago
Or take an old laptop and use as a seedbox
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by novagameco 2y ago
You don't have to download all files in the torrent. Most torrent clients support partial downloads and you would only seed those parts. The main concern would be that you would be undoubtedly distributing copyrighted material
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by novagameco 2y ago
I think there's a middle ground between taking a job that pays almost nothing and taking a high paying job that kills you. You can just take less money to do something you can tolerate more. Unfortunately, the European economy has been
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by novagameco 2y ago
Did the laptop not have any kind of serial port to write to?
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by novagameco 2y ago
Teaching barely pays the bills (for some, it doesn't pay them at all), and the most you could hope to be at a university is an adjunct professor.
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by novagameco 2y ago
Cmake is pretty standard so windows users could just generate their own project files. But I mean not using .bat files or the command prompt like it's 2001. Powershell scripts are more common with Windows developers these days and is a
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by novagameco 2y ago
Pet peeve: when people who haven't used Windows in 20 years write build instructions on Windows that still use the command prompt or just tell you to download MSYS or something
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by novagameco 2y ago
Personally I wish work hours were more flexible. I would be happy cutting my pay in half if I only had to work 20 hours a week.
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by novagameco 2y ago
A task manager application which tells you how much memory your applications are using
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Ask HN: Has anyone quit programming and switched to a passion field?
10 points by novagameco 2y ago|24 comments
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by novagameco 2y ago
Do you think that "real" systems programming only occurs at the kernel level?
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by novagameco 2y ago
The Windows APIs like types more than POSIX, which likes to use integers for everything (though windows uses handles a lot) Also The Windows API pattern is typically: 1. Initialize a "descriptor" struct 2. Pass that descriptor str
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by novagameco 2y ago
you can download MS documentation via visual studio installer. Under "Individual Components", it's called "Help viewer"
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by novagameco 2y ago
My dad bought a fridge from them a couple years before they went bankrupt. When he had issues with it he tried to claim the warranty but got a whole runaround. He declared to me that he would never buy from sears again probably 3 years afte
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by novagameco 2y ago
At my last company, managers success was defined by their reports success, so if we didn't achieve our KPIs by the end of the quarter, my manager would say "You worked really hard this quarter, and I want to make sure you get your
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by novagameco 3y ago
It's only available with Mono?
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by novagameco 3y ago
I want a flexible native UI framework without it requiring me to use a custom programming language
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by novagameco 3y ago
You may be able to expose a language server port via docker, but personally I make sure all my docker-deployed projects can still run on a local machine before running in docker
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by novagameco 3y ago
At work as well?
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by novagameco 3y ago
> There’s almost no need for the debugger in projects you own. Perhaps if you work on very small projects
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by novagameco 3y ago
> And yet the total # of people employed still keep going up instead of society dealing with massive 95% unemployment. The total number of employed people goes up because the population goes up. The labor participation rate has been stea
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by novagameco 3y ago
I always see people switch from Linux to Windows only because WSL exists. But Powershell is a legitimately good shell (imo, better than bash or zsh). The main complaint I hear about it is that the command names can be verbose, which always
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by novagameco 3y ago
Nobody is ever secure in their particular job, but white collar workers used to be secure in the economy . Now, AI threatens to upend a lot of white collar work without creating any new kinds of jobs to replace them. Anybody who says that
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by novagameco 3y ago
At my last company we had billions of lines of logs to go through every day. Most logs were in an ELB (Elastic Load Balancer; basically each log was a set of HTTP headers and GET params) format which were dumped to S3. We then used Athena q
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by novagameco 3y ago
I like to use XML for UI markup, similar to html

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