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by nxc18 10y ago
There certainly are magic bullets. Look at any software engineer who has ever interned at Google. For anyone else, the hiring process is uncertain, chaotic, and basically random. Success is a function of your past performance, your appearan
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by nxc18 10y ago
https://github.com/OfficeDev/Open-XML-SDK
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by nxc18 10y ago
A lot of the interest in mandating open standards, at least a few years ago, was targeted at the dominance of MS Office. That's interesting nowadays because: - MS Office's default file formats are open standards with open source l
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by nxc18 10y ago
Surface does have its fair share of bugs. At least in my experience (YMMV) the macOS bugs are more critical and often revolve around NVRAM, which somehow only breaks things for Mac devices. The newest and my personal favorite is a faulty fi
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by nxc18 10y ago
It sure would be nice if macOS worked as well as Apple was promising a few years back. My MBP is so buggy as it is with El Cap that I prefer to use a cheap surface 3 for anything other than dev work. Every time Apple releases a macOS update
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by nxc18 10y ago
Its not so much about programmers needing to know the numbers. Its more about programmers needing to know what L1 cache is, the idea that some operations are faster than others, etc. I know a lot of web dev type people who have no idea how
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by nxc18 10y ago
Email is an amazing tool. I don't understand the rush to get rid of it. It is a free standard with many implementations on both the client and server. It is exceptionally easy to manage email. Many servers have great systems for catego
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by nxc18 10y ago
Although I have mixed feelings about Dropbox's approach on Mac, there is one key difference to the Windows implementation that makes the situation incomparable: Windows explicitly provides APIs for file badges and other extensibility f
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by nxc18 10y ago
It sounds like wherever you work/live there is a pretty toxic dev culture. Software development is primarily about managing complexity. Think about the mountain of abstraction after abstraction between your "new new thing" an
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by nxc18 10y ago
The trouble is that so many people use that argument while completely ignoring their own biases. E.g. "I don't care that she's a woman, but she just doesn't look presidential." "I just don't trust her, she
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by nxc18 10y ago
The other part of my comment I didn't write because I thought it would basically be evident without spelling it out: problems like poverty and income inequality aren't solved by tech innovators. The actual problems that do exist i
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by nxc18 10y ago
An alternative way of thinking about this is that we're fortunate that our needs are so well provided for that we can focus on entertainment and life enrichment. A camera at eye level is extremely useful for many reasons, snapchat is j
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by nxc18 10y ago
Activists broadcast messages publicly on social media; public servants read them. How is this controversial? If you want privacy, surely you should understand that sharing on the web isn't the way to go? In a lot of these cases where p
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by nxc18 10y ago
I disagree with the aspartame causes cancer nonsense - there is really no evidence for it and it poisons the whole comment. However, it is spot on that drinking diet soda (or any soda) redefines the concept of sweet. Once I stopped, I was a
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by nxc18 10y ago
In a world where tech companies are competing desperately to secure as much as possible of a limited pool of female talent, quitting (and encouraging other women to do the same) is a pretty direct and powerful way to incentivize the company
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by nxc18 10y ago
That equation makes it a little too easy to have a rosy picture of things. A failed startup can be very expensive. You might break even. You might not. Just from the financial perspective on it, when you start including negative and near-ze
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by nxc18 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I was remembering what my doctor and some news articles told me a few years ago, both of which I'm sure gave dumbed down information. The end result seems to be what I expected, just not the underlying cau
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by nxc18 10y ago
I have some risk factors for diabetes (which I'm doing my best to minimize/eliminate/control) so my doctor had me get my blood sugar tested a few times. It always came back with results that looked good and at least to him we
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by nxc18 10y ago
Whether or not you believe in low/no carbs for everyday health, it is uniquely horrifying that the Diabetes association is promoting a high carb diet. Having recently made changes to my own eating, which still includes carbs but at a m
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by nxc18 10y ago
Or maybe, just maybe, the PM doesn't care about having to "hack" into Mac, because most Dropbox customers just don't care and would rather the service they are paying for is functional. Just a thought.
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by nxc18 10y ago
Although this had unfortunate consequences, and would be unthinkable in today's enlightened world, I'm not sure the line of reasoning here was unreasonable. The idea that manufacturers would be allowed to produce vast quantities o
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by nxc18 10y ago
The crops that contain Roundup Ready traits (and several other traits including b.t. toxin for insect resistance) are not eaten raw - they are heavily processed. When you buy cornstarch, you're buying cornstarch. When you're buyin
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by nxc18 10y ago
I really don't understand the comments here. My first response was "only 52 months?" This guy broke into people's accounts by guessing passwords and then used the identities of his victims to victimize others. How are pe
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by nxc18 10y ago
Getting up and going to the gym sucks right now. It sucks in the 10 minutes it takes me to get to the gym. It may suck for some time while I'm there. It sucks after when I think about the time I could have spent playing videogames or d
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by nxc18 10y ago
A good option here is to have a variety of wellness courses on offer. E.g. some students want to get healthy. I'm in a 120 challenge course right now. I know I never would have taken it without the coercion, but now I'm glad I&#x2
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by nxc18 10y ago
It honestly sounds like a budget issue in most cases. I take issue with the description of these as placebo when really they are just broken devices that were too expensive to remove.
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If this is an interesting topic, check out the book, Seeing Like a State. It has really great coverage of the history of things like urban planning, naming of people, mapping, etc. The standout thesis of the book is that from a birds-eye-vi
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by nxc18 10y ago
Dropbox should hire you for their marketing. Versioning is important to me (mostly for Office which is why OneDrive has been fine) so a robust solution is appealing. Screenshot linking is nice. Thanks for the info! :)
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There are definitely some interesting features in development. Things like placeholders (infinite) have been in OneDrive for a while (then removed because Microsoft) and then were reintroduced. I remember a few years ago a company I was wor
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by nxc18 10y ago
Can someone explain the value proposition of Dropbox to me? They don't do anything that their competitors (OneDrive, Box, Google Drive, etc.) don't do better. Their UI isn't spectacular. They only really have one big product.

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