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by nxc18 10y ago
Wow, I'm so glad they made yet another video calling app. I was almost beginning to feel like I knew how to call the people I care about. So glad I'll start hearing 'I'll call you on Duo', which will be great when I
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by nxc18 10y ago
Which isn't to imply that the author is wrong about anything, just that most of what he's talking about doesn't fit the common definition of stereotypes, but demographics.
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by nxc18 10y ago
He picked a very inclusive definition of 'stereotype'. I wouldn't consider the idea that Jews don't celebrate Christmas (a Christian holiday) - its a matter of faith so feels more like a fact. The rest were demographics
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by nxc18 10y ago
I love the comment about being prepared for many types of interviewers. I had an on-campus interview with Microsoft last year for a pm internship. The interviewer immediately said, "your resume says you know F#, implement xyz algorithm
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by nxc18 10y ago
I have a garden with 8 tomato plants and 8 pepper plants. The tomatoes have been struggling to produce and the peppers failed. I distinctly remember thinking to myself, ' I'm so glad I can walk to the store and feed myself despite
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by nxc18 10y ago
I love that life is so easy for people these days that they need to find things like the library to get anxious about. A few hundred years ago and your worries would be related to your crop failing or you know, something even remotely troub
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by nxc18 10y ago
I recently saw a great blog series about sabotage and how to defeat it in the context of projects. Sabotage often happens for personal and political reasons and he lays out clear ways to defeat it. https://coding.abel.nu/ser
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by nxc18 10y ago
From the end user's perspective, silently putting email in 'you are evil' classification isn't much different from just deleting. I'd rather get spam once in awhile than turn my spam folder into a de facto secondary
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by nxc18 10y ago
It is true. When you move, you will lose all your friendships and life will be difficult for a while. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. You can always make new friends, and if you put in the effort, you will. The whole nonsen
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by nxc18 10y ago
It doesn't make money. Even though they have a crap ton of cash because of their mobile business, they don't seem willing to invest in their desktop os or their PC business. Its surprising because the mac + ios system is such a po
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by nxc18 10y ago
One more concept that I've seen people struggle with is the idea that programs/code don't convey meaning to computers - just behaviors. For example, new students struggle with the idea that variable names can be changed at wi
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by nxc18 10y ago
The problem here isn't that there's two perspectives (in fact, there are many more than 'two cultures of programming'), it is that you tried to teach people programming by bombarding them with 50 new tools (git, LaTEX, s
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by nxc18 10y ago
I would look at Google trends rather than autocomplete. Their autocomplete tries to be smart and doesn't reflect actual search traffic. See: Why won't my parakeet eat my diarrhea.
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by nxc18 10y ago
That's a really good question about compatibility. Microsoft released their OOXML code some time ago and have been updating it regularly since. It even supports build with mono. Doing a quality port of that should (theoretically) be re
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by nxc18 10y ago
I would expect you're right that functional languages get more coverage than they would warrant based on usage, at least in industry and the startup scene. I was referring more to people dismissing the benefits of functional programmin
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by nxc18 10y ago
This is a great article - functional languages like Haskell don't get enough credit in a world where JavaScript's shenanigans are the accepted norm. Also check out F#, especially if you already have a code base involving .NET in a
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by nxc18 10y ago
The whole concept of electronic voting machines seems ridiculous to me. Not only are they open to attacks at every level, there really isn't a significant benefit to implementing them, beyond possibly saving some trees. The peace of mi
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by nxc18 10y ago
If you build a company that is a) fully dependent on another company to exist and b) reliant on that company providing you service it doesn't have any business reason to provide, then you the founder of the company destroyed it. If a b
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by nxc18 10y ago
Power deliberately changed their IP address after being blocked by Facebook, so yes, they deliberately changed their identity and were in fact trespassing.
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by nxc18 10y ago
Whether or not you have a problem with her sentiment or attitude, you can't deny that putting those words in an email caused a lot of damage to Hillary's campaign and the party. One would think in the age of wikileaks and Snowden
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by nxc18 10y ago
I love this. The baked goods question, in particular, is especially valuable if at first glance it seems humorous. Some of the other questions require a level of self-reflection that many lack. Sometimes people say what they think their new
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by nxc18 10y ago
This is an interesting article and I've definitely seen 'robotic' behaviors in myself and others. I do have to question, though, whether any of this is a bad thing (as the tone of the article seems to imply). We build machine
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by nxc18 10y ago
Nuisance for societal gain can certainly be respectable and arguably an overall good; look at Edward Snowden for example. But that also supports the original point: he was a nuisance to the US government and they are doing everything they c
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by nxc18 10y ago
There's a really disturbing trend/pattern in the hacking/tech community here that's worth pointing out: people are way too interested in laws and policies and testing the limits of each. Laws and policies don't defi