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by octorian 8y ago
> All cereals say they're "a healthy part of a balanced breakfast". And are then shown displayed on a table adjacent to that healthy balanced breakfast.
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by octorian 8y ago
HOAs hire someone to cut your grass? I thought they just send you increasingly nasty letters and/or fines if you forget to cut your own grass. Or if you remember to cut it, a bit late, but forget to inform the HOA that you've done
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by octorian 8y ago
The problem with self-hosting is a lack of visibility. Like Sourceforge before them, you basically need to host your project there for anyone else to notice it. Of course you don't need to host it all there. Just mirror enough that it
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by octorian 8y ago
Just try using a laptop on an airplane whose seats were laid out any time in the past 20 years. There simply isn't enough space in front of you to accommodate the geometry of it anymore. This was the first use case of mine where tablet
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by octorian 8y ago
And if they can't, somehow they'd rather recruit globally and play the visa lottery instead of simply recruiting from elsewhere in their own damn country.
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by octorian 8y ago
I feel like recruiters filtering by geography is a big issue at times. When I lived in Florida, I felt like I was invisible to potential employers. There were a handful of local options that didn't bite, and remote options never paid a
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by octorian 8y ago
I think the thing I struggle with the most is coming up with that initial idea to actually START a new project. On top of that, any project substantial enough to capture my interest is also way too large in scope for me to actually have the
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by octorian 8y ago
While I was in college, during the summer of 2001, I did an internship at Qualcomm. I was surprised to discover that they used Eudora as their internal Email client, despite not having seen it still in use elsewhere for many years. Of cours
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by octorian 8y ago
I've seen these exact behaviors countless times, ever since I was the "kid who knows computers" (in the 90's) trying to walk adults through using them. Oh, and when you ask them to "look at the screen", they&#x
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by octorian 8y ago
I think the gap varies dramatically by ethnicity. Its possible, perhaps likely, that different cultures have different biases towards women in tech fields. If you add that as a variable to all these charts, I think things may look significa
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by octorian 8y ago
I also wonder how many of NASA's own human launch vehicles would have actually passed the "human rating" requirements they're now applying to everyone else.
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by octorian 8y ago
Which train was this? There are two major train systems going through the area. There's Caltrain, which will be full of professionals if you ride it close to working hours. Then there's VTA Light Rail, which is effectively "t
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by octorian 8y ago
I'm actually working on a project that's in the process of migrating from SQLite to MySQL as the preferred DB. I'll admit that the reasons we're doing it are probably not applicable to a desktop application like this. Th
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by octorian 8y ago
For single-threaded access, its possible that a more complicated DBMS will actually be slower than SQLite. (Or similar in performance.) Of course once your application needs to do multithreaded DB access (especially if writes are involved),
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by octorian 8y ago
> ...but certainly in my middle class life in the 1970's there was no money for buying teenagers a bedroom full of electronics. While I'll agree with all the other responses that electronics have gotten a lot cheaper, I think t
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by octorian 8y ago
> eBay pushing the prices of trash up On the other hand, for those who didn't live near ubiquitous junk availability, eBay kinda did the opposite. "Surplus resellers" tend to grossly inflate the price of all this junk, so
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by octorian 8y ago
I've run into both types. The former are typically a group of second-class employees companies use as a way to "trial" someone before hiring them for real, or simply to skirt the requirements of employing someone full-time. T
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by octorian 8y ago
I think there's a distinction here, which is often lost due to similarity of the language. One class is "contract employee". These people are basically treated as second-class employees (with just enough arbitrary restriction
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by octorian 8y ago
Except when Toyota does a recall, its just a note in the mail and a little extra work at your next service appointment. When Tesla does a recall, its a major headline news story and fodder for many forum trolls to use in their rants against
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by octorian 8y ago
If people were actually leaving, then these problems would be getting better... not worse. If you can live somewhere that public transit (by rail) is feasible, then its quite tolerable. Of course this is the US, where that's less commo
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by octorian 8y ago
> what the insurance company considers allowable Why is this concept ever even deemed acceptable? Why do you get the privilege of "only paying what the insurance company deems allowable, minus what they cover", but someone else
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by octorian 8y ago
The problem is that these people dominate the public conversation. We can't solve a problem if you have to read some special book or take some special class to even be able to correctly acknowledge it.
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by octorian 8y ago
I had one of those too, and kinda hated the things. Oh sure, I loved having one and thought it was really cool. But the manual was just pages and pages of "To do this simple circuit, connect these 200 wires to these terminal pairs&quot
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by octorian 8y ago
> Like list prices are often incredibly far removed from the actual dollars paid, and the actual amount paid is all dependent on insurer contracts Which means that anyone those insurer contracts don't cover, is getting royally screw
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by octorian 9y ago
Agreed. I love using a breadboard to figure out my designs, even if half the components on it are SMD chips soldered to breakout boards. But once the design is figured out, I just go ahead and make the real PCB. Its a lot sturdier, and toda
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by octorian 9y ago
> ...who nodded gravely as the CEO talked about the desperate shortage of software developers. This comment is exactly why reading about "interview gymnastics" like this really pisses me off. Its also why I wonder how many big
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by octorian 9y ago
Which is why we started by widening that to 1920x1200 (16:10). Which I think many of us were perfectly happy with. You didn't lose any vertical pixels, but gained horizontal pixels. Then all PC laptop manufacturers seemingly conspired
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by octorian 9y ago
Yeah, now. Thanks to Apple's start of the high DPI push and 4k/5k displays. For a long time, we suffered from what I'll call "The Great Laptop Display Regression of 2008". For many years, you simply could NOT buy a
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by octorian 9y ago
Around my office, we have two common setups. A large 30" display (16:10), or a super-wide curved display. The super-wide is way too short, vertically, that I have no interest in using one. I actually have two of those 30" displays
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by octorian 9y ago
I'd actually argue that Windows handles "not maximizing things" better than Mac from a usability perspective. Sure, the visual treatment of maximized windows felt "more natural" on Windows, but the Mac's #$@&am

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