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by p333347 10y ago
For non technological fields, I would say philosophy, investigative journalism and fiction (books, movies etc where you cover your bases). One might add whatever political analysis do too but to me they are basically fence sitters who say t
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by p333347 10y ago
I might be completely wrong but I think if you request from a position of strength, in that you have pleased all the interviewers and they are visibly eager to hire you ASAP, then it seems possible that they let you have a look, if not the
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by p333347 10y ago
Often while searching a book or other items on google, the item that I want is shown within an ad box on the right, and invariably found on the big river, but the 'ordinary' link to that item won't appear on the first page! I
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by p333347 10y ago
Yes, especially web front end development. I still get hits from as far back as 2008. I do do a quick read though because some of the experts are decent enough to point out the changes for the current time, either as an update to the answer
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by p333347 10y ago
> To be fair, asking on SO isn't all that difficult. It just requires a little patience, to read and understand the guidelines, and to craft a high quality question. This is what is troublesome. There are far too many questions with
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by p333347 10y ago
There are three ways to use stackoverflow - ask, answer and lurk. Asking is hard as the admins are quite intolerant of anything that doesn't abide by the rules, in their opinion. That said, small quick queries, those that would get s
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by p333347 10y ago
There are these two stackexchange qna threads [0] [1] that I had bookmarked a while back. I came across another one [2] that mentions something called "bus factor"[3], which I found quite amusing, though this question is about fre
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by p333347 10y ago
We read code in order to understand it, and I believe one must read code with whatever technique that lets them understand it best (I know nothing of this subvocalizing thing; I came here to see what it was). For me, reading code is a delib
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by p333347 10y ago
I think this is one of those things that once you see you can never unsee. :-)
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by p333347 10y ago
I see one Guy Steele in that thread. Is he the Guy Steele? Glancing wikipedia suggests he was asst prof at CMU around that time. Just curious.
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by p333347 10y ago
I lie on my back on the terrace watching white clouds sail across the blue sky. Looking at the kites swirling in the draft is somehow relaxing to me. At night, I look out of the window at the sky with sparkling stars or distant city lights.
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by p333347 10y ago
Yes but I was talking about a standard that doesn't depend on idiosyncrasies of different browsers and their ecosystems.
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by p333347 10y ago
It is bad form to block default UI,and it will only annoy and anger your users. The solution to this is to append your own menu to the default context menu. However, this cannot be done AFAIK. Probably a standard that allows that would be s
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by p333347 10y ago
You know, when humans find it hard to make sense of software requirements expressed by other humans in order to produce usable software, I am not sure if AI can. Also, all this AI thing as it stands now is mostly about data processing. So u
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by p333347 10y ago
Poor xkcd. Frowning upon people freely interchanging their, they're and there is not being grammar police (unlike complaining about split infinitives, dangling preposition etc). It seems such people that make this mistake are too lazy
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by p333347 10y ago
That depends on whether there are enough real people on it, and it is a vicious circle because everyone would think the same. That said, if you can create one without all the stuff people hate about current social networks, you might make i
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by p333347 10y ago
Not at all. It seems these bigcos in their desire to diversify either produce an inferior version of pre existing hit software which will eventually fizzle out (or kept under life support), or simply buy out a viable competitor to the said
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by p333347 10y ago
I personally like deep ocean exploration much more than space exploration as it is extremely relevant to us as living beings on Earth. I hope some like minded sf writers popularize this genre in near future (I don't read sf but a curso
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by p333347 10y ago
Techies can only assist the scientists in bringing their successful lab experiments into the real world. I expect scientists to solve problems in two fields - agriculture and water resources (especially drinking water) - before tackling fan
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by p333347 10y ago
Whenever I read such articles, I am completely at a loss as to what it means to code. Do they mean churning out code, like a codemonkey, for something that some architect has designed? Do they mean getting their hands dirty by pitching in t
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by p333347 10y ago
Be sceptical, especially about advice.
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by p333347 10y ago
Never used a Mac but this seems more like a workaround for the noise filtering problem.
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by p333347 10y ago
I can't speculate on the economics part of it all, but I have a different take. I think it will lead to another renaissance of sorts. Assuming that AI and automation are well done, it will give people a lot of free time to indulge in a
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by p333347 10y ago
I think you just gave a solid reason for the dev team to close the bug as "won't fix"/"not a bug" and that with the backing of the marketing team.
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by p333347 10y ago
IMO in software industry there are only two kinds of jobs that are interesting - ones where you create non trivial user applications using complex high level technologies and one where you create those underlying technologies. It seems you
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by p333347 10y ago
Project managers and programmers are blood rivals. So firstly, never seek appreciation from your team. If you get some, always be skeptical of these possible sycophants. Secondly, never try to be their buddy - it will never work, and if it
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by p333347 10y ago
From my experience, it is, especially in front end development when you must have cross-browser support. For me the term cross-browser support itself is quite amusing and nonsensical given that there is supposed to be a standard.
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by p333347 10y ago
One of the worst bugs with twitter webpage is this. When scrolling down to check overnight tweets on the timeline, and when you have scrolled hundreds of them and you click a regular tweet or a quoted tweet to check responses etc (thankfull
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by p333347 10y ago
Not a lot of them, about a third only, and certainly not wholeheartedly with gay abandon, which would be a shame as I am really want to do things wholeheartedly with gay abandon. My milage does vary (MMDV).
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by p333347 10y ago
For me music works only when I am in what I call "mechanical mode" i.e. when all the thinking etc is done and I am only left with doing code review, refactoring, cut paste rearrangement, comment editing etc. Sometimes it gets dis

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