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by partisan 10y ago
I had a Sony Vaio Picturebook around that time and would use it to do homework, listen to MP3s, etc. I turned the sleep function off when listening to music and would just keep it in the pocket of my jacket. It was a beautiful little machin
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by partisan 10y ago
The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
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by partisan 10y ago
I really appreciate having your voice in this discussion, dang. I wouldn't want to see the OPs contribution downvoted to oblivion, but I was put off by the lack of contrary viewpoints. I was hoping there would be others bearing the fla
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by partisan 10y ago
I refrained from responding yesterday, but I see now how committed you are to the whole thing. I have to imagine you took a turn along the decision tree of life and arrived where you are. Fair enough. Do you know that a hundred years ago, t
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by partisan 10y ago
I don't think I have but possibly only if there was no one around.
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by partisan 10y ago
Explain.
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by partisan 10y ago
Not a daily tool for me, but it is a lifesaver when needing to do folder and file diffs.
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by partisan 10y ago
A current generation processor, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD would be sufficient for me. The current form factor is great. If you want to reduce the bezel and therefore the size of the laptop, that would be fine, too. All else is distraction.
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by partisan 10y ago
I was heavily motivated to transition from VB.NET to C# to the point where I had an offer at a C# shop. Ultimately, I convinced my department head to allow us to use C# and stayed. I don't think I would make a move exclusively for the
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by partisan 10y ago
This is enough of an example to make one wonder why they would go down this path. It makes me sad as I really do enjoy my MBP, but as a developer, these changes are making the hardware unusable.
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by partisan 10y ago
Same story: C++ at school and VB then eventually C# at work. About 7 years into my career, I started feeling as though I had stagnated. Over the past 4 years, I took the time to learn Ruby (RoR), Scala, some Clojure, Nim, and now, some F#.
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by partisan 10y ago
Couldn't scroll on the site on my iPhone. I don't think I've seen that before.
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by partisan 10y ago
That is a pretty flat take on what exactly is happening. If you've never had to view military service as a "good" path out of poverty then it might seem as simple as that but surely if you sat and thought for a few minutes, y
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by partisan 10y ago
What's bizarre about my comment? I was positing that perhaps the American Dream has changed. The previous generation bought into the dream of owning a house and the car and the bigger the better. The motivation to buy a McMansion is a
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by partisan 10y ago
Does the author feel better after writing generating all of this negativity? I don't feel better reading it. I live in the opposite of a McMansion, but if I had a choice, I would prefer to live in a large house where I can have some sp
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by partisan 10y ago
@jowiar: when you adopt that stance, you really have to be sure you are on the "right" side of every important position. I hope you are and will be so that you never have to face tangible oppression for your beliefs.
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by partisan 10y ago
Go watch it again. It ages well. I'll throw another one in there for you as well: Starship Troopers.
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by partisan 10y ago
Event Horizon. I am fascinated with the concept of evil existing outside of the context of humanity and this movie is what planted that seed.
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by partisan 10y ago
The Linux experience on the Chromebook should be researched before buying it. The best experience comes through removing the write protection on the motherboard and flashing the BIOS. I haven't done that myself yet.
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by partisan 10y ago
A mistake is an education. If you fire someone after they make a mistake then you are throwing away your investment in their growth.
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by partisan 10y ago
The Dell Chromebook 13 (i5) has about 7 hours of battery life under Linux in my usage. It went down a bit when using something heavy like IntelliJ but otherwise it is pretty good.
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by partisan 10y ago
"fuck all" - Absolutely nothing at all, the most extreme degree of nothing.
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by partisan 10y ago
I'm sticking with my initial suggestion. If you want to make certain tags mandatory then those could be the ones you might categorize by so that you have a way of letting people explore your content through browsing. Still, the decisio
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by partisan 10y ago
You might consider using tags instead of categories. People might look at categorizations in different ways. So you might tag your projects with languages, industries, etc. You can seed these values without a lot of thought and without pain
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by partisan 10y ago
Honestly, if I get the sense a candidate is chasing the perfect code base, he or she probably would not get an offer. People like that leave unexpectedly once their itch is scratched (or not scratched). Assuming that the candidate was exte
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by partisan 10y ago
All too many times, you say? So you've repeated the same mistake over and over with the same results each time and many times at that? My question to you: what is a good code base? What would be the features of such a thing? How would
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by partisan 10y ago
Why not be specific? Or would that be the modicum of legwork required?
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by partisan 10y ago
I would advise against specializing in any proprietary language or ecosystem. You might find it lucrative, but the long term damage to your career just can't be compensated for. Also, don't believe them if/when they tell you
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by partisan 10y ago
Thank you for making this easier to comprehend for the lay programmer.
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by partisan 10y ago
Depends on what your goal is. Do you want to Do or do you want to Learn? Pick one and optimize for it. I've created the most beautiful half-finished architectures. I learned tons, but they were never close to being complete and I moved

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