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by pconner 11y ago
You should use filtered (but not distilled) water to make coffee. This slows down scale buildup in the machine.
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by pconner 11y ago
Buzzfeed is journalism in the same way that semi-scripted "reality" shows are documentaries.
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by pconner 11y ago
You do need good communication skills to be an effective software engineer.
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by pconner 12y ago
I don't think amenities are that big a factor in college choice. For people I know, price and prestige of the school are weighted way more than other factors such as location or quality of the school's buildings.
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by pconner 12y ago
Interestingly, both Starbucks and Beats have prices similar to nice, higher-end products in their respective markets.
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by pconner 12y ago
If I remember correctly, it's more of a runtime for some .NET programs with access to the Pi's GPIO pins than a full-fledged OS.
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by pconner 12y ago
As someone who will have to relocate to the bay area soon, all of this is incredibly worrying. I thought it was just SF that had major opposition to new development. I didn't realize that issue extended to the south bay as well.
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by pconner 12y ago
There are other "teams" you could be on: drama departments, school bands, etc.
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by pconner 12y ago
There isn't always an objective criterion for being wrong in STEM either. Obviously, in some cases, like mathematical proofs, you're either correct or not (and your correctness is formally verifiable), but design of scientific exp
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by pconner 12y ago
I resent the seemingly common belief that STEM and creativity are so disjoint. Every breakthrough in STEM required incredible amounts of creativity. Even average STEM workers (say, for example, a software developer) usually need to exercise
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by pconner 12y ago
As far as I know, UNIX isn't really a standard. POSIX is, with varying degrees of compliance from these OSes.
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by pconner 12y ago
I took a very non-traditional English class my freshman year of college, and we had an assignment that required us to use this language. From a traditional programming standpoint, I found this platform very difficult to use, though I was ne
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by pconner 12y ago
The slide show worked well for the visual content (of which there was a lot), but there was also a lot of content that would be better suited to a regular article.
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by pconner 12y ago
You get diminishing returns on "innovation" when working inside an existing paradigm. Companies are rarely significantly further ahead of their competitors unless they invent or popularize a new class of product.
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by pconner 12y ago
Damn, that's really misleading. I've always thought E-ink would be good for smart watches, because it shows text well, has great daytime visibility, and is power-efficient.
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by pconner 12y ago
It's also worth noting that misinformation can spread very quickly. It takes no effort to click "reblog" and then forget about a post forever. On other platforms with this weakness (such as Reddit), there is incentive to disc
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by pconner 12y ago
The refresh rate on the e-paper is impressive. I remember some first-generation ereaders that required a whole second to refresh a page.
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by pconner 12y ago
I like it. It's a nice change of pace. Not that there's anything wrong with negative open letters, but as you said, that seems to make up a majority of them.
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by pconner 12y ago
It was the only synchronized multi-platform note-centric app I knew of, and I didn't bother to research other options. Once I started noticing problems, I was too used to using it, and although they are frustrating issues, they haven&#
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by pconner 12y ago
Evernote (both the web and Android apps) is one of the buggiest pieces of "professional" software I have ever used. When I use it to take notes for classes, I have given up on using any sort of special formatting (bullets, bold, e
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by pconner 12y ago
The word "clip" was briefly mentioned in this article. I never understood the "don't call 'magazines' 'clips'" fanaticism among gun enthusiasts. It seems to be a pretty common colloquialism for &
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by pconner 12y ago
I wonder if there was ever controversy in the pre-photography world over painted portraits not accurately portraying their subjects
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by pconner 12y ago
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflo... I think there might also be a codinghorror blog post that details why they picked .net, but I'm having a hard time finding it.
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by pconner 12y ago
Are there any major projects built using mono?
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by pconner 12y ago
Clickbait is the new journalism
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by pconner 12y ago
Stack Overflow (and its offshoots) was (is?) very MS-centric, but it's clearly in the minority.
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by pconner 12y ago
"Adware is malware with a legal team"
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by pconner 12y ago
True, but not every area has a lot of users that feel compelled to post things like that, so seeing a lot of hateful content is still a reflection of the people around you.
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by pconner 12y ago
If this gets enough coverage, we'll see a Streisand Effect for the competitors
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by pconner 12y ago
In what cities?

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