phakding

14 ms·

91.
by phakding 8y ago
I bought the DVD after it was released, but could never bring myself to watch it. The few clips I watched were extremely disturbing for me.
92.
by phakding 8y ago
This profession lifted me out of poverty and made it possible to take up hobbies without having to think about money. I am thankful.
93.
by phakding 8y ago
Thing is though from the other side even if you have good intentions, you still have more then one people to think about. So your loyalties are split. For an employee, it's only one entity to be loyal to.
94.
by phakding 8y ago
In my second job, the company was not doing well financially. They stopped 401k match, reduce salary by 5% across the board etc. I still stayed because I liked the work and the people. Then they started laying off people who were with the c
95.
by phakding 8y ago
There is no loyalty in business. Keep your loyalty for your family and may be friends, not for the company you work for. The company will never be loyal back. Have an opportunity to make more or work more interesting? Grab it with both hand
96.
by phakding 8y ago
Can you not copy contacts to Sim and then copy to the new phone? I remember doing that with multiple dummy phones before I bought my first smart phone.
97.
by phakding 8y ago
You probably need to remember the proverb, "empty vessels make the most noise". Also the dunning Kruger effect. It is possible that you are way too confident/cocky because you don't know much. I was cocky when I started
98.
by phakding 8y ago
Besides the obvious benefits to the brain, imagine you are traveling around the world and being able to effectively communicate with people without the crutch of English language. That feels amazing and very very useful. People open up to y
99.
by phakding 8y ago
Great! Right time to get into fitness and lose those extra 139 lbs. You are at 42.6 bmi which is categorized as class III obese (very severely obese). Cheers!
100.
by phakding 8y ago
I haven't used it, but hopefully it works. I work a ton on my car and many times, I used to run to a specialty sears hardware store which had four long isles full of screws, nuts and bolts. I have spent literally hours browing for scre
101.
by phakding 8y ago
Seriously?
102.
by phakding 8y ago
I believe formal classes in good universities certainly help. You end up learning things that you would think are too boring or not directly related to your job. But in my 15 years of working and dozens of interviews, no one ever asked me a
103.
by phakding 8y ago
> In my experience ease of reading code is not a function of verbosity, but a function of familiarity. You would think so, sure. I used to write Perl code and I was extremely familiar with it and it used to be pretty easy for me to hack
104.
by phakding 8y ago
I like verbosity in programming language. It becomes pretty easy to read the code, compared to lambdas or other concise languages. If you are not working for a startup, majority of the time, you will be maintaining legacy code or bug fixing
105.
by phakding 8y ago
They are now using openJDK and modifying the source code themselves, so no, that's not the policy.
106.
by phakding 8y ago
If you are stretching limits of java, then you would need support because that knowledge base isn't available easily. I worked for a company that had performance engineers from sun on site helping us with performance issues.
107.
by phakding 8y ago
I am not up on my xkcd like some of you fine folks.
108.
by phakding 8y ago
I am a font snob and was about to leave a strongly worded comment for suggesting this font. Your comment saved me for making a fool of myself.
109.
by phakding 8y ago
When I want to make sure my kids understand what they read, I stop after a page and ask couple of questions. Questions that can't be answered directly by reading the text, but by understanding. You can try this in yourself. For retenti
110.
by phakding 8y ago
Sorry, but your analogy doesn't make much sense. Firefox is fast, modern, feature rich, and, free browser. Your grievance is about missing some feature that you use. The right analogy would be that the church is providing perfectly nut
111.
by phakding 8y ago
> In the case of gay-shaming, the obvious common cause is evolutionary: It's people trying to have more grandkids. I have to disagree. I don't think people who opposr and hate gay people are doing it for evolutionary purposes.
112.
by phakding 8y ago
Either Bose SoundLink speaker or wireless headphones. I hate wires, so I prefer wireless solutions.
113.
by phakding 8y ago
May be it's because I come from a different culture, I am not so entitled. Firefox is free, as in speech and beer. It also doesn't phone home with your private data as a payload. That Is good enough for me to be happy. If somethi
114.
by phakding 8y ago
It's common enough that urban dictionary has a definition for Potel (patel + m/hotel)
115.
by phakding 8y ago
> Loding and complimenting is nice, but useless I hope that your manager doesn't think that way. :)
116.
by phakding 8y ago
> CPU and data intensive heavy lifting is rarely done in such programs How could you make such a blanket statement? is bashing java the new hipster thing to do in programming world nowadays?
117.
by phakding 8y ago
What would be an example of a "big single page app"?
118.
by phakding 8y ago
With all these posters complaining, am I the only one who is totally satisfied with Firefox? I never had many issues using firefox. I did use Chrome briefly, but came back to firefox. If it matters, I mostly use firefox on Debian Linux and
119.
by phakding 8y ago
Not sure what very low level is, but if you are writing anything with low latency requirements you need to be cognizant of these things. As someone mentioned, using an array over a list helps CPU in memory striding. Cache misses are expensi
120.
by phakding 8y ago
This is what I realized; no matter how much you love your work/profession when you started out, it's impossible to keep that flame of curiosity and interest after 15-20 years of work. You need to get away from it frequently to rek

More ›