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by qppo 6y ago
surely you have a better example of your gripe than closing a GH issue on the logo design... the whole conversation on your end seems petty and toxic, at first glance.
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by qppo 6y ago
How does this train perfect pitch? I have gone through years of formal ear training, the closest techniques I've seen to true perfect pitch were exercises for audio engineers to recognize frequency ranges (iirc, pioneered at University
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by qppo 6y ago
Seriously. This still leaves the door open for the next drug crisis to make a (literal) killing and get a slap on the wrist in ten years. What's next? I wouldn't be surprised if Pfizer started pushing Xanax and other benzodiazepin
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by qppo 6y ago
I think it more arrogant that the people so established thought they could build a tech company without technical innovation, but that's just my opinion. Quibi was more arrogant than bold in their ambition.
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by qppo 6y ago
hey now, most of the people I see working at McDonalds are fully grown wage slaves. Chick Fil A and In and Out seem to be the main purveyors of adolescent labor these days.
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by qppo 6y ago
I've taken to using random passwords for signup and password reset for each login, since that's what password guidelines eventually force me to do anyway.
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by qppo 6y ago
Foxconn is Taiwanese and not mainland Chinese but the point still stands that it was political hedging during the trade tensions.
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by qppo 6y ago
Fourier & Friends are excellent analytical tools for the nature of patterns, regardless of where they occur! In EE-land we think too much about real and complex numbers, where Fourier analysis is more concrete. But spectral graph theory
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by qppo 6y ago
says the lack of bank panics, sustained inflation, and reduction of recessions to speculative bubbles, of which decentralized currency doesn't fix.
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by qppo 6y ago
The ability of fiat currency to enter the money supply at the discretion of a central authority is a feature, not a bug.
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by qppo 6y ago
Total anecdotes, but when I last did the interview gauntlet it included some game studios and I found the hiring pipeline was bisected for the engine/dev tools and games themselves. I was looking at jobs on the former because of my exp
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by qppo 6y ago
You would have to go to some obscure website to download some payload and read build instructions to see how to beat integrate it with your new cppenv program instead. That's the problem to solve, C++ is old and most of it written befo
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by qppo 6y ago
Historically the dependency management tool for C++ is the system's package manager, and/or a shell configure/provision script. I don't see any value add to a "built in" dependency management tool to C++. Not a
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by qppo 6y ago
Lock free algorithms and data structures are even harder to get right! And most of the canonical descriptions of them assume that you have a garbage collector and that memory allocation is a bounded operation. Neither of which is really tru
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by qppo 6y ago
The check only needs to be done once, when the iterator is constructed. You can also zero pad the buffer by 3 bytes to avoid a bounds check if you really want. This seems like a premature optimization, unless you're only iterating over
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by qppo 6y ago
The new module system is already incompatible with pre-2018 edition projects, so I don't know why this argument explains why the current module system doesn't bite the bullet and use the file system hierarchy.
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by qppo 6y ago
I feel like the onus should be on chip makers to write LLVM backends because proprietary C compilers and GCC forks almost universally suck. I understand why they don't, but it's just disappointing on both ends of the pipeline. Tha
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by qppo 6y ago
I didn't, I found an alternative that was specific to the service.
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by qppo 6y ago
Do build dependencies count? I have a build script that requires it (rather, it's a build script of a dependency). I didn't write it and don't have time or incentive to upgrade it, since it works fine.
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by qppo 6y ago
It's crossed my mind before to start a service that collects junk mail and sends it to the home address of the executives at the junk mail aggregates (there's only a handful of them last I tried to stop receiving junk). On the one
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by qppo 6y ago
The assumptions you usually have to make with that approach is: - The app is used on one device - Only one user has access to a device - There is a convenient or reliable way to identify a device for all platforms you target Plenty of apps
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by qppo 6y ago
It was actually a dark pattern, not a bug.
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by qppo 6y ago
I've had an issue with sign-in with Apple where using an autogenerated emails ruins certain support interactions. One of them was cancelling a subscription service that was eventually resolved (they required me to email their customer
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by qppo 6y ago
It's really hard to sell innovative audio experiences. That's why the opportunity gets squandered, and innovation usually flows through side channels that don't directly or drastically alter existing audio experiences. This i
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by qppo 6y ago
And now Google is going to be leasing land to its employees. Which I find terrifying
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by qppo 6y ago
Well Epic killed Linux support for Rocket League awhile ago so it's a bit redundant how it performs
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by qppo 6y ago
Valve doesn't strike me as the organization with well planned or strategic investment, they're kind of famous for letting people work on side projects like this. That said it's an attempt to break the chicken/egg cycle.
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by qppo 6y ago
Enterprises get a premium usually, not a discount. And for good reason, software doesn't have economies of scale (which is why volume pricing is discounted for physical goods). It costs you a lot more per seat to support 1k seats than
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by qppo 6y ago
It's not about costs, it's about supply and demand. If you move to a lower cost/tax region the amount of money you're willing to take to do the same job is lower. You can say "no" to a paycut. And they can say
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by qppo 6y ago
If another state had the IP and non compete protections of California, had some wealthy former startup employees to found VCs, a liberal culture that celebrates risk (and its own arrogance, perhaps) then Silicon Valley might be threatened.

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