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541.
by ralphc 10y ago
My iOS app has crashed several times in a row today. Hmmmm....
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by ralphc 10y ago
My CPA wife wants a source or explanation for the sentence "A.W.S. was 10 percent of Amazon’s revenue, but more than 100 percent of the company’s operating income." Does anyone have a link?
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by ralphc 10y ago
Javascript is mentioned in the charts but as of this writing has no hits on the discussion. Is anyone using Javascript or Node for ML?
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by ralphc 10y ago
What do you use Go for? Do you expect engineers to be up to speed on it or do you allow new hires to pick it up? Is it a tech skill worth getting? (worth as in taking time away from Node/Javascript learning)
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by ralphc 10y ago
My favorite example from GEB is Aunt Hillary, a self-away ant hill where the individual ants in it are not.
546.
by ralphc 10y ago
It's also assuming you live close enough to your parents that you can go over and physically revive a bricked computer.
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by ralphc 10y ago
It's self doubt all the way down.
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by ralphc 10y ago
Wherever company she lands at, run. Not only does she have this attitude at rest, she's going to have a chip on her shoulder to prove she's not a failure at whatever venture she winds up at next.
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by ralphc 10y ago
I wonder what the actual work she did at Google that would make you work up to 130 hours a week, or at the least pull one all nighter a week. Was it heads down programming? I don't think anyone can maintain a great level of code for lo
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by ralphc 10y ago
I think I saw it on a list of windows 10 apps to get somewhere. Clicking on it gets you a radar map. Really it was half weather, half trying out the windows store experience.
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by ralphc 10y ago
I've poked around in there. Think of live tiles as the latest version of desktop gadgets. I installed the weather channel free app, I now see local weather when I hit start.
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by ralphc 10y ago
The new hotness seems to be transpiling, turning an enhanced language into Javascript. Any good resources for this?
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by ralphc 10y ago
I've evolved into using a Mac for shiny browsing, iTunes, document reading but I've never gotten homebrew etc. to work correctly so I got a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and dual-booted Linux for these exact reasons. It will be interesting t
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by ralphc 11y ago
I'm dual-booting Win 8.1 & Ubuntu 15.10 on a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and Ubuntu works great, including touch screen, video, sound & Spotify, the whole works. As a bonus, if you're a distro explorer is has a "Novo" butt
555.
by ralphc 11y ago
Since you're on HN I assume you're doing some kind of software or technical work. What's the market like for that in WV. My family's from Man, a little dot in Logan county.
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by ralphc 11y ago
I have a Spotify subscription, a Spotify account in the UK I access through my VPN, and my wife has Apple Music that we share on family plan. US Spotify has most of what I listen to, UK Spotify has some guilty pleasure girl groups (Girls Al
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by ralphc 11y ago
The biggest "shut up and take my money" feature is the built-in wifi. Not that it wasn't easy to add wifi before, but this gives a true standard that special use cases can be built around. For example, using a Pi as a Tor bri
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by ralphc 11y ago
What are the other games, I'd be interested in checking out a (viable) LinkedIn competitor.
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by ralphc 11y ago
You guys are scaring me. I have Lion on my Core 2 Duo MBP and Mountain Lion on my i7 MBP. I've been content but Google says that Chrome won't get updates for these after April and I've been thinking about upgrading. Now I&#x2
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by ralphc 11y ago
Got my Bachelor's in ICS from Georgia Tech in 1984. After a layoff from Oracle in 2012, 28 years later, my recruiter said that the Georgia Tech degree opened doors and got me interviews. I was interviewing in the metro Atlanta area but
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by ralphc 11y ago
"Open source software for developing world hospitals " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10675275 I've been wandering around looking for a project I can contribute to and make a difference. This is small e
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by ralphc 11y ago
It's been a couple of years but the last time I tried Fedora in VMWare the video only had 3 resolutions and the audio didn't work without a lot of googling and tweaking. Without installing guest tools an Ubuntu would have 6 or mor
563.
by ralphc 11y ago
I got my CS degree in 1984 and did programming on my own from 1977. I'm still in development so I can be your time traveler. Yes and no? If you've taken the GUI, drag & drop components route I think you'd have trouble. An
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by ralphc 11y ago
Don't forget the Large Hadron Collider http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
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by ralphc 11y ago
All the Spark links & hype I see is Cassandra Cassandra Cassandra, can you point me to a link or place that talks about hooking Spark to MongoDB?
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by ralphc 11y ago
Another vote for MobaXTerm.
567.
by ralphc 11y ago
That is, until I got to "Readings from D.H. Lawrence: Selected and Read by Harry T. Moore".
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by ralphc 11y ago
I feel kind of obligated to listen to each song to the end, like if I don't I'm kicking a puppy or something.
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by ralphc 11y ago
Yeah, once I figured this out I went there from my VPS in the UK. Looks like Manhattan is the default for outside the US.
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by ralphc 12y ago
I think it is, indirectly. This is a side effect of everyone else making worthy frameworks, languages, etc. I've been doing this long enough to remember when the choices were basically Microsoft C++ or Borland C++. Then Java was basica

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