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reitoei
11y ago
Indeed. They seem to have a very loyal fanbase that spends an enormous amount of time telling Vice how much they suck.
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reitoei
11y ago
> people get bored with the lack of near-realtime debate You're making the assumption that people want this. They don't.
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11y ago
It wouldn't buy you a fifth of a garage: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2813958/Tiny-shed-pa...
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11y ago
I've been working pretty much exclusively with Angular for the past 18 months on some high volume financial processing systems. Shipped 3 codebases that would probably be considered 'large'. It's been one of the best dev
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11y ago
I think dingaling's point is that the headline is clickbait.
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11y ago
You say this, of course, with the experience of supporting that many users and platforms... right?
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11y ago
I know right? If that hole could talk...
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11y ago
> This means that the software will only be usable from interactive sessions on "standard" mainstream browsers a.k.a 99.99% of the target audience. I'm sure syndication tools could be easily built into it to provide static
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11y ago
> but 3d did win in cinemas lolwut?
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11y ago
RSS?
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11y ago
> Considering the cost of living in Dublin vs the salary for tech grads versus... anywhere else in the world London, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris... all way, way more expensive than Dublin. But if you can find a job that will pay
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11y ago
With kids and a mortgage, my perspective definitely shifted. I could have continued on doing what I did with the contracting, but I know for a fact that my family life would have suffered as a result. Having a 40 hour a week job is great be
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11y ago
A mid-sized software/services company in Ireland.
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11y ago
> Last I checked, IBM were offering sub 30k for graduates You expect to walk into an 80k a year job straight out of college? Everyone has to start somewhere. If I was a graduate, I'd much rather be working sub 30k for IBM than sub 4
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11y ago
Well they're idiots because there are plenty of really well-paying job in the tech industry.
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11y ago
I did exactly this. Was contracting for 8 years in Dublin, commuting almost 3 hours daily. I was making good (but not amazing) money. Then the kids came, and that 3 hour commute became 3 hours that I could spend helping my wife or spending
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11y ago
> it is difficult to stop using Facebook It's really not. All the saving of contacts, birthdays etc. that you talk about here... If you give a crap about any of these people, you will already have that information in another medium
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11y ago
> the programmer needs to implement the game designer needs to design
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11y ago
> Well he needs something else as facebook as we know it will be dead in 10-15 years You can't blurt out a statement like that without giving any explanation.
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11y ago
> a business that relies on its users not having the time or know how to implement the service it provides on their own. By that rationale, pretty much every business on the planet that provides a service is nothing more than a cynical
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11y ago
> Around 2009, I had been thinking that the future of music and art might be a return to the patronage system, only with mass audiences funding artists instead of rich individuals. KS, Patreon, and other sites like them seem to have prov
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12y ago
3.7MB of JavaScript. Christ.
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12y ago
> vividness, beauty, feelings of peace or being loved, etc. Or, you know, the complete opposite.
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12y ago
The volume controls on my touchscreen device.
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12y ago
> it tries to do too much I don't think it does. It offers a massive feature set that is useful to different people in different ways, but there is still a lot of crossover. Maybe you're pigeon-holing users based on their '
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12y ago
A mixture of personal blogging, story telling, factual content, recipes, reviews, mixed in with a 'chat room', a voting system, and the ability to 'soft link' nodes to each other through titles (hard to explain). Back in
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12y ago
Jobs for developers/designers were hard to come by in Dublin immediately after the bubble, even for people like me who had experience. Ended up moving to London for two years to work in a different field of IT. A complete waste of time
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12y ago
Agreed.
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12y ago
AS has been my first exposure to Java and I find it very intuitive to work with. The last 4 months in particular have seen a lot of improvements. I use it with Genymotion and real devices.
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12y ago
No Linux client? No thanks. Edit: My mistake https://forums.hubic.com/showthread.php?272-hubiC-for-Linux-... !
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