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by rphlx 16y ago
DAE think the Apple form-over-function worshipping here is a bit excessive? Scary, even?
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by rphlx 16y ago
Even if they sign it, I wouldn't expect most sellers there to honor it. When I last looked at flippa many of the sites were obvious clones of each other. 1. Build a template of a simple site 2. Create 10000 instances of it & SEO them on
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by rphlx 16y ago
It's partly a selfish, rational decision. In the borked world of corporate politics, firing someone on your team can reflect badly on you, or reduce your personal power (the size of your bonus pool is often related to headcount). Do you wan
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by rphlx 16y ago
Disagree with the first part. If you're a great manager, in general, you can and should try to work with high-end developers. Why waste your life trying to make gold from lead?
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by rphlx 16y ago
Should we count lakes and other self-contained bodies of water on land?
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by rphlx 16y ago
So many managers are too stupid/lazy to value devs based on their output, and instead do so based on what other managers are willing to pay? Excellent.
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by rphlx 16y ago
But older people have more commitments, more balanced lives, a higher price tag, and often less energy. Early/mid 20s male fanatics are the workhorses of the engineering world and surely the best bet from an investment POV. They will break
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by rphlx 16y ago
Have you really tried a recent Android device? Many highly technical people (ok, programmers/nerds) prefer it after they dig into it vs an iPhone. Notifications, Google Nav, 3D + Vectorized Google Maps, Chrome-to-Phone, a real filesystem wi
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by rphlx 16y ago
This is why we need downvotes.
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by rphlx 16y ago
I spent 6 months reading every book I could find on self-esteem, depression, etc. The Amazon Top 50 and then some. It was porn: I liked the idea of self-improvement, but lacked the motivation to do it, and after a while, reading the books j
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by rphlx 16y ago
Negative self-talk. Stop that. Thinking it reinforces it.
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by rphlx 16y ago
The fix depends on the cause. Did you burn out due to an oppressive/insatiable boss, or due to pressure you placed on yourself? The first is largely correctable by a better working environment. The second, unfortunately, requires deep intro
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by rphlx 16y ago
There's a significant risk of burnout/major depression for those who stay single to work like hell through their 20s/30s. Significant others are risk reduction: they may impede a major positive outcome, but they can also prevent a very nega
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by rphlx 16y ago
There are errata, and then there are errata. No doubt there are some really nasty workarounds in the BIOS, but over the past 10 years Intel has been very good at preventing customer-visible defects at the OS kernel level and above.
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by rphlx 16y ago
And approximately 95% of college hookups.
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by rphlx 16y ago
Exercise is feeling like crap for a half hour, to feel great the rest of the day.
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by rphlx 16y ago
Another mediocre, proprietary platform to get locked into?
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by rphlx 16y ago
I wonder how many thousands of people are paying them to back up stuff they could easily redownload. Great business model if they de-dupe internally.
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by rphlx 16y ago
Yeah, I think Stay Puft should be mandatory in all big-stack-of-stuff infographics.
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by rphlx 16y ago
Criminals are smart enough to remove the battery, or not carry a cell phone during a major crime. So this mostly just enables the government and telecom companies to track law-abiding citizens.
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by rphlx 16y ago
When I rooted an EVO in June, the process was comparable to launching a space shuttle. It might be easier now but probably not Mom-able.
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by rphlx 16y ago
The proper way to fix this is to add a per-IP rate limiter to the entire site. Most other fixes are just a cat-n-mouse game.
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by rphlx 16y ago
The hype then attracts the next generation of users and perpetuates the trend. Most users are pulled in by the hype, rather than the rational decision making of the early adopters.
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by rphlx 16y ago
> Every time you see a crash which is caused by jumping to some unknown address, there's a pretty good chance that the crash is exploitable No. It's not 2001. Modern MS (and UNIX) operating systems and compilers use NX, stack guarding,
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by rphlx 16y ago
Sadly you don't need a fuzzer to crash adobe flash (at least on x86_64 linux). A few hours browsing top-25 websites normally does the trick. There is a big reason Chrome sandboxes plugins, and its named "Adobe".
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by rphlx 16y ago
Yup. And PCI-e SSDs are going to rock-n-roll next year. 160GB at 700MB/s w/ 10us latency for $300? Yes please.
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by rphlx 16y ago
The power of marketing and glossy case design.
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by rphlx 16y ago
The animations subtract value because they waste the only thing that matters in life: time. I don't have an iPhone, but I assume most of the animations are mandatory, and that is completely aweful.
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by rphlx 16y ago
Disagree. After the initial smartphone surge of the last 3 years, most of the growth, revenue, and profit in the cell phone market will come from poor consumers outside the first world. It's hard to sell a new iPhone every year to first wor
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by rphlx 16y ago
Reading "Programming Collective Intelligence".

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