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by sftwds 8y ago
Green Hills Software
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by sftwds 8y ago
I work at a company that does embedded development and our engineers are very age-diverse. The team I am on consists of people directly out of college, people with over 30 years of experience in the industry, and everywhere in between. The
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by sftwds 8y ago
I... I... I just can’t even... What is Facebook thinking?? Shouldn’t a company which is already getting bad PR for its handling of private data be extra careful about how much personal data it gathers and what it does with it?
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by sftwds 8y ago
It doesn't hurt to ask! The last time I got my eyes examined was at some cheap lenscrafters-type store which had a promotion for 2 pairs of glasses and an eye exam for ~$60. The PD wasn't on the prescription, but the doctor made t
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by sftwds 8y ago
The linked cookbook doesn’t have any oven temperatures, which surprised me. It is hard to get consistent baked goods when you are guessing at the temperature. When did oven thermometers become widely available?
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by sftwds 8y ago
Teams with more than 3 people will still need to buy a subscription: >Private repositories on free accounts are limited to three collaborators apiece. So, while this might work for a small project (like, for example, a team competing in
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by sftwds 8y ago
>Scaling a single VCS to hundreds of developers, hundreds of millions lines of code... Maybe I am way out of my element here, but is this a common problem? Do companies with only “hundreds of engineers” really have “hundreds of millions
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by sftwds 8y ago
Oops... yes, I meant “Hulu does not have autoplay” Too late to edit unfortunately
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by sftwds 8y ago
Hulu does have autoplay, at least on the Android TV app, which is why we use it much more than we do Netflix. If there weren’t a few Netflix original shows which my wife and I really enjoy, we’d cancel our subscription.
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by sftwds 8y ago
GPS+GLONASS chips have been available for a while now. Here’s an article about some new chips which support 4 constellations: https://www.gpsworld.com/quad-constellation-receiver-gps-glo...
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by sftwds 8y ago
What is the difference between a “tip” and a “donation”?
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by sftwds 8y ago
We use Mattermost at my company, which works well for us and is entirely self hosted.
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by sftwds 8y ago
Really? Is that a known issue? I haven’t experienced that and I’ve been using containers on Firefox since they were introduced.
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by sftwds 8y ago
And Stephen Glass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass A very good film Shattered Glass was made about it.
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by sftwds 8y ago
As a Silicon Valley outsider that surprises me. I've heard that interviews at all the FAANG companies are all difficult (as an aside, why is Microsoft never in that list??). For organizations the size of Google and Apple, there are bou
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by sftwds 8y ago
The commits per hour statistic looks to be how many commits occurred in each hour of the day: https://github.com/arzzen/git-quick-stats/blob/master/git-qu... . For CI/CD requirements you really want
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by sftwds 8y ago
I assumed that Apple has very similar weight on a resume as Google, is that not correct?