shawn-furyan

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by shawn-furyan 3mo ago
That exists. It's called ZBrush ( https://www.maxon.net/en/zbrush ). But ZBrush can't replace Blender.
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by shawn-furyan 5y ago
There's probably some price where it's worth the hassle. I feel like every OSS project starter should have at least a firm notion of where that line is before they publish. On one hand, maybe you'll get it, but mostly it help
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by shawn-furyan 6y ago
Everyone took this VERY literally. Interesting.
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by shawn-furyan 6y ago
> MOST people can remember all their jobs indeed.
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by shawn-furyan 6y ago
As a possibly former employee (who among us can recall every place they've worked in the past?) who may not have looked at any number of prior employment agreements in an awfully long time, and completely apropos of nothing, I just wan
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by shawn-furyan 6y ago
I like this because it's a really off the wall take, but it also feels a little bit like the sort of reasoning that gets you tangled up with a Bernie Madoff type figure. It's true that unscrupulous people are often very effective.
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by shawn-furyan 6y ago
I was recently having a conversation where I speculated that with how bad some programmers are at naming things, some code reviews might actually be easier if you ran them through a code obfuscator first, so you can focus on what the code d
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by shawn-furyan 6y ago
Get that newfangled SVGA outta here. VGA (640x480) is the One True Resolution™.
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by shawn-furyan 6y ago
Would that it were so simple to assess the value and integrity of individual voices vying for attention among the roaring cacophony that is the internet.
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by shawn-furyan 6y ago
I would be very careful about considering any actions that Facebook, in particular, takes to be accidental. From the very beginning, intentional recklessness ("Move fast and break things") has been their credo. When you're be
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by shawn-furyan 6y ago
What's you're point? This is a normative discussion. The presence of NDAs says nothing about what is morally correct. For example, Harvey Weinstein systematically used NDAs to silence his victims and cover up his violent crimes.
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by shawn-furyan 6y ago
> This system also makes it hard for marketing and spam to get a foothold > You’re certainly familiar with another federation [...]: email
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by shawn-furyan 8y ago
aphorism rejoinder: disinformation is worse than no information.
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by shawn-furyan 9y ago
What you think this does: filter out inexperienced people What this actually does: bias you toward hiring people who are comfortable lying
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by shawn-furyan 9y ago
There was a Reply All episode on this conspiracy theory recently. My thing is, why does everyone get hung up on listening to the microphone? Facebook surveillance of users and non-users alike is more powerful and creepier than listening
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by shawn-furyan 9y ago
AAAND Zuck has been very publicly polishing up his presidential running shoes for 6 months...
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by shawn-furyan 9y ago
> Are we really still repeating this nonsense? I get the sense that this "fact" was used BECAUSE it's "well-known". It serves the narrative purpose of showing that Google is fallible, rather than sinister (truth
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by shawn-furyan 9y ago
Eleven 9s of durability is an utterly farcical guarantee from a decade old service. A single big durability event in the next century would irrevocably decimate that record. They really might as well claim 100% durability, because it is no
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by shawn-furyan 9y ago
Downvoted, not because your general sentiment is wrong, but rather that this comment what-about's a specific threat identification. It is useful to raise awareness of general threats or wide-spread operational malpractice, but doing so
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by shawn-furyan 9y ago
Bannon works for Mercer (Breitbart), who is paying Trump's legal bills. Bannon changed positions, not teams. http://www.newsweek.com/trump-legal-fund-paid-billionaire-ro...
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by shawn-furyan 9y ago
Well, then this is superstition on the part of those execs. LinkedIn is the one tool that every recruiter uses. They are more likely to map out your employee network on LinkedIn than to even visit your company website at all (much less coun
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by shawn-furyan 9y ago
I'm willing to ride with this format. Magazines tend to be disposable except for when they have a particularly impactful in-depth piece or themed issue. This format is all themed issues with in-depth pieces. It also allows Stripe to fo
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
> Climate change is true not because of a lack of challengers. In fact, the opposite is true. The theory that the rising atmospheric carbon level is causing a rise in average global temperatures has had many competing theories going back
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
A $2B investment doesn't really preclude other similar future plays for a $200B company. So I think there's not enough information to draw that sort of conclusion.
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
It was my own off the cuff phrase. It's hard to relay the subtleties that I am trying to get across. I think that a lot of career programmers overstate the difficulty of their jobs, and how impossible it would be for people who don&#x2
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Oh, understand. Yes, I misinterpreted the subjects of the statement. [1] edit: oi, changed "understood" to "understand". The former implied that I immediately understood what you were saying. I was trying to say that I d
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
I don't want to speak for my wife, but she has been actively involved in Girls Who Code, and seems to have thought that it was worthwhile. As I understand it, it's more about letting girls know that programming is an option, rathe
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
14 day old anonymous troll account intentionally distorting several claims I made.
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
It is a continual frustration to me that the male-dominated tech community is so bad with these issues. Predictably, the top comment on this post that tries to move forward on a very real problem that has been empirically established is an
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Not even all that slowly. Their reputation has been significantly tarnished by this in about a year.

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