snprbob86

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by snprbob86 13y ago
Temporarily ignoring all of Microsoft's specific problems (and there are many) and any other company's specific problems for that matter (every company has them)... Nobody gets a product right on the first try. Full Stop. The more interesti
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by snprbob86 13y ago
This is not a statement about the skills of other developers. This is a statement about the applicability of JavaScript to the sorts of problems people are trying to solve with it. There are a lot of nice things about JavaScript that people
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by snprbob86 13y ago
I took an easy-A class on computer crime at school. I discovered that applying the fundamental principals of law unilaterally, even when it applies to child porn, is a quick way to get people to label you a pedophile.. but here goes anyway:
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by snprbob86 13y ago
Are you refuting what I'm saying? Or are you making an additional point in my favor? I'm not sure... Because if high supply of labor means low paying jobs, then you're suggesting that if everybody suddenly became skilled enough to get a hig
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by snprbob86 13y ago
We're now way off topic into the details of a particular industry, but I'll entertain your comment anyway. I just want to stress again: These problems generalize to many many many other industries. > Why can't the schedule be arranged s
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by snprbob86 13y ago
Not every profession has high mobility and low competition. In fact, the overwhelming majority of professions, even highly skilled ones, have medium-low mobility and high competition. Even doctors and lawyers have pretty low mobility these
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by snprbob86 13y ago
You're missing the point. She was treated very well at Northwest pre-merger and at Delta until the union vote failed . She's have to take a major pay cut to reboot her career. I'm not saying that due to a sense of entitlement. That's a fac
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by snprbob86 13y ago
> If it was up to the airline, they'd probably promote based on how well people did their jobs rather than seniority. How does an airline know how well people do their jobs? There are thousands of flight attendants based in NYC alone. I
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by snprbob86 13y ago
Delta ran a substantial anti-union campaign during the union vote. The popular opinion of the majority was "Why should I pay for a union? I like my working conditions and benefits. How could a union help?" Management worked very hard to bol
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by snprbob86 13y ago
Where? She could go to a totally different industry, but she'd be starting her career over again at the bottom. She loves flying & traveling, so she'd probably want to go to another airline. However, Delta (one of the largest airlines)
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by snprbob86 13y ago
You are being completely ignorant. My girlfriend, who has a college degree, works for Delta as a flight attendant. After the North West merger, her colleagues collectively voted against a union because of perceived corruption and expectedly
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by snprbob86 13y ago
Making string abstract or creating new string subtypes does not solve the underlying problem: Your type system isn't good enough. Now what I say this, let be clear: I'm talking about everybody's type systems. That goes for you Haskell-ers
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by snprbob86 13y ago
As somebody who contributes to ClojureScript, I genuinely do not understand the purpose of this project. If you want a JavaScript with Lispy syntax, there are a few things like http://lispyscript.com/ -- Spiritually similar to CoffeeScrip
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by snprbob86 13y ago
Apple ran the "I'm a Mac; I'm a PC" ads. Those started off as great advertising because they only pointed out bad things about Windows that everyone already accepted as bad things . Once those ads started becoming unnecessarily adversari
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by snprbob86 13y ago
I'm pretty young and would consider myself on the "full use smartphones" side of the generation gap. However, I still think it's extremely rude to use a phone, tablet, and yes, even laptop, during a meeting. There is a very noticeable diffe
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by snprbob86 13y ago
Google has, internally, a lot of super secret services that are absolutely critical to this sort of functionality. "Simple" things like the language model necessary for their understanding of "Apple" vs "Apples" are actually astonishingly
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by snprbob86 13y ago
The subtitle says: "ONLY AMERICAN CAR COMPANY TO HAVE PAID BACK GOVERNMENT" Assuming that's true, I'm not sure whether I should be proud of Tesla, ashamed of our Government, or angered at other car companies. Probably all three...
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by snprbob86 13y ago
> if there is some ambiguity or possible error in a paper of theirs they pretty much always will respond I just want to chime in and also mention that while proper scientists should always enjoy an opportunity for improvement, any pro
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by snprbob86 13y ago
I too thought it was a dummy account & now really wish I could change my user name to be my real name. I don't really care about the Karma, but every time I've tried to create a new account & start over, I get an error about too man
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by snprbob86 13y ago
> applications that use the camera dramatically drop battery power even if the app isn't "active" Do you have any evidence of this? Have you run a controlled experiment? Because that makes zero sense. I'm 99% sure that you've been condi
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by snprbob86 13y ago
More surprising to me is that ANYONE closes out their apps. I've never ever ever pressed that little red (-) icon. On pretty rare occasion, I need to hold power and then hold home to kill an unresponsive app. But I've never "quit" an ap
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by snprbob86 13y ago
1) You're (incorrectly) assuming that everybody who sells their company set out with "a view to exit". That is, quite honestly, bullshit. 2) Not everyone who is given the choice of a small exit is also given the choice of a follow on round
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by snprbob86 13y ago
What you already know, but need to be reminded, is that there is not one, uniform "Microsoft", who has the power to allow or disallow something. Even in the highest levels of the corporate hierarchy, it takes a great deal of effort to influ
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by snprbob86 13y ago
I'm also male, but I know better than to make sweeping generalizations about women, if I ever hope to work with one. This is the internet. There are Americans here. In fact, most of the sites with these annoying mobile experiences are Ameri
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by snprbob86 13y ago
There is a difference between corporate and mature. Your article sounds like a kid who just discovered swearing. It lowers the information density of your post and distracts from your message. Furthermore, it reduces your credibility and hu
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by snprbob86 13y ago
Except that a trivial s/\+.+@gmail\.com// processing rule will defeat that elaborate security scheme. You really need revokable addresses that don't reveal the unrevokable address.
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by snprbob86 13y ago
Without any exposure to your code or you personally, my guess is that you're far from a bad software developer and unlikely to be inherently bad at interviews. However, only planning 2 months for a job search means you're bad at managing yo
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by snprbob86 13y ago
Can you recommend or link to introductory material on data structures optimized for flash and disk?
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by snprbob86 13y ago
I disagree that Numbers are relatively uninteresting. In fact, I think any language designer would tell you that numerics are one of the hardest areas to get right. It's also the area where Clojure is weakest in terms of interop, I'd say. C
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by snprbob86 13y ago
I'm not sure how your cond example is related to vector syntax. The decision to use (partition 2 ...) style pairs, rather than extra brackets is orthogonal. The more important point of literal syntax for composites other than lists is the f

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