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by soup10 13y ago
I seriously doubt it. Trying to figure out what a person values may be important in an interview. But I think it's more likely apple has just decided that optimizing the last 5/10k doesn't matter because people will still wa
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by soup10 13y ago
Absolutely, mutual funds and all investments assume some level of risk because to keep it in cash means losing money to inflation. There would be way smaller and more risk averse pool of investment capital if the dollar were deflationary.
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by soup10 13y ago
that may have been the case 5 years ago, but i think technical literacy has gone up, and anything ending in .com .net or .org will be recognized as a website. Most people under 30 would recognize any name.tld as well since twitter use has
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by soup10 13y ago
shrug , as i've grown older i've learned that language matters. And i've seen enough of these so called naive "passionate programmers" who get exploited by management into working much longer and harder than they
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by soup10 13y ago
1.22% of your users is probably like 1 person lol. Gj gaming hacker news to reach the many nurses that visit here.
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by soup10 13y ago
I automatically hate people who say "haters gonna hate". Don't be sad, who cares, hn is just a peanut gallery anyway.
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by soup10 13y ago
Pretty sick, chrome makes it clear that silent updates can definitely be a good thing if used appropriately. Compare to the sad new version adoption rates for pretty much all microsoft products.
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by soup10 13y ago
Haha, that would be so awesome. Presumably buffet is betting that you're going to take a lesser cash prize to avoid the risk of losing in the final 4. But at that point, if the buyout offer is huge but you are still +ev to stay in, yo
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by soup10 13y ago
I also hate sarcastic responses, america, and cake.
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by soup10 13y ago
That's because all their posts get downvoted. I still don't think bitcoin is a good currency and will probably fail in the long term, but it has enough momentum at this point that there's no productive discussion to be had.
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by soup10 13y ago
shrug not like anyone cares which programming languages are popular anyway, forgive me for adding semi-relevant content to this thread.
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by soup10 13y ago
It's interesting to see the meteoric rise of objective-c due to apple forcing it down developer throats. As someone who had to learn it to do iPhone dev, I find it objectively terrible compared to all the old favorites(C,C++,Java,C#).
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by soup10 13y ago
This is weird, besides the great odds straight up. It's extremely vulnerable to match fixing.
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by soup10 13y ago
Small companies(S corps and LLCs) don't pay corporate taxes. C corps pay a wide variety of taxes depending on where they earn their profits, how aggressively they working to minimize tax burden, and how hard their industry lobbyists
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by soup10 13y ago
What a unique and fascinating perspective. Realizing that I have no idea how the rest of the world lives makes me want to travel more. The vast cultural differences between parts of the US are mind-boggling on their own. Really makes yo
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by soup10 13y ago
What are you talking about. I assure you we get a lot done at the office doing x86 coding in hex, and even more in MIPS due to the simpler instruction set.
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by soup10 13y ago
I came to a similar conclusion when programming using a hex editor and the x86 instruction set manual. Without having to clutter my mind with the abstractions other languages introduce I found I had a ton of free memory to reason about my
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by soup10 13y ago
Offer challenge, responsibility, and the ability to work with a team significantly more competent, productive and unhindered by bureaucracy than they could at a big company? Seems like competing directly on salary and perks with a (rich)
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by soup10 13y ago
> have to be profitable to make money. Haha, welcome
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by soup10 13y ago
Usually not. A handful of indie games become big hits and make the creators lots of money. A small number of games do reasonably well and can fund a tiny studio for a year or two. The large majority of indie games fail to turn a profit.
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by soup10 13y ago
Better advice: Pick another industry, no field is nearly as competitive and difficult to make a profit in as indie-games. Most industries you have a handful of relevant competitors. In indie games you have thousands, most of which are so
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by soup10 13y ago
The compiler can't rearrange your structure data for optimal packing, because it doesn't know if you rely on the ordering of it. I agree that structure packing is mostly unnecessary optimization except for a few high performance
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by soup10 13y ago
Is there an easy way to get the compiler to show what padding it's using for a structure? (other than filling the structure with marker values then dumping the data and picking through it with a hex editor)
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by soup10 13y ago
I think the point can be a little larger. When you have a large audience it's inevitable that a portion will be, offended and annoyed and/or disagreeable when you are even slightly politically incorrect or strike the wrong tone o
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by soup10 13y ago
Agreed. Most startups and indie games especially are fucked. More emphasis on how long the odds are or how difficult the journey usually is for a startup or small business would be good. I know a bunch of people working on startups who a
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by soup10 13y ago
surely that will do the trick
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by soup10 13y ago
I suspect the root of it is that drugs make individuals respect authority less, so naturally to protect it's power government opposes the use of drugs. Rationalization takes care of the rest(play up the negative aspects of drug usage,
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by soup10 13y ago
SO has become an invaluable resource for me. I generally program alone and I don't have someone with experience with X at the ready to ask questions when I run into bullshit. And it's often faster to google a common task then ch
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by soup10 13y ago
I find it's a lot easier and effective to have integrity if you have a practical moral code that aligns with human nature/emotions instead of platonic societal ideals of integrity. For instance, not cheating is a big one that I h
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by soup10 13y ago
Dunno how accurate this is for the biggest and free apps, but I own a medium size paid app and it seems reasonable. The search/keyword graphs they have are interesting too, haven't seen that data before.

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