sp4rki

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by sp4rki 14y ago
All the good ones can. It might not be the job of the UX guy to do all the copywriting, but it is his job to make sure the person typing the walls of text is using the correct information, displaying it in a manner that benefits the goals
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I remember being around 7 or 8 and reading this (and other texts of the times in question) and being inspired by the inherent culture which had at it's simplest reduction an insatiable need to consume knowledge by means of discovery. It ins
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Wait wait, so you complain about the mass and short battery life, and when I give you an example of why that's not really true you go ahead and try to compare it to your desktop? That's one of the worst counterpoints I've ever come acros
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by sp4rki 14y ago
My T420 easily gives me double (sometimes even triple) than your three hours mate. It's very well built so it doesn't break as easily as crappy plastic netbook. Not only is it's hardware "proven" whatever that means, but works extremely wel
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Because there is no competition. If you decide to build rocket launchers and the company you source, say the warheads for the rockets, starts sending you lemons (rockets without the high yield explosives you used to get for example), you st
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Ohh that makes sense, I also wondered if it was Chromium in Linux thing so I opened it up in Chrome in my work iMac and I noticed the same thing, albeit less pronounced. It's very pretty when it does work so that kinda balances it out. In a
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Hah! You deserve a billion upvotes because of the chuckles I just had remembering trying to explain the difference between one pass and two pass to a junior dev (which was completely irrelevant to our jobs at the time, I suspect he found so
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by sp4rki 14y ago
But that's exactly the point I was trying to make, albeit I wasn't very good at getting it across the internetz. Assembler is not truly "one language" it's actually a collection of mnemonics that are all extremely similar but based on speci
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Assembly is not one language (even if they all look very alike). It's a collection of opcodes or mnemonics specific to a specific architecture with a specific instruction set that map to the later. Even then writing assembly for MASM, TAS
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by sp4rki 14y ago
C is and will (probably) always be a high level language by definition. That it's categorized as a lower level high level language than say Python or Ruby does not magically make it a low level language. There are low level languages whic
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Hah I can relate to that! I will clarify something though, the effect is really cool and I actually like it. What annoyed me is that I had initially opened it and moved it to another pane (dwm here) and then when I moved it the main panel I
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I'm impressed with the explanations and everything... but what really got my panties in a bunch is the visualization technology. That is one of the prime examples I've seen of actually leveraging current web tech to communicate actual conte
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by sp4rki 14y ago
That is exactly what I've always though happens. I'd argue that, with ATMs, since you're dealing with software that after a transaction has passed commands hardware to mechanically dispense pieces of paper that there are two different proce
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Learning things of lasting value(softwareboy.blogspot.com)
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I agree completely. Sadly this is an extension of the democratic capitalist way of life. Once upon a time a group of people we're lead by the strongest, the most intelligent, and the most experienced. It was natural selection at it's finest
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Radicalized revolutionary socialism? If greed and self preservation wasn't such an important factor in the common peoples agenda perhaps. The reality is that history has taught us that the usual alternatives to the capitalist-imperialist dr
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by sp4rki 14y ago
There are a lot of great designers, and a whole lot less great developers. And to make matters worse, the typical startup seldom needs more than a couple of designers vs needing a small army of developers - therefore increasing demand for
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Belize is part of North America if you where referring to South America as a continent, which is why they call it the "Americas". If you're referring to South America as a division of the American Continent Belize would be part of Central A
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I'm waiting with my popcorn in hand for some people to get pissed off and start a "revolutionary" movement to bring down mainstream media companies' attempts to hold on to their outdated business models with guerilla tactics. It will be cal
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by sp4rki 14y ago
That's exactly what it is. Even my technically uninitiated ex girlfriend is now just torrenting movies and shows because they're becoming to hard to get a hold of decent content to watch. I've been paying for a huge chunk of my content in t
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by sp4rki 14y ago
chickenfury.com - Ohhh the oxymoron made me do it. I even had a mascot in mind, though I've never gotten around to use it. lamborgenie.com - Pretty obvious if you ask me :P
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Haven't had such problems with Arch in the last couple of months really. I value more the customizability and control that Arch offers than pretty much anything else. It hits the proverbial spot in my quasi-requirement mixture from both Gen
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by sp4rki 14y ago
You could easily get a cheap 420 or 520 and try it out for a while. The only thing that I'll be keeping a mac mini I have in the corner of the desk for is photoshop to be honest. Why are you stuck on OSX if I may ask?
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I think this is a good idea. Thinkpads have evolved to a point where - regardless of IBM or Lenovo being the brand behind the product line - the name is a synonym of dependability and quality. I think that by separating the brand from the r
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Sell your TV and make it a conscious choice to not look at a screen past say 7pm. I've been reading a minimum of one novel a week and from one to three tech/design/cooking/misc/etc books a month over the past 16 years. Sure there are except
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by sp4rki 14y ago
That means that actually getting a job is not part of your skill set. Regardless of what the rest of the world tells you, getting a job and being good at negotiating perks is a talent. Sure unemployment is rising and all that BS, but lets b
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by sp4rki 14y ago
That is something that was not said or implied on the text in question. As a matter of fact, the point given across has very little to do with how helpful either one of us perceives a programmer's and doctor's "contributions" over the cours
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I think he meant helping people out as a function or extension of your profession. You can help people regardless of what your career choices are/will be, but you cannot (legally at least) perform brain surgery at 15. You can however create
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Arrogant? I think you missed the most important part of that statement. "... couldn’t for another five or so years given that I (likely) wouldn’t even be in law or med school yet." You can become a "programmer" at 18 for example. You can't
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by sp4rki 14y ago
Sad as it may be, why is this getting upvoted? This is very VERY far away from the posting guidelines. Anyways, carry on...

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