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by sp4rki 14y ago
I'm guessing you missed the smily face at the end. But even if he was dead drop serious, social reality is that "No" generally means "You're gonna need to try a little harder" this days. "No, I really don't have any interest in getting to k
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I agree. You can say you "learned" a language when you can solve problems with it (because you've already "learned" programming as a whole) and you can actually think in the language (and it's specific features) to the point that further in
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I think people are not getting the point of the parable inherent in this article if the only things that come out of reading the blog post are "Ohh 12 to 16 hours of work" or "I would quit because I got threatened". The focus should not be
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by sp4rki 14y ago
He never said it (working 12~16 hours) was expected of his employees, but it is most probable that this is part of the startup culture "thing". I work for a big tech company, but being the second in command, I've worked with my boss to esta
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by sp4rki 14y ago
For some time when I lived with my family houses in my block where getting robbed. The first time mine got hit I ran after the kid (probably not even 18) with a knife. Houses all around where getting entered and things where stolen... not m
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I'd argue that even though I might value your time and inherent effort of meeting me somewhere, I also would also establish that there are things more important than anyone's company and small talk over dinner. I would feel like a total jac
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by sp4rki 14y ago
I agree with huggyface. The parent post was ridden with angry sentiments by the original poster. In my case, I consider good manners towards all the patrons to keep your phone in silence/vibrate in a restaurant/movie theater/bar because it
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by sp4rki 14y ago
For me the mouse is never quicker. I think that over time your brain kind of memorizes the number of lines (rows) and characters (columns) available in your screen and it certainly gets to a point where you don't really think about the scie
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by sp4rki 15y ago
I remember using Datamapper with Sinatra to develop a pretty basic system for some weird user registration needs of a company offering medical assistance in the way of air ambulances in 2010. I don't really know if it's still supported sinc
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Why MegaUpload was REALLY shutdown(torrentper.in)
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by sp4rki 15y ago
And in a similar vein, I'd recommend both Practical Programming and 5/3/1. The first is great to get a more thorough understanding on what is learned on SS and help's you understand how to modify your routines for maximum gains. 5/3/1 Has i
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by sp4rki 15y ago
In my case I'm a designeer because of the circumstances of my interests at diverse times and the way I learned such interests. I started to get acquainted with linux when I was 7 or 8. I was coding C when I was 13 and then at 15 I was reall
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by sp4rki 15y ago
Shit this means that I should be asking for raise then?
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by sp4rki 15y ago
I agree 100%. The thing is most of the men pulling stunning threesome one night stands are the type of men who unbutton 3 buttons on their shirt and have no trouble getting to a club alone and socializing with every social group in there. T
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by sp4rki 15y ago
High risk? I'd argue driving on heavy traffic a payday is a whole lot more dangerous than smoking a joint while you wait for rush hour to pass. Doing drugs can be as dangerous as skydiving without a parachute or as safe as staying home a fr
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by sp4rki 15y ago
I think you'll probably find a whole lot of examples if you use a dataset of websites, webapps, and desktop/server apps made in the last decade. I work in business and enterprise application development, from simple webapps to complex syste
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by sp4rki 15y ago
Interestingly enough 10 minutes before reading this I told my boss that: "Visual studio is a fucking cunt and I will kill you if my phone starts ringing every 5 minutes like it did at 3am because you where fucking up the builds." He laughed
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by sp4rki 15y ago
I could easily mean that Apple actually did some research to find out what the average user felt was a confortable horizontal stretch of their thumbs when using a touch based phone with one hand. Even if that was not the case, companies mak
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by sp4rki 15y ago
This is a complaint I've been hearing from the majority of in real life people that own a Kindle3. Interestingly enough, I do own a Kindle3 and have used the previous versions and I like the next/prev page buttons on the Kindle3 better. I f
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by sp4rki 15y ago
I'm sorry but if a designer spends 8 to 10 hours doing design in an agencie is of no consequence to the point we're discussing. Wether they do or do not code their own designs, is not the point. The point is that they should be able to. I a
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by sp4rki 15y ago
Very few people argue that designers should learn how to code (as in programming). What most people argue though, is that WEB designers should be able to code, as in do the markup and CSS, their own designs. If they aren't able to code thei
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by sp4rki 15y ago
So you completely change a way two of your clients do version control because you're a Git fanboy? I might use Git, an iMac, and Ruby... but I'd never try to change someones tech just because I prefer a different solution to the one they ha
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by sp4rki 15y ago
My first legal job was in a callcenter doing inbound collection calls for 450 bucks (I live in Central America, so that's was about 200 bucks more then minimum wage at the time). It sucked. But I wasn't reprimanded or fired at the first min
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by sp4rki 15y ago
I'm pretty sure the patio11 did not mean that they where paid 13 dollars an hour to pluck and approve one thousand gaskets. He probably meant 13 bucks a day. A half inch gasket costs around 8 to 10 cents a piece (retail), around 5 or 6 cent
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by sp4rki 15y ago
All the jobs you mention make substantially more money and I can assure you have better work conditions than a gasket manufacturing plant located in Japan's manufacturing hub. I'd rather be earning a living by means of a nursing job that pa
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by sp4rki 15y ago
I see what you did there. I totally agree with this sentiment, and totally think that it's only a matter of time until we need to start dealing with the consequences of not being prepared for the "Winter". I'm also interested in seeing whic
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by sp4rki 15y ago
But then a rage comic has nothing to do with entrepreneurship, technology, programming, et al. right? I would also dread the day a rage comic gets to the HN front page. If something is flagged by enough people, it probably means that it's n
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by sp4rki 15y ago
You completely missed the point of the post if all you got from it was "Oooh, look at these special effects!" Nevertheless if it got to the homepage since yesterday AND got close to 200 upvotes, it might mean that at least a subset of the c
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by sp4rki 15y ago
I think that grasping at straws imply you're trolling, not disagreeing with someone else, although more than disagreeing with Tom it just seems like you're complaining... I agree that both articles have different degrees of technical comple
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by sp4rki 15y ago
You misunderstood what the problem was. It was not that JungleDisk was downloading backup data, it was that since the AWS 'drive' is mounted as a local drive, when indexing happened (or when the antivirus scanned the files), Windows (or the

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