spurcell93

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by spurcell93 9y ago
I can't speak for others but it's been a real pleasure to use them. The interview was a tad tedious and the project ambiguous. But after that, smooth sailing.
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by spurcell93 9y ago
Ditto. They did a big upgrade a few months (years?) back and yet my Nexus 6P takes literally 10+ seconds before Snapchat responds to touches. It's horrendous
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by spurcell93 9y ago
I work through Toptal. Once you get through their interview process (takes 1 month plus) I've found their team to be very helpful in connecting me to great clients. I'm in NYC and can live quite comfortably, set my own rates, and
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by spurcell93 9y ago
Be aware of goatse in the OP link
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by spurcell93 9y ago
I agree... at some point, when analyzing a topic, we need to prune the decision tree leading to some tentative conclusions, even if some subtrees might not be 100% verifiably invalid. Our science is imperfect, reporting is imperfect, and ve
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by spurcell93 9y ago
Are you in the Dumbo office? I found that one to be pretty cramped - I liked Montague St a lot more. And better subway access, IMO.
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by spurcell93 9y ago
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by spurcell93 9y ago
I wonder if you're conflating skepticism with suspicion. I don't believe it's a meaningless distinction.
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by spurcell93 9y ago
More appropriately, Hanlon's Razor. (To be an internet pedant)
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by spurcell93 9y ago
I hate dishonest marketing as much as the next person but I don't think it's a stretch to say that there is nothing wrong with telling a good story about a product. And of course, telling that story means de-emphasizing unpleasant
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by spurcell93 9y ago
I love that idea. In the same way that few people listen to CDs anymore, but the vinyl industry is growing again. Streaming fills the quick-and-easy use case, vinyl fills the immersive-listening use case. I think that could be a viable opti
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by spurcell93 9y ago
Perhaps screen sizes was a bad example of fragmentation (though, because the range is so much wider than on iOS, keyboard avoiding stuff can be unpleasant). Better examples would be subtle device-specific bugs. Like, off the top of my head,
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by spurcell93 9y ago
Congrats on making it 9 years. I've only been doing mobile development for 2 years, and using React Native for most of it. So I have an opinion that may be less biased toward a certain toolset. I'd compare developing on Android ve
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by spurcell93 9y ago
As a probably gentrifier in NYC, I can relate to both sides of this issue. I have friends who grew up in Brooklyn who are so incensed by gentrification that they throw garbage all over the street, in order to deter "more fucking billio
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by spurcell93 9y ago
A whale made of pure gold.
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by spurcell93 9y ago
I think the point is more that people already try to not get HIV / AIDS - and once they have it, they can't just "get rid of it".
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by spurcell93 9y ago
Yeah, MOPGA doesn't have the same ring to it. Sounds like a janitor's arch-nemesis.
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by spurcell93 10y ago
Edison and Tesla both changed the world. Tesla (and Ferraris) are responsible for the invention of first viable AC motor, without which we would rely on DC for our grid.
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by spurcell93 10y ago
I can't tell if this comment is brilliant sarcasm or if it has completely missed the point.
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by spurcell93 11y ago
If you haven't read them yet, I would suggest Isaac Asimov's Robot series, which discusses the implications of hardware-level 'laws' to which robots must abide. His take was that these laws would constrain behavior accor