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by sssilver 10y ago
As a skinny immigrant who moved to USA and started growing a tummy, I have a few questions. - Why does American food go bad so much later than back home? It shocks me how strawberries here can stay in the fridge for over a week and not go b
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by sssilver 10y ago
I had identical experiences.
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by sssilver 10y ago
Programmer's Dvorak [dvp] user since 2009. The first two weeks are a nightmare, you literally hear the gears in your brain turning in a direction they never knew they could turn. Then the first 3-4 months are just hard and annoying. Af
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by sssilver 10y ago
Just installed a fresh FF Developers edition, no addons. Comparing to Chrome's current beta, with about 15 installed/active addons including uBlock Origin. Firefox has Gmail + https://www.nytimes.com/ Chrome has G
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by sssilver 10y ago
I'm curious, does anyone know what's gonna be the strategy for situations like this[1], where the entire traffic is regulated purely by people looking into each others eyes? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzJ5
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by sssilver 10y ago
> Swift. It's a really nice language, but was there any reason for Apple to invent a completely new language? The problem for Apple was Obj-C, but there are many other languages that could have worked as well. What language(s) do yo
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by sssilver 10y ago
I disagree with the Xcode sentiment. While it's horrible in its current state, it has consistently gotten better with every release, although honestly the progress is so slow that it feels like the only thing that can salvage it is per
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by sssilver 10y ago
Two points. 1. I don't understand people who say "I don't have time to read two pages, so please send one". Why not just read the first page then and only move on to the second page if you're intrigued and want more
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by sssilver 10y ago
I do my best work after everyone has left and the floor is completely empty. I hate distractions, and my brain is wired in a way where it processes every word spoken by a human to somehow be more important than abstract thoughts about an en
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by sssilver 10y ago
It was the former.
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by sssilver 10y ago
How do they define performance, and how do they measure it?
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by sssilver 10y ago
I'm pretty adept at Vim, and I still don't understand people who code using what's essentially a text editor with colors. How do you do debugging? Conditional breakpoints? Call stack/view stack? Watch? Step/Continu
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by sssilver 10y ago
Architecture Motorcycles Cooking/chef
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by sssilver 10y ago
Once every 6 months, I make an honest attempt to switch to Firefox. I want to use it. However, at least on macOS, I don't buy the argument that it's faster/uses less RAM. I usually have a TON of tabs open[1], and Firefox is h
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by sssilver 10y ago
Please, don't -- 3D touch is one of the big reasons I will never switch to a phone that doesn't support it. It's an absolutely wonderful UX for me.
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by sssilver 10y ago
My wife has never seen the original trilogy, and she exclaimed "Is he CG??" 200ms after grand moff's face was on the screen. Come on guys, both characters were deep in the uncanny valley.
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by sssilver 10y ago
This is rubbish, at least for my company, where we hire 2 Software Engineer IIs with H1B, so it's easy to reason about the numbers. I was one of those 2 engineers until got promoted to a Senior a few months ago, and the number it repor
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by sssilver 10y ago
Both were deep in the uncanny valley for me, Leia looked worse. To me, animations/facial mimicry is what gives it away. Renders themselves are pretty much perfect at this point, bar barely noticeable fakeness of subsurface scattering.
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by sssilver 10y ago
I actually love the source breaking changes. The alternative is easier and much worse, and it takes boldness to not roll with the alternative, e.g. add language bloat and keep suboptimal decisions as part of the language just to support cod
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by sssilver 10y ago
I consider myself pretty good at Python, and I would need to look that up. OK yeah whatever, one's a generator. Makes sense. Why would I need to memorize something like this in order to be "legit"? Clearly if I was gonna gene
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by sssilver 10y ago
Note that I'm a seasoned software engineer, versed in the ways of web services, iOS apps, desktop apps, and web apps, having shipped numerous of these for the various companies I've worked at during the years. Some of these skills
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Tilda Swinton Releases Email Exchange About Whitewashing in 'Doctor Strange'(huffingtonpost.com)
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by sssilver 10y ago
That's an interesting paradigm. I do take my Casio Protrek off during sleep, but I kinda enjoy the fact that my watch is the single gadget in my life that requires zero maintenance. It'll outlast my body in any and every circumsta
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by sssilver 10y ago
I would love me an Apple Watch, and I would pay double the price, if only the damn thing lasted at least a month on a single charge. Unfortunately, the technology just isn't there.
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by sssilver 10y ago
I'm a Dvorak user. I use the programmers dvorak [dvp] layout specifically, which moves more frequently-used symbols in programming languages into more ergonomic places. I've switched about 7 years ago, and the ergonomic benefits a
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by sssilver 10y ago
https://twitter.com/raffi is the guy that did the presentation.
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by sssilver 10y ago
This reminds me. The best "presentation" I've ever seen (and I was lucky to be present in person for this) has been by a guy that was, if I remember correctly a top person in Twitter's scalability team a few years ago. H
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by sssilver 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the person working in an Amazon warehouse doesn't have the same vacation options as the person coding the internals of Simple Queue Service.
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by sssilver 10y ago
Following some of the discussion on this thread, I am constantly reminded of a priceless advice I got from a senior friend years ago. When thinking about an employer, above a certain size threshold, never judge a company. Always judge a dep
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by sssilver 10y ago
When you SSH from your iPad, do you use the touch keys or do you have a physical keyboard?

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