sssilver

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   by sssilver 10y ago

   Wait, I thought it was Kennedy's poor judgement that "led directly to the Cuban Missile Crisis" by placing nukes on the USSR border?
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   by sssilver 10y ago

   Remember when one of the richest and most valuable companies in the world couldn't properly implement the HTML/CSS specs for over a decade?
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   by sssilver 10y ago

   The way I see it, the whole point of communication is that people use a medium (like speech or writing) to get each other on the same wavelength. If in my head I'm thinking "I fucked up this function. I probably need to fix up my
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   by sssilver 10y ago

   I'm an Armenian living in Texas and his communication is completely acceptable to me. If anything the standard American corporate professional speak pisses me off when matters get serious. Why don't we embrace that different thing
5. 365.▲
   by sssilver 10y ago

   Unacceptable by who? Some universal morality? Come on.
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   by sssilver 10y ago

   This is something I've been thinking about for a while, why not make apps not require to be installed, and put them behind URLs? Something similar to the way Blizzard does their games with the Battle.net client, e.g. you click "In
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   by sssilver 10y ago

   New mustache style: "machine 1.0"
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   by sssilver 10y ago

   > 16 GB of ram as the bare minimum for web development...come on now. Is there anything obvious I'm missing? You're missing the power price you have to pay for more RAM. This is not an Apple problem. This is a physics problem.
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   by sssilver 10y ago

   > A lot of people never run into the shortcomings of Jquery or PHP or Mysql etc I'd rephrase that as "A lot of people don't identify and challenge the pain points of technologies they know and use for a while". Yes, t
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    First, it's important to understand that most of these technologies have emerged and became popular because they solved real problems. In this regard, it may be difficult to "learn" them, if you never had those problems in th
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    I'll paste a comment I wrote earlier under a different, less relevant thread: As a convert who used to be an ardent Android supporter, I've learned a very important lesson after switching. It's not always about the numbers. I
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    Factoring in the real world battery performance between those machines helps understand the Thinkpad tradeoff. One I'm not willing to take.
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    We call that the "Giphy Russian Roulette"
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    As a convert who used to be an ardent Android supporter, I've learned a very important lesson after switching. It's not always about the numbers. In fact it's never about the numbers. You can't quantify sheer quality. Yo
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    The connector also has pretty much phenomenal build quality, compared to every other whatever USB cable shipped with whatever device.
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    How many of the people involved in those accomplishments are boasting American middle school education?
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    I see what you did there
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    > To the best of my ability to discern, the crux of the “good taste” requirement is the elimination of edge cases, which tend to reveal themselves as conditional statements. The fewer conditions you test for, the better your code “tastes
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    Worth pointing out that "macOS" is coming back ;)
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    C++ at this point can only be principally improved by drastically reducing the language, and that will never happen. Ever.
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    If humanity somehow managed to build a self-sustaining long-term colony on Mars, it'd be fascinating to watch how the martian humans would evolve over the next million years.
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    That doesn't speak to me too well, to me all Disney work seems like a clone of each other -- you've seen one, you've seen them all. They are even stylistically (nearly) identical. The plots are all the same. The characters ar
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    I often wonder whether it would be a good idea for Apple to acquire Nintendo, and have them focus on building phenomenal gaming experiences on the iOS platform through focusing on software and device accessories (e.g. controllers). For some
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    Man I sure hope human-driven vehicles/internal combustion engines won't be deemed illegal in my lifetime. I still enjoy driving my motorcycle down the road, feeling the engine vibe on my fingertips, and hearing it click click rumb
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    This is what I don't understand. During technical interviews, why don't we just give the potential employee a laptop and ask them to solve the problem as they would during a regular work day? Why can't they search Stack Overf
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    Add even a faint hint of an ESL speaker accent, and Siri becomes outright useless even for the mundane tasks... like setting a timer or sending a message.
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    Raymond Hettinger's talk about good code reviews -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M Carmack's talk about functional programming and Haskell -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    I love you.
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    That's not solving the problem in any way though. How do I send a message to a friend's iMessage from Skype?
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    by sssilver 10y ago

    I would imagine that, quite like Email, you have a universally recognizable IM handle that you can use with any service.