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by swang 10y ago
Side note: Holy cow. I was initially posting to say I distinctly remembered Lazy Sunday coming out in 2004, because I remember posting it on my blog in my dorm room freshmen year. Then I remembered if it was in 2004 I was almost done with c
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by swang 10y ago
They got rid of the second column of repositories you've contributed to. Not that it's a big thing to me but it makes the layout look weird. edit: realized they merged the two columns.. yeah i hope they go back and split it up aga
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by swang 10y ago
I'm guessing Microsoft Research.
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by swang 10y ago
imo mcdonald's coca-cola taste is the best because they're the only ones that clean their fountainheads regularly.
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by swang 10y ago
Curious are people using Swift only for iOS apps or are people using it also as a server language?
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by swang 10y ago
did the same thing when initial theranos reports came out.
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by swang 10y ago
if you were designing that dialog box to actually let users control whether or not they could upgrade to win 10 and made sure they made the right choice, is that how you would have designed the dialog box? again the dialog box microsoft des
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by swang 10y ago
Surely you're joking? "Click here to change your upgrade schedule" is in such tiny font of course no one will see it. If Microsoft cared about its users, that option would be way bigger than it is. Edit: They purposely put in
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by swang 10y ago
> I'm not actually testing how well you write code on a whiteboard. I’m looking for something else. unfortunately not true with interviewers at other companies. they are definitely looking for the correct answer. if you can't &
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by swang 10y ago
one of his questions is, "does this need to support utf-8" and i'm assuming in his hypothetical interview it is, "no it does not" also are you seriously going to quiz someone about i18n for a interview? does that re
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by swang 10y ago
no you are incorrect about this. there is data that is only available if you are a member of the site and answer questions on the site. for example if a question asks you, "would you date a smoker?" if you answer you can post it s
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by swang 10y ago
cool trick but we all know who will end up using this the most: advertisers. another way for them to "gauge" their reach and brand appeal. or something. literally i feel like every new thing that comes to the browser, a marketer a
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by swang 10y ago
So a tech company is "facilitating" a "BLACK MARKET" for ride-sharing... what? Was Uber a "black market" too? The Federalist view generally only has an inkling of the truth to whatever fits their conservative n
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by swang 10y ago
uhm, no? you are free and open to say MLK was a womanizer. like literally right now you are allowed to post this onto HN with no repercussions to your well being. try printing that mao was a womanizer in a chinese newspaper.
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by swang 10y ago
yeah man, good thing china is shielding its people from the history massacre at tiananmen square or the random killing of people who disagree with the government. and how about even being unable to speak about how much of a womanizer (and t
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by swang 10y ago
Maybe? I'm not really sure. How hard is it to get into the contentID system? I'm guessing part of the reason he did this was more for the humor of screwing with larger media companies.
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by swang 10y ago
On a similar note a Game YouTuber, Jim Sterling (Jimquistion), was frustrated that when he put out videos with some clips of video games or other movies, companies would come in and claim ownership and monetize his videos. He didn't li
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by swang 10y ago
So... Taiwan?
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by swang 10y ago
imagine if ssds didn't actually exist as a consumer product but was just constantly brought up by large companies as the "next big thing!" that never actually came out. i mean intel, and hp all have their own versions and the
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by swang 10y ago
Webkit was probably one of the last major web engines to start integrating ES6 features, yet they have TCOs done. Anyone explain what's holding it up in Chrome/FF/Edge?
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by swang 10y ago
It depends on your school. 3 is considered passing grade by the collegeboard, but some schools only accept 4+. For example UCI [0] allows 3 for credit, but USC [1] only accepts 4 or above, which I guess is progress since in high school one
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by swang 10y ago
Maybe because their video player takes forever to load and so you go off and do something else and then all of a sudden you get a REALLY LOUD VIDEO playing in one of your tabs that you can't find and it's some dude yelling FUUCCKK
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by swang 10y ago
What? No bird related name for this project?!
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by swang 10y ago
because a lot of companies have no technical expertise at all. american express use to enforce insane limits on passwords back in 2010[0]. 6-8 characters for passwords, no special character and had to have 1 letter, 1 number and it wasn&#x2
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by swang 10y ago
everyone wants to be in california because the climate is never brutal on either ends. although it has gotten hotter and hotter in most recent years. but if you are considering living anywhere in california, and want nice warm weather, you
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by swang 10y ago
LOL, sorry my post was so long that you can't even read it in its entirety. I literally addressed what you said in my post; that law is but the most recent example of a history of suppression of minorities. "Macro trends", yo
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by swang 11y ago
I'm not sure I would be comfortable in a state where the government favors passing laws that _prevent_ anti-discrimination laws from being passed. I don't know how that area leans towards this issue and so I'm not saying that
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by swang 11y ago
Complains about advertisements... shows an advertisement half way down the page...
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by swang 11y ago
These things still existed even after the Internet. I graduated a couple of years before the first iPhone came out and when having a Blackberry or other connected device was not the norm. I still used the internet pretty heavily, but it was
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by swang 11y ago
Or fumbling in the dark for the outlet and gambling that you don't feel something sticky. In my Megabus experiences anyways.

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