thebigspacefuck

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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
When I started working, I lived with my parents to pay off student loan debt. I didn't have to go shopping or fix my house. I worked from 8 to 7, forgot to eat lunch sometimes, went to sleep at 8:30, and woke up at 4:30 to hit the gy
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
If you want to know more, I suggest checking out this site: https://www.thelayoff.com/seagate-technology People at my company had said they don't lay people off. I found otherwise on thelayoff, so I check it periodical
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
I'd just be happy if you can just move windows back on screen easily.
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
I would see it as you aren't working for anyone but yourself. You working for your own meaning, your own purpose, with your own drive and abilities. You completely own your success or failure. Work would become it's own reward and
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
You can use cellular networks or satellite(Exede/HughesNet). With the cellular, you will get less bandwidth, but lower latency. Exede and Hughes satellites are in geosynchronous orbit so you will have ~700 ms latency, but higher throug
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
I was excited about Vivaldi until I had to get on IRC to ask how to pull tabs out of and back into a window. I've been loving Opera lately.
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
"In each case, what we found is that they started down one path because they thought that was what they were supposed to do, and then at some point they realized that they didn’t like that path at all,” Rose said. “During that period,
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
My coworker has had a towel hanging from his cubicle for months. Today I ask him why.
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
Good headphones are essential. I've had a number of tracks/albums where I've listened to them on my computer with nice headphones, then gone to the gym with my portable headphones or driven home listening over the speakers an
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
Yes, that's right, it is best used for I/O-bound applications. You could use it for: * running multiple Database queries * SSH-ing into multiple devices to run a command * loading multiple web pages * calling multiple APIs
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
Ohm?
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
Another page you might be interested in bookmarking: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary A similar decorator to thread function calls for concurrency: https://wiki.python.org/moin/P
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
Neat! That's exactly what I was thinking of.
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
Here is an idea. We put a hidden tag on pages that don't use ads for support, and couple it with a browser extension that would save that tag information over the period of a month. The extension would log how long you spent actively o
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
Really the duration can vary quite a lot. I was put under on fentanyl for having my wisdom teeth taken out and woke up in the middle of the operation in extreme pain as someone was digging my teeth out with a metal instrument. I moaned at h
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by thebigspacefuck 10y ago
Just want to say I found this extension today: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forbes-splash-scre... It disables that annoying splash screen that asks you to turn off ad blocker. You're welcome.
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Ask HN: Losing interest
75 points by thebigspacefuck 11y ago|45 comments
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by thebigspacefuck 11y ago
I love doing a good job. Sometimes nobody tells me whether I am or not.
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by thebigspacefuck 11y ago
If you're having fun, seeing the possibilities instead of limitations, eager to experiment and learn, then you won't even notice. Find what you can do, do it well, learn how you can do it better, and it will all come into place. I
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by thebigspacefuck 11y ago
Read The Pragmatic Programmer, then Code Complete 2. These books will help you approach problems and people. Most important thing I've learned is to write code other people can read. A lot of times that person can be future you. Learn
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by thebigspacefuck 11y ago
Anybody have those code dreams? Those are worse than no sleep. You sleep all night feeling like you're struggling with this mammoth problem or even worse having a breakthrough in the problem, then wake up feeling tired and can't r
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by thebigspacefuck 11y ago
Makes system administration somewhat easier since the host OS can stay the same and docker containers change, while giving developers more control. I have total control of which version of packages is installed, which OS I'm using. I d
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by thebigspacefuck 11y ago
I'm just trying to give an idiot test at this point. I don't know why people still aren't passing it.
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by thebigspacefuck 12y ago
The lunatics are in my hall The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day the paper boy brings more