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by usea 13y ago
I was a high school dropout with no job, car or money. I decided to go to college. I qualified for need-based grants, but I did have to take out some loans to bridge the gap. It's less than 20k. I went to a cheap state school, nowhere in th
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by usea 13y ago
A link to the HN thread on zero.rs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770212
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by usea 13y ago
You don't need much. National Institutes of Health recommends 5-30 minutes of daytime exposure, twice a week. [1] http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessional...
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by usea 13y ago
Microsoft has/had a somewhat captive audience, so they can do a lot of milking. The justification from Microsoft is two-fold: 1) Having to pay for patches gives publishers an incentive to release less-buggy games the first time. When consol
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The Generics Dilemma(research.swtch.com)
1 points by usea 13y ago|0 comments
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by usea 13y ago
Jonathan Blow [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blow
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by usea 13y ago
Not only that, but the fact that such a buggy patch (Fez) came out which deleted save files etc, it wasn't exactly clear what value $10k patch QA was getting you.
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by usea 13y ago
Yes, [1] [1] http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/22/xbox-one-what-we-do-a...
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by usea 13y ago
The goal of a business is to make money. However, individuals have their own goals. Sometimes a cofounder's goal is simply to create value by making a product or service that people enjoy. The home was bought, but the occupants still want t
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by usea 13y ago
I stumbled on the exact same thing. Eventually I just moved on without knowing what I was missing. Your post pointed it out to me, thanks.
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by usea 13y ago
You asked for a single example, not the most recent one.
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by usea 13y ago
The company I work for was located in a shipping container for a year. 3 people had computers and (eventually) a window air conditioning unit. It got cold in winter. We create products and services for the shipping industry (usually bulk ca
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The Evils of Non-native Programming(youtube.com)
1 points by usea 13y ago|0 comments
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by usea 13y ago
It's my understanding that the income of top professional players in some segments (fighting games, for example) has largely shifted to non-prize sources in the past few years. Being a top player will get you sponsorships and notoriety whic
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by usea 13y ago
I've been developing medium-to-large projects in mostly C# over the past two years. One thing about my style that has changed over that course of time is that I almost never use inheritance anymore. When I was in school, it was my primary t
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Go and Rust – objects without class(lwn.net)
142 points by usea 13y ago|57 comments
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Rust: What I learnt so far(darkcoding.net)
6 points by usea 13y ago|0 comments
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by usea 13y ago
I think this article makes a good point, but the way it's worded makes it easy to disagree with. Using your own product is better than nothing, but alone it's not enough to understand the relationship customers will have with it. Dog food i
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by usea 13y ago
In Windows I cannot scroll with the keyboard or the mouse wheel. I have to grab the scroll bar and drag it down. Their layout is FUBAR.
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by usea 13y ago
That's a good point, which I hadn't thought of.
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by usea 13y ago
What was gained by making it difficult for the suspect to move for a day? Increased probability of him bleeding out? Scenario 1) No lockdown. Suspect is discovered immediately by homeowner. Scenario 2) Lockdown. Suspect hides for a day, and
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by usea 13y ago
In my company, profit sharing is 1/3 employees, 1/3 owners, 1/3 goes directly back into the company for investment. However, sometimes the company needs money to repair some equipment or whatever, and that comes out of the revenue (before p
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by usea 14y ago
Inanity and reading level in english are orthogonal concepts.
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by usea 14y ago
Presumably they're involved because they have a number of APIs, and they believe that APIs should be copyrightable. Minor correction: they believe it's in their best interests that APIs should be copyrightable.
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by usea 14y ago
Plenty. I can do it, to a certain degree of accuracy. At least enough of a degree that there won't be a more accurate english word for the color in my vocabulary.
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Something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is?(serverfault.com)
200 points by usea 14y ago|120 comments
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by usea 14y ago
I worked with a developer for a year and a half, who has 11 years of experience, who cannot code fizz buzz and cannot accomplish basic tasks. I have to hold his hand through even the smallest changes or bug fixes. These people exist. He jus
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by usea 14y ago
I am no language expert by any means, but I haven't had much trouble picking up Rust. In fact it's been a lot of fun. I've mostly used the official documentation [1](tutorial, manual, core/std reference). Sometimes I will have to look at so
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by usea 14y ago
Heads up, your link is broken; it got truncated.
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by usea 14y ago
I people don't know, they'll buy the cheaper book. You want them to buy the more expensive version. The publisher gets nothing by "fooling" people. They want people to know, so they buy the more expensive book.

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