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   by vollmond 10y ago

   I'm getting a Bad Request no matter what I try. Anyone have an alternate link?
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   by vollmond 10y ago

   Yeah. I'm pretty paranoid, but I already have Google Now, Siri, and Cortana in my house via phones and laptops, so bringing in Alexa really isn't much of a stretch.
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   by vollmond 10y ago

   I'm not currently remote, but I do have a 6+ hour remote D&D game about twice a month. I have this cheap bluetooth headset [1], and have honestly found it to be just fine. I use it with Skype on my laptop. The battery lasts a good
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   by vollmond 10y ago

   Do you know of any good repository of (as far as we know) accurate recipes from that sort of time? I'd love to be able to cook a Roman dinner one night or something.
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   by vollmond 10y ago

   Which to some of us is another reason to resist taxpayer-funded healthcare. Government really doesn't need more incentive to overstep its bounds and interfere in our personal lives.
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   by vollmond 10y ago

   My one-year-old Dell gaming laptop has one screw holding the entire bottom panel on, with ram/hdd/ssd/etc all easily accessible once it's off.
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   by vollmond 10y ago

   The problem isn't that I will wipe my machine, but that, say, my toddler will (she has twice), or a well-meaning spouse who sees a problem with a messages that says how to fix it. Yes, I can keep the machine put away out of reach, etc,
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   by vollmond 10y ago

   Taylor's followup (according to wiki) is icing on the cake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuttle,_Oklahoma#Controversy
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   by vollmond 10y ago

   Yeah, I would assume newsletters have a lot higher chance to be read... everyone I know has an email account, but only a subset bother with RSS. And even if you have RSS, chances are you have a lot of feeds you never read that just end up p
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    Every IT job I've had said it would be possible I'd be asked, but none of them ever did (almost all in gov't contracting in the US). The only time I've ever been asked was for a summer job working with kids at a camp whe
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    Yeah, and I need to be able to use my phone (like, hold-up-to-my-ear using) while it's charging.
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    Wouldn't that come down to liability vs comprehensive? As it is, states only require liability insurance, which seems unlikely to be affected by my wearing of seatbelts or helmets. Helmets are optional in several states, yet I've
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    Just to add more anecdata: * 150-year-old rowhome in central Pennsylvania, USA. * 2 adults, 2 small children, dog/cat. * Window unit air conditioners (2 running most of the time in summer, with a 3rd in the attic office running a lot l
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    I love LG phones, but it's going to be hard to convince me to buy another one after the G4 bootloop stuff. On my third one a year in... (TMo keeps replacing them for me)
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    I want a dumb display and a smart STB -- because I don't want to have to replace a thousand-dollar display just to get new STB hardware. It's why I have a TV and a Roku, rather than a Roku TV. Why combine them when their upgrade c
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    And you're (hopefully) working on something more interesting and more self-directed than you might at a typical job.
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    Just like fashion, just like music, just like everything involving aesthetics, no? It's cyclic.
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    Stockholm Syndrome?
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    However, we have people taking out enormous loans to get educations in non-STEM fields that have much less chance of repaying the investment financially. We as a society push everyone in every possible field towards college. Many of these c
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    That's ironic. Every time I've worked with an EE (as a software engineer), they've been among the best developers on the team.
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    Analog DNA Circuit Does Math in a Test Tube(today.duke.edu)

    3 points by vollmond 10y ago|0 comments
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    What reason could there be for that page layout? Article content in the left quarter of the screen, up against the bezel, with the rest of the page links to "related stories"? I don't have a huge monitor, and it's still
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    Why would it be negligent?
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    And now I know what I'm doing tonight.
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12312803
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    Nothing at my current position, but on a previous team we had a rigorous code review policy without a tool (FishEye/Crucible, etc) to facilitate it. I wrote a bash script that accepted a ticket number as a parameter. It scanned SVN for
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    That's why I like open plan in small spaces -- IE, a conference room with 4-8 desks in it for a single agile team. All business-related conversations probably apply to all or most of the team anyway, and at least for a development team
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    Ditto on Win10
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    Can you recommend any reading on this? Sounds interesting.
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    by vollmond 10y ago

    Here's my pastebin: http://pastebin.com/X6mMEMD1 I removed the "IRL" category of people I know personally. Lots of these are defunct. "Comics" is the only category I keep up with on a daily basis --