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by vonseel 8y ago
In my experience, this isn’t even close to an Oracle-specific practice. I thought it was widely-accepted wisdom that if you want to get a BIG raise, you have to shop around/move companies. We love to hope and pretend employers will act
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by vonseel 8y ago
VLC leaves quite a bit to be desired in terms of library navigation.
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by vonseel 8y ago
Huh? I wouldn't even notice it's a special font if not for the fact that I clicked the article to their website because it was on HN. The edges of the characters look slightly different to me, but otherwise it just looks like most
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by vonseel 8y ago
> on windows, foobar2000. it's superb, no bs and has tons of optional plugins. Old school. I was using that back in the early 2000s. Had a lot of fun with it. But, I've been over in Apple-land for years now... and mostly Spotif
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by vonseel 8y ago
Yikes, seeing as I just signed up with Backblaze and uploaded about 3TB the last week, I was a bit worried there for a minute. AT&T gigabit customers are on unlimited plan for anyone else seeing this who is a customer, see https:/
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by vonseel 8y ago
Which OS and file system did you choose? I recently did similar with an old server and Freenas, but I am still not sure if I have a safe (enough) system overall. I chose RAIDZ2 with 4 4TB WD Red drives, ECC RAM, seems to be working well so
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by vonseel 8y ago
How does this not kill your car battery?
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by vonseel 8y ago
My dad needed to play a video file sent to him by a lawyer recently. I assume it wasn’t QuickTime compatible. Well, he couldn’t get in touch with me and installed some crazy video player he paid for on the App Store. I was shocked. Literall
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by vonseel 8y ago
The maker in the article must be an incredibly disciplined and smart person. I’m so impressed. FWIW, I’m a software developer, and music is my biggest hobby. I bought a foot controller at one point to interact with Ableton, and while I had
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by vonseel 8y ago
AIFF and Wav are proprietary digital formats????? AFAIK every modern DAW saves its audio files to AIFF and WAV somewhere inside the project folder. Granted, this does not include MIDI tracks that have not been rendered, so if you don’t want
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by vonseel 8y ago
For someone out of the music codec game, is Opus generally the best codec to go with these days? Any alternatives that work with iOS? What software do you use to listen to music on your computers? Is there a good media streaming server with
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by vonseel 8y ago
I’m surprised there’s a need for this kind of thing or even much of a difference between most sans serif fonts. It seems there are dozens if not hundreds of open source programming fonts which are all quite legible.
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by vonseel 8y ago
Here in Texas, http://www.whatismavn.com/ has made a pretty good business out of this. Although, I believe they had to also integrate with existing PointOFSale systems or implement some hardware in order to offer online ord
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by vonseel 8y ago
An Uber driver did this with me recently. It was late at night (bar pickups). The driver was an older, professional looking gentleman but told me he was tired and “had not driven in a few months”.
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by vonseel 8y ago
is using a second mobile device Initially I was like “versus using a single mobile device? What?” But I see what you’re saying here... the apps should be able to prevent or detect use by drivers while in motion. On the other hand, this p
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by vonseel 8y ago
“we’ve made in giving tech companies, even those with well-intentioned CEOs, so much power over our daily lives. ” This line also stuck out to me when reading the article. It seems as if the author thinks we had a choice to make Uber/
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by vonseel 8y ago
Should be top comment!!!
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by vonseel 8y ago
Hmm, I haven't had a chance to thoroughly check out the article you linked, but I am surprised it's coming from Norway of all places. ADHD isn't as widely treated in Norway as the USA; additionally, Norway's population i
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by vonseel 8y ago
I understand your viewpoint, but aren't you assuming that the "guy advocating unit tests" has the option of choosing a type-safe language? In my experience, the programmers rarely have the power to choose the programming lang
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by vonseel 8y ago
actually, the article was posted yesterday. He’s writing about his experience in 2015...
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by vonseel 8y ago
Farming crops doesn’t sound like an entirely bad job, but I’m not sure the pay is great compared to software development. I’d seriously consider agricultural jobs (farming, ag engineering, agricultural science) in another lifetime if I hadn
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by vonseel 8y ago
Not directly related, but this made me think of how different a "social network" built on version control is from a typical social network. Github users are interested more in code than in people. Sure, you can use it to follow yo
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by vonseel 8y ago
Well, yes, but that guy who advocates unit tests might understand all of this and the shortcomings of the chosen programming language, and that is why he advocates unit-testing. Careful who you are criticizing here :)
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by vonseel 8y ago
Agreed. Workstation towers like the Z420 are probably a lot quieter for small homelabs. I have a TS140 and Microserver, while the old Microserver is nearly silent, the TS140 can be irritating if seeking a dead silent room.
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by vonseel 8y ago
"After messing around with the ERL for months and going through flash drive after flash drive (What they boot from) I decided it was time to move on." Hmm, if he is talking about the EdgeRouter Lite, I have one, going strong since
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by vonseel 8y ago
I think that depends on how you define "significant damaging impact". Surely, somewhere some victim of identity theft has suffered vast financial losses without recoup. Surely, many victims of identity theft have a harder time get
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by vonseel 8y ago
You were downvoted for this, and I agree that it’s a controversial stance, but there is a genuine point to be made here. It’s not uncommon for teenagers to be misdiagnosed with mental illness or ADHD and either of those are disqualifiers fo
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by vonseel 8y ago
The fact that there is a mass(ive) market for fast food is proof alone that people like it (enough to eat it and spend their money on it). I’m with any of the posters above who like fancy burgers as well as fast-food burgers. Where McD’s re
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by vonseel 8y ago
my first software dev job. Debugging a 50k LOC COBOL beast We found the real MVP. tapland, what were you thinking when taking this job!?
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by vonseel 8y ago
He also mentioned that his checking account is overdrawn, so I think he may need this income.

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