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by vparikh 9y ago
Because todays kids are coddled and have a 'safety net' of being able to stay home and not join 'adulthood'. I mean when I was a teen ager - my parents couldn't afford to support me. I had no way of staying home a
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by vparikh 9y ago
>The way I see it: you're wealthy when you can do, wear or say nearly whatever the fuck you want and not worry about your money/lifestyle going away. That is not the point I was trying to make. The point is, people in that inco
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by vparikh 9y ago
The problem that these people are experiencing is that they are in a very special privileged position (weather through their own work or through inheritance), yet they realize that most people they will interact with will never attain their
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by vparikh 9y ago
As the late great Jimi Hendrix mused: 'Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.' I have been playing for 6 years and am just now getting to the point whe
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by vparikh 9y ago
As stated with the 68000 - I often wondered where the industry would be if the 68000 was picked instead of the x86 architecture by IBM. The 68000 had a far better design and the ISA had real legs. Instead we got stuck with the monstrosity
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by vparikh 10y ago
H-1B employees can only work for those companies that sponsor them. This significantly cuts down on their ability to participate in a free and even employment marketplace. In addition, if an employee looses his current position - they hav
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by vparikh 10y ago
The problem with the H-1B is that you are basically tied to the company that sponsored you. The one fundamental change that needs to happen is that the H-1B is issued for a period of X years to work in the country - not X years to work for
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by vparikh 10y ago
Github Pages + Jekyll
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by vparikh 10y ago
I would love it if Computer Science grads took a boot camp course - one that covers css/html/javascript, any MVC framework, ntier patterns, ORM/SQL/NoSQL training. Because from my experience, they apparently don't
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by vparikh 10y ago
This is very encouraging to read. I have had a sense of this all along - that which college you attend has very little to do with your intelligence or your capabilities. In my opinion it has more to do with how much your parents make then
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by vparikh 10y ago
Wasn't this solved already by the BSON specification - http://bsonspec.org ? Sure this allows you a definition of types, but this could easily be done using standard JSON meta data for each field. I find BSON simpler and m
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by vparikh 11y ago
I think there is a fundamental flaw in the current equipment planners -- and that is that they are being seduced by technology. Air combat has been, and always be a test of agility and pilot skill. And history has born this out. In Vietna
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by vparikh 11y ago
Neuromancer by William Gibson
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by vparikh 11y ago
"Finding people who can do that are few and far between" When I was growing up, we had to learn assembly to do anything meaning full on a C64. And 64k is all we had, and for the most part all we were ever going to get. How will
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by vparikh 11y ago
"Finding people who can do that are few and far between" I always wonder what will happen with the next generations of programmers coming out of school - most of them get started with Python, Ruby or Java. And low level systems p
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by vparikh 11y ago
I think this is the best thing that can happen to America. We have gotten fat and way to comfortable. America does its best when it has real competition. China and Russia are now real competition and global supremacy is not, as many Ameri
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by vparikh 11y ago
For most jobs, why does anyone really need a college education? I was just having this conversation with my co-workers. We are a small startup and are looking for an office manager. Immediately one of them drafted an add and the first thing
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by vparikh 11y ago
I seriously think this will not happen. People like to interact with people when they are conducting transactions. A classic example is the bank teller. For all intensive purposes, you average ATM machine can handle just about 95% of your
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by vparikh 11y ago
I learned so much about programming on my C64 -- that one can buy it at a Toy R Us for $300 back then was amazing. I learned assembly on it - in fact what was really cool was that the 1541 disk drive had a full blow 6502 with 2k of RAM. I r
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by vparikh 11y ago
I am convinced that this happens because the anonymity that the Internet provides. And so the best way to combat this is to post the incidents on a public site. Blow away the anonymity and these people will retreat like the cowards they ar
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by vparikh 11y ago
Biggest problem is that in the US we keep trying to apply capitalism to something that does not really fit the supply/demand model. EVERYONE will get sick or injured, and at that point it is not a a luxury. When you get a heart a
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by vparikh 12y ago
Maybe I am being a bit naive, but I don't think many of those games in the good old days were made with the intention of making huge profits. Most of the people were hobbyists who just had an itch to create the game they wanted to pla
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by vparikh 12y ago
It think that most companies have completely gone of the deep end in their interviews. I have been a full-time developer for 25+ years now. My first job was writing DOS application on a 286 in assembler. Later I moved on to c/c++, De
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by vparikh 12y ago
A couple of reasons: - The use of C requires much more skilled developers then say Ruby or PHP. Note I am not saying smarter, I am saying skilled. - In web development - for most products - speed of development and maintainability trump ou
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by vparikh 12y ago
I believe the Amiga was the first computer system to just this - although with the massive CPU board caches that we have today, I don't think this would be as useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitter
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by vparikh 12y ago
That is when you know tech is in a bubble
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by vparikh 12y ago
Thats when you know you have a bubble.
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by vparikh 12y ago
Yes -- I stand corrected. Thank you
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by vparikh 12y ago
The Leica T ($1850) + Summicron T 32mm ($1950) = $3800 The Sony A7 ($1499) + Zeiss 55m f1.8 Sonnar ($999) = $2498 Thats a differential of $1302 Now lets get a few things out of the way -- Yes the Leica is a 35mm equivalent and the Sony is
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by vparikh 12y ago
This is cool. But if you really want to be retro and have fun hacking in a truly constrained environment, try coding for the Atari 2600. Grab Stella ( http://stella.sourceforge.net/index.php ), read up on Atari specs ( ht

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