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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
I think it's safe to say that modern Web commenting utterly dwarfs the entire history of Usenet posting, making the latter pretty much irrelevant except as a historical note. Look at the article's definition of trolling. They use
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
you made an assumption about blog posts being the only possible way I've ever experienced interaction on this topic You're spouting nonsense. Work on your reading skills.
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
You might want to revise your post. It has some good points in it (e.g. the CEO bit), but they're hidden inside a very long rant laced with red flags like: Until they start shoving these sorts of issues down my throat I'm willi
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by was_hellbanned 12y ago
For memory techniques, including memory palaces, I can recommend "Quantum Memory Power" by Dominic O'Brien. He was (is?) a world champion at memorization, and does pretty well at presenting in his audio book. Some of it fee
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I play the Monstercat album mixes After years of expanding my musical tastes, I came back to my original conclusion from the late 90's: rather trashy techno/electronica/house is the way to go for concentration. I eventual
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
Who are you to dictate to others what is or is not meditation? Who are you to dictate anything, to anyone?
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
The most common justification I hear about the open floor plan is that it "encourages collaboration". In my experience, the sort of people who talk about open floor plans for "collaboration" tend to be incompetent mana
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I would say someone on a full CS-and-engineering track should study #2 (intro), #1 (rigorous CS/math), and finish with #3, since that's where you want to focus on the latest industry standards and trends. This is similar to my ow
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I think we need to break all of this down into at least three entirely separate areas: 1) Computer Science, which is, in my opinion, entirely a subset of mathematics, and should be taught as such. 2) Coding, which is the ability to break
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
"C++ is a grotesquerie more suitable for a carnival horror show" eyeroll
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
"Woz gets $700 speeding ticket for doing 104 MPH in Toyota Prius" ( http://macdailynews.com/2007/08/21/woz_gets_700_speeding_tic... )
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I interviewed at a small company. I came in, talked to several people, cruised through some coding problems, and left with smiles and handshakes. Sent the usual thank-you email, too. About three months later, after I'd long written
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
IMO, as a long-time desktop developer (occasional early mobile and web), unless you're interfacing with hardware, there is probably no reason for you to be writing a true native desktop application. At this point, even if I were writin
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
It's been my experience that there's not much difference between AT&T and T-Mobile overall. Which one is better just depends on where you spend most of your time. People with Verizon seem to get a signal virtually everywhere
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I've been doing much of this for a long time now, particularly listening to podcasts while working out or walking the dog. In my opinion, it actually hurts productivity. You become dependent upon having a mental and emotional escape f
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
In my own vernacular, this is the difference between a manager and a boss. A boss tells people what to do. A manager manages them, leads them, makes sure their needs are fulfilled, and protects them from unnecessary distractions.
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I came here to mention that Grand Theft Auto did a fantastic job satirizing (if you can call it that) the theme of torture and assassination. In the game, you are forced to participate in torture of a guy for absolutely no reason. You have
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
"Unlike my previous job where I had to work 9-6 ... sometime I work for a continuous 16 hours and then sometime I find myself I haven't looked at that project in the last two days ..." I think that's actually really na
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
If technology startups were founded more on business principles and less on hot air, tech hand-waving, and "the Facebook of X ", then this probably wouldn't be so much of an issue. Speaking as someone who got a home computer
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
That already happens. It's fraud, and we have enforcement against it.
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
The unethical part comes in when you're purposely padding your estimates, delaying response, feigning work load, or profiting from a side business. The last one depends heavily on your work agreement, state law, and how the company ch
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
The rather unethical alternative is to find a job in a fairly incompetent group at a company that's not extremely tech focused, then spend most of your time working on whatever you want to. I've had jobs (and spoken to many peopl
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
The point becomes moot if you eliminate corporate income tax. You want companies to pay salaries, not taxes.
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I have a CS degree from a minor state school. It was okay, not as rigorous as the programs of a few friends who went to much more respected schools, but not bad either. I happened to have an excellent CS teacher in high school. Honestly,
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
I have a relative who is still making very good money writing one-off custom applications for all sorts of local businesses. He works entirely in Visual Basic with an Access back-end. He doesn't even use .Net, it's all old-schoo
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
Awhile back I started working on some Project Euler problems and found that some of my passion for programming returned. Also, pursuing some projects of great personal interest to me helped, but the repetitive annoyances (rabbit hole/
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
> Am I the only one never bored when left alone somewhere? Ah, boasting disguised as a response. > I don't even want to work with you. And a really cruel, personal insult to finish off with. This sort of attitude needs to end. I
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
This was both humorous and interesting. The people complaining about the wheelchair aspect need to stop and think about their own projections around the word "wheelchair".
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
That's kind of the point.
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by was_hellbanned 13y ago
SF hasn't been cool since probably the 90's. People flock their, latch on to the manic imprint they burn into their mind in their first few years[1], and proceed desperately fight change. The infrastructure is wildly outdated, th

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