Chromozon

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by Chromozon 2y ago
My job follows this, and "rebase" isn't even in the vocabulary at work. It's just so simple- our developers spend zero time with git issues because there aren't any. The master branch history ends up being a seque
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by Chromozon 6y ago
Another related issue posted today: https://www.kut.org/covid-19/2021-02-04/covid-19-testing-has...
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by Chromozon 6y ago
How is this any different than having the police go from business to business asking for security camera footage, analyzing the footage over a time period, connecting faces to names, and then going out and questioning those people? Both se
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by Chromozon 6y ago
My mother would not let me live at home while I went to college specifically for this reason. She commuted to school and worked a part-time off-campus job. She regrets that she missed out on a true college experience and did not want the
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by Chromozon 6y ago
I remember reading an article years ago which explained that the reason people get eyestrain from a white background is that the monitor's brightness is set way too high. With high brightness, the monitor acts as a light shining direc
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by Chromozon 6y ago
I went to Vanderbilt and graduated in 2013. Their financial aid covered everything up to what FAFSA said my parents could afford- the EFC (expected family contribution) value. Tuition+room/board at the time was $56k, and EFC was $8k,
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by Chromozon 7y ago
Seems very similar to Camio ( https://camio.com/ ) but targeted at the consumer space. I like the clever wrapping of object recognition and motion detection into real world actions- "dog getting on couch". I think
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by Chromozon 7y ago
I have followed ADVChina for quite some time. The creators provide a unique lens into Chinese culture that is hard to find elsewhere. They are very open about talking about Chinese culture and why it is the way it is. They talk about wha
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by Chromozon 7y ago
For those that don't know, SCAR is a scripting IDE. It was originally created for Runescape, but it can easily be used for many other games or automated tasks. Scripts are written in the Pascal programming language (super old school!
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by Chromozon 8y ago
A while ago, I talked with some guys from a blockchain technology company. They are doing mostly prototyping work for a variety of companies in different industries. However, one of the devs said that most of the problems they have been a
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by Chromozon 8y ago
The West seems to do a decent job of managing plastic waste instead of just dumping into the oceans. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/the-jour...
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by Chromozon 9y ago
Also, http://www.lissaexplains.com/ was really big at the time. Taught me everything I needed to know to code up petpages and the like.
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by Chromozon 9y ago
https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm Employers do not directly have to pay employees the minimum wage if the tips earned from the work add up to the minimum wage.
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by Chromozon 9y ago
TFS is great if everything in your codebase is a Visual Studio project. If you are trying to use it for other things, there are better version control systems out there. My ranking is Perforce > Git > TFS > SVN. I haven't us
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by Chromozon 9y ago
Some of the best Runescape bots were all written in SCAR ( https://scar-divi.com/ ). A friend of mine used them for months at a time all on one character to get 99 in many skills. He was never caught and never banned. The
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by Chromozon 9y ago
I had the same situation, and I ended up buying the 1 TB plan. I really wish they would have an intermediate tier between 10 GB and 1 TB. I would gladly pay for 100-200 GB. I use Dropbox to back up important documents but not everything
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by Chromozon 9y ago
I also use a small amount of tabs, usually under ten. When I want to go to something, I want to immediately be able to click it without having to spend time searching for it. Sometimes I watch over coworkers' shoulders as they are na
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by Chromozon 9y ago
This is a great example of how many of the things in C that don't compile in C++ are horrible programming practices, and it's really nice that C++ doesn't allow such garbage.
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by Chromozon 10y ago
My seventh grade teacher strongly enforced #1. Parents would complain to her all day long that their kid spent a lot of hours on so-and-so assignment only to receive an average grade. Her response was always that she did not care how much
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by Chromozon 10y ago
The way they did it was a bit confusing. They were playing Zelda, and then they cut the game off right as they walked through a door. Shortly after, Super Mario N64 popped up on the center of the screen. Twitch chat wondered if they were
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by Chromozon 10y ago
Very well-said. What's disturbing is how many sane people are getting up in arms over this. The trolls are going to have a field day. Unfortunately, it has already blown up and has hit all the major media outlets. This is a perfect
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by Chromozon 10y ago
I immediately picked up on this, too. From the code I've seen, novice programmers tend to do this a lot more often than someone who has been programming for a while. On a similar note, another thing novice programmers do often is rewr
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by Chromozon 10y ago
Related. Conspiracy theory websites are also very dangerous places to browse. My grandfather loves conspiracy theories, mostly the ones related to free energy machines, and he told me some sites that he went to. I was curious so I visite
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by Chromozon 10y ago
Basically what this means is that you will compile all your code using a C++ compiler, but because C++ is backwards compatible with C, they just call it "C/C++". A lot of developers still write in a C-esque fashion because th
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by Chromozon 10y ago
Hopefully you will be learning C++ and not straight up C. Modern C++ has pretty much solved all the shortcomings of C, and it's sad that people are still stuck learning archaic C for no good reason. If you are actually learning C++,
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by Chromozon 10y ago
Many large companies use Perforce. Its UI is great. It's very easy to learn, so the cost of teaching new employees is low. It's hard to screw up, and when you do screw up, it doesn't require an expert to come in and fix th
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by Chromozon 10y ago
This is what happens when major decisions can be determined a simple majority vote. What does 52 to 48 mean? It means UNDECIDED. Half the country feels one way, and the other half feels the other way. For a change this large, it should
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by Chromozon 10y ago
My workplace cafeteria, located in Austin, Texas, just switched the registers to always use the chips on cards. The result: the lines are 2-3x as long, they have hired another cashier, and they have created a cash-only line in order to spe
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by Chromozon 10y ago
Oh gosh. I really hope I will never have to work with you or ever use a product you have worked on. This is just terrible software engineering practice. You are doubling the amount of work you have to do and are creating a breeding groun
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by Chromozon 10y ago
Any lawyers around? I feel like this case would be simple to win in court. Intentional property damage.

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