amcintyre

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by amcintyre 13y ago
Thank you, although I am now somewhat disappointed that I will not see this where I live.
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by amcintyre 13y ago
I would assume that a Titan card is just as horrible for mining as any other NVIDIA card, both in terms of hardware cost and power usage.
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by amcintyre 14y ago
Office is, I think, one of the big revenue earners for Microsoft, so it does kinda make sense for them to make sure they can try to sell it to everybody regardless of which OS they run.
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by amcintyre 14y ago
There is quite simply a vast array of libraries out there that every developer has access to. As Ben points out at the 10:50 mark, looking at GitHub we can find something on the order of 150,000 C projects. That's great, unless your emplo
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by amcintyre 14y ago
Wow, I would have been a "poor fit" when I was 20-30 because (1) I can't stand the taste of most alcoholic beverages, (2) I can't stand being around drunks, and (3) I thought the purpose of having a job was to do some damned work, not find
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by amcintyre 14y ago
Surely by now somebody's managed to get Linux on a Surface RT? It sounds from the review like the hardware is pretty good, just the software that's lacking.
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by amcintyre 14y ago
I'd probably just say, "I'm sorry to have wasted your time--I'm not interested in the position after all," and then get up and leave the interview.
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by amcintyre 14y ago
I tried scanning the article to find out what made it illegal, and was fairly disappointed to find that (once again) I'd been lured by a sensationalist headline.
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by amcintyre 14y ago
My true story of the door-desk is that it made me think, "Wow, they're making everybody use desks that look like they were built from things they swiped from a dumpster behind Home Depot...how much are they going to nickel and dime me when
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by amcintyre 14y ago
> He crewed on a sub (initially im sure it said commanded) yet doesn't get on with computers... This should be no more surprising than running across a CEO that doesn't get on with computers (if he actually commanded), or an electrici
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by amcintyre 14y ago
...even with the wealth of information developers tend to make public about themselves. I guess I'm gonna be a negative Nancy here, but I know some very good developers that don't make anything about themselves public. I expect some of t
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by amcintyre 14y ago
Of course, for most programmers(let alone people in general) this is nearly useless information today. It's obsolete. And that's good. Damn right it's good--for me--that most programmers think low-level programming/machine knowledge is ob
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by amcintyre 14y ago
I don't often see things on HN and think, "wow, I absolutely must have that," but this is one of those times. Thank you for releasing this; if you do a kickstarter page or put up a donation link somewhere I'll throw some money at you. :)
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by amcintyre 14y ago
Oil would last a lot longer if car makers would provide the 60mpg cars they have in Europe, here in the USA too. Toyota's Prius C will do 55-60mpg if you're not out on the highway a lot, provided you adjust your driving habits to fit with
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by amcintyre 14y ago
"In this and the next decade, we will begin to make energy and food abundant, inexpensively purify and sanitize water from any source, cure disease, and educate the world’s masses." I may just be cynical, but I don't see how that automati
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by amcintyre 14y ago
"John only started programming in college. He has 3 years of “experience” – much of it spent working on school assignments, not projects – and Norman has 10. John’s not as experienced or capable, but he may well be just as talented as Norm
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by amcintyre 14y ago
Let me suggest that a lot of the pressures you feel in high school probably have little to do with "real life." It's amusing to think back to all the things I (and authority figures around me) worried about when I was in high school, becau
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by amcintyre 14y ago
>In-state tuition has increased about 275%. I was thinking about going to graduate school there in 2008, but somehow it was cheaper to take 3 classes remotely at out-of-state rates (at a higher-ranked school, mind you) than to drive 1
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by amcintyre 14y ago
>you would have to believe that the average person would pick a passphrase like "gastroenteritis jurisprudence algorithm aberration", which is clearly ridiculous. Oh how I wish my bank and mortgage lender would let me choose easy-to-r
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by amcintyre 14y ago
Gow appears to automatically make all those Unix utilities available right inside the normal Windows command line without having to manually kludge them in there like you do in Cygwin. I usually just find myself missing the kinds of utiliti
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by amcintyre 14y ago
And, of course, the other question: why don't we figure out how to get them to stay once they're marketable?
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by amcintyre 14y ago
Your 1, 2, and 3 would have saved me (and others) quite a lot of time in some places I've worked. It helps for new hires and (in a large company) transfers from other parts of the company. Sometimes it even saves long-time employees a lot
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by amcintyre 14y ago
> My most recent realization, though, is that most people my age don't want to work too hard. You can probably leave out "my age" and it will still be fairly accurate.
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by amcintyre 14y ago
As mistercow says, it would have been a good idea to explain that. That detail just hanging there with no explanation caused me to pause as well, because I've encountered some mathematicians (not people I've worked with, just visiting prof
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by amcintyre 14y ago
I'm going to guess that a non-trivial fraction of people that get things done don't bother tweeting about it.
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by amcintyre 14y ago
Don't be silly--we won't be eliminating standardized tests any time soon. You can't easily produce huge reports full of meaningless charts or fluff up politicians' resumes with rockets and robots. Standardized tests produce orderly, easil
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by amcintyre 14y ago
...it's worth noting that New York's rise is tilted in the direction of a specific area: internet/mobile startups. I thought that was the tilt of the entire blog/reddit/HN-osphere.
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by amcintyre 14y ago
Sure, but that shouldn't get in the way of making more advanced topics available to kids in late grade school and early high school if they show aptitude for it. I might not have been ready to choose a career in 9th grade, but I sure as hel
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by amcintyre 14y ago
I power through as quickly as possible using keyboard shortcuts, making quick decisions about whether each item is important enough to devote some small fraction of my life to. Will it help me work faster, understand something I've been wr
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by amcintyre 14y ago
Same here--I think it was a good 9 months before I actually felt like I could do anything other than just get through an 8-hour day and go to bed.

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