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by factotum 2y ago
And why is that? Do you not agree that time is our most valuable asset?
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by factotum 2y ago
I'm fine with tests, but only if companies pay a standard fee (say, $100) for a dev's time. If a company doesn't respect your time during the interview process, it probably won't while you're on the job.
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by factotum 7y ago
I'm definitely for prison reform, and for mitigating wealth inequality. However, the fact that our prisons are overcrowded and we have a lot of poor people in our country does not excuse crime like this. Burglary is not comparable to a
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by factotum 7y ago
Nothing was stolen, but if the person keeps doing it and is caught, that's just more evidence against them. Things like this often play out over a long period of time. I'd rather work towards actively deterring people than sit her
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by factotum 7y ago
That's an nearly impossible metric to pin down. You'd have to ask criminals who would have done something in specific instances whether the cameras dissuaded them from doing it. Good luck with that. What I can tell you is our came
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by factotum 7y ago
Our cameras have helped us identify the person who broke into our car a few weeks ago. That is not theater.
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by factotum 7y ago
It's part of my overall security solution. I also have an alarm system among other things. After being the victim of a $30k heist, I learned not to rely on just 1 method of detection/prevention.
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by factotum 7y ago
It's interesting how the article accuses Ring and Amazon of selling via fear, but that's also exactly what the article itself is selling. I live in Albuquerque. We have Ring cameras, and I feel so much safer when I leave town. We
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by factotum 9y ago
No, but throwing around political accusations as epithets in a non-political discussion might.
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by factotum 9y ago
You’re assuming the owners did everything according to contract and above-board. Maybe they didn’t. Ever considered that? Even if they did, perhaps they just got lucky and were able to convince smart developers to work against their interes
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by factotum 9y ago
Sure, every team wants to win. But what utility does that observation have? What’s the alternative? To me, what’s important is what happens when a given team has power.
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by factotum 9y ago
False equivalency. Look more closely at the kinds of things being done by both parties and you will see a major effort to concentrate wealth, destroy government, and institute a more theocratic and plutocratic society on one side, while the
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by factotum 9y ago
Reynolds and Reynolds in Houston.
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by factotum 9y ago
The problem with comments is that they are too often lies. As the code changes, the comments may not necessarily be updated, and in my experience, they often aren't. Automated documentation and validation are superior to static comment
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by factotum 10y ago
One person's middleware bloat is another's power tool.
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by factotum 10y ago
Kudos to this guy. I'm in my early 30s. My wife and I sold our house almost 2 years ago, bought an RV, and we've been traveling debt-free ever since. Feels good, man. But it's not without its drawbacks. Loneliness can be a co
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by factotum 10y ago
When I lived in Austin in 2006-2008, the traffic was atrocious, and it's only gotten worse in most areas. That city has a particularly profound infrastructure expansion problem, and the high growth has only exacerbated it.
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by factotum 10y ago
Life-long Texan here, and I couldn't disagree more. I grew up in the rural pandhandle area and lived in Amarillo, Austin and Houston. Now, I'm living on the road in an RV, driving across the nation, and I've found many places
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by factotum 12y ago
Perhaps the link title should more accurately describe the post content, then. It's up to the author and link submitter to clearly communicate.
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by factotum 12y ago
My experience after building almost a dozen single page apps using JS frameworks and sometimes just jQuery has been the complete opposite. With jQuery, things are easy to get going at first, then difficult later when you need to do more com
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NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Development(nsscreencast.com)
73 points by factotum 15y ago|17 comments