kidmenot

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by kidmenot 9y ago
Asshole entrepreneurs are one of the other factors I was talking about. They tend to make it very hard for young people to enter the job market (the famous 5+ years of experience required). It's a bit of self-entitlement on the part of
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by kidmenot 9y ago
You know, I don't feel as comfortable discarding the "too many young people with degrees" argument, because it's still a lot more people with a degree than there were in the past. I think it plays a role, and along with
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by kidmenot 9y ago
Amen to that. Employees are awfully expensive, and while we wait for the government to do something, business owners keep relocating manufacturing to places where labor is cheaper, leaving citizens unemployed. I don't know if the solut
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by kidmenot 9y ago
Then again, while I agree with the value of studying for a degree, young people see the vast majority of their slightly older peers with a degree in their hands who can't get a job, so I can see why the young can decide to forego colle
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by kidmenot 9y ago
Aw gee, that makes sense, yes. Never worked for a company big enough to need this. Also, I'm in Italy, so some things might work differently here.
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by kidmenot 9y ago
Not the user you replied to but, according to my experience, Code Complete is useful in that, as many other well-written books, it gives advice that comes from common sense and gives it a name. Much like Martin Fowler did with Refactoring,
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by kidmenot 9y ago
Not having much experience on this subject, I have to ask: would you not get your developers to verify that the vulnerability is there and fix it while the legal department is doing its thing? The vulnerability is already out there, and t
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by kidmenot 9y ago
You know, we're probably doing it wrong. The Internet allows you to obtain many, many of the day-to-day answers in the blink of an eye. One would think that this is great, because theoretically, by virtue of such a shorter question-ans
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by kidmenot 9y ago
> I'd ask them how married they were to CS and if moving off of it was doable. See, that's something I would never do. I dislike your tech stack, and if I can I will stay away from you. Why would I want to ask you to change i
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by kidmenot 9y ago
Fair enough. If I can choose between a shop that uses A vs B, where A is something I like and B is yet another link in the toolchain that gives me more trouble that it solves, I will choose the former rather than the latter. And no: unlike
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by kidmenot 9y ago
And I totally believe that. I hated CoffeeScript with a passion since the moment I first laid my eyes on it. To give an idea of how much I dislike it, I would prefer to write plain Javascript. To me, CF looks like a bad attempt at inheritin
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by kidmenot 9y ago
This has nothing to do with FUD, sorry. It's only one of the factors that discourages me from visiting, and if now it has become a problem, it means that this presidency somehow made it worse.
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by kidmenot 9y ago
Frankly, I find the thought of having to give my passwords away to be baffling to say the least. No chance I will ever visit the US under these conditions, because I tend to dislike totalitarian countries.
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by kidmenot 9y ago
This only reinforces my intention to postpone my first visit to the US until after this presidency and its associated madness have ended. EDIT: at least until after this presidency.
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by kidmenot 10y ago
> I can't imagine partnering with a traditional automaker will increase the pace. Right? I was thinking exactly the same. One would think that having a car built in-house enabled them to iterate that much quicker. Then again, Googl
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by kidmenot 10y ago
I thought about it so many times I lost count. My dream is writing for a living, and I'm currently writing the first draft of a novel. I'm about 1/5 of the way there, began a couple of weeks ago. I've tried a few other t
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by kidmenot 10y ago
Here, I took a couple of screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/urg8s
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by kidmenot 10y ago
Chrome Version 56.0.2906.0 dev (64-bit) on Windows 10.
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by kidmenot 10y ago
And the pattern continues. C, G, D and A major are the easiest to play in because their key signature has respectively 0, 1, 2 and 3 sharps. Further, C# and F major are probably right behind those four because most people playing the guitar
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by kidmenot 10y ago
Those two "Sign up" buttons hide the last line of both paragraphs for me. Also, the three buttons at the top ("login with") look a bit funky.
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by kidmenot 10y ago
As I often tell people when talking about mobile devices: we're not there yet . Not from a hardware point of view, not from a software one. We're not even close. Smartphones still have a long way to go. Battery life sucks, softwa
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by kidmenot 10y ago
Things like this are why I got into the habit of checking Facebook's settings every once in a while. Not that it would help much in this case, but hey. They seem to have a knack for fucking with my settings and reverting them to their
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by kidmenot 10y ago
Yeah, well... you know, it's a vice.com article we're talking about here.
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by kidmenot 10y ago
Happy to hear about IronPython trying to get up to speed, I'm using it a lot and it's pretty awesome. I haven't had the chance to play with Roslyn yet, though. Seems promising.
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by kidmenot 10y ago
I hate it with a passion. I use Dapper whenever I can and couldn't be happier about it.
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by kidmenot 10y ago
> This is what I hope should happen with Windows. They should decide on POSIX kernel and completely rewrite most of it. They simply can't afford it, not because they lack the resources but from a strategic point of view. See the oth
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by kidmenot 10y ago
Can I thrown an idea in? I personally hate when a small icon that is placed near a feature in the pricing table sends me to a different page. The way I see it, the icon is supposed to help me with a small popup telling me in a few words wha
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by kidmenot 10y ago
Agreed. Properly written C# code is very readable. I write most things in it these days and couldn't be happier about what this language has become. I have a few minor gripes with id, but they mainly relate to missing syntactic sugar r
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by kidmenot 10y ago
Also, the fact that human lives might be at stake makes the whole system life -critical rather than just mission -critical. Machines can be rebuilt no matter how expensive they are, but human lives are gone for good. Having extremely rigi
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by kidmenot 10y ago
I've never been much of a gamer, but I have fond memories of the many hours I spent playing Transport Tycoon many years ago. I was delighted when I found out about the OpenTTD open source effort, as it enabled me to play once again aft

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