loopbit

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by loopbit 7y ago
You might have not experienced it and if you didn't, congratulations! I'm happy for you (honestly!). But these problems exist all across the board. My last job hunt (signed a new contract just a few weeks ago) has taken me 3 month
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by loopbit 7y ago
Your comment reminded me of this: DEF CON 18 - Zoz - Pwned By The Owner: What Happens When You Steal A Hacker's Computer: https://youtu.be/Jwpg-AwJ0Jc
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by loopbit 9y ago
What's difficult to understand? I've been using Firefox as my main browser because of the extensions while choosing to miss out on features that other browsers had and Firefox didn't. Simply because the pros outweighed the co
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by loopbit 9y ago
> Anybody who's ever worn a helmet can tell you they are painful. I have a motorbike and wear my helmet about two hours every day, longer if I take a trip on it. It has never been painful. It's snug and it can feel a bit weird
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by loopbit 9y ago
I'm not an expert and all of this happened almost 20 years ago, but I do remember avidly reading about ITER around 2001-2003, when the project was more or less agreed between all parties. Wikipedia[0] has a short paragraph on the histo
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by loopbit 9y ago
A while ago I saw a link to https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand (probably here in HN) and I have it in the list of things-to-do to try it. In the meantime I have a OpenVPN server at home just so I can log into
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by loopbit 9y ago
At close to 20 years of experience, I consider myself pretty senior and every job I've has had a 6 months probation period. During that time both the employee and/or the company can terminate the contract giving a small notice - o
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by loopbit 9y ago
> CSS was the modern thing. JS was called DHTML and was used for mouse trailing bouncing balls. Javascript was called Javascript and was used, mostly, for form validation. Dynamic menus, animations... - all of which you couldn't do
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by loopbit 9y ago
I know of a couple of places that have box office data (for different regions) and they do indeed sell it. ComScore/Rentrak is the first place that comes to mind that has almost complete box office info, but there are others.
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by loopbit 9y ago
Just FYI, the previous branch was "Weatherwax".
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by loopbit 9y ago
No offence, but I don't think that who you are responding to means parents like you. You seem like a decent person trying to minimize the disruption your toddler is causing the other travellers, but in my experience you are definitely
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by loopbit 9y ago
No one has mentioned this version, but I've been addicted to it for years. It adds an extra level of complexity by giving levels to the mines (monsters) and the player: http://www.hojamaka.com/game/mamono_sweeper&
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by loopbit 9y ago
Exactly my issue with all mind mapping apps I've tried - they are trees, not graphs, and I don't think that way. I find them useful for to-do lists, but little else. Even if you can connect two separate nodes, the tool doesn'
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by loopbit 9y ago
I might be wrong, but I'd say that the interest in switch expressions and pattern matching from the Java community most likely comes from Scala (a JVM language) rather than Rust. Here's an example from the Scala docs: def show
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by loopbit 9y ago
IMHO, no, I don't think it ended WWI, it was probably the end of WWI that spread it globally so fast (plenty of malnourished soldiers going back home). Maybe a bit off-topic, I wholeheartedly agree with your teacher, but even if a hist
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by loopbit 9y ago
Another point for conferences, IMHO, is that you might learn something you were not expecting to. Here's a scenario that I've seen repeated quite often in conferences: You have two talks you are interested in with some free time i
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by loopbit 9y ago
Yes, they usually only test the feature and you are right, when you are dealing with plenty of interconnected components, it's more difficult to do complete tests and there's a higher chance of something slipping by unnoticed. How
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by loopbit 9y ago
I agree with you, the lack of QA skills in a team is a dangerous thing. But I disagree with the notion that the agile methodologies are the problem, more like an excuse from the same people that would use any other excuse to cut corners[0].
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by loopbit 9y ago
Still, as someone who lived the browser wars of the 90's, "ancient" is not an adjective I'd use for something that happened only a decade ago. Or put in a different way, if the browser changes in 2007 are "ancient&q
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by loopbit 9y ago
> [...]but I still think creators were/are being robbed. Sure, they are. By the recording companies. The argument we, nerds, made at the time is that with that model of content creation and distribution artists were still getting mo
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by loopbit 9y ago
While a song might be public, it doesn't mean that a specific recording of the song is. The owners of the rights to the recording can only exercise rights over their recording, not on the song itself. Sorry to nitpick, but if we are go
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by loopbit 9y ago
Both app size and startup time should improve greatly with Graal (or with Java 9's jlink or jaotc), the idea is to generate an executable with only the part of the JRE and external libraries that the app really uses. There was some dis
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by loopbit 9y ago
Wow... just... wow. That sounds horrible and I can't imagine having to go through that. No, I haven't lived that and in my case the medical staff (nurses specially, but even normal hospital staff) always went above and beyond thei
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by loopbit 9y ago
I've written and deleted this comment several times, I'm just not sure how to say all i want to say and I don't want to come across as arrogant or melodramatic but I disagree and I think that you underestimate your own capaci
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by loopbit 9y ago
You might, I have a mac mini that has run fine since day one of the high sierra update. However, my rMBP has had several freezes (at least once a month) and a few graphical glitches (had to do a hard reboot after every instance). Both were
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by loopbit 9y ago
I haven't seen the series, but I also find the idea of ARGs interesting. What it's being discussed here is not if the addon is interesting or not, it's the fact that Mozilla, a supposedly freedom and privacy advocate has inst
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by loopbit 9y ago
What do you mean "environments"? Do you mean "containers"? The ones called "personal", "shopping", etc? I've done a quick search for environments in case there's something I missed, and foun
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by loopbit 9y ago
Then let's ban baby food?
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by loopbit 9y ago
Babies can't eat a lot of food that adults eat while adults can eat baby food. Should that mean that the only available food is baby food?
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by loopbit 9y ago
I used both and it was even better... When I'm working on a specific problem I tend to open a lot of tabs, so my workflow was to create a new group, open all the tabs I needed while I worked (sometimes I'd open the same link in se

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