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by macavity23 8y ago
Vi folks used to make fun of Emacs as ‘Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping’!
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by macavity23 8y ago
Amen. Turn up when you say you will, deliver what you promised, on time, and generally give a minimal damn, and you’re already ahead of 95% of your co-workers. I don’t think it will ever stop amazing me.
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by macavity23 8y ago
Any age, as long as your skills are current. The demand here is savage enough to overcome most prejudice. There are many times more older engineers in the bay area than anywhere else I’ve worked.
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by macavity23 9y ago
Not to disagree with anything else you wrote, but anyone who says butchery is an unskilled job has definitely never tried it. What other C21st job has a legitimate need for chain mail?
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by macavity23 9y ago
This IS 'Azure Mobile Center' - mobile.azure.com redirects to this. ZERO communication about this change. MS might have changed but their legendarily-confusing branding is still the same. I have a React Native app in App Center an
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by macavity23 9y ago
One of my favorite things about Shadowrun was rolling a 1/2 pound of D6s at once!
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by macavity23 9y ago
Not only can you, everyone who uses it does :)
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by macavity23 9y ago
At this point I think one has to assume there are more advanced machine-learning-based crawlers out there too. ML is very good at picking up 'anomalies'.
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by macavity23 9y ago
I actually am, but not about AI becoming smarter than us, or the 'singularity', for good reasons others have already stated. I'm concerned what happens when human-sized combat robots become capable of defeating a trained and
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by macavity23 9y ago
One of my favorite things about the Apple Watch is that it keeps uncannily good time. Put two next to each other and you'll see what I mean. I always found it disappointing that even the best mechanical watches drift by around a seco
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by macavity23 9y ago
Acking PagerDuty alerts from your wrist during a show feels like a superpower.
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by macavity23 9y ago
I like it. The initial UI is confusing, but also intriguing. The author reco it gave (David Liss) was good. If you have 3 people working on this, presumably you have an actual product on the way, care to share more?
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by macavity23 9y ago
You don't actually need that good a credit score, since it's a charge card, not credit. You mainly just need the >$500/yr membership fee.
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by macavity23 10y ago
It's fairly straightforward but you need to write some Obj-C, I don't think you can do it entirely in Swift yet. It's pretty painless in iOS, YMMV on Android. See here for details: https://facebook.github.io/r
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by macavity23 10y ago
Learning Bash is both incredibly useful and will also make you richly appreciate more modern languages :)
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by macavity23 10y ago
I find http://moosti.com to be the best of the web tomato timers
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by macavity23 10y ago
Written by Carl Szabo from 'Net Choice', a Trade Association whose members include Google, AOL, Facebook, Ebay. This is a straight-up corporate press release.
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by macavity23 10y ago
I grew up near Menwith Hill in the 80s. They did tours of the facility - not inside the golf balls or the other secret bits, but they had a bowling alley, all kinds of fun things for bored servicemen. Everyone living nearby knew what the ba
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by macavity23 10y ago
Typing with my splinted-for-carpal-tunnel hands: for the love of God, if you're using vim all day, then map Esc to CapsLock or something else near your home row, or one day you will be wearing these things too.
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by macavity23 10y ago
They're certainly expensive ($350), but no-one who finds it helps with their Carpal Tunnel (like me) would say it's overpriced. Think of its price in the context of medical devices :)
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by macavity23 10y ago
This is excellent. Thanks for posting.
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by macavity23 10y ago
Also through vocabulary. 'Le weekend' (vs 'la fin de semaine') is the classic example, both of what l'academie does and how utterly (though heroically) doomed its efforts are.
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by macavity23 10y ago
Looks great! I think this is the first open implementation of the new http2 api (?) Looking forward to trying it out.
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by macavity23 10y ago
My understanding of 'fire fast' is different; it's rather that if you make a mistake and hired someone who isn't a good fit, then you should cut your losses and fire them ASAP. Really just a specific case of Failing Fast
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by macavity23 10y ago
It is a great book. It also explains why the ending to The Stand sucks so hard, which always bothered me :)
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by macavity23 10y ago
An important person missing from the article is Marcia Lucas, George's first wife. She was hugely influential in the development of the background for eps IV & V, and many people think her departure was where the mythos lost its in
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by macavity23 10y ago
Agreed - and I think it will stay that way. Right now most people find it too much expense and trouble to keep a photo-quality color (2D) inkjet at home, and would rather pay per-photo at Kinkos/Walgreens. I don't see any signs of
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by macavity23 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_return :)
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by macavity23 10y ago
To anyone trying this: make sure you warm up first and stretch afterwards. One minute of instant-on full-intensity exercise of any kind is just begging for an injury. Especially if you're not eighteen any more like me.
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by macavity23 10y ago
I raised this point with my lawyer recently. His view is that this is essentially impossible - any rules in the company articles can be rewritten or dropped at the whim of the acquirer. Some technical solutions might be possible, in terms o

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