phazmatis

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by phazmatis 11y ago
Have you done any Android development? Do you have any confidence that Android isn't held together with duct tape and baling wire under the hood? I sure don't.
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by phazmatis 11y ago
This seems to be a trend - python, before it erlang-on-metal. Is there a stable higher-level language runtime that runs on bare metal (that I can boot in a VM)? Or, better yet, something that compiles arbitrary LLVM code into .ISOs for depl
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by phazmatis 11y ago
Heard of STEM?
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by phazmatis 11y ago
You might be the smartest person in the room, as you've only stated that you have the least experience.
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by phazmatis 11y ago
oDesk has mainly repeat clients who don't get frustrated by the 20+ bots/agencies/morons for every 1 real applicant.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Unless a software developer is tasked with deciding which version control system to use or for some odd reason has to do a deep dive into the philosophy/design of subversion, why on earth would they bother to know this? You might as we
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Observation: People have been writing this exact letter since day 1 of the GNU project.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
For all of our talk of meritocracy, we're still just following multi-millennia-old social programming. Having "Harvard" next to your name in any way gives a force multiplier to anything you want to do in life.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Fun fact: Noscript loads and parses all javascript and then just stops it from running against the live DOM. Decreases page render time, sure. Prevents exploits? Don't think so.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
It would be nice if they had thought to include natural gas drilling. The fact that they didn't leads me to believe that natural gas production hasn't also declined, and would have made their little timeline rather boring.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
"you're there to work" is perhaps the most overlooked aspect of jobs in tech. Startups are promoting this sick group dynamic where everyone is expected to become best buddies slash drinking acquaintances slash family with the
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by phazmatis 12y ago
If a Startup Founder Offers Stock, Don't Take the Job Fixed.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Fantastic post.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Exactly. Does your business model care if your server is running apache or nginx? No? Then why the hell isn't that automated, baked, and tamper-proofed? We'll know we've arrived when the only feasible attack is sneaking malic
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by phazmatis 12y ago
In mavericks, I could hit command-space and start typing, and knew that even though the spotlight box hadn't popped up yet, my text was being captured. Now in yosemite, it's more like... hit command-space, start typing "chrom
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Because only men look at porn. Crap article.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
A good reason to always throw a password on archives.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
I like to put my culinary and sock-puppetry skills on my resume under the devops section.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Full stack: Someone who can build one (1) stack which fulfills the business requirements. Database to backend to frontend(s). If you're using rails and Django at the same time, and your full stack engineers have to take on an unnecessa
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Laggy pop-in scrolling, autoplaying sound with no way to disable, yep this article ain't for me.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
s/capitalism/oligarchy
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Considering all the "helpful" features in chrome that get in the way of development (copying the url prepends " http://" , even for IPs, for example), this is an important change.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Jokes on you, Lennart just announced 8-bit systemd.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
If the ship flies out and comes back immediately, then stops, can it then send information back in time?
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Yep. Long story short, if I could send information instantaneously, thanks to relativity, if we're moving away at a fast enough speed, you could send me a message and I could reply to you before you sent it. ;)
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by phazmatis 12y ago
I'm glad the tone police are here to make irrelevant arguments about valid points.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
Maybe they won'the be actively hostile to DIY hacking like Google is with chromecast.
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by phazmatis 12y ago
It's really sad how amateur most interviewers are. I learn a lot more from them than they do from me. I actually take advantage of the few minutes they set aside for me to ask questions to poke a bit and try to get them to go off-scrip
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by phazmatis 12y ago
That's great if you're a game AI programmer (an incredibly small group) or you're creating Yet Another Dependency Loader (hey, I guess <language that becomes super popular next year> will only have 100 frameworks to man
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by phazmatis 12y ago
If it were altruism I'd applaud any effort. But their alailable lectures seem to be a bid to bring more students in to full enrollment. Poor video quality, as long as the awesomeness of the course itself can be seen, doesn't work

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