sixtofour

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by sixtofour 15y ago
"if you're working outside the job, then you're not fully committed to me". And if you're not working outside the job, then you're not fully committed to your career. And for that matter, why should anyone be fully committed to a job? Life
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by sixtofour 15y ago
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11467
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"if the name is an acronym, you should spell out the acronym" (I did not downvote you BTW) Someone else replied that the project is now just referred to as LLVM. That's fine, but people expect acronyms to stand for something, and the defini
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I can think of a couple ways to approach this. 1. Pick a very small project, something useful to you but borderline under-ambitious. Anything that bugs you. Nothing that you would necessarily point proudly to on github; don't be thinking ab
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Off topic suggestion: When you have a home page for a project, if the name is an acronym, you should spell out the acronym in the first paragraph, if not the first sentence or the title. From http://llvm.org/ I looked at Overview, Featu
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." —Tanenbaum, Andrew S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet#In_media
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Exactly. It's like asking Smith & Wesson to explain itself after an armed robbery.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Make an RSS feed for the discussions (what you're reading right now), not the articles. You can always get to the articles from the discussions. If the RSS feed linked to the discussions I would almost never go to the HN front or new pages,
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by sixtofour 15y ago
The ONLY reason I still use Firefox is tagged bookmarks. Every time I use Chrome to test something I'm reminded how much of a turtle-pig is Firefox. Despite claimed improvements in Firefox's use of memory and processor, Chrome is noticeably
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by sixtofour 15y ago
It is to some, and it's not to others, and either attitude is fine if mutually agreed to. Spying and control is a big deal.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"Andrew: What you were doing was, you were buying ads online and running affiliate advertising against them. The profit was the revenue that you were making from the affiliate programs, what they were paying you every time they got a new or
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I though Microsoft was going to, or might abandon Silverlight? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=silverlight+microsoft+abandon "Streams for sure."
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I'm guessing that where you post has a lot to do with what gets posted, for example my guess would be that if you could do this on IRC you'd get C and Perl higher up.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Good suggestions for any career, not just design. Even the first suggestion, "Learn your graphic design theory and history," when translated to your specialty is valuable. There are a lot of giants' shoulders to stand on, and all you have t
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by sixtofour 15y ago
1. "Since term limits seem to be a sticking point (how can you get someone to vote for firing themselves?) ..." Indeed. 2. "... I think that we should have a mandatory retirement age, 65, just like the rest of working class america." Who's
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by sixtofour 15y ago
The normal, regular post about this very thing will come around tomorrow, the first of the month.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
The problem is the copyrighted material, like songs. If the songs weren't there, then people wouldn't be able to use them illegally. You know, like the war on drugs. We need a war on songs.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I wonder if North Korea is open to sister city treaties?
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by sixtofour 15y ago
I'm not a good source of investing advice (other than "do it"). In general you need to treat it like any other skill you need in your day job, including deciding which skill(s) to learn. Investment choices are going to depend on your life a
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Post all three pieces somewhere (your letter, his non-response, and your severe response), then call it to the attention of everyone who has the slightest interest in his embarrassment, including news outlets whose only interest is selling
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"I've been working for startups for the past 12 years. I won't be a millionaire even if my current company sells for $.5b" I am the pot calling the kettle black here, but I'd like to point out that working in software for 12 years (or 15 or
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by sixtofour 15y ago
The Brief addon to Firefox is working well for me. It's local, not cloud, and not social, but I don't care about either of those. I like the interface much better than GReader's. In fact, I'm following many more blogs than I did with GReade
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Having watched and helped someone new to programming with this (anecdote of one), I think it's a fair introduction to Python, but not a good introduction to programming. Best if you bring at least a small amount of experience.
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Python 3 is still an "eyes open" choice. Python.org all but comes out and says that 2 is still the safer choice. http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 tl;dr "If 3 does everything you need, great. However, there's a good bit of thin
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by sixtofour 15y ago
The way these things get written is by keeping notes as you figure out the bits and pieces ...
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"This is a lame argument, akin to complaining that people using computers for fun are reducing the supply for people using computers for work." The DEA limits how much of these drugs are allowed to be made. Companies have to petition to mak
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by sixtofour 15y ago
The NSA cared a lot about FORTRAN. Did I just learn something about the nature of code breaking, given FORTRAN's affinities? "Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California in the 1950s for scientific and engineer
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by sixtofour 15y ago
"Since, in essence, this life was impossible, Alex began taking Adderall to make it possible." If you're doing this, or thinking about it, consider that it's a prescription drug and if it's not prescribed for you then you're getting a) ille
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by sixtofour 15y ago
Wouldn't !g at DDG do the same thing?
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by sixtofour 15y ago
It makes me want to cry out of frustration.

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