wambotron

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by wambotron 8y ago
I don't think these match up very well. While Gibson's most iconic guitar is the LP and Fender's is the Strat, they still make a bunch of different guitars that are NOT expensive, but play great. This is moreso true of Fender
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by wambotron 8y ago
I bought my first bike here earlier this year aged 35. I took the MSF course at a Harley dealer and talked a bit about what bike might fit me best for riding as a casual/weekend rider (up to maybe 5k miles per year if I ride a lot). No
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by wambotron 8y ago
I can't speak for all Western countries, but I live in an extremely humid area with high pollen from around March until November. High humidity means your clothes take forever to dry and they're going to be covered in insects. Hig
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by wambotron 8y ago
Hispanic refers to Spanish-influenced cultures, not all of South America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_America I think that's why it's largely considered Latin America instead of Hispanic America.
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by wambotron 8y ago
Mr Jumbo/PHP doesn't use an elephant logo. Is it the color you're concerned with? Mr Jumbo reminds me more of Bing Bong from Inside Out. Foxy/Gitlab logo is _very_ close. Moby/Docker is a stretch but I can see it a
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by wambotron 8y ago
I have recently been interviewing and people have been asking me very CS-specific questions that, quite frankly, never come up in my day-to-day work. Not only that, but they _haven't_ come up in the past 15 years of work. I had to real
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by wambotron 8y ago
I do. I've only had two jobs I truly enjoyed doing the 9-5 work for, all the rest have been a slog to get through to pay for my other interests and family-related stuff.
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by wambotron 8y ago
The school district my kids are in does this. High school starts 1 hour after elementary, and the buses just run the same routes twice.
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by wambotron 9y ago
While I appreciate the value people get from TypeScript, I do not use it and would prefer if it were optional (along with babel). Looks ok otherwise.
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by wambotron 9y ago
The drills don't make sense to me. If it's a drill to protect the students against one of their own, that student has also been in the drills and knows that quiet rooms still likely have people in them. If I remember correctly, th
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by wambotron 9y ago
I've always liked Baltimore, but I never lived there. I used to visit every year when I lived up North, but since moving to Richmond, I haven't been up at all. I kind of miss the weird grittiness it has.
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by wambotron 9y ago
> A five year old computer running a recent browser will also struggle with new websites. My _gaming rig_ is 5+ years old and still runs new games fine. I don't even know where you came up with this. My wife owns a 2012 Macbook Pro
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by wambotron 9y ago
But why does it matter to a general user if there are real or fake users behind twitter accounts? It makes no difference to me whether I have fake followers or not, as I'm not going to be forced to see anything they're posting (or
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by wambotron 9y ago
I'm not saying it's lower, but you know the risks when you use the software.
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by wambotron 9y ago
You choose to give your data to Microsoft/Google/Facebook/whatever other private company you're complaining about. There is no agreement to give things to the NSA.
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by wambotron 9y ago
I've worked at quite a few companies in my time, and almost all of them have complete garbage for their internal tools. It's always perceived as "something we need, but it doesn't matter what it looks like" -- but t
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by wambotron 9y ago
This is an extremely naive view of living situations and how "easy" it is to just move somewhere. I worked for a company in NYC for years and lived 8 miles from work. It took me a minimum of 90 minutes to get to work. You seem t
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by wambotron 9y ago
> Easy to procrastinate, easy to give false reports which then leads to regular overwork in the days just before a hard deadline. This isn't a remote problem. I see this _all_ the time with people at work now and I don't work r
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by wambotron 9y ago
I don't find it difficult to be a casual user. I've disabled all email and notifications from them. I look at it maybe once every 2 weeks. There's nothing really ever on it aside from a band mentioning they're touring ag
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by wambotron 9y ago
I never felt like I had any problems, to be honest. It was so quick and easy to write things, I never worried. There are a decent amount of plugins out there on github, though. Give it a shot!
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by wambotron 9y ago
I still say Mithril ( https://mithril.js.org/ ) is where it's at. I am at a company now that uses Angular 4.x and I'm not impressed with it. IMO, it's a way to make JS seem more like Spring/Java (especiall
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by wambotron 9y ago
We should only let people have one release of anything. That way there are no extra man hours spent on anything that some random guy on HN thinks is shitty.
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by wambotron 9y ago
There are extra lights on electric that go down to 7s. The fact is that the standard strings for acoustic are 12s and the fact that a usable acoustic starts at $500 new kind of shows how much of a misfit it is for people who are looking to
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by wambotron 9y ago
Acoustic light strings are 12 gauge though, compared to electrics which are 9 or 10 gauge. There is definitely a large difference between those to a beginner. For what it's worth, I actually use 8s on my electrics, so the jump from ele
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by wambotron 9y ago
I completely disagree with the acoustic recommendation as well. They're harder to play, which means it's much easier to give up on. You can get a 1w belt-clip amp if you really need to plug in, or you could just get a semi-hollow
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by wambotron 9y ago
In what way is instagram "modern society?" You can stop using it, you won't even notice.
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by wambotron 9y ago
I have one for work and absolutely hate it. No tactile feedback at all, so it's easy to mis-hit a key. I also echo the guy who said he accidentally hits Siri now because of it. It happened to me A LOT until I realized you can change wh
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by wambotron 9y ago
It _is_ a modern language, and people do start learning it when they get jobs that use it. It's just syntax, and it's a really good tool for certain jobs. You should give it a go with Lazarus IDE and see if you still feel that way
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by wambotron 9y ago
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ has been around since 1999. Not like it's _that_ old, but for technology, it's pretty old.
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by wambotron 9y ago
What is about community strength? If he's creating applications and enjoys doing it, why does it matter who else is using the same language? Worst case scenario, he can translate libraries from other languages into Object Pascal, but r

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