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blakecaldwell

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    Comment #35743361

    I love this so much. Amazing use of creativity and tech chops. A++ would trainspot again.

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    Comment #31488126

    Yeah, really shocking. Sorry, couldn’t resist.

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    Comment #25443656

    Let's leave real money behind and all move to crypto. It's just so easy. Can't trust banks. /s

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    Comment #16538340

    I can see this for a team of interns on a summer project, but not senior devs that don’t really get stuck that often, or know to involve someone for the brief periods where they ne…

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    Comment #15446379

    Yeah, me too. Terrible till.

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    Comment #14465986

    This. If you have a CFO, contact that person. If not, then anyone in finance, or a partner. Everyone is there for pay. This is a reasonable request.

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    Comment #13164896

    I spend most of my time in Go these days, and find that it's goroutine model is perfectly suited for both I/O and CPU-bound services. The runtime decides if a thread is needed, and…

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    Comment #13164895

    I spend most of my time in Go these days, and find that it's goroutine model is perfectly suited for both I/O and CPU-bound services. The runtime decides if a thread is needed, and…

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    Comment #13164880

    Wouldn't you agree that a compiled language is typically much easier to maintain than an interpreted one (refactoring, etc). Also, it's been years since I've worked in C#, but I wo…

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    Comment #12660066

    It's a joke - hence, the smilie. This is a typical response from a non-Firefly fan. :)

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    Comment #12653876

    Who cares about non-Firefly fans? :)

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    Comment #12505743

    Agree. I like Go for the same reason. With Java, there's a weird pressure to spend a week designing class hierarchies and to set up all the factories and abstract factories. In Go …

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    Comment #12505734

    Nailed it.

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    Comment #11687709

    Congrats guys!

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    Comment #11606420

    ... and how it could reverse Greedo shooting first - I assume this technology can fix that... I'm right there with ya, buddy.

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    Comment #11419103

    Why not just have TSA agents flip a coin, or buy a bunch of Trouble board games, and repurpose the dice rolling bubble?

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    Comment #11250628

    Yeah. You can save a lot of your time, and the candidates' time with a simple coding interview - even FizzBuzz will knock out half of the candidates. Then pair up and/or give a tak…

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    Comment #11250447

    Coding interviews are very stressful, and churn through a lot of really awesome potential hires. I imagine there are tons of false negatives, but it's nearly impossible for a terri…

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    Comment #11245240

    Was joking :)

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    Comment #11242674

    This would never happen if Steve Ballmer was still alive.

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    Comment #11115128

    Does Apple get to bill the FBI for the time that their engineers and legal department will be busy on this request?

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    Comment #10816324

    Satellite is also an option for remote locations: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13745 $250 for this module, and $12/month for the satellite usage. For the sensor itself, that's…