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chimmy_chonga

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About chimmy_chonga

I do stuff.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #18543149

    I was about to make this comment as well. The only way to sideload games on any game console is to essentially "jail break" it as well. Which automatically voids any and all warran…

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    Comment #17921797

    I volunteered with Microsoft's TEALS ( https://www.tealsk12.org/ ) organization last year as a volunteer classroom teacher for an introductory CS Course. The first semester was mos…

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    Comment #17207890

    A: I’d just dive in and place bets know how to learn from my experiences. I wrote about how to do that in my book, which is largely about how to convert mistakes into learned princ…

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    Comment #17091446

    well, this joke didn't go over well ha. The man went on rants about C++ I can only imagine what he has to say about JS

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    Comment #17085105

    Linus Torvalds would hate this

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    Comment #16829989

    There's a very popular young adult novel out called Scythe written by Neal Shusterman. In this novel there is a benevolent cloud-based AI in charge of ruling over the whole world n…

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    Comment #16823089

    We are not Facebook's customers. Their advertisers are. They owe us practically nothing.

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    Comment #16659374

    to be fair, a lot of smaller sites go down after being posted on hackernews due to the huge uptick in traffic.

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    Comment #16600706

    Github is just the end point where the program git pushes your code for storage and viewing. There are plenty of other alternatives, including ones you can host yourself, the most …

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    Comment #16569894

    Sometimes its necessary to learn more of a board sense of something. Even if you've used it before. For instance, we use Mongo DB at my place of work but, we do not take advantage …

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    Comment #16568605

    very cool

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    Comment #16539860

    Ghostery found 39 trackers on that article. The irony is strong today.

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    Comment #16259368

    > they would be going up without tax subsidies. They don't even build Walmarts without tax subsidies these days.

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    Comment #16241754

    that's a good point

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    Comment #16239753

    Those served an actual purpose though. They weren't just shoved into space just to say, "hey look at what we did". That's the point they're making. Don't pollute space just because…

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    Comment #16231211

    "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky" - Michael Scott

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    Comment #16177805

    Now you too can make web pages straight out of the 90's!

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    Comment #16118886

    How big of a shift is moving from angular 1.x to 5?

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    Comment #16118044

    They play white noise in my building at work and, your first week you really notice it but, once you get used to it being there you don't notice it all. Except maybe when something…

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    Comment #16107401

    This assumes there isn't a flexible solution though. There is more than just the extremes here. If a company isn't innovative or flexible enough to think of a solution then it's th…

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    Comment #16106593

    They can still make money off ad revenue, they'll just have to think of a way to do it without compromising the user's privacy.

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    Comment #15960798

    > Currently, it exists as a working prototype with software "bureaus" which allow a user to read and navigate news, web sites and social media entirely with the use of various prin…

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    Comment #15916467

    Hey now, we usually beat Mississippi