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mikle
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About mikle
Visit my blog sveder.com/blog for my long form writing. Email me at m@sveder.com
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Comment #15764168
The fun part is the conference he started this in (Geekcon) didn't have internet this year. Very appropriate :)
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Comment #9204174
Yes, that is exactly what I do too. When I just started I treated code reviews as a way to show my knowledge and feel superior, which reflected the environment I was in. Once I mov…
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Comment #8849225
TBH, early adopters have no problem giving their email for these kind of stuff. Even weirder is your conclusion that if you give someone your email he can spam your contacts, which…
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Comment #7676251
I agree with everything, but there is that small point that if you don't want to be associated with people you worked with, it does fall into the "shady" category, at least somewha…
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Comment #7217309
But SPAM is Google's problem and they are devoting a lot of resources to stopping it. Not to say it is exclusively Google's problem or Google's only/biggest problem.
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Comment #6859669
Some people use Python as JS or PHP, why not also make it behave like that? In reality, even if this is satire (which I believe it is) I'm sure if enough people will know about it,…
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Comment #6565084
Some places are more cunning. I've read reports of countries looking for stamps from the Taba border pass (a border between Israel and Egypt) and not letting someone in base on tha…
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Comment #5151370
Jason Cohen's blog is at asmartbear.com and I love it - I missed there is no "a" in the domain of the op and now I feel tricked.
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Comment #5151316
It did pretty well with the first five Hebrew letters. Pretty well as in all but one was found in the top 10 of results.
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Comment #5151238
What a strange comment. Why is Angular the greatest framework yet? Why is Webstorm the greatest web IDE? I'm against worshiping tools...
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Comment #5103364
First of all I agree with gf - the site does a horrendous job in explaining what it is. Add screenshot, actual content. People aren't looking for "simple", "familiar", etc. We're l…
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Comment #5092061
Hi taganwald, I'm the one who outright called you a hypocrite. I hope you don't take it personally, that's just what I feel reading this. I'm a programmer because that's what I lik…
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Comment #5092036
So you think he is talking to that department at Google full of MDs? :) Just to make sure I got the point across - the above joke was meant to say that people working in Google usu…
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Comment #5089052
Is the author of this is currently working on curing diabetes? I think the chances are small he is. What I'm trying to say is that he is a hypocrite.
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Comment #5070320
Scroll TFA down. More. Past the Tweets. Bingo.
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Comment #5070301
I was witness to the sending of a request for candidates with 3 years of Android experience to HR at 2011 at Intel. They just insisted that two or one isn't enough. First Android p…
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Comment #5062991
It's funny that you mention Babylon - I've talked to one of the devs who was in the core of developing their "toolbar" and it is essentially malware which hooks anything and everyt…
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Comment #5056972
I totally forgot about it. You are right, I might give some of the more hardcore ones after I'm done playing with this one. Thanks!
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Comment #5054989
This is awesome. I really want to play with some AI lib and all of the ones I tried have way too many problems compiling on Windows. pip install them fails too. I don't want to spe…
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Comment #5054939
I plsy way too many computer games, and I got stuck too. It is really non-trivial to design a self explaining game, and they definitely failed. Unfortunately. The idea itself is pr…
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Comment #5025828
OhLife is interesting, but I feel weird sending my personal info to OhLife. Thanks for this suggestion though, I guess I could always just forward the answer to my own address inst…