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If it's an experienced C++ job and you don't know the difference between rvalue/lvalue/etc, you're gonna have a tough time.

I still have a book on programming in COBOL I need to dust off.

Sometimes I'm playing a video game on steam and would like to have the steam overlay browser to do some work while I respawn.

Why?

How are they not substantial enough if you started with Bitcoin in 2011??

It's not as easy as "improving" existing protocols. Look at the ipv4 -> ipv6 mess. And even then ipv6 suffers from issues that are tied to how networks were built, etc. See this gr…

Will you guys be transparent on the pricing then?

You're assuming this person understands data locality, or memory latency or even memory in general.

/r/programmingcirclejerk

>Is determined. Has 20 years of experience. An average programmer is a few years out of college and is lazy.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/08/ftc-c...

You get better at coding, just like any other skill, the more you do it. So yeah, it's ok to not code at home. But all else being equal, the people who do are better coders.

Yeah. I use markdown hosted file and do the markdown -> html conversion entirely clientside via http://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md . I don't think it's possible to do that …

>Remember that you are still creating software - you are just doing it through others. Managers should not be creating software. Directly or indirectly (unless you're a product man…

Why not just create a gnome-widget that does libinput configuration under the hood? The purpose of the fork cannot be just to provide sane defaults.

If you're using Nvidia graphics cards, they do not support proprietary nvidia drivers btw.

You're conflating two things. Is it that they don't support the features or is it that they're proprietary?

Is it really that great? How many apps do we use in our day to day life? Let's say 20 apps that we use regularly. Is $100 too much for lifetime access to these apps?

If you need a principal engineer to tell you to write unit/integration tests, that speaks volumes about the quality of engineering below him.

Don't compare a company to a tech. As an example of a tech, if someone asked me would you want self driving cars to succeed if you could not profit off of them, I would say that's …

+1 for outlawing tipping. Add it as a fixed cost of the service or don't. No in between.

Can you quantify how many paid days off you took in the last year?

How can you say they're no worse nor better? That's a loaded statement without qualification. It is entirely possible (if not highly likely) that one approach is better (for all or…

Yup. That's when I stopped reading.

12.5% is still a significant percent of revenue.