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Augh, I've been trying to like Perforce for a year and have hated it at every turn. I invariably wind up having ~3 workspaces open so as to map to different parts (or different vie…

Yikes. Fair enough; that would definitely trip it up!

> ...this is solved by the named branches in Mercurial... I'm not super-familiar with Mercurial (and only somewhat-familiar with git), but couldn't you get the same effect as named…

For comparison, I would normally define an 'x' developer (depending on specialty) as anyone who writes code and a software engineer as a developer whose job description involves en…

Gah, sorry about that :/ fwiw, it looks like your explanation has more upvotes, so it worked out alright! :)

Recording and playing back input events, at least, shouldn't be that expensive unless you're emulating the entire stack up to the application. If the logic is written in some porta…

How do you signal goodness, though? I wound up with a cushy position (largely by luck), but practically everyone else is barely scraping by. Side projects? Prestigious internships?…

> most programmers I know receive several offers a month :'| Could you take a look at how they're receiving offers and perhaps put some suggestions together on how to duplicate tha…

Essentially, I agree with everything you said -- the core of my complaints about this book excerpt is that it seemed to confuse the areas of responsibility for caches (and their st…

I don't use it, but have you tried out Sameroom [1] for real-time chat? They seem pleasant enough. No idea what to do for video chat, though. [1]: https://sameroom.io

I guess, when it's an excerpt from a different source, I feel like it's advertising? Like, if Wired were a journal I were paying for, having excerpts makes sense -- the editors fou…

I'm going to do the thing where I quote sentences from your comment and respond to them individually, which IMO is normally pretty aggressive -- just wanted to say I'm doing that f…

By the way, that article is an advertisement for "Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" [1] in case you're triggered by native advertising. That out of th…

My first instinct was to post a message on HN about how yet another company is fetishizing overtime. It's not even productive to work at that pace; IIRC, most if not all people wea…

Just digging through the fact sheet released by the European Commission [1] to gain a more concrete understanding of what the investigation is trying to turn up. Quotes are heavily…

Fair enough :/ it just feels like 'misusing' words is disrespectful to their source, as though a lack of effort was taken to use it 'properly' (air quotes since those are highly su…

Augh. Almost 100% unrelated to the article, but: "There are ramshackle _cement_ rectangles squatting under rain clouds..." It's concrete [1] not cement . Even the word cementing ca…

Don't you feel that way on most sites? I mean, conceivably, HN could be manipulating your feelings as well by fingerprinting your browser and using a different ranking algorithm.

I've been using Animation Policy [1] to only play gifs through once and it's worked pretty well so far (in contradiction to the reviews on the chrome store). edit: Except, apparent…

If anyone read this line: "And that is this: our studio has not yet seen a single dollar from sales." and also wondered what they're talking about, this excerpt from the Wikipedia …

Aah, that's excellent, thank you very much! I'm always on the lookout for interesting course ware and that's quite the strong recommendation. And those look like excellent exercise…

XD okay, fair enough. I was thinking of the ideal candy bowl, which is self-refilling. Do you grade undergraduate stats quizzes, by the way?

You don't have to talk about yourself in a conversation :P this probably feeds back into the 'don't interview someone' mentality, but just talk about something in the news or other…

Easiest way to do this is to roughly time how long they spoke for and contribute back the same amount. If you do it right, you'll wind up spending 50% of the conversation talking a…