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wcummings
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Comment #15033392
You must need glasses.
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Comment #15023564
That's interesting the ones I remember were literally rings of static links, coordinated by the webmasters, presumably over email. I see what you mean now.
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Comment #15023509
Duly noted
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Comment #15021899
Hopefully hes just ending his career now. Google shouldn't be soaking up all these ignorant young college boys if they're not mature enough to handle a workplace.
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Comment #15021887
Not much about that memo was "factual", whatever that means.
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Comment #15021844
If you distribute material like that, it will get leaked. That should be taken foregranted. If I got that memo I probably would have leaked it to the press, too.
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Comment #15021783
But aren't web rings just composed of vanilla hyperlinks? Why does that need to be added as a feature? What's stopping people from making them now?
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Comment #15020925
Is this a joke?
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Comment #15018942
If you're interested in this, I highly recommend the author of EMACSPEAK's blog [1]. Very interesting, innovative stuff (at it least seems that way to me, I'm not an expert on TTS …
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Comment #15011976
iOS users are more affluent/more valuable to advertisers.
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Comment #15010999
They're not even available where I live, can't say I'm surprised.
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Comment #15010150
>It's unsurprising that a Google engineer would believe that gender balance can't be addressed without fixing the college pipeline, but the fact is that virtually none of the softw…
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Comment #14997814
But people socialize in ways that are very different from apes. Humans are so deeply social by nature that we make other monkies look psychopathic by comparison. Show me an ape tha…
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Comment #14989718
>Say what you will about the "frat boy monoculture" - for all of its shittiness at least it's mostly made up of people who are passionate about code, largely self-taught and self-m…
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Comment #14988971
It's not, the real business model here probably looks a lot like rapidshare.
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Comment #14974635
Not any reason, wrongful termination lawsuits happen, and companies usually have processes for firing people, reviews to document performance etc..
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Comment #14964843
>VSCode has a built-in debugger which takes it dangerously close to being called a full-fledged IDE rather than just a text editor with plugins cough Atom cough Is that a bad thing…
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Comment #14964532
Grow up, it's a workplace . People go there to make a living, not to be subjected to your half-baked political opinions. It's unprofessional.
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Comment #14964527
Glad to see you leave.
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Comment #14961545
You're hopeless.