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BoysenberryPi··on The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity
Whether or not the title is misleading you read a headline and decided to drop your 2 cents without actually reading the article. The title isnt at fault here
BoysenberryPi··on McDonald's delivery to be available in 3,500 restaurants by the end of June
Poor person here. Inflation has made it so it's not even really an option. Everyone has removed their dollar menu and jacked up the price which is what I order off of if I was in a hurry. It's cheaper and effective for me to the burrito hole in the wall and get a massive burrito for 4 bucks than go to any fast food place.
BoysenberryPi··on McDonald's delivery to be available in 3,500 restaurants by the end of June
As far as burger places go, McDonalds is kind of terrible vs a local burger joint. I have burger places nearby that deliver but even if I didn't I could call UberEATS, Grubhub, Eat24, etc etc to just go pick up the food and bring it to me.
BoysenberryPi··on Ask HN: Is it harder getting a tech job now vs. 5 years ago?
>boasting a big resume but unable to tell a mutex from a semaphore

Is it bad that I have no idea what either of those are?

BoysenberryPi··on How many jobs really require college?
Why would you use a phone? Use Skype screen share or something of that nature so you can direct what they are doing. This situation you propose doesn't even make sense.
BoysenberryPi··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Are you hiring? I would love to work on this. This sounds incredible.
BoysenberryPi··on Ask HN: Why use Python?
Because people hire for it. I use whatever I can get a job with easily.
BoysenberryPi··on Ask HN: Do you talk out-loud to yourself when you program?
I talk to an inanimate object or the bird on the window.
BoysenberryPi··on A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
She isn't wrong about it being a legitimate tactic. You might not like it, it might make you a piece of shit for doing it, but it is a completely legitimate tactic.
BoysenberryPi··on Thanks for Submitting Your Résumé to This Black Hole
What state if you don't mind me asking? I really want to just move out to the midwest or somewhere where there aren't a lot of programmers.
BoysenberryPi··on Show HN: Go Remote Jobs – Jobs to Go
How is this any different from the million other remote job websites like weworkremotely?
BoysenberryPi··on Too Much Experience to Be Hired? Some Older Americans Face Age Bias
You said you are not making a moral point then proceed to talk about selfishness and morality.
BoysenberryPi··on Too Much Experience to Be Hired? Some Older Americans Face Age Bias
He said economically rational which it is. It has nothing to do with whether or not the decision helps you sleep well or not. From a pure economic perspective its the right decision to make.
BoysenberryPi··on Ask HN: Best Laptop for Developers Right Now?
I'm a firm believer that all laptops below the 2000 range are terrible so just pick one that has enough RAM and solid build quality. Probably Dell XPS or a Thinkpad
BoysenberryPi··on Ask HN: Whiteboard interviews don't work, what's your ideal technical interview?
Dev here. I wish I could find a company that interviewed me like this:

- Take home work immediately. Maybe it's just me but I'd rather not get this after the phone screen and whatever else. Just give me the work and have me submit it with my application or after I apply.

- Phone screen. This is important. When I say a phone call, I mean a phone call. I've interviewed with companies that refuse to have a regular phone call and will only do video calls over skype/hangouts/whatever. This is such a Silicon Valley thing. Guess what? Not everyone is in a situation where they can easily setup a video call. I know I'm not.

- Technical interview. Honestly the best technical interview I've seen is where the company ask you to get one of your old projects, walk them through how and why you structured the code the way you did, and then pair program with someone on the team and add a feature to the project. If you don't have past projects like that you can pair program on their code base.

When it comes to technical interviews and take home work, if you are asking questions that can be googled in 5 seconds then you are just wasting my time.

BoysenberryPi··on Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes
>The judge would give the order after ascertaining that the video was relevant to catching the criminal, and specific enough that it only included the time period when the criminal would have been likely to be captured

Isn't that literally what is happening here? The police are asking Google who looked for this very specific thing in this very specific area at this very specific time period.

BoysenberryPi··on Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge says yes
>In this case, a third party would be provided evidence.

It's a pretty common thing for a completely unrelated store's surveillance cameras to have footage of a robbery of another store. That's why police ask every store in the area when one is robbed.

BoysenberryPi··on Japan's Universities Are Failing
I mean without a strong economy everything else around it kinda goes to shit.
BoysenberryPi··on The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career
Game dev here. People don't share engines because there is no reason to. Unless I'm trying to license my engine out like Crytek or Epic there is no reason for me to open source my entire engine. You can talks all the time about the interesting parts of engines, tools, and techniques but there is no reason for a company to just be like "here is our engine bye"
BoysenberryPi··on How CS50 at Harvard uses GitHub to teach computer science
I'll take one thanks.
BoysenberryPi··on Raymond Smullyan has died
Wow this is such a wholesome thing to say. I have no idea who this guy is but I now regret never meeting him.
BoysenberryPi··on A Low-Cost Solution to Traffic
Places that don't require driving more often than not have high cost of living.
BoysenberryPi··on Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
Chromebooks are successful as school computers, children's laptops and literally nothing else. If that was the goal then great but I've never seen someone who wasn't under 14 or a student using one.
BoysenberryPi··on Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
Are you comparing the web now to the web then? I would even argue that Chromebooks are a pretty big flop.
BoysenberryPi··on Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have killed Berkeley couple
I mean....it does
BoysenberryPi··on Firefox 51.0
Distribution via CDs is not even realistic. That might work for Linux distributions who want to sell CDs to the 10 people who want to buy them but for games when most sells are made via Steam that isn't even a serious idea.

Minecraft also notoriously performs terrible. Given what Minecraft is sure that might work for Minecraft. It wouldn't work for an AAA game.

BoysenberryPi··on Firefox 51.0
I see the WebGL improvements and how on their blog they market it as "Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming" and I really have to say, as a game developer, I really don't want the future of gaming to be on the web. This is more than just Javascript hate. It's hard to monetize games if you aren't going free to play with microtransactions. And really, on a personal level, I just like downloading games and playing them offline. I'm not always near internet access.
BoysenberryPi··on [dead]
Yes but like most things the funding it gets depends on the city. Homeless programs in San Francisco are well funded and better than most cities. The majority of cities in the US are not like that.
BoysenberryPi··on The New Intel: How Nvidia Went from Powering Video Games to Revolutionizing AI
I'm not really ready to call Nvidia the new Intel. Nvidia seems like such a volatile company and I have no idea why. I just feel like I could wake up tomorrow and they could be gone.
BoysenberryPi··on Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
Someone said this on another forum and I disagree with them as I disagree with you. I've found plenty of games through Steam that I wouldn't have known about otherwise.
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