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WizzleKakeon Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer

A 10x programmer doesn't cost 10 times as much as a regular programmer. 10x programmers are real and drive real business value. The people who insist 10x programmers are a myth simply have not worked with one. Do not conflate brilliant-but-an-asshole or prodigious-output-but-creates-a-mess programmers with 10x programmers.

WizzleKakeon 2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation Took 5 Years to Complete

Try something like this. https://ophir.alwaysdata.net/dezoomify/dezoomify.html

WizzleKakeon Germany bans children's smartwatches

Why is spying on children any different than spying on adults?

WizzleKakeon iOS 11 reviewed

No. Sometimes at work I don't want to use my employer's wifi. Sometimes I do.

WizzleKakeon Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review

You're thinking of X1 Yoga

WizzleKakeon Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix

Their only choice is to pay up or ignore it.

They can pirate it too, which is often a superior user experience in that the user can keep the file, move it to a different device, watch without arcane restrictions, etc.

WizzleKakeon Chernobyl disaster: Giant shield begins move towards reactor

4chan's hr board sometimes has high-resolution photos of this project.

WizzleKakeon Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

Your citation is about starch. A better citation in support of your assertion https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/71495

WizzleKakeon Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

He doesn't have a citation because he's wrong.

WizzleKakeon Show HN: GitHub's Fixed Header for better accessibility

This works too.

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

WizzleKakeon Apple celebrates one billion iPhones

How many of these are in landfills?

WizzleKakeon Duffy and Cruz Introduce the Protecting Internet Freedom Act

so?

WizzleKakeon Bitcoin's $137k Jackpot

Part of the point of bitcoin is that it is decentralized.

WizzleKakeon Ask HN: How do you manage Facebook/Whats App/Twitter/Email/Etc addiction?

you can just:

$ grep face /etc/hosts

WizzleKakeon Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

IRC clients can log.

WizzleKakeon Nanomsg: Stepping Down

which would describe, I think, most women and people of color who have participated in technical communities for more than a short time

This is an odd assumption to make.

WizzleKakeon IBM is still making ThinkPad keyboards

http://www.pckeyboard.com/ Unicomp is still keeping the glory days of the IBM Model M keyboard alive.

WizzleKakeon Analysis of Antidepressant Paxil Finds Data on Teen Risk Was Held Back

> restoration of brain connectivity back to a state that more closely matches that of non-depressed patients.

Do you have a source for this?

WizzleKakeon OpenSSH 7.0 released

Several ciphers will be disabled by default [in the next release]: blowfish-cbc, cast128-cbc, all arcfour variants and the rijndael-cbc aliases for AES.

I still use arcfour; it seems to be the fastest when using scp or rsync (rsync -e 'ssh -c arcfour') for copying large files. I hope the OpenSSH package manager for my distribution keeps arcfour enabled for this reason.

WizzleKakeon Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615M

I remember when Dollar Shave Club popped up on my radar. I thought to myself, "You know what? They are right. It's ridiculous that I spend so much money on Gillette razor blades. I only get 2-3 good shaves out of them."

I ended up buying an $80 Philips electric razor and haven't looked back. Takes way less time, I don't have to use shaving cream, and I don't have to be careful either.

WizzleKakeon An Interview with Neal Stephenson

He draws a distinction between Intellectual Ventures and Intellectual Ventures Labs (where he worked):

http://corporation9592.com/Intellectual_Ventures.html

WizzleKakeon Why i’m done wearing a helmet

Here's some data: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/pedestrians-and-bicyclists...

Also, the link in the article about health benefits doesn't point to anything on the web.

WizzleKakeon Mark Shuttleworth Considering Canonical IPO

You can brick certain ThinkPads with BIOS older than 2.08 by installing Linux on them.

Not Linux-related, but the keyboard transition (happened between W520 and W530) was unfortunate and pissed a lot of people off.

I'm sure the new keyboard design has its merits, but the fact that they changed it over the objection of their most loyal users speaks volumes about the direction Lenovo is taking the ThinkPad brand.

WizzleKakeon Ask HN: Always late to the office, is this OK?

This sounds like a maturity issue. Grow up. Show up on time.

If they want you there at 9, get there at 9. That's not unreasonable.

WizzleKakeon Foo Fighters, HIV Deniers (2000)

The inventor of PCR, Kary Mullis, has something to say about this too.

Can you cite any research that shows definitively that HIV causes AIDS? Mullis says that he can't find a reference. Can you?

WizzleKakeon Why RAII rocks

Why not just put a and b on the stack then? ;)

Bjarne says, "Code that creates an object using new and then deletes it at the end of the same scope is ugly, error-prone, and inefficient."

WizzleKakeon How Google Hires

The problem, however, is that most standardized tests of this type discriminate against non-white, non-male test takers (at least in the United States).

Can anyone explain this? I don't understand the explanation that follows.

WizzleKakeon After exercise, fast food helps you recover just as well as sports supplements

The link in the article is about chocolate milk: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16676705

Here is the actual study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25811308

WizzleKakeon China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub

> That's pretty much how I feel about the Fox-watching population of the US.

It's how I feel about everyone who gets their information from TV.