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dethswatch··on Nevertheless, She Coded
Warren violated the rules- it has _nothing_ to do with her gender.

Whether her points are validate or not, the rules were followed as they would have been with any man.

If she wants to get her opinion out, she can hold a press conference outside the Senate or simply call Maddow, like she did- a friendly audience that would allow her to speak as long as they had time for.

dethswatch··on Trump Sends Pharma Stocks Down with New Tweet on Drug Prices
>That's a whole other story.

it's not- it doesn't matter- they're all the costs of getting a product to market and sustaining it.

dethswatch··on Trump Sends Pharma Stocks Down with New Tweet on Drug Prices
>It costs a quarter to manufacture each pill but the >manufacturers charge several dollars for that pill.

What are the manufacturing costs for software?

dethswatch··on “What’s your current salary?” is a trap question–Here's how to answer it
Maybe you're getting unlucky.
dethswatch··on Why it’s hard for programmers to write a program to flatten a list?
To me, this smells like: * Required before: I only ever code at work. * Recursion: I didn't get any/much theory in school * Type checking: I don't know my language very well. * Going beyond minimal: agreed- try not to hire them.
dethswatch··on “What’s your current salary?” is a trap question–Here's how to answer it
Them: "We'd like to see proof of your salary history."

Me: "Sorry- we arrived at an agreeable number earlier. I don't see how a salary history would change that."

Them: (stammers...)

Either way it's a win- you either get it, or they toss you and you dodged a FUCKING BULLET.

dethswatch··on A command line script to remind you to drink water
How does this one not die?
dethswatch··on A command line script to remind you to drink water
First they're telling us when to drink water, next, it's robots enslaving us.
dethswatch··on Show HN: Get emailed whenever your brand is mentioned on Hacker News or Reddit
how're you handling the reddit rate limiting?
dethswatch··on Whatever happened to Winamp?
Remember why they made is virtually impossible to download directly from their side, for reasons I can't recall? That was awesome.
dethswatch··on The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
The kitchen will be about 1 meter away from your workspace. You'll enjoy the overly loud conversations, beeping of microwaves, coffee makers, dishwashing, and the delightful smells of bkreafast, brunch, lunch, and the rest.
dethswatch··on Trump Fires Acting Attorney General
>to give their independent legal advice to the president.

In private, and when he tells you that you're to carry out his wishes- since you're serving at his pleasure, then you go and do your job or you resign.

If you picked a public fight with your boss in the middle of the scrum and then refused to do what he wanted when you were overruled- how long would you last?

Also- let's not forget that Office of Legal Council had already said that it's perfectly Constitutional and legal.

dethswatch··on My four years at Microsoft: How everything changed
rah rah- everything's great!

Your devs are fleeing the ship.

dethswatch··on Right-wingers are owning Facebook Live
I am shocked and appalled that people I disagree with might use some communications platform that I use too.

If only I could downvote...

dethswatch··on Certified Malice
The big reason that cert's are as unused as they have been for two decades is because of the stupid desire to incorporate identity along with encryption.

They've both useful- they've more useful together, and they're expensive and not used everywhere because of the identity problem.

This is just going to have to be accepted (for a while?) to get proper encryption.

Pointing out that this can happen is neither useful or news, and perpetuates this nonsense that's been holding us back.

dethswatch··on Windows Code Samples
? They're doing their best to be linux. I'm just moving to linux.
dethswatch··on Windows Code Samples
why wouldn't you just use a vm rather than dual boot, these days?
dethswatch··on Pinterest Applying Deep Learning to Related Pins
What'd be even more awesome is if they'd stop polluting google images with spam pages generated by their site.

"1000 ideas for ..."

dethswatch··on 'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
I read about that in the 90's- did anything become of it?
dethswatch··on Compute Card, a Credit Card-Sized Compute Platform
? Amazon and the rest have them every day. WHen did you try last?
dethswatch··on Compute Card, a Credit Card-Sized Compute Platform
Edison works fine, their support is responsive, docs range from just alright to worse though.

I had a better time as a dev with arduino Yun but it was way too limited (memory and flash) for what I wanted.

dethswatch··on Technology Isn't Killing the Physical Office
"Greg- look, I've got a client who started her design firm in her garage, but then realized that she needed to be at a 'co-working site'. It's like renting a room within an office. It worked out GREAT for them and I think an article about how these things are the next iteration of the office, "Office 2017", I call it, would really make a great story! PLUS- these Office 2017 places have a -lot- of money, I'm smelling easy ad revenue- your sales droids will love that.

"Tell you what-- I'LL WRITE IT FOR YOU, then we can hit up the steak house. Sound good?"

dethswatch··on Ask HN: What if an employer simply never lets you purchase your options?
You have a contract- what's a lawyer say about it?
dethswatch··on Harvey Mudd College Attempting to Address Tech Diversity Issues
> a time that software engineering was dominated by female

ref?

dethswatch··on China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
we don't care where you're from. I'm not running a little 'who's a citizen tally' in my head.
dethswatch··on China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
> you'll always be a foreigner there

This isn't true in the US, if you learn the language.

dethswatch··on Silicon Valley Helped Create Trump, and That’s Bad for It
I full well understand the distinction. And normally, I'd agree with you, however, in this case, I feel his opinions and points are indicative of the larger NYT itself, and even after such a surprise drubbing, they continue to ignore reality with hope of assuaging their feelings-- 'surely it can't be we that are wrong...'

The Times went so far out of their way to torpedo Trump and promote his opponent that Solzberger Jr had to remind everyone that they are dedicated to impartiality (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/us/elections/to-our-reader...).

We wait, with anticipation, the results of this renewal.

dethswatch··on Silicon Valley Helped Create Trump, and That’s Bad for It
Here's the narrative- "This outcome is so out of whack that either you guys are just the stupidest, most gullible people, or you are normal people, who would have voted for us, had you not been fooled by malevolent and manipulative forces."

It's an easy way to console your butthurt when you lost- just claiming that had everyone been better informed, they'd have done the 'right' thing.

dethswatch··on Silicon Valley Helped Create Trump, and That’s Bad for It
"... the anger and misinformation of the voters who helped propel him to the presidency."

And we start off with insults and dismissal-- the reason she didn't win and that the Times is reviled for its reporting by various groups.

dethswatch··on Visual Studio for Mac Preview
Articles I've read says the Win and App divisions are still in love with COM and when Sinofsky got his way, we got 'Windows Store Apps' where everything ran under COM instead of everything running under .NET.

Enter Win8 debacle and Sinofsky wisely decided he'd do other things.

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