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garthdog··on Google told mystery barge ‘needs to move’ from San Francisco Bay
Why the fuck are they even referencing the shuttle protests in that article? What does that have to do with anything?
garthdog··on Emscripten port of DOSBox
I'd love to benchmark these two solutions.
garthdog··on Why Infinite-Scrolling in Mobile Apps is Destroying Content Consumption
http://xkcd.com/1309/
garthdog··on Bypassing a DNS man-in-the-middle attack against Google Drive
Is this even a problem with Google's certificate pinning? Chrome would prevent the user from accessing Drive if it was MITM'd.
garthdog··on Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message
I didn't know this was up until somebody told me to ctrl-reload. Nice one with the 10yr cached soft-500 page. :P

Now that our brittle forum is back, let's get back to work nitpicking the Android UIs that aren't quite beautiful enough! This is not enough drop shadows!

garthdog··on The Taxonomy of Terrible Programmers
You sound like a Pet Technologist!
garthdog··on Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone
Haha! I was going to suggest Droid48 until that last sentence. Yes, I emulate my HP48G whenever I feel the need to fire up a calculator.

HP RPN can't be beaten for serious number crunching. It's not pretty, but by god, it is EFFECTIVE!

garthdog··on California Arrests the Owner of a Revenge Porn Site
Pure HN gold.
garthdog··on Why was this secret?
Just because privacy is worthless to you does not means it's not of value to me. Throw away your privacy but please don't contribute to the meme that privacy is disposable.

Lots of people have secrets that are harmless but can destroy them if they end up in the wrong hands, e.g. homosexuality within a conservative community.

garthdog··on New Chromecast apps for the holidays
Hooray, BeyondPod support!
garthdog··on Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers
Keep it classy guys.
garthdog··on Ask HN: How did you get started with the programming languages you use?
I went from C++ and Java in school, to C for work, then C# for work, and now I'm back full circle to C++ and Java.

I don't really care about the language I use as long as it's the right tool for the job. I think C is the most frustrating because of its verbosity and how explicit I need to be, but I understand that there are circumstances where the low overhead is useful.

garthdog··on Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing
It'd be nice if I could upload 10 PNG files so as to not be bound by the 256 color limitation of GIFs.
garthdog··on Toast Sandwich
You're the product, not the consumer.
garthdog··on Google Fonts: more than a trillion served
Make the web better for all forms of content so that people don't resort to proprietary tech?
garthdog··on Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
Can we put up billboards in East Texas letting potential jurists know what the stakes for the country are?
garthdog··on Google Wallet Card
So much more evil than what CC companies already do today, amirite?
garthdog··on Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
Winamp.com and associated web services

Associated web services sounds a lot like Shoutcast.

AOL wants to double down on stupid journalism. Winamp is a distraction.

garthdog··on Nokia Becomes The Fourth Largest Smartphone Brand in USA in Q3 2013
They do? I thought sideloading was a developer-only privilege.
garthdog··on HealthCare.gov deferred final security check, could leak personal data
Move fast and break things!
garthdog··on High-Tech Window Cling is Like a Volume Knob for Real Life
I'll believe it when I see it...
garthdog··on Extensionizr: Chrome extension boilerplate generator
Extensions can augment other websites' functionality, e.g. using "Missing E" for making Tumblr suck less.
garthdog··on How I Embarrassed Myself in My Interview With Google
Then you've turned the interview into a waste of time. There is no actionable information that is produced from that answer.

If you honestly are looking for a job and aren't looking to make some kind of F-U 2 The Man statement, do yourself a favor and don't give an answer like that.

garthdog··on How I Embarrassed Myself in My Interview With Google
I am terribly out of Ruby practice. Choosing Ruby as his language, presumably because it is the language he is best at, and then whiffing on the basics is probably what did him in. The brevity of phone interviews and the need to whittle down a massive pool of applicants to a manageable stream means that the interviewer is going to infer a lot from a little.

He should have chosen a language he is better at. If Ruby is indeed his top language, and he's rusty at that, then perhaps OP just isn't fit for a coding job at this point in time?