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yen223
8,230karma·2,954submissions·June 6, 2012
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Just another software guy.
Website: https://weiyen.net
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"Do intelligent people enjoy padding their egos?"
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Hopefully I'll get a better-paying job. I am currently getting paid ~$13,000 annually developing software for assembly-line robots.
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Gotta ask, is there any benefit to having the server status open to public?
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What's wrong with this kind of article?
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I honestly won't be surprised if the workers were expected to work overtime, but just weren't allowed to log more than 40 hours a week in their timesheets.
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Talk about company names, I thought this is pronounced cow-onder, and is a tool to communicate with cattle.
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"Aka, building tech that uses mono vm, and monodevelop to make a windows only SDK." Off-topic, but this is interesting. Why the heck would Sony develop Windows-only SDKs on Mono, instead of native .Ne…
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Heh, I assumed it was because of the massive Chinese market. iPhones are incredibly popular in the Far East.
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I'm not quite sure what to take away from this infographic. 1. Are they assuming that everyone who bought an Apple device is caught in the reality distortion field? 2. Is it really significant that pe…
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Technically you'd have to factor in all the computers which are part of the BitTorrent network, wouldn't you?
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They will probably name the next iPad "iPad Early 2013", similar to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.
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"P.S. Can anyone think of a country that has gotten out of poverty based on aid? All the modern examples I can think of (Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Latvia, Lithuania, etc.) haven't." Does post-W…
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Not enough credit is given to Visual Studio's Autocomplete feature. It seriously is unmatched, and to me is one of the reasons why C# is very pleasant to work with.
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The real hypocrisy is Reddit trying to promote free speech by censoring Gawker's websites.
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It would be acceptable if salaries rose along with requirements. I do not see that happening where I am.
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The US is an outlier.
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Maybe America sucks just enough for there to be problems to innovate, while still being able to support said innovators.
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Damn! So close...
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Possession of marijuana comes with a mandatory death sentence in my country, so no.
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Here in Malaysia, we get 14 days off. Then again, in Malaysia, engineers are glorified sweatshop workers with degrees.
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Klok, one of the better time-management software for the Mac, runs on AIR.
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It didn't put any white lines or artifacts for me. Chrome 22.0.1229.94, WinXP
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It doesn't help that bitbucket.com links to some random blog.
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This is like Padmapper vs Craigslist all over again.
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As a non-white person, this is unfortunately rather accurate.
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That...is a feature?
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Using Git requires a bit more brainpower than using CVS or SVN. If you know how to use Git, you definitely know how to use SVN.