hippo8
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Comment · 11 years ago
tldr; Use link below and your account will not be affected when the amount of free storage changes from 15 GB to 5 GB and the +15 GB camera roll bonus is discontinued.*
Comment · 11 years ago
Fixing the first problem and finding alternatives I think is far more easier to fix than the second. We have had several thousand years to figure-out a solution to the problem of rulers politicians and yet, after all this time, here we are still displeased with those in power.
I think the following http://raincatcher.org/what-we-do/ is a really interesting solution to the fresh water problem.
Here's a video of what they do. https://vimeo.com/29880712 skip to 1.38 if you are impatient.
Comment · 11 years ago
Try explaining that to management types. The whole problem with "Enterprise Software" is its targeted at the manager types, you tell them they are now going to able to generate 10 reports, tell them there's an app for it the would throw money at you. They don't care about the people who has to deal with the system, they don't care it takes 10 more additional steps to do something that was really easy to do, throw in a bunch of jargon and tell them its enterprise ready and cloud based, with a touch of big data. BAM! sold!
Comment · 11 years ago
To me the biggest problem with web development is, not that it's too big. I feel the information is really disorganised.
For instance, take most of the front-end projects; finding good documentation is a fool's errand.
I think we as a community need to put more effort in to making our projects easier to understand, we need to bring the barrier to entry as low as possible, we need to stop making assumptions that everyone starting out with our projects are people with 5-6 years experience, help people figure out where to look for information related to our project.
For example, a good project I really appreciate is, redux; the documentation that comes with the project is really amazing, I mean look at this, https://github.com/rackt/redux/blob/master/README.md They have put so much effort in to making their project really easy to understand.
Don't get me wrong, I love googling for information and learning new things, but some projects are pure annoying when you are trying to understand them for a quick poc or a Saturday evening hack.
We can't stop progress, its not fair if we ask others to pause progress just so we could catch up, just so it makes our jobs become easier. We are developers, we love experimenting, we love learning more, and we love making things work better, but lets improve on one little detail; lets help each-other out more.
Comment · 11 years ago
Because we are lazy, and everyone hopes it will help us become even lazier.
Comment · 11 years ago
Sorry for the silly question. Is it possible to have an internet without ISPs?
Comment · 11 years ago
Isn't it sad, that we know non of this makes no sense at all. Yet, you and I, we do everything to get our hands on some of those "non-synthetic stones" in form or another.
Comment · 11 years ago
Microsoft being Microsoft.
I have 20GB worth files in there, all I have to start moving because Microsoft loves their customers.
Comment · 11 years ago
Honestly I don't know why, but that got me laughing more than I expected.
Oh also, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468 (How to install Windows using Boot Camp)
Comment · 11 years ago
If you tell HN how they looked and the company name, we can go on a witch-hunt :p.
But in all seriousness, sorry you had to go through something that terrible. Like someone mentioned already in this thread, you should have left the place when you heard the linux comment. Come to think of it, I'm happy for you for not getting stuck in an obviously poisonous environment.
Comment · 11 years ago
This sounds highly improbable, especially the "Oh, wow, Linux, what is this, 2003? I'd hoped I'd never have to see....." comment, I honestly can't believe there are any developers would make such a comment.
The OP should name the company if this interview was this terrible.
Comment · 11 years ago
Since the NSA is by default monitoring calls, I wonder why they cant do anything about this? (:p)
-edit- oops, didn't see the other comment to the parent comment.