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jetskindo··on A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared
This reminds me of a few months ago when gas price was down to a mere $2.00 . It was wonderful for the public, but all I heard on TV is how bad it was for the economy.

We shouldn't let this be the norm, these employees complaining or those who quit are angry that their "inferior" coworkers are getting the same wages.

jetskindo··on Binary in JavaScript
Very good explanation
jetskindo··on Ask HN: I am 30+ and bored with life and the software industry, what do I do?
Good, you know software so much you are bored with it. Now is a good time to use your knowledge to create a product. Programming for the sake of programming is always gonna lead to boredom. Make a product that generates money.
jetskindo··on Intro to RenderMan for Blender
I know everyone is excited about this but I would like to see the benefits of using it over cycles.

So far I must say cycles is pretty great

jetskindo··on Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default
Flash always have security issues and Adobe do their best to fix them.

On the consumer side of things, flash is not so bad. Sure search engines couldn't read it but there is amazing content generated through it. The content is,what matters and unfortunately the Web is littered with abusive flash objects auto playing videos, audio, full screen ads and those won't simply go away with flash.

At least with flash I can easily disable it. But those auto playing html5 videos and audios ads are just as annoying. Now I need plug ins to disable native capability.

It's only a matter of time until all ads move to the medium and we find ourselves complaining.

jetskindo··on Profile of The Awl
The Awl looks like a blog to me, not sure what they are talking about.
jetskindo··on Jellyfish WebGL demo
I tested it on my galaxy s4.

I also tried it on an older HTC Evo and it simply crashed.

jetskindo··on Jellyfish WebGL demo
Ok 60fps on my phone, that's impressive.
jetskindo··on Zimbabwe offers new exchange rate: $1 for 35,000,000,000,000,000 old dollars
Guinea is working is way up there slowly but steadily. We are at $1 = 7249.95 franc. And you basically spend it at the same value. It's time to reset a large part of Africa.
jetskindo··on The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole
What a coincidence that I finish watching interstellar and the minute I check my phone this is the number one post. Maybe I made that happen.
jetskindo··on Ask HN: Do you feel like you're missing out?
There is one thing you have to remember: this is not a competition.

You don't have to play the game. Do things at your pace. A lot of things you read about the successes is not entirely true. It is very common for the media to exaggerate the sexy parts. Every start up story is a revolutionary until you see them throw in the towel a few month later.

Do things at your own pace, as long as you do something.

jetskindo··on [dead]
The video did no justice to whatever they were trying to sell.
jetskindo··on How Old Do I Look?
I took a picture the day before I turned 28 and the day after. This tool got both of them right.
jetskindo··on Marissa Mayer shuffles Yahoo leadership team
This post is displayed twice on the homepage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9360352

jetskindo··on Face It: You Can't Predict the Future
I predicted the future all the time. The problem was I worked in a team, so there were too many factors at play. When I was wrong, I could blame it on others who didn't follow my structures to a T.

Then I was given the chance to work on a project on my own from scratch. It was the most beautiful architecture I ever implemented. 30 deadline later, and the stress of the real world, every single new feature was so hard to add because they couldn't all be abstracted to just in case we used it more than once.

Now I had no one to blame. Today, I hard code things and don't feel bad about it because I know it doesn't matter until it matters. I can only imagine all the time I would have saved if I had this mentality in the beginning.

jetskindo··on My life with Comcast
Att overcharged me for two months. I called to asked them about it, and they said they upgraded me to a new service. I told them my speed hasn't changed and I would gladly accept the new price if they increased my speed. They agreed.

For two weeks I had half the speed, I called them many times and got disconnected. I couldn't stay on the line for 45 minutes on a work day. When I finally got a hold of them, they apologized and fixed the issue. They promised me a free month of service. That's where things got interesting.

Maybe it was a bug, but every month, I got credit instead of a bill. So every month I was getting -20 dollars. A whole year passed. I never complained. If it was a good company I would report it. A year and a half into it, it was fixed. I got a call to ask me if I was paying my bill.

I answered "totally"

jetskindo··on My life with Comcast
They probably blocked your access to the page :

http://idiallo.com/blog/timewarner-you-suck

jetskindo··on Using drones and big data to stop poaching
Poaching is illegal. But owning elephant tusks isn't . In fact it is considered a luxury.
jetskindo··on Ebola whole virus vaccine shown effective, safe in primates
Good news, however the human trial will take years. By the time it is complete many will have died already.

In other words this is good news for the next outbreak

jetskindo··on Ask HN: What is the difference between a programmer and a developer
Wow this is the best answer I read. I agree that it is more about how the title is used versus what it means. The title defines more the person using the term than the job description.
jetskindo··on How We Learned to Kill
It's ok to kill because it is an order. I bet the other side feels the same way. Just an order
jetskindo··on Top carnivores increase their kill rates as a response to human-induced fear
A case of broken mobile redirect. Here is the working link:

http://m.rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/282/1802/20...

jetskindo··on Another new era of WordPress
It's unrealistic to compare WordPress php and Facebook php. Most website running WordPress do not need the optimization required to run facebook.

If there is something that slows down WordPress it's the database queries, the amount of external assets and bloated themes. There are more then files being downloaded for each requests and all served from the same server.

Throw in hhvm or any optimization on the code and you still have to deal with the other issues.

jetskindo··on Why it takes so long to get data back from New Horizons
All of the sudden I have no problem waiting for my town hall to finish upgrading in 2 weeks in clash of clans.

Looks like some people use that same 2 weeks time to do far more important things.

jetskindo··on [FR] Je n'ai rien à cacher (I've got nothing to hide)
Not having something to hide forces you to divulge everything because you have nothing to hide. Except that thing that is nobody's business.

This mentality fires back quickly and is usually a trait of someone who haven't thought it through yet.

jetskindo··on Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?
This made me realize how messed up my day is.

California:

Wake up at 1 - 2 pm

Wash brush

3 pm go out and get breakfast and listen to podcast

3:30 pm I record podcast

5 pm I play with the kids (niece and nephew)

6 pm fire up laptop edit the podcast write a blog post - if the stars are aligned I may publish.

8 pm I waste time on the web

10 pm watch a movie and dinner.

12 am I open blender and work on my 3d project

3 am I code and experiment new tech.

4 am I listen to another podcast while playing clash of clans

5 am I am consumed by sleep.

Context: I quit my job 6 months ago after 3 and a half year. I am trying a bunch of new things to see what sticks.

jetskindo··on Your waitress, your professor
We go to school because it is a tradition. Parents wants to see their kid in the funny hat. You are almost shunned when you drop out.

Not to say that school is useless, I loved learning. But I knew that the computer science degree I was working towards wouldn't make much a difference in the field I was hoping to work in.

Going to school should be an investment. It is too bad that most of us are too young to understand the risk we take when taking loans or choosing an education path.

jetskindo··on DigitalOcean Receives $50M in Funding
Is digital ocean profitable ? Is the 5 dollars server killing them or putting them on top of chart ?
jetskindo··on Such is Fascism
1 point and front page ?
jetskindo··on Your Language Sucks
This is to show you that it doesn't matter. As long as you get the results you wanted.
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