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And specifically Hoover Dam appears in New Vegas.

> For one, I've seen children accustomed to using touch interfaces blurring the line between physical and virtual, i.e swiping at physical objects like books, photos, even walls. I've not seen this behavior with those used to non touch interfaces.

I don't know, I have the urge to tap words in books to bring up definitions after using ereaders for the past ten years.

> In my experience, shallow orgs also have a half life. They need to be purged every 18-24 months.

Valve hadn't had a half life since 2007. They're surely due for another one :)

My cable provider requires calling in to downgrade services, but adding them can be done with just a click online! I've also seen it occasionally for services like eMeals.

> it can be taken from you at anytime, and interpreted in any way the company sees fit.

I worked at a company with a not-unlimited vacation policy and this is roughly how shutdown periods worked anyways. You were forced to spend vacation or take the period unpaid. Unfortunately they rarely seemed to be communicated more than a couple of months in advance..

I actually used an Alphagrip daily at work for probably a year+. It halved my normal qwerty speed (120 wpm down to 60 wpm), but got rid of all of my wrist pain. Good exchange! I had a similar experience that I bought my first one ten years ago, then sold it after a few years of not using it. On a whim after I started feeling pain, I tried again and after doing typing tests for 10-15 minutes each morning for a month it finally stuck. Ended up modding it with a teflon trackball before I finally unplugged my normal keyboard and put it behind my monitor.

Would be nice to see an upgrade with a working shift key (the modifier is not actually sent) and a wireless option...

It has to do with oils from the pizza being soaked into the cardboard.

Agreed, I dip my toes in a lot of things but would never consider putting them on my resume unless I have at least a substantial project that I can talk about in depth.

I used to have what was basically a spider trap on my website while learning Django. The truth is that every bot that found it hammered my site with tens of thousands of requests per day (even Googlebot). I don't think it stopped until I blocked the page in robots.txt

Grabbed an external HDDVD drive for the $10 actually. Even came with a handful of movies at that price!

I wouldn't risk it anymore. One time I received an ever so slightly cracked DVD from Netflix. Desperate to watch the show without waiting for a better copy to be mailed, I stuck it in the computer anyways. Ended up shattering and taking my DVD drive with it!

Yep, left my job 8 months ago and had several promising interviews since but nothing has come of them. Recently decided to take time to polish games I prototyped during this period. To be quite honest I was also getting tired of essentially "studying for finals" before each interview. Thankfully (but probably also hurting my job search in general...) I'm in a low CoL area.

Your post plus the context of Factorio brings about an interesting observation that in all of my Factorio maps, expansion/exploration happens rightwards and upwards unless constrained by geography.

A Dune reference originally :)

It's been a while since I've done this kind of CMake in anger, but I recall my main gripe with ExternalProject_Add is that it can't leverage that the external project is a CMake project and I still end up hard coding paths.

I'm still not convinced there's a good way in cmake to pull in and compile external libraries as dependencies. I know it can be done via a superproject method but that's a lot of boilerplate for something that should be straightforward. Everything else is simple and easy until I butt heads with that issue.

If you hold up two polarized sheets and rotate them, they'll get progressively darker until no light passes through when they are perpendicularly aligned. YouTube should have some videos, it was a pretty entertaining physics lab experiment.

Sounds to me like this is on the Life side of the work-life balance. If they were already in on Saturday doing work for a looming deadline on the other hand....

I've seen sand used as well as water.

I skimmed the comments here before reading the article and was curious what a "gore" looked like. After a seconds pause, I decided I should get on with reading the article instead of searching for "highway gore" :)

Your WoW observation reminds me a lot of my current job search experience.

I tried my best but the session timed out before I had even finished one movie.

The only luggage I've lost (temporarily!) has been carry-on which ended up being gate checked. It was explained that during handling the gate check tag came off.

FTA, a take on entry/mid/senior level distinctions I haven't heard before:

"If you are the guy asking for help from people below, to your side, and above you, you’re probably an entry-level engineer. If you frequently need support from those above you (excluding C-level and executive support, that my friends are a whole new level of hell), there’s a good chance you are a mid-level engineer. If you find yourself supporting and being supported by those at your side, you are likely a senior or lead level engineer."

Location: Kansas, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Location dependent, strong preference to Colorado, New York, Chicago areas.

Technologies: C++, Python, Linux, Git

Learning: Robotics, Rust

Résumé/CV: Available on website http://lfowles.org

Email: See website or use hn@lfowles.org

Other Links: http://github.com/lfowles https://linkedin.com/in/lfowles

Looking for systems programming or other interesting software development opportunities (ideally C++, but also skilled with Python). Previously spent 5 years writing software for x86 and ARM embedded Linux radio testing equipment.

Since then, I've spent several months getting my feet wet with Unreal Engine 4[0], learning basics of Rust and Haskell, and I'm currently enrolled in the Udacity Robotics Software Engineer Nanodegree. I'm always willing to learn for the job. A project highlight from my Github: interpreting output from a Deskcycle to get cadence data[1]. Even if I'm not what you're looking for and you just want to chat about any of my projects, send me an email!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-wNXs3g0Bw&list=PLqJcvcLs4C...

[1]: https://github.com/lfowles/deskcycle

> Killing a PC component with static shock is more difficult than you imagine and is pretty hard to do even if you aren't taking serious precautions like using anti-static wrist straps

Can confirm, got a little lazy and put spare components together into a working system on the carpet this past weekend. Everything still works well enough. :)

After spending much of my childhood playing SimTower (aka Elevator Sim 1994), I'm not too surprised by the number!

They're also not going to show the storage units that students use to hold furniture while they go off for a summer internship elsewhere.

Interesting, I didn't realize the term was so strongly associated with military doctrine. Just assumed it was a glorified way of referring to simple machines such as levers.

I have memories myself of a summer camp with a nice long slide that was waxed with the insides of McDonalds cups. You rode down on a burlap sack and if for some reason you touched the slide itself you would get a gigantic friction burn (ask me how I know!).