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I have the same case with a full-sized GPU and it was a headache. Next time I'll probably build in an mATX case...

I'm not directly experienced with this (most of my work is internal) so I don't know exactly how it works, or if they use Skype explicitly, but my company makes quite a few calls with other organizations.

At worst, it would be possible using our Skype meetings and phoning any external orgs in using the dial-in phone line. Not exactly elegant, but functional. (Hopefully that's not what they do, though...)

To be the boring voice here... Skype for Business.

The calls themselves are fine, but the applications are garbage. I'd advise against the platform.

Haven't tried MS Teams yet.

>Of course, none of this is cheap, and neither are the tickets. It's not uncommon to find plane tickets cheaper than Shinkansen tickets. And even going 3 stations from Shibuya to Shinjuku will cost you 2 dollars on the Yamanote line. You could easily spend 10 dollars a day on a daily basis just getting around the city, and multiply that by the number of people who use the system, and it's a fortune.

I spent some time in Tokyo and found the subway both amazingly useful and cheap. But I also must compare it to the public transit in the US where I live (non-usable bus system), and that of San Francisco -- which was much more expensive and not nearly as well maintained.

When the usual for me is a $6 Uber one-way to a bar that's barely 2 miles away, it blew my mind that I would regularly get across Tokyo for ~$5-10.

I returned from Tokyo with a loathing of the overwhelmingly car-centric cities of the U.S.

This isn't even a problem that's limited to hiring out of schools. I went to a pretty small school in flyover country, and (much as the article outlines) the hardest part about getting a job was certainly not the interviews, it was getting attention from anyone.

Now I'm working at a local tech company near where I went to school, because I only had local connections from internships etc. Recently I've been looking to move on to a new position and, despite having friends inside of multiple companies (Google, Apple, MSFT) refer me, I've gotten exactly one interview.

If anyone is open to suggestions on how to get more attention, I'm all ears. Until then I suppose I get to shotgun application pages endlessly.

> Skip the ... one hour for dinner

Not really sure how you are accomplishing this unless you are getting takeout. Between prep, cooking, consuming, cleaning, that is easily 30 minutes to an hour. If you cook enough for several meals that mitigates the cost somewhat, but there are other sacrifices made there.

Full disclosure: I work for First Orion (the company powering the analytics behind T-Mobile's "Scam-Likely" technology)

We have a couple of apps out in the wild that aren't mentioned in the article here (seems like our media relations staff isn't working too hard)!

They're on Google Play and iTunes under the banner "PrivacyStar," and I think they are worth checking out if the permissions / data accessed by other apps (e.g. Hiya) has turned you off in the past. For starters, our apps don't lift your contacts and don't strictly require your personal phone number (the majority of our apps still use your number, but we are moving away from including this data in our analytics). We collect analytic data from devices, but in general it's the minimum amount required to power our nuisance-call prevention systems. (I'm not aware of it being sold or farmed out in any way.)

Anyway, there's my elevator pitch. Just doing my part to get our name out there, we're a small tech company in AR and it's hard to get any attention down here! :)

Maybe I'm just a crazy millennial, but I absolutely loathe the idea of FB / Insta stories. Snapchat going under wouldn't convince me to move over -- I'd just stop using the service and move on to communicating some other way. And Stories aren't the only appeal of SNAP, though I suppose they are a large producer of revenue.

HN just loves to hate SNAP, and I can't really fathom why. I can get being skeptical but every comment here seems like they /want/ to see the company fail.

Really? Does it? "Find a person, learn about each other's personal lives, gradually escalate," sounds like some 'the red-pill' nonsense to you?

It's not the pilot, but it's definitely in the first few episodes.

A lot of people already own headphones that are usually more comfortable / sound better than the standard Apple earbuds.

I suppose it's not "can't", but "won't."

> mostly because of the lack of "family-centric" housing stock

An interesting anecdote: I live in Little Rock, AR, which, as I'm sure you're thinking, is just a booming urban metropolis. I don't know what is different about the city here, but every single apartment, townhouse, etc. is very clearly built with a family in mind. There's always a master bedroom and a child bedroom. (It was very frustrating when apartment hunting with a friend since neither of us were ever pleased with the child room.)

If I had to speculate, it's likely that the vast majority of people who can afford to live downtown are older. The city has a growing tech scene, but most of its employees are middle aged.

I haven't taken a look at the Spark codebase, but it is very easy to write Scala code that is not purely functional.

They are displaying the "old" prices, for whatever reason. If you click "2017 Preorder" the price comes up as $34.42

I used to hold this viewpoint until I watched a video (I can't seem to find it now) that made a pretty good point. The point was something along the following: "I like book stores. I like going in and flipping through the books. Sure, I could buy the book on Amazon for $4 less, but if I keep doing that eventually book stores won't be around. And I like book stores."

Ever since then, I usually try to buy the book in B&N or wherever, provided that's where I am at the time.

(Something like a campus book store and textbooks, however, is an entirely different case...)

The chromecast isn't necessarily something that brings revenue on its own -- it just lowers the barrier to entry for Google's other services. If it's easier for you to watch youtube, play Google Music, etc. on your TV, it's more likely you will do so... and be exposed to ads in the process. I'd liken it to Google Fiber.

It probably leverages Android in some fashion also, though good iOS apps have chrome cast support as well.

>I have no idea what this super vague paragraph means.

I think this thread serves as a good example. Someone wrote a blog post saying "I'm having trouble finding a job."

Look at the top comment, it's basically saying "You don't know what the fuck you are talking about, get out of here. Clearly you're doing something wrong, but I'm not going to try to actually address this problem or help you. Shoo now, you're ruining our perfect view of the tech sector."

I feel like I'm the only one who is annoyed when people plug their products in someone else's post. I understand you're just trying to increase your userbase, but it just seems disrespectful.

Ah, I see. I didn't thoroughly read the splash page. Thank you for informing me!

I assume you'd have to host this yourself? One advantage of Jekyll/Pages is that the hosting is free and relatively easy to set up.

edit: disregard me. I was busy being a bad user who doesn't read

You mentioned filtering attempts, one that someone posted earlier I've found works well, even if I only browse out of curiousity: http://whereis-whoishiring-hiring.me/

Ironically, it's unclear whether you're countering the comment's argument, or the article's argument.

"Use vi, nothing beats it." == "I use x and I like it just fine."

If that was your intention, my mistake. It's just not apparent.

This is one reason why I really like Neil Gaiman. His works tend to be on the shorter side and self-contained, yet still managed to be quite entertaining.

This is interesting. With the prevalence of windows in the corporate world, I could see this catching on. The biggest issues I think are going to be: the market share of W7 and under, and cost.

I could also see it do horribly, ala the original Surface Table thing (did they even sell those?)

Haskell is an amazing language. I've only spent a brief amount of time with it, but I've seen what others can do with it, and I'm very impressed.

That said, I don't know that I'd recommend it to someone who has just started programming. I think that it'd be harder to appreciate it, since a lot of the rules that Haskell breaks / puts in place aren't things you've run into too often.

I'd recommend becoming at least relatively familiar with normal programming paradigms and then giving Haskell a go. It certainly deserves your time, but without proper appreciation of what exactly it does, I think its unforgiving nature could become discouraging.

edit: Of course, if you find normal paradigms boring / uninteresting, Haskell may be just the place for you. It's also really, really good for mathematic applications.

Where would they go instead?

>Immersion (even for ~50min, 5 days a week) is easily the best way to learn. I don't know why anyone wastes their time with anything else.

I think once you're somewhat proficient in the language, this is true.

I'm currently taking Spanish courses in uni, and my professor is from Cuba. She's the sweetest lady, but has a tendency to ramble off in Spanish. About 50-60% of the time I can (vaguely) follow her, but the rest of the time I'm just hopelessly lost. And judging by the silence the rest of the class has a tendency for, I'm not alone.

Anyway, I'm certainly not trying to counteract your point, just to say that there are steps up to 100% immersion that I feel are necessary.

I stumbled across Google Flights a couple of years ago back when it wasn't as pretty, but I've always found it to be incredibly useful, at least for traveling in the continental U.S.

Reading this makes my skin crawl. I'll admit -- I only got about half way through before I had to stop. The disposition of the author is entirely too sardonic for my tastes. He's locked himself into an endless spiral of hatred and self-victimization, of course none of which is his own fault.

How can this be seen as normal or healthy?

Maybe I'm just one of the "boring" people. I don't have a twitter or an Instagram, and barely maintain my Facebook that follows only people I have known personally.

Take a walk. Go outside. Get some fresh air. Realize that you don't need to allow things to consume your free time if you don't enjoy them.