slingerofwheat | 10 years ago | on: Friends at Work? Not So Much
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slingerofwheat | 11 years ago | on: GoBe calorie counter wearable put to the test
For people thinking that this is awesome, the device has received considerable criticism as being total "bullshit".
PandoDaily ran several articles[1][2] about how the device claims to do the impossible - specifically, "caloric intake" and probably "stress level".
Personally, I do think the device is snake-oil and it's better to get a Basis or a Fitbit.
[1] http://pando.com/2014/03/31/as-more-experts-dispute-gobes-bu... [2] http://pando.com/2014/07/03/weird-after-admitting-to-pando-i...
slingerofwheat | 11 years ago | on: Face It, You’ll Never Be Rich
Exactly. And those 314 people probably control the country anyway.
slingerofwheat | 11 years ago | on: Taylor Swift’s Stand on Royalties Draws a Rebuttal from Spotify
She was getting $6 million a year.
slingerofwheat | 11 years ago | on: London’s Legendary Taxi-Driver Test Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS
Waze claims to do something like and it produces the most retardedly slow routes ever. I just hate it when someone uses Waze on my Lyft because I just know I'll take 10 minutes more.
I don't think it's as trivial because there are lots of things to consider. Some drivers are just SLOW and it will have nothing to do with traffic. Maybe all slow/terrible drivers use your app so all the route speed information is completely based on specific patterns set by your app.
slingerofwheat | 11 years ago | on: The Introverted Face
How much of this is a feedback loop?
Being perceived as more competent will open better opportunities and lead you to be happier leading your face to be brighter more often and vice versa.
This is interesting to me, because personally, I feel like on happy days, good things happen, and on sad days, people stay away and it becomes a vortex of pain.
slingerofwheat | 11 years ago | on: Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet
I agree. This is such a misleading website. I don't even know what I'll get.
slingerofwheat | 11 years ago | on: Major Android Bug Is a Privacy Disaster (CVE-2014-6041)
Is anyone familiar with the code that allows this vulnerability to be present and where I can find it(I believe this project is open source)? I understand the exploit is adding a nullbyte at the beginning of some javascript due to some bad handling in the parsing code. So I'm looking here: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Brow...
slingerofwheat | 11 years ago | on: Uber’s Most Important Innovation Is a Pricing Algorithm
I'm annoyed by the mentality that the number of retweets and favorites is a gauge for the validity of a claim.
Well, just gotta pay 5 bucks and get a thousand bots to retweet you then.
slingerofwheat | 11 years ago | on: fork() can fail
So. You mean you actually DON'T like to take what he said seriously.
His username is offensive, but you just also gave it credibility.
slingerofwheat | 11 years ago | on: How I made $40k within Shopify's trial period
Does anyone know how the T-shirts are being printed?
slingerofwheat | 11 years ago | on: ToDoDeck: Simple Notecards for Productive People
With all due respect, these are colored cards that you can buy hundreds of at a local office supplies store for a few dollars. $10 is retarded.
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For a lot of people who move in from strange places on earth to work at FB/Goog/tech company, making friends is very hard. Hanging out with co-workers has been the primary way for a lot of people I know to have a social life.
I'm a nerdy Asian guy who worked with a predominantly white company and it was very lonely there, because none of the white people want to "hang out with co-workers". However, moving to a larger company really helped me make friends and boost my self esteem. It may be corporatey, but I'm thankful my company atleast cares that much.