CodeMage

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by CodeMage 13y ago
I marvel at how much effort is being poured into "proving" that one wording is "better" than the other, with people arguing about culture and paradigm shifts and worldview and audacity. Are there really only two answers
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by CodeMage 13y ago
> The author's main problem stems from his desire to use Stack Overflow as a mechanism for gaining internet points Nope. His argument is that the site encourages its users to behave that way and that this results in several very r
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Yes, we all know that the line workers are usually: * given high(er)-level information on how the company is doing * asked for their opinions * highly motivated by management to solve problems like that I highly recommend reading The Gervai
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by CodeMage 13y ago
No, you don't get a raise, because you didn't ask for it. The difference you should be focusing on, in your scenario, is not that I had a kid. It's that, for whatever reason, I renegotiated my salary. If you can do the same,
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by CodeMage 13y ago
> First, most recruiters/hiring managers ask for current comp (or at least a salary range) early in the discussion, so it should be easy for them to offer well over someone's current pay. This simply removes one bargaining too
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by CodeMage 13y ago
"if we were to challenge the very core concepts in version control systems, what would version control look like?" I looked at the documentation and I see nothing that challenges the very core concepts in version control systems
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Really? You want to know what havoc can be wrought by misuse of information sharing? Here: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/sexting-shame-and-s...
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by CodeMage 13y ago
I suspect there might be something else at work here. Ask yourself this question: if you take a 20 minute nap at work, will that count as part of your working hours or not? Even at the places where employees are not expected to rigidly conf
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Obviously, the above is exaggerated, but the point remains that any answer or non-answer by the students can be interpreted as a lack of math skills and evidence of poor critical thinking. That point remains wrong. You can treat the quest
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by CodeMage 13y ago
The intended audience of that presentation are the people who are regularly being taken advantage of by other people who think that it's okay not to pay someone for the value they bring. People here are criticizing PA for using their n
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Oh, okay. I guess that makes it all right, then. I would like to suggest watching the following talk by Mike Monteiro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Funny, that's precisely why I'm trying to make my punctuation correct -- to compensate for the lack of nonverbal cues. I believe that by using "proper" punctuation -- and I'll explain my idea of "proper" s
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by CodeMage 13y ago
I feel so old now. I always capitalize every IM or SMS I write and I try to make the punctuation as correct as possible. By that I mean that I don't stop at using the full stop as required, but also worry about commas, colons, semi-col
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by CodeMage 13y ago
I would highly encourage anyone who thinks that the solution is as simple as "don't use XYZ" to see what Moxie Marlinspike had to say about "Changing threats to privacy" at Defcon 18: http://www.youtube.c
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Apparently there is a lot of people that believe they are rockstars and they don't need the job, the job needs them. Here's a novel idea: both the candidate and the job need each other. If the job didn't need a candidate, t
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by CodeMage 13y ago
People seem to think the difficulty in coding is the mechanical act of writing code A lot of people make the mistake you mentioned, but the author makes a different, common mistake that is, in my opinion, even worse: Programming is easy,
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Reminded me of Da Vinci's Notebook and their masterpiece "Title of the Song": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=734wnHnnNR4
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Yes, consoles are plug and play, but they're not backwards compatible. There are several PS2 games I love, that will never be remade for PS3 or PS4. Meanwhile, I can still play "Crusader: No Remorse" or "The Longest Jour
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by CodeMage 13y ago
On the one hand, I agree with the ideas here. On the other hand, it really worries me when I find out that some server doesn't delete the data when I tell it to delete it. For example, when you delete your Facebook profile or your mail
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Why? Edit: I'm asking because @dnautics gave us an anecdote that doesn't add anything useful. Knowing why would be much more interesting, although still an anecdote.
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by CodeMage 13y ago
it strikes me as very strange when folks - especially young, single founders with few living expenses - get upset when someone negotiates for higher compensation. It shouldn't strike you as strange. You're expecting those young,
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by CodeMage 13y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: posting your stuff on the Web and putting ads on your page does not automagically entitle you to any revenue. [1] You can call it "stealing" as much as you want, but it doesn&#x
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by CodeMage 13y ago
1) It's a search box. Stuff not typed in the search box never leaves the machine (unless you count things that do by design, such as web browsers and email, obviously). The Unity Dash search box is placed where every user would norma
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by CodeMage 13y ago
You're not a curmudgeon, but I'll wager you've been using git for a while now. Here's the problem I have with git -- it has one of the worst CLIs I've ever seen. Many command names are counter-intuitive, i.e. they d
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Fraud really hasn't been an issue, at least as far as we've been alerted to it. We hold the credits until the buyer confirms receipt and that the game works, so anyone sending out fake games would need to make them pretty convinc
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Let's say you knew someone who was granted an H1B1 visa based on a combination of some university education (but without getting a degree) and years of relevant experience in the field. Would this person stand a chance of being granted
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by CodeMage 13y ago
I have a message for the Transcendentalist: most of us would love to enjoy that beauty, but having no leg space or access to a window kind of hamper us ;)
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by CodeMage 13y ago
I read the first sentence and thought "Milgram experiment". For the rest of my time on the page, I had to fight the urge to just press the back button. As the parent said, congrats on tech, but this just made me shudder.
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Maybe it's trivially easy to host your own e-mail, but isn't it pretty hard to convince other servers to accept e-mail originating from your host? I haven't been following things closely, but I remember reading about stuff li
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by CodeMage 13y ago
Igudesman & Joo have their own way of playing stuff like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w

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