JonFish85

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by JonFish85 13y ago
Once Russia has what they need from him, they probably don't care what happens to him. Ship him back to the US, probably--that way they can try to patch things up diplomatically, and I imagine they have whatever they could squeeze out
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by JonFish85 13y ago
In addition to whatever severance I'm sure he'd get, it could be a no-lose situation. If they fail, he can try to fall back on "hey, they were going down anyways, I did my best to save things". If they right the ship s
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by JonFish85 13y ago
If I may expand upon what you've said... A lot of this is anecdotal so take it for what it is. Let's rewind a generation or so and pretend to be our parents. At a very basic level, looking around, I see a pattern of "X went
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by JonFish85 13y ago
"I don't think anyone who thinks Snowden is a traitor actually has considered it at all..." You're completely dismissing the fact that he took an oath to keep certain secrets, and a few months later decided to take it up
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by JonFish85 13y ago
Depends on the project's scope, who is working on it and also users/usage I'd say. Sometimes embedded documentation can be useful (Doxygen comes to mind). Given a ton of time, it probably should be done in stages, and creat
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by JonFish85 13y ago
Wikis for documentation: great in theory, sucks in practice. Make a change to source, then you have to figure out where the wiki page is for it. Can't find the wiki page? Make a new one. What folder does it go in? Do you make a ne
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by JonFish85 13y ago
The biggest thing that sticks out to me is that if you expected to spend more than 3 hours a day writing code as opposed to simply thinking about it / studying it / discussing it / debugging it, you may have been misguided on
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by JonFish85 13y ago
Granted I don't work at Microsoft so I don't see their internal code. I have worked a bit with their .NET and older Visual Studio suites, and found that their documentation there was probably some of the best I've ever seen
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by JonFish85 13y ago
Microsoft is the complete opposite of Facebook's "Move fast and break things". And that's a good thing, in a lot of ways. When entire companies (industries?) are dependent on you: slow & steady to get it right is
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by JonFish85 13y ago
I'd be surprised if the government was even behind any of the "smears". To some people, he's a hero. To some, he's a traitor. The people at either extreme have a reason to spread their viewpoint; those who don&#
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by JonFish85 13y ago
If he was a systems admin, there were undoubtedly other system admins around to keep an eye on each other. If he got data out, he likely walked out with it physically in some way, or there was a severe breakdown in the network security.
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by JonFish85 13y ago
I'd also imagine that it's far easier to just go after the sources (whoever is allegedly forking over the data). Not to mention that it's probably much better organized at the source than in some sort of data dump format. J
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by JonFish85 13y ago
I imagine it's actually fairly simple for them to integrate ads: you'll have to watch a ~10 second ad before you can see your message. Edited to add: Not to mention that they have a captive audience--you'll have to watch t
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by JonFish85 13y ago
The early investors in Zynga have some extra cash to invest?
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by JonFish85 13y ago
Who's this "we" that is constantly mentioned?
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by JonFish85 13y ago
That wouldn't shock me ($153k/yr). Say the average Zynga employee in NY & LA is making $90k, an employee overhead of 1.7x isn't doesn't seem outlandish (especially for a company that has grown very quickly and presumably hasn't had tim
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by JonFish85 14y ago
Am I the only one who would hate such a system? I could see, if I were a manager there, a lot of downside to this. "Why does Jenna make 15% more than I do and we have similar jobs? I sleep less than she does, I'm here on extra days, I ha
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by JonFish85 14y ago
In some ways I disagree with this: I think that it depends a lot on the type of person writing the code. In the past I have found when I copy the code it is essentially a copy-paste level of thinking (i.e. none at all) that takes longer.