MaggieL

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by MaggieL 13y ago
"Effortlessly"? snicker
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by MaggieL 13y ago
It was still Vista, though.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
Jesus wasn't compiled, he's dynamically interpreted. :-)
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by MaggieL 13y ago
We don't want government to simply "perform functions". The best government is the least government. Like code, we want no more government than is absolutely necessary, and I say we have way too much government already. Your
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by MaggieL 13y ago
Rating Congress by "number of bills passed" is as smart as rating coders based on number of lines of code written.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
I simply refused to use their sharing function on Android. It's not a new behavior.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
This was a kid's toy when I was young. Came in Remco's "Sneaky Pete's Magic Show" Here's a video demoing it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4MEvkR0sHw
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by MaggieL 13y ago
The same is true in the Philadelphia metro area...getting from one suburb to another via public transit is excruciating.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
There are no "participation trophies" in programming.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
American Islander is indeed returning to San Diego. But sister ship American Spirit is steaming purposefully SSW... I wonder why... :-)
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by MaggieL 13y ago
yFiles has been around for many years, and the yWorks free-to-use diagramming tool based on it named yEd is in my use-it-everyday list.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
If I were hiring somebody to do tech interviews for me I'd want them to have broader skills than "what I learned in school + Ruby". But frankly, the idea of hiring somebody to do interviews for me sounds a bit like hiring som
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by MaggieL 13y ago
Well, the H-1B law does identify "college" as being a normal requirement. "Kid" would be age discrimination an a job req, of course.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
Very few skills are obtainable from the unavailable.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
It's for me to decide if I think the government is "taking care that the laws are faithfully executed", as the Constitution requires of the Executive Branch. Been a lot of questions about that these days.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
Maybe. But since the law isn't written that way, that's a straw man.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
I wonder exactly what skills this gentleman had that were unobtainable from citizens in the Boston area...
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by MaggieL 13y ago
Hmm. Apparently it's legit: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/partn...
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by MaggieL 13y ago
"Google Apps Authorized Reseller"? WTF?
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by MaggieL 13y ago
"Sorry, you can't do this until we figure out how to tax it. And it took us 18 years to figure out how to tax Amazon..."
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by MaggieL 13y ago
Just imagine paying $32,000 for a "liberal-arts education" that leaves you in a state where you make statements like that one. I guess that makes me one of the critics he's impatient with.
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by MaggieL 13y ago
It doesn't suck to be an old engineer. It sucks to be an engineer with outdated skills. I learned FORTRAN in 1968. I learned Scala in 2012. I'll be 61 this week...and I just started a new job developing in Scala.
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by MaggieL 14y ago
Here's such music you don't need to ignore. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTx3G6h2xyA
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by MaggieL 14y ago
Yes, but the iOS crowd needed a distraction from the regression of their previously-fixed lockmode bug for marketing purposes.
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by MaggieL 14y ago
I find myself unmoved by the argument "if you have standarized tests we won't have time to teach anything but what's on the tests". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
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by MaggieL 14y ago
"You should read this, but I know you won't bother because you're a Yahoo. Don't worry, because I've told you what to think about it. Carry on."
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by MaggieL 14y ago
By the way, if your BIOS doesn't support "Secure Boot", forget it.
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by MaggieL 14y ago
Actual problems like the dollar is no longer a defined weight of silver. Talk about weights and measures...
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by MaggieL 14y ago
If you have to "market" it, especially with a lot of ad hominem namecalling...maybe it's not science. Maybe it's propaganda.
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by MaggieL 14y ago
If you're already running Java, jedit.org is worthy of your attention in this area. Extensible with Beanshell, or with plugins written in Java.

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