Periodic

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by Periodic 15y ago
I'll add in that I expect 90% of enterprise programming is maintaining someone else's code. It isn't making small CRUD apps, it isn't innovating, it isn't bringing costs down, it isn't bringing profits up. It is simply maintaining the behe
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by Periodic 15y ago
There have been a few sites I have found interesting and wanted to follow, but ultimately don't because they don't have an RSS feed. I don't have the time, energy, or organization to go to the site every few days and check for updates. Th
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by Periodic 15y ago
My biggest problem with Twitter and Facebook is too much information. I am constantly pruning my RSS feed in the morning to be things I'm interested in right then. I need it to be a set of the most articles and web comics to me that I can
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by Periodic 15y ago
I'm a fairly technical person and I've started just putting sites homepage URLs into Google Reader. I'm tired of having to go to the site, hunt for a little RSS button, or if they don't have one I have to pull up the source and find the me
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by Periodic 15y ago
The size of Google makes me very skeptical about working there, despite getting called by recruiters fairly regularly. I feel drawn to a more informal startup or academic atmosphere. My experience with large companies is that the number o
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by Periodic 15y ago
The problem is that he took "VP of a $100M company" to be stuff having been done and other people thinking the ex-VP was smart. He never verified it though. He took a secondary indicator of ability to make a sale (VP status) and used it t
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by Periodic 15y ago
As a self-employed person, I have to cover both halves. It's a bit of a shock when it's taken out on top of income tax.
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by Periodic 15y ago
I think this is why you don't load them yourself. Essentially it is this company backing the coin, not you. When they send you a loaded coin it probably won't be loaded with the coin you bought it with. Another interesting property is that
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by Periodic 15y ago
The private key is stored under a special hologram sticker, which is tamper evident. It should be obvious if the coin was digitally transferred.
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by Periodic 15y ago
It might also be interesting to control for prior experience. Some people enter the masters/PhD program with years of industry experience, as I did. I'm a little sad to see that after five years in industry I made less than the median Stan
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by Periodic 15y ago
I am playing on my Ubuntu desktop on Chrome 14, and I was clicking right on the ducks.
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by Periodic 15y ago
Can you explain a little more what you mean about the dataflow? When I was writing some game simulations I ended up creating a few different monads for different execution contexts. I would have my main world monad which contained configur
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by Periodic 15y ago
I have always to have three areas of identity online. I've had my professional persona, which I try to associate with my work and professional interests. I have a different identity that I present to my friends, which is a lot goofier, co
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by Periodic 15y ago
The thing is, that AOL screenname I chose 15 years ago isn't how I want to be seen now. I've changed a lot since then, and it feels right to me that my handle should as well. Over the last 8 years or so I've been moving away from that han
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by Periodic 15y ago
A post like this makes me question myself. How do I know when it's right to declare a business failed? I joined another person on a startup about six months ago. We have one client and it might start expanding, but then again, we are two
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by Periodic 15y ago
I quit my salaried day job with the intent of going into startups or consulting. I planned to take a week off, then seriously start looking for contracts, and if I didn't find anything I'd start looking for a more regular job after a month
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by Periodic 15y ago
I noticed something interesting on Reddit. I recently installed the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension for my browser. One of the features is that it displays next to a user's name above their comment the sum of +/- 1 votes I have given t
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by Periodic 15y ago
And as someone who might be hunting for a job, I hate having to comb through twitter and the thousands of daily posts to make sure I don't miss a job opening. I stopped following twitter because it was so hard to find the few things I was
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by Periodic 15y ago
This is the real point the author is trying to make. Any information you would put in a status report should already be in another system already. You have your task and project management system, your bug tracker, your version-control sy
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by Periodic 15y ago
For about four years I did bicycle commuting year-round, rain or shine (no snow here). It was only possible because I had an indoor place to store my bike, a place to hang my clothes to dry, a place to change and wash up a bit, and space a
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by Periodic 15y ago
This is a frustration for me currently. My work is taking me closer to Palo Alto and San Francisco, her work is taking her closer to South San Jose. Our most recent change is that she is working on finishing a project in Los Gatos, while
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by Periodic 15y ago
I was surprised at the range of blues (IBM, Intel, Facebook, GE), but I was also surprised how a few of the reds look identical to me (Lego, Coca-cola, CVS).
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by Periodic 15y ago
This has always been the hardest part for me, finding a subtle background pattern that gives a little more than a flat color, but that doesn't have too much contrast such that it draws the eye from the text. I'm glad to have found a resour
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by Periodic 15y ago
I have missed paying a few parking tickets myself. I guess I don't think of non-recurring payments as bills. That is probably just due to the way the term is used in popular culture.
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by Periodic 15y ago
I used to be terrible with these, until I sent up a lot of automatic payments. For the most part this is just logging into the various provider's websites and setting it up. The one I can't do this for is rent, so my bank has a bill-pay f
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by Periodic 15y ago
I didn't even notice those. Fortunately, I've worked with systems like S5 slideshows, and this looked a lot like a slideshow (no scroll bar, large text, numeric fragment in the URL). Usability could definitely be better, but I will admit t
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by Periodic 15y ago
Yesod is a web framework. It is designed to display web pages with some sort of datastore backing them. If you had a CRUD-type app with a few different data models then Yesod will make it really easy to generate the appropriate HTML and f
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by Periodic 15y ago
This is a good point. It's "Functional Programming in Haskell". When I first saw the course I think it was titled, "Systems Programming in Haskell."
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by Periodic 15y ago
I'll actually be sitting in on this class if not enrolled in it. I look forward to another good forum where I can improve my Haskell and functional programming skills, particularly with a good instructor like Brian O'Sullivan. I think the
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by Periodic 15y ago
My plan is Lambda on the left shoulder, Pi on the right. Lambda for programming and right-brain, Pi for math and left-brain. I feel that they are simple, elegant, and have a lot of meaning. My only worry is that they won't age well, but

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