Periodic

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by Periodic 15y ago
If you were a smart and talented computer programmer and you saw a headline on HN, "Disqus doubles salaries, and still looking to hire", you might be more inclined to check them out than if they were just offering market rates. A weird thin
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by Periodic 15y ago
From my experience of working in a large enterprise, it's that people don't really buy the software, they buy the support, the ecosystem, and (buy into) the sales process. In our case we were finally going to implement online code-review.
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by Periodic 15y ago
I find the best way for me to keep going on a project is to keep a list of things I still want to do, but never more than 5-10. I don't think too far into the future, but rather think, "what's the next thing I could do to to make this more
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by Periodic 15y ago
The current wording is causing us to focus on what the lower tier lack, and doesn't highlight what they have. For example, does it automatically load balance? Is there redundancy within the data center? For example, is a PHP+MySQL free pla
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by Periodic 15y ago
I think they're not targeting freelancers as much as larger companies. They're looking for a more "serious" crowd that also doesn't do systems administration. They offer a little more simplicity than managing full VPS solutions, but that c
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by Periodic 15y ago
I worked at the library at a university library for a while. I hadn't heard about the issues you mentioned, but the issue of this article was very common. It stemmed from our lending policy. Undergrads could get a book for two weeks, but
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by Periodic 15y ago
I feel that if IE wasn't so terrible it would still occupy the top spot. All other things being equal, IE is still distributed as the default browser to more systems than any other browser. The issue is that users have many reasons to swi
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by Periodic 15y ago
To be fair, they probably pay another firm that actually owns the ad space and which throws all the ads up. Google likely isn't directly deciding to market Chrome like that. I'm not sure if the one-space-full-of-ads is a strategy, or just
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by Periodic 15y ago
I find one of the most important functions of Lunch is to take a break and clear my head. My hands tend to be occupied, so if I'm home I'll watch an episode of something on Hulu or read HN. If I'm out with someone we'll just chat. It's re
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by Periodic 15y ago
It was not that Ruby was more OO than Java, it was that Ruby on Rails had a better design than the spaghetti-code Java (poorly designed Struts apps) I had been exposed to.
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by Periodic 15y ago
That was my exposure, Struts, and poorly designed struts too. I think 90% of the code was in static methods. I deferred to the people with 10 years of seniority over me at the time.
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by Periodic 15y ago
I'm reminded of the first time I tried out Ruby on Rails. I had done some PHP, Perl, C, and Java programming before that. I had worked on some medium sized projects, but in general anything larger than a few dozen files got so complicated
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by Periodic 15y ago
I've actually been one of those developers working on a site for a major corporation who outsourced the development and design to an advertising agency. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few holes in our site, despite the external se
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by Periodic 15y ago
Is buying stolen property, which you seller does not tell you is stolen, over Craig's List equivalent to stealing the item? Should the buyer be jailed?
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by Periodic 15y ago
Really, it's about risk management. Unfortunately, I don't know the probability that chasing after thieves will result in death, however, I am going to guess that the chance of harm to yourself is significantly higher than driving 100km.
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by Periodic 15y ago
It looks like it's compatible with the previous touch-card-to-reader-to-pay infrastructure that has been rolling out slowly. This is simply a way of having your phone emulate the card. So really, this technology builds onto an existing ec
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by Periodic 15y ago
This makes that BitTorrent client really make sense. Distributing video podcasts really has to be done via YouTube or not at all for a lot of people because it's such a pain to distribute the video due to bandwidth costs. BitTorrent helps
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by Periodic 15y ago
I really hope we can get to a new generation of filesystems soon. Something closer to what ZFS is now. It frustrates me that I have an 80GB disk and I have to allocate portions of it to each of these tasks and try to correctly estimate in
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by Periodic 15y ago
A common way for an attacker to get root access after exploiting a service and getting accesses on that service's user account is to download some additional tools to tmp. Since no one should be running programs from tmp, turning exec off
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by Periodic 15y ago
You say "our" numbers. Is that $10k/mo split among a larger team? $10k/mo for eight people is very different than for two.
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by Periodic 15y ago
Could you elaborate on the "hosting websites" bit? What scale and size of sites are you talking about and what sorts of clients are you hosting? Are they all just your consulting clients? I work with another developer to do web developmen
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by Periodic 15y ago
There are definitely some in the Java community who would view public properties as incorrect code. For example, it was not accepted at the large corporation where I used to work, nor is it allowed in my wife's Intro to Java class. There
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by Periodic 15y ago
Do people even having 1.6 million Facebook "followers"? That's a lot more friends than I'd have time to confirm. I can't seem to find a Facebook page for him with nearly that many likes on it. However, he happens to have right around 1.6
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by Periodic 15y ago
I worked at an enterprise software company with a Scrum system that used two-week sprints. This means we would estimate all the tasks for the next two weeks in a big meeting at the beginning of the sprint, then at the end of the sprint we'
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by Periodic 15y ago
I worked at a large enterprise software company and it was actually fairly easy to tell. The reason is that management had implemented a Scrum system with two-week sprints. What this meant is that we planned out what we could do for the n
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by Periodic 15y ago
I worked for a very large enterprise software company for a while. They gave everyone their stock computers with stock keyboards and mice (the basic ones that came with the HP systems). I spent about a month trying to get them to buy me a
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by Periodic 15y ago
I'm currently working with Yii. I was pretty sure I was going to go into Rails development, and we were planning on doing the next project in Rails, but Yii is actually very good. It's not built around creating DSLs, it's built around usin
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by Periodic 16y ago
I most important memory for me is that Montessori allowed me to excel. It was exceptional at getting out of the way and letting me learn if I was interested, and I most certainly was. What I remember most from my Montessori education in my
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by Periodic 16y ago
I'm currently helping my wife through some classes she's taking at the local community college towards a computer science degree. It's good fun. I get to help her, and I learn a little more along the way from having to explain it clearly
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by Periodic 16y ago
University libraries are generally well kept. They are better funded than the public libraries, and (often) being private property they have more discretion as to who they can throw out. Unfortunately the advent of magnetized key cards se

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