RHSeeger

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by RHSeeger 14y ago
Sadly: > You need to sign in or sign up before continuing. Not even a description of what it is or why I want to give them my information. Sorry, but /close
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
> It’s that the bunch of slackers that claimed to be working from home without actually doing any work ruined it for everyone. How about just figuring out what people goals are and, if they can't meet them, they're let go. Wouldn't tha
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
While it's not necessary to pull every block of code out into it's own function, its something a developer should keep in mind when writing code. A lot of people seem to thing that code duplication is the only reason to refactor code out in
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
Having worked the full range of situations (full telecommute, full office, and everything in between) I can say that, for me at least, an arrangement like this is optimal. - Working in the office every day is a complete productivity drain f
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
> So when working remote (as in from home) and your project manager calls you for something urgent at 10am but you are still sleeping/doing stuff with the kids etc Worth noting that working from home does not mean you work any different
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
> it's fairly easy to stay focused in a work environment and fairly hard not to go insane at home. That depends entirely on the person. I've spent years working totally in an office, totally at home, and various combinations of the two
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
To be fair, when facing drowning, the "very close to the surface" part is the part that matters.
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
I fail to see the draw to the argument that, because some people are bad developers, the rest of us should be handicapped. Making the worst developers better at the cost of making the better developers worse (productivity-wise) doesn't seem
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
> Are you really claiming that people don't change MAC address in order to avoid being identified with previous use under a particular MAC address, that it's not solely to mask identity. There are many reasons one might want to avoid be
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
> They should try to determine what their whole electorate wants I'd argue that they should determine what they whole electorate wants... but they should be striving for what their whole electorate needs. It may not get them re-elected,
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
The tax rate could easily be based on the average of the salaries of the (adult) individuals of the household. If you have one person making 100k supporting one person, why not pay the same rate as two people making 200k to support two peop
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
> You can't blame a prosecutor because Aaron reacted violently to them doing his job We seem perfectly happy blaming bullies when people commit suicide (including incidents where both parties were adults). Given the position of relative
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
Tcl's EIAS can be annoying at times, but it also allows for an amazingly easy to use language that provides for some amazingly powerful abilities. For example, the ability to build arbitrary control structures with little effort. Most other
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
Protected from competition, no. Protected from unfair competition, yes. There are a limited supply of taxi medallions in NYC (~13,000?), the number of which is controlled by the government, and getting one (last I saw) will cost you upwards
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
Offering what's best for the customer is a balancing act with what's best for the company. If only 2% of your customers are likely to have issues with a given item, it may not be worth raising the price 10% for everyone just to appease thos
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
In this case he wasn't arguing that people should give more weight to his answer because he went to law school. Rather, he was responding to someone that asked if he knew anything about the law. As a response to that specific question, givi
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
I'd actually label it as both of their faults. I'll give you an example from software development... The product manager comes to me and says "I need you to add this field to the set of data stored for this thing". In the specific scenario
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
I have the exact same problem every time I pick up my wife's ipod touch; I can't remember how to do anything on it. I'd take it one step further, however, and say that it's a lot easier to use the buttons that Android presents and figure ou
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
> It does make multi-block methods look ugly, but frankly, I think they look ugly in any language Tcl... builtin 'for' for {set i 0) {$i < 10} {incr i} { puts $i } user proc 'myfor' myfor {set i 0) {$i &#6
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
The problem that most of the complaining is about (from what I've seen) over current sandboxing solutions is not that you need to enumerate what your application can do. Rather, it's that the OS makers decide that certain functionalities ar
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
I'd be concerned for lots of random people that take screenshots and post them online, making public their account ids. Probably not a huge deal, but it's more information that they're giving out that they don't need to be. The people under
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
I'm inclined to believe it's less about the time required to code specific feature... and more about the time required to 1. Figure out what features should be implemented (ie, will implementing this feature shoot us in the foot later) 2. F
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
> At the end of the day, their job will only be transforming my thoughts into code. Technically, part of their job is transforming your thoughts into requirements, presenting options and recommendations about how to resolve problems (or
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
I've always thought of it as login/profile file(s) - Run on a "new" shell when there's not any environment present. It should contain things that are "carried over" from one process to child process (ie, exported variables). May also cont
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by RHSeeger 14y ago
I tend to find ORMs fantastically useful when working with code for front end web sites (ie, just reading data in simple ways) and raw SQL more useful when working on back end/business logic code. Specifically, if I'm going to need to do co