TJensen

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by TJensen 18y ago
The problem is that the majority of illegal immigrants are at the low end of the tax spectrum, often taking more out than the put in. The people who we'd ideally want in the country are at the other end, and they usually aren't here illegal
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by TJensen 18y ago
Since there is a contract in place, it means one of two thing: 1) Google is failing to keep their end of the agreement or 2) the PRS is taking the lions share. 150M views * .022p/view = 33,000£. I doubt Google is going to risk a lawsuit ove
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by TJensen 18y ago
There is no doubt a combination of solid sales guy and solid technical guy is important in a start-up. The last start-up I worked at was missing the sales guy. I'm now thinking of starting something up, and that is weighing heavily on my mi
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by TJensen 18y ago
While I often seem to be in the role of firefighter, it is one I despise. The more the firefighter saves the day, the more people play with matches in the gasoline refinery.
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by TJensen 18y ago
I don't think this would fall under a treaty definition of slavery. The people are not owned, they are not bartered as property, they just have zero rights.
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by TJensen 18y ago
I was in Dubai a couple years ago and could not figure out how it could possibly be growing the way it was. They really do a good job of putting on a face to the world. I was working with a British expat who lives there, and he couldn't sto
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by TJensen 18y ago
I cringe to think what the developers at my work would do with threads in the Flash VM. I'd just as soon keep a single-threaded model.
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by TJensen 18y ago
I worked for a company that had close ties to BB and WebCT. Working with BB was always a nightmare - they were exactly what you would think from reading this page. WebCT were great to work with. It was a sad day when the acquisition happene
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by TJensen 18y ago
That was seriously one of the most depressing documentaries I've seen. I really want an EV and should have one by now.
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by TJensen 18y ago
I would say that it is taking off. Now that BlazeDS is open source, there is less of a barrier to adoption.
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by TJensen 18y ago
Enterprise flex development would be driving ActionScript. I agree with what jdg said about Ruby books.
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Gall's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
40 points by TJensen 18y ago|6 comments
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by TJensen 18y ago
I agree. The only (remotely) interesting thing Atwood said was "wouldn't it be nice if there was a service that would hook up the consultant with the customer?" However, it would probably be little more than the dozen "find a third-world-or
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by TJensen 18y ago
Isn't what he is proposing essentially a service to find a consultant to customize the solution? Seems reasonable to me.
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by TJensen 18y ago
I think you could even allow the product's company to participate in the challenge. If PJ or the company can fix it faster, PJ wins. It has been a VERY rare case where a bug has been fixed for me in an enterprise package. Work-arounds are
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by TJensen 18y ago
Or they will subcontract that to a firm that specializes in dealing with government bureaucracy. Two hundred might be a bit small, but I don't think the sub-1000 range is untenable.
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by TJensen 18y ago
One of the things he mentions is that all GPL does is provide a mechanism to allow companies to also charge for the code. I disagree with that. I worked at a start-up that wanted to open source its code. Without the GPL, there would be no w
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Ask HN: Deciding between microISV and something bigger
1 points by TJensen 18y ago|1 comments
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by TJensen 18y ago
I use Java and Flex throughout the day and switch to Python and Objective C in the evening. I agree that I've reached my limit on storing the massive standard libraries these languages have in my head, but I think use of IDEs in the past h
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by TJensen 18y ago
That is really interesting. Just out of curiosity, how much could be attributed to maturity? Was this change in behavior just within the graduate program or throughout the entire school? FWIW, I went to Big State U (had a nationally ranked
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by TJensen 18y ago
I didn't get "trashing". I got frustration and cultural mis-match. If I were looking to hire the guy, I'd appreciate the insight into the culture he would fit in. If I were at Google, I would know that there is no way he should come back.
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by TJensen 18y ago
To say that something like internet addiction has no physiological component is to vastly understate the power our brain has over the rest of our body. If your method of getting a dopamine rush is the internet (or world of warcraft, porn,
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by TJensen 18y ago
Do you think their HPC and server hardware will go, too? I'm guessing they'll stay in whatever hardware business is not commoditized, which means a lot of Sun's hardware fits into IBM's portfolio.