Tamerlin

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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Couldn't agree more.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
So has Jobs' other company (Pixar).
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"In software you're always balancing risk. If you have some working software, but it has some flaws that doesn't mean you should abandon it." I've yet to see a project where throwing out the old software because of its flaws saved effort. O
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
There's probably enough bad code out there, and plenty of sweatshops, so the data's already there for the analyzing :) The catch is, who's going to do it? The ones who are creating the bugs are too busy creating the bugs, and the folks who
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Agree or not, I have to say that you're quite simply wrong. There's always more work to be done as long as the company you're working for exists. How you pace it is the problem -- burnout hours will prevent you from getting on top of the bu
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Why has it taken so long for developers to figure this out?
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"But these long hours and near-perfect grades really are just a way to compete." The only thing that the long hours are competing for is favor from managers who don't have the faintest idea as to what a competent programmer does. I've said
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If I work them them, I'd rather the company fire the one who wants to routinely work 80 hours a week. It's not helpful -- and I don't want to waste my time dealing with their code.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Programmers working long hours (regularly) aren't doing it right. If they were doing it right, they wouldn't need the extra hours.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
You should read the rest of the article then. You'll end up agreeing with him in the end, because he concludes that smart programmers do NOT like working long hours.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I might have had some doubts if I'd seen even one exception, but I haven't. I've never found a long-hours buffoon get as much as I have, and that's in spite of the fact that I wasted so much of my time fixing the idiocy they introduced into
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
If his start-up is his first priority now, it probably always will be, even on the off chance that it's successful.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
It's almost a tradition now that startup = sweatshop. That's the problem -- I have zero tolerance for sweatshops, even though I have nothing against startups. Too many people equate hours with value; reality is that if you're working burnou
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Drop the "maintainable" part.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Having worked there, I'd say that's a resounding NO.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I saw a post on one of the usenet forums from an HR guy looking for someone with 10 years of Java experience... in 1995.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"do it in one-third of the time competent people think possible", that is a huge red flag to me." I think your response is wise. That sort of statement usually means that it's a sweatshop.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"Essentially, the menu items are infinitely tall hit targets…" And they violated that rule in the dock, unless that's been fixed in the last couple of versions.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
This isn't exactly new behavior for IBM. It's more like tradition there. IBM has an astonishing patent portfolio, routinely topping the list of annual patent counts, and yet does next to nothing with the vast majority of them... until someo
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Craigslist in Seattle isn't any better. I've seen several postings looking for photographers who will shoot weddings for $200.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
It is entirely true, actually. Intel can sell a processor with over 1 billion transistors (Itanium) for less than $250 and break even, even though instead they sell it for thousands because it's appropriate to do so in Itanium's target mark
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Don't forget the large number of game studios that Microsoft has under its umbrella, including ones that no one has heard of like, say, Bungie ;) Interestingly, it seems as though the MBA's don't harass the game studios very much. Too bad M
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Actually, Windows is NOT the reason that most servers have x86 processors in them... that's due to a different legacy -- namely, x86. The catch there is that Intel and AMD have accomplished such huge economies of scale combined with such ad
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Do they still teach kids about compasses these days? :)
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
There's also evidence of it, recorded in iron-rich lava in areas like the Transatlantic Ridge. The thing to be concerned about isn't the flip itself, so much as that the fluctuations could lead to a period where the magnetic field isn't str
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
That's completely true. Unfortunately, in the world of programming, most people get rewarded for putting in extra hours rather than for being good at their jobs. My pointy-haired manager rejected a design that I developed for our current pr
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
During the Lord of the Rings, they transitioned largely over to Linux for nearly the entire setup. That transition involved a lot of custom software, so it's probably still mostly Linux.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Great comment. My disagreement however is with my interpretation of Avatar's story. I interpreted Avatar as a man vs nature story... with the humans against nature, and the Omaticaya on nature's (Pandora's) side. And nature won, for once. W
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
ec2 is one part of amazon that I haven't any direct experience with, but anyone who thinks that amazon is a good technology company should spend some time chatting with the legion of ex-amazon employees out there.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"Of course their technical and operational execution is excellent" Clearly spoken by someone who has only seen the beast from the outside...

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