Tamerlin

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by Tamerlin 18y ago
There is some, most of it that I've seen is related to vulcanology. There was also an article in Discover magazine in the late 90's (which formed the basis for "The Day After Tomorrow" even though it was blindingly obvious that the writers
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
You're both correct, actually. The "it's all ok" dolts will simply take this as evidence that it's all fine, and it IS the sort of thing that we should expect from global warming... but we don't know enough to say with any certainty that gl
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
No, that would be a successful startups. Most startups I've seen have the CEO sitting on a pedestal (e.g. Steve Case), with the developers at the very bottom of the totem pole. He and his execs did not get out of the way and let us do our j
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
This reminds me of the furor that came up when some bozo claimed that MS was dropping OpenGL support in Vista, when in fact all they were doing was retooling their driver architecture... there was a tremendous amount of misinformation about
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Sometimes that's true. However, it usually isn't, and the gen-y's usually can't admit it when they're wrong. Most of the gen-y's I've worked with produced utter crap, and I've left a few jobs now because I got tired of fixing their stuff wh
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
The author clearly hasn't the slightest connection to the real world; probably a permanent academic. I know quite a few individuals who purchase copies of the entire Creative Suite, and use it for freelance work; for most of them, a single
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
"They don't even teach C++ to comp sci students anymore." I've been wondering about that one for a while now, because throughout my career as a software developer, some of the worst programmers I've encountered have been people with comp sc
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
That sounds about right. The programming tasks most of us get are trivial, but we end up spending an egregious amount of time on integration and configuration, so the projects still take a long time to complete, and the technical challenges
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Most of the Gen-Y's that I've worked with have been pretty intelligent, but very arrogant and largely useless, because they hide their inexperience behind their arrogance and claim they're doing things a "new way" even when it's considerabl
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
After Lisp, I want to start learning F#. After that, who knows? :)
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Every time that I've worked with people who put in "startup" hours, they've been less productive than me and the other folks who worked sane hours, and just wrote better code that required less debugging.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I think Forbes also missed the point that hours aren't the criterion that people should care about, but rather results.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Federal regulations already set that constraint no matter what the hiring manager says.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
“Do not focus on results,” he said. “When you focus on results, it builds anxiety. And anxiety is the kiss of death.” That sounds a bit like the Kyudo (the Japanese art of archery) philosophy. They say not to worry about where the arrow goe
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Photography, mainly landscape (large format) and macro (digital) -- http://pbase.com/Tamerlin (I do aspire to professional status as a fine art photographer) Hiking -- goes well with the photography Martial arts Film making, specifically
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
There's been an internal war of sorts within MS for years about this. They have had a long history of patching their own libraries and their own SO to fix bugs in software like SimCity... yes, they put special-case custom code in their own
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
You're both missing something important. It's who decides on how to define "value" and in most cases, it's management, and it's almost invariably short-term value that wins out. The reason? Most organizations believe that software engineeri
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
"solving problems largely caused by disorganization is just a sigh of relief at best." In most cases, it's a source of attrition and a waste of talent, because finding time to actually FIX it is such a huge task that no one has time for it,
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I'm using Expression Web. I recommend it. Of course, I'm also the sort of person who would use a nailgun when possible rather than a regular hammer, even though I can get what I need to done with a regular hammer and a bit more work.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I think that most people underestimate the skill and effort required for good photography to begin with, even without the stress and pressure of being for a wedding.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
That's what it sounded like the author was trying to say, but I think you're right, it's very unlikely. If Apple is doing anything with PA Semi's technology, I'd expect a mobile device with more horsepower than we're accustomed to seeing. I
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
The only thing that Apple has done that successfully prevented competition from clones was to sue them. Their proprietary architecture has been cloned more than once in the past.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
So you're claiming that processors behave exactly the same way as resistors? It's not true that a processor conversts ALL of the energy it consumes as heat, because things like transistor flip-flops consume energy in addition to producing w
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Something like this happened at a company I used to work for. Morale there is quite low, now... after the 3rd round of layoffs.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
He should have said that you'd be stupid to hire a mediocre wedding photographer instead of a good one. The catch is that the good ones charge more than the mediocre ones, who shouldn't get paid at all.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I think part of the issue is that so many people think that photography is easy, just because digital cameras these days are so capable. The reality is that even excluding the pressure associated with photographing something that may well b
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Hm... in the physical sciences we call this the Scientific Method.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
"More often than not it is not the language that decides the performance of a system, but the ability of the programmer to come up with sensible designs." A lot of people forget that. Most of the software I've encountered that displayed per
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
No, we'd be using MVS, VMS, Nonstop, and their competition, not UNIX or Linux if security were important enough to us... or at least those of us who are well-informed enough to know the difference.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
UNIX was designed for collaboration rather than security. The permissions, the (originally) open password file, sticky bits... it was full of security holes. Big ones. The engineers closed those holes after the fact when the internet starte

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