TimGebhardt

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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
How is this any different than software? Certainly there are many cases where a startup or company tries to make a product and us geeks say "It's stupid to pay for that I can redo it in a weekend and put it on Github" and we fawn over the
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
It's funny that in the companies where working from home I think is more likely (big companies with policies about it and such), it would probably be less effective because those same companies probably have locked down computers and firewa
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It's also the reason why it's so important in investing not to lose your principle (Warren Buffet's #1 rule - don't lose money #2 - see #1): If you start with $100 and you want to make $150 you need to make a 50% return. If your $100 drops
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Fake it 'til you make it. Throw yourself at problems that you think are over your head. If you care and you want to do good work you'll figure out a way to get something done. Especially if you have a good mentor or someone that can guid
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
But VC investing is a hit-driven business. One big hit, like a Dropbox, funds all the rest. Unless you're really good at picking horses, you'll have the same median as everyone else.
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Anecdote: My recruiter told me that the Chicago tech startup scene is the second largest in the country, behind SV. Not sure how true it is, but Groupon was pretty good for the scene.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
More specifically, it punishes the savers who have their saved wealth in cash. Those that store their wealth in productive assets, like ownership in a company or real estate, are free to raise prices to keep track with or even exceed the r
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The Art of Misdirection -- Opportunity cost of some modern dev techniques(dannorth.net)
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Can I ask why you're rewriting code on your production server on the fly without the aid of the rest of your tool chain? In any good development shop you make a change, your CI server picks it up, builds it, and creates a release candidate
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
What about a small organization or a one-man e-commerce company where database performance affects conversions, and you're the one-and-only tech-guy?
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Don't forget that most people in Congress are lawyers. And lawyers will see the patent system providing a lot of value... because you typically need lawyers to file for a patent.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
And drug research is largely nationalized. Drugs for "important" diseases are typically discovered by academic researchers and the R&D of a pharma company is either focused on a) how to scale up production of the drug b) how to market
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The reason drugs are so expensive to develop is the FDA testing. So instead of patents the FDA can just enforce a rule to not allow generic drugs unless they've gone through the same rigorous testing process the original guy did. This is p
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
If you're a small fry then your broker will probably assume the risk. If you're a big guy, like it sounds like this guy is, then he should know he assumes the risk. Buying and selling in a market carries some credit/counterparty risk. NA
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
I can't stand when I see people making this argument. What if people said that we had "enough" computing power back in 1999? Would you be happy with your Nokia candy-bar phone today? You'd never know because that's all you'd know! We nev
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Getting a pre-nup is pretty much going through the work of a divorce, but before you get married. He wouldn't leave her with nothing, unless she found her lawyer from the bus station bench.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
How is this any different than any other job, and why are we limiting a teacher's earning potential? If they're not well paid then they'll find ways to supplement their income. If I'm well paid and satisfied with my current job then I'll m
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Instead of a "one click install" how about a "clickonce install". ClickOnce, the installer/updater built into .NET since .NET 2.0. It can also work for installing via CD or over a fileshare if you don't want it over the internet.
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
I think there is a big difference between banning it outright (like Apple) and hampering it. From the end-users point of view both suck, but at least if I use Firefox to sync my bookmarks and passwords I'm able to on a Windows tablet. Not
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
They're not banning it. They're just not allowing access to critical API functions for a JIT engine to Windows Marketplace apps. Only IE has access to it. Without these APIs then Firefox will run like a dog because it'll undue all the ye
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Who says inserting into a linked list is faster than inserting things into an array? If the array is pre-allocated, or even crazier a c++ vector or c# list<> with an amortizing growth function that only needs to be invoked once or
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
At work I set up one of our project's automated build to fail if the cyclomatic complexity of a method exceeds 20. It's a C#/.NET project so we use NCover as part of the automated build. NCover has a reporting tool that you can set to ret
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
> I'm not a formally schooled developer. I don't know a <strong>heap</strong> about traditional computer science. Well you sure do talk the talk. ;) Ba-dum---Crash!
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by TimGebhardt 14y ago
And I think he's asking you: what should he do then since you're judging that the work he's doing isn't valuable? Impact and importance are judgement calls. You're already making the judgement that the work he's doing isn't valuable, finis
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
Yup, different types of financial products trade differently. Stocks and bonds are "fungible" meaning that they can be traded on any exchange that will let them, or even via private agreement which is called Over The Counter (OTC). Futures
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
"Love doesn't start out as a hurricane that sweeps through your life and changes everything in an instant. It starts out as a seed. Barely alive, easily overlooked, fragile and small. But given attention love grows. Given proper care it spr
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
Probably depends on the request. I got a pretty quick turnaround (or at least it exceeded my expectations) on my request to the FBI for whatever they knew about my grandfather: About 3 weeks. Sidenote: if you're interested in doing the sam
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
I'm not so sure about that. Have you ever played fantasy baseball? Or fantasy hockey? Most other fantasy sports are a pain in the butt. They're too involved. Fantasy football has a nice rhythm: Peak at your team on Thursdays half-way th
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
I think people without kids, when their friends with kids say they're so busy, don't realize is that all the work with kids is sporadic. You never get to get "in the zone" when child raising. I can't just change diapers for half a Saturda
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
When my wife and I were about to have our twins we had read that it takes about 170 hours a week to take care of baby twins. Remember, there's only 168 hours a week. Now that they've just turned a year old I can safely look back and vaguel

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