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by Todd 17y ago
I disagree. If French lessons are important to him, why should he give them up? It sounds like one of the few things he does for himself (outside of work) and it may provide a good outlet for him to page out his work and focus on something
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by Todd 17y ago
His blog says he's using 7400 series TTL ICs. Just one step up from transistors.
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by Todd 17y ago
Well said. The thing that bothered me the most when I forced myself to use it was that it seemed like a high-school language hack tried to rewrite perl and got some of his buddies to help. Each of these guys hacked in their own versions of
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by Todd 17y ago
I second the Steelcase Think recommendation. I was having severe nerve problems using a basic chair (after a recent move) and tried a few iterations before I was able to get the Think. My problems instantly went away. Moreover, I can easily
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by Todd 17y ago
You should check out contract manufacturing. Many of these types of small jobs can be handled by a CM in China. The problem with any physical device is cost--cost in materials, machining, tool building, assembly, etc. This means you'll prob
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by Todd 17y ago
I thought I would post a practical application, FWIW. I recently applied edit distance to a problem I was facing on my free dating site. Being free, we attract an inordinate number of scammers. I've been developing an arsenal of tools to he
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by Todd 18y ago
I appreciate the idea behind Joel's article--that developers need to have everything available to do their jobs and not be bothered by corporate minutia. The best software companies are organized this way. What I have always found dissatisf
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by Todd 18y ago
Great idea and implementation.
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by Todd 18y ago
Nice design. I've recently built a more general dating site and I see in your site many of the issues that I've been dealing with. The chicken and egg problem is the biggest. Until you reach "critical mass", whatever that is (1k, 10k, 100k)
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by Todd 18y ago
Try the non-annoying printer friendly version: http://www.inc.com/print/44?partner=rss That slideshow is maddening.
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by Todd 18y ago
This may work for marathon coding sessions (be sure you're following TDD practices), but it can be counterproductive for people dealing with GAD. It can actually be a cause of GAD.
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by Todd 18y ago
Only if you want it to thrive. There are a number of interesting backwater languages that never get more than passing interest. Even the motivated developers that experiment with languages move on after a time if they can't do anything more
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Google Analytics Motion Charts Overview with a PPC Example(webanalysis.blogspot.com)
1 points by Todd 18y ago|0 comments
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Anonymous, a fixed with sans designed especially for coders(ms-studio.com)
12 points by Todd 18y ago|14 comments
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by Todd 18y ago
Yes, like nearly every other day. That doesn't mean that I didn't find time to spend with the people I care about. Both are a matter of priorities.
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by Todd 18y ago
Agreed. I'm a long time Perl user but I think C# (and Visual Studio) is well done and keeps getting better. That said, the Web Forms model has always been a bane for me. It violates so much that is web--from hijacking the HTML ID attribute
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2009 Annual Letter from Bill Gates(gatesfoundation.org)
3 points by Todd 18y ago|1 comments
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High Tech Startup Valuation Estimator(caycon.com)
1 points by Todd 18y ago|0 comments
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by Todd 18y ago
You can improve your speed a great deal just by reading the introductory tips in most speed reading courses. Most of it comes down to observing how your eyes work mechanically and trying to make the input process more efficient. Probably th
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by Todd 18y ago
This is similar to comments I've heard from profs in the CS area. It's probably cultural. We still have the students that break their backs to be the best, but the majority have been indoctrinated in this "everyone's a winner" mentality.
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by Todd 18y ago
I second yoga. It is the only exercise that I know of that is built around the back and posture. It does wonders for people who sit at desks all day. I have only done it occasionally over the past several years, but it has helped every time
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by Todd 18y ago
Not at all. Unless you went to a top school, where you went to school becomes irrelevant after a few years. Where you worked and what you did become much more important.
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by Todd 18y ago
Touché
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by Todd 18y ago
Likewise. Sorry about that.
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by Todd 18y ago
I agree. Those 800 pages of Anna Karenina couldn't have been necessary either. Fortunately, I was able to aquire the Cliffs Notes.
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by Todd 18y ago
(edit) Sorry. I misread your post. Here's the rest of my original comment: I've been using SuperMemo off and on for the last ten years. It is by no means an elegant or user friendly app. However, there is a lot of science behind it and it's
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by Todd 19y ago
Agreed. I have used this app off and on for years. A very nice contribution on the part of the developer. I see the UI of this app as being more a symptom of the target audience. It is targeted to other software developers (I assume) since
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by Todd 19y ago
In general, anywhere in Europe is a bad idea for someone from the US if you want to cut costs. The dollar's at an all time low of $1.52 to the Euro today. I moved to France two years ago. I did it just for the experience while contracting w
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by Todd 19y ago
I've been working on a similar concept on and off for almost a year. It's on the shelf right now, but I wouldn't mind talking. I've done a lot of research into Oracle and Peoplesoft and (to a lesser degree) Peachtree and Quick Books. If not
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by Todd 19y ago
I have nothing but good things to say about Slicehost. That said, 256 is a very small sandbox and Apache doesn't play nicely in small sandboxes without tweaking. Our site runs several PHP apps. We hit the wall one day with a number of apach

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