acrylicist

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by acrylicist 19y ago
I think it would really have to depend on what the tests were doing. If the tests were just goldbricking code testing random crap, yeah, 1:4 C:T is crazy. If you really are validating functionality and business logic, is 1:4 C:T so crazy?
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by acrylicist 19y ago
[rant-on!] Now, we need someone to package Asterisk in a form that democratizes telephony to people without Federal Excise Fees (taxed for the privilege of doing local communications), Transit Taxes (paying for mass transit despite the fact
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by acrylicist 19y ago
I've seen people who have never heard of "folders" save 50-60,000 items in one folder. NFTS (if they keep it), slows to a crawl every time that folder's accessed because I don't believe its storing the entries in a tree. The other possibili
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by acrylicist 19y ago
Does anyone else resort to writing vi commands down on paper when they are writing in pen or have no eraser for corrections?
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by acrylicist 19y ago
It really needs to be the size of a legal pad, use a stylus, abusable like a legal pad (very durable), WiFi, maybe e-paper for output. Nothing should slide, fold or twist--just a slab of input/computation/output. almost completely sealed, i
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by acrylicist 19y ago
http://whitehouse.gov . I think we're all are being invoiced $80,000 for the last eight years or so. /political-snipe aside, I pay for online web hosting, netflix and little else.
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by acrylicist 19y ago
Are they even offering or looking locally or is this just PR to cover up outsourcing? Their search system only lists 211 positions nationwide.
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by acrylicist 19y ago
I've been through the Google interview process [I'm not going to blog about it with any sour grapes, I'll try again for a different position later.], and I realized afterwards that it was a lot like map-reduce. You're being thrown through a
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by acrylicist 19y ago
I remember the fun days of CMBBS, C-Base, and later everyone making some nice BBS systems, it was cool to see what you could do with the Commodore Basic, BLITZing it up and hosting it. Some of the older BBS systems rival the features provi
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by acrylicist 19y ago
Didn't see any mention of the "Law of Optical Volumes" http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/04/the_math_behind.html
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by acrylicist 19y ago
People still use AIM? The client turned into a gigantic epileptic-fit inducing billboard. IRC or Jabber. You're done.
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by acrylicist 19y ago
Okay, so far, we have ClickableBliss' Billable, FreshBooks, SlimTimer and Rescue time. Only Billable is stand-alone, the others are services that require working Internet. But even then, this shows me four I've never heard of before. :)
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by acrylicist 19y ago
I had to look that up--you're implying Candian content? :)
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Ask YC: What do you use for Time Tracking/Invoicing?
2 points by acrylicist 19y ago|7 comments