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by aggieben 18y ago
I started writing ideas in blue books when I was very young (like 7 or 8). Most were stupid, but a few were good at the time, and in fact later become commercially available products. Of course, I always thought "Hey! I thought of that f
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by aggieben 18y ago
Agree with jamess, but additionally, I think interviewers that don't ask coding questions might be an indication of something negative at the company. Basic coding ability has to be one of those checkbox questions that determines your el
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by aggieben 18y ago
For a guy whose entire life revolves around smartening the smarts of smart people to make himself seem smart so he can sell stuff to people who aren't so smart, he sure does come off as a moron. Has he even read the Bible? I mean, of cour
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by aggieben 18y ago
Interesting, but the benefit of tinyurls is that I can copy-paste them into emails and chat and so on, and people can click on them. It's a one-step process, and there are tons of applications that support opening links. OneRyng is a three
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by aggieben 18y ago
Assuming pay is the same, I think I'd choose job #1.
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by aggieben 18y ago
What I'm arguing is that being able to tell the Saudis to kiss off means we won't ever have a reason to invade them. Realize I'm using "the Saudis" as a proxy here. But further: Can you imagine a scenario in which the following things are
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by aggieben 18y ago
Ah, the versioning is good, but still.... Maybe one possible solution to my concerns would be to keep a table of sha1 sums of the version you want to depend on, and check them periodically (randomly select 1 of every 1000 visits to receiv
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by aggieben 18y ago
It would definitely seem to go against the motto, right? You need look no further than Microsoft (and other software vendors whose entire strategy is based on lock-in), and assess the probabilities for yourself.
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by aggieben 18y ago
As for your app becoming reliant on Google's version of the framework, you can always download the JS file they've been serving and host it yourself. You can't get locked in that way. This misses the point. I'm not concerned about where
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by aggieben 18y ago
I registered at viaopenbook, but when I tried to log in, I got an alert that read "Your login has been blocked. Contact the administrator." What?
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by aggieben 18y ago
It's a neat idea, but I can't imagine using it. Do you really, really trust Google with your business? What happens when google decides to "fix" something in one of those frameworks that the upstream developers disagree with? Even worse,
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by aggieben 18y ago
Educate the CPS newbie, here: why do continuations make this difficult?
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by aggieben 18y ago
I don't know. You can amend the constitution without congress, but that would require quite a lot of organization and "grass-roots" (I hate the phrase, but to use another cliche, it's used for lack of a better one) efforts. You could prob
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by aggieben 18y ago
Agree, but the old site is inaccessible.
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by aggieben 18y ago
Uh, sorry. I think you've got it completely backwards. Why do you think the framers were so concerned about being "entangled in foreign alliances"? The kind of entanglements you propose will prevent war are exactly the kind we should be
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by aggieben 18y ago
See the Dilbert toon on fungibility: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-02-19/
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by aggieben 18y ago
These days, random joe blogger has more credibility than Congress. Lots of people aren't happy with President Bush - he's got approval ratings somewhere in the low thirties, I think. Even less people are happy with Congress - they were in
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by aggieben 18y ago
Bah. It's turning into Digg.... But it's been doing that for a long time. I quit reddit way back when.
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by aggieben 18y ago
I think what he's missing is that "Web Application" is one of the first things to come out of the technology department that's largely lived up to its hype. People like that.
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by aggieben 18y ago
So this company provides CRM, contact management, calendar, invoicing, and timetracking in one interface - well, pin roses on their noses. To come to the conclusion that "single use web applications are dead" because you're selling a produc
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by aggieben 18y ago
This is simply the nature of large companies. Trying to "transform" it seems like tilting at windmills. That's why people start startups.
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Ice: a distributed OO middleware I hadn't seen before(zeroc.com)
1 points by aggieben 18y ago|0 comments
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by aggieben 18y ago
Topic story was not all that interesting (Cisco re-invents the wheel!), but it led me to Thrift ( http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/ ) and Ice ( http://zeroc.com/index.html ), which I didn't know about.
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by aggieben 18y ago
Dude, this title amounts to FUD and to some, possibly libel. The article doesn't say that Dreamhost deleted any files - it doesn't name the hosting service in question - it merely said it had "rates like a Dreamhost". I clicked on this bec
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by aggieben 18y ago
Yep. Good catch. I know the difference, but don't always catch myself before the wrong word gets to my fingertips.
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by aggieben 18y ago
This is awesome. My mind replaced XYZ and ABC with names I know. And... Normally, I can't bear to read such poor English, but this time it was just the perfect touch.
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by aggieben 18y ago
This was my cue to take my exit to the back button: Though they were programming books but they were not written to show you the reality of what happens when you use scp to copy file over a network. *How that scp program looks
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Russell Hadley: The Route to C++ Code Optimization(channel9.msdn.com)
2 points by aggieben 18y ago|0 comments
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by aggieben 18y ago
I just bought a Lenovo T61p (ThinkPad mobile workstation), but it was very nearly a coin-flip decision vs a Dell XPS M1530. www.notebookreview.com
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by aggieben 18y ago
I don't know many good answers to that question - but in my bones I know that the federal government isn't one of them.

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