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by alinajaf 15y ago
Seconded. They based Tony Stark in the new Iron Man movies on this guy. I think I'm doing important work, then I read his wikipedia entry and weep at my insignificance.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
For anyone interested in the idea of humans colonizing Mars, I can thoroughly recommend Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars Trilogy (starting with Red Mars). It's a great future history of how we might end up there and what it would take for us to f
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I don't want to belabour this point too much, but yes. The conversation does not look like this: "Hey guys, I have 10 years of experience doing consulting, my rates are $3000 / hour, hire me for two weeks and to improve your conversion." Ac
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Apologies if I was misleading, not as high as that but in six figures.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Hi Patrick, As someone who's just starting down the road that people like you have paved, I can't express enough thanks for showing us that a) it's possible and b) that it's OK to not want what everyone else does (i.e. full-time employment
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I think that if you're really keen to get a position, it's worth following up. People are busy, you get the wrong email address, there are a dozen reasons why your application may not have got to the person it needs to for the hiring proces
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Did anyone else notice how good the copy is on the purchase page? Makes someone like me (who's been trying to get this right on my own projects) weep.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Interesting you mention Voyager I. Last I read it's going to enter the interstellar medium sometime between now and 2015, the first man made object to do so. To me that's totally mindblowing. It's an amazing time in the history of homo sapi
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Also, this is only mandatory _after_ you've secured a position. I've always concealed past salaries and never had to present my P45 until I've actually started work. I can only second patio11's point here. My salary expectations have double
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Whether or not they're more search engine friendly, if you're looking for Japanese Astrophysics Vocabulary you're more likely to click `/japanese-astrophysics-vocab.html` than `/p?id=47`
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Another vim user and I were discussing this and I came up with the nutty idea of creating a 'vimspec' that detailed the basic features and extensibility a 'vim-mode' plugin in another environment would need to have to be useful to regular v
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Agreed, I think Ubuntu is still a great distro for 'just working' on most machines I've installed it on. I dislike Unity too, so I install a couple of packages, grab my xmonad config file from github and get back to work.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I actually did quit when I was (among other things) forced to use Eclipse.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I'm genuinely interested in your reason for not just using rails full-time. Is it because of the perceived deployment difficulty?
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by alinajaf 15y ago
For a long time I experimented with PHP frameworks to see if I could capture the rails magic, but so much of it has nothing to do with the code/API itself (and more to do with the culture and community around the technologies). I'm now a fu
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Still in development, but we'll be starting a closed beta around January. http://blog.japanalicious.com for updates.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
> If you ask most people what stopped them from reading their entire programming book (and we’ve talked to hundreds of people), it’s almost always that they aren’t motivated enough. In school, learning is motivated by report cards and
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by alinajaf 15y ago
For those who tend towards using linux, I've found gnome-do to be a fantastic alternative.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I seem to have naturally gravitated towards this since I enjoy playing games and simultaneously feel like I should be doing something better with my time. Additionally, if I don't personally rate a game as more than '90%' I trade it in.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Slightly off-topic but here's a question about patents that I just can't wrap my head around. Could you patent the contents of an RFC? If so, is it possible for a company to patent the contents of all RFC's pertaining to TCP/IP and then ess
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Even without committing, you should at the very least run `git stash` before doing a pull. That's the very reason the command exists!
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by alinajaf 15y ago
fetch is a fairly straightforward operation with predictable (i.e. get me all the objects and refs in the remote repo) but 'merge' actually moves the branch(es) in your local repo around. After you do a fetch you can go on to do a merge jus
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by alinajaf 15y ago
At university I spent the vast majority of my time getting drunk, doing drugs and chasing girls. I then took the show on the road and did more or less the same thing in Japan for s few years. There was absolutely nothing introverted about t
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by alinajaf 15y ago
10+ years since my first 'Hello, world!' (in VB, bleugh) and I still feel like an imposter doing this. You have a long, mind-expanding, incredibly frustrating and deeply rewarding road ahead. Good luck!
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by alinajaf 15y ago
In isolation it's useless but if you've put some work into crafting your online presence (i.e. a homepage with a blog, an up to date linkedin profile and a few choice code samples on github), then IME it makes a good impression pre-intervie
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by alinajaf 15y ago
You're either a cofounder or an employee, and this deal gives you the worst of both those roles (i.e. all the risk, none of the upside). If you really want to work at a startup with an interesting problem then I suggest humbly that you take
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by alinajaf 15y ago
Unity stamped over a bunch of my keyboard shortcuts, so I took the opportunity to learn xmonad (with gnome classic) and haven't looked back.
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by alinajaf 15y ago
While I agree that having a URL that you can read is better, I think 'relegated forever to the sphere of computerish heiroglyphics that normal people will always ignore' is a little strong. In Japan they've been using them for nigh on a dec
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by alinajaf 15y ago
My strategy for passwords (that's been working well so far) has been to have an easily mentally appliable password function that I use to generate/remember passwords and change that every year. For example, if it's my google account, the si
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by alinajaf 15y ago
I remember there being a supplier called EfficientPC operating out of the UK but I'm fairly sure my dev box was their last sale before closing down. I'd also be a happy customer of machines pre-installed with Ubuntu. It would probably be fu

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