andrewkreid

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by andrewkreid 12y ago
Hearing about the C64 always gets me humming "Hey Hey 16k" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28
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by andrewkreid 12y ago
Being cynical here, but maybe we have to consider whether alienating the US military-industrial complex (and their coterie of owned congresspersons) by purchasing a non-US warplane would be _worse_ for Australia's long-term security th
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by andrewkreid 12y ago
I'm guessing tenure-track positions in the Philosophy faculty are very much a buyer's market. The candidate didn't seem to appreciate this.
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by andrewkreid 13y ago
At the 71% schedule point, one day after coding on the perfectly designed spec has commenced: Programmer: "@%*#! We didn't think of that, the design will have to change."
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by andrewkreid 13y ago
The main takeaway here is that large companies have large-company pathologies. If you don't like that, work at smaller companies.
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by andrewkreid 13y ago
>> ...One example of this is Solaris SVR4 packages... I wonder what Google are using Solaris for, and if it's just legacy stuff.
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by andrewkreid 13y ago
I think the danger is that you might displace intrinsic motivation (pride in good work) with extrinsic motivation (doin' it for the Woos). It's the same problem as with employee of the month awards, Dance Mom pyramids etc. Also:
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by andrewkreid 13y ago
I want my company to use this just so I can write scripts to game the metrics. For bonus points, can it integrate with WooBoard ( http://www.wooboard.com/ ) so we can do ridiculous tracking and ridiculous recognition in the s
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by andrewkreid 13y ago
>> Seriously, whitelist only the domains necessary for the job Ok. How _exactly_ do you plan to whitelist the domain of every search result for every query of the form "How do I do [technical task] in [technology/language]&q
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by andrewkreid 13y ago
Isn't it great that stuff like this isn't getting getting built in Flash anymore.
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by andrewkreid 13y ago
There is another theory that states that this has already happened...
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by andrewkreid 14y ago
I am uncomfortable with the implied support for out of date hardware copy protection practices.
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by andrewkreid 14y ago
Precisely. It's a bozo-filter. _You_ know you're not a bozo but the interviewer doesn't (yet). I ask questions like this in interviews because experience shows that a significant percentage of supposedly experienced developers have trouble
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by andrewkreid 14y ago
Two monitor stories: 1. In my last job I calculated the price of a nice monitor as a percentage of my salary and told my boss that it would only have to make me 0.4% more productive for it to be a good investment. Did I get a new monitor? N
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by andrewkreid 15y ago
Summit is a verb now?
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by andrewkreid 15y ago
My workplace recently upgraded all devs to a dual-monitor setup. Now when I walk around the office the most common thing I see is one monitor for the IDE and one for Stack Overflow in the browser.
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by andrewkreid 15y ago
Traditionally, by leaving it on the train tracks.
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by andrewkreid 16y ago
"solutions tab" - that's almost an anti-pattern right there