angelbob

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by angelbob 17y ago
Here's one I liked: http://flavio.castelli.name/howto_use_git_with_svn
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Far Cry 2: The game as art, game mechanics as art(gamecritics.com)
9 points by angelbob 17y ago|4 comments
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by angelbob 17y ago
If so, that's a tough problem. Distrusting your 'users' (content providers) and double-checking them is likely to generate a fair bit of hostility, especially for a non-opt-in service.
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by angelbob 17y ago
That's a really great idea. We need more embedding of languages other than C. And I say that as a huge fan of C. I'm even still using it for non-work projects :-)
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by angelbob 17y ago
Well, sure. They caused the problem. The answer for users is "don't trust Google with your information, and get as much of it out of Google's control as you can, even though you don't know how much there is and can't take some of it back
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by angelbob 17y ago
He mentions it (very) briefly with the Audi example. But yeah, this is a bit terrifying. I hadn't thought about this trick before now, and I don't see how you could easily turn it off...
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by angelbob 17y ago
Scribd is definitely a YC-funded startup. When I interviewed there, the founder mentioned it.
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by angelbob 17y ago
I agree -- for software engineers, programming is a popular way to procrastinate. Refactoring doubly so :-) Whereas, for somebody comfortable with selling and networking but uncomfortable making or improving products, the networking and se
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by angelbob 17y ago
24 Hour Fitness also has huge, huge disparities. I paid too much initially for a year in advance, but I now have a $50/yr membership forever, and my wife has $25/yr (!) because her timing was even better. But the base rate is what, $150 to
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by angelbob 17y ago
The linked blog post is certainly quite acceptable, grammatically. Different audiences have different reactions to bad grammar. Financial professionals are put off by it, while teenagers expect it. Are you building ETrade, or MySpace? Fo
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by angelbob 17y ago
Point 3 is phrased well in the title, but I'm kind of annoyed at the implication that you should intentionally obscure your URLs. I can see why he makes that point, and I see the benefit, but I also like URLs that make sense when I'm cutti
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by angelbob 17y ago
I continue to be amazed that big companies don't do this. The first big tech company to figure out how to successfully do mini-startups within the company (with slightly less risk and slightly less reward for the engineers involved) will s
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by angelbob 17y ago
Some of it's sampling bias. The stuff from your day that is still around was better. You've forgotten the cheap crap that fell apart long since.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Do you buy cheap stuff, IKEA or similar? It's really a different market if you do.
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by angelbob 17y ago
"Perverseverance." That makes an excellent portmanteau of "perverse" and "perseverance." I may have to start using that, though not especially for Malcolm Gladwell.
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by angelbob 17y ago
The grayscale one will give you fits when/if you need to use cheap printing in black and white. Similarly, the ones with a lot of fiddly detail will be harder to render well on paper.
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by angelbob 17y ago
it's been scoring very well among our current users Sampling bias at its best :-)
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by angelbob 17y ago
We used Coverity at ACCESS (who make ALP and the First Else, neither of which you've heard of). If you're using C and/or C++, it's a truly amazing tool, and chases down some very weird bugs. As our upgrade method, we basically enabled serio
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by angelbob 17y ago
They can't take over your house painting business, because that's outside-of-work labor, which they don't own under that clause (some businesses do forbid side gigs for money). But if you patented something related to house painting, they
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by angelbob 17y ago
Geeze, is 3.5 months a typical current or California hiring period??? Nope. A week is quick for a big company (default for a startup), a month is slow. Two to three months is Google or Hewlett-Packard.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Alas, for Sales there still is. Not everybody has your specific flavor of that problem, or your way of looking at it.
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by angelbob 17y ago
"Make eye contact", "shake hands" and so forth are that advice. However, since this is what you read, the piece you should pay attention to is "get a mentor." Until you do that, it appears you won't recognize the other bits of advice, whi
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by angelbob 17y ago
I read this review and I think, "can you review some of the dodgy companies I've worked for? In the same tone? Please ?" :-)
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by angelbob 17y ago
Sauces and alcohol. Plums are good for both. Oddly, plum-coriander sauce is pretty good (try a small amount before you take my word for it -- I love it, but YMMV).
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by angelbob 17y ago
This explains a lot of anecdotal evidence I see around me. The people I know who are employed continue to be well employed, wages are fine, hours and benefits haven't gotten as bad as they did after the tech bubble burst. But if you're cur
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by angelbob 17y ago
Yup. It's changed design pretty drastically in that time, though. Now it takes a lot more from Haskell than it used to, for instance.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Heya :-)
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by angelbob 17y ago
Often. Long-term parking can run $600-$800/mo in many areas of SF. While a ticket can be up to $50 (sometimes more), you won't necessarily get them every time, and it's often hard to find legal, convenient parking, or you'll pay $20+/day
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by angelbob 17y ago
Often they have really cool projects by really competent people. But big companies, even with good innovation, are still bad at entrepreneurship. It's hard for a cool new innovative idea to get off the ground, and harder since the folks at
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by angelbob 17y ago
Actually, as another poster points out, it's hard to fully mask outgoing network traffic unless you control the hub/router as well.

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