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by antoinevg 8y ago
The irony is that the technical architectures with which the Internet can defend itself existed in the early 90's already. My generation's despair was watching them being supplanted by the social media companies who provided platf
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by antoinevg 8y ago
Desktop Safari breaks a number of these, most notably and annoyingly: "When one option is the prefix of another, put the shortest one first."
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by antoinevg 8y ago
Yet it's the only thing I've found that helped me permanently quit a 32 year smoking habit. My family is deeply grateful for that "garbage".
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by antoinevg 8y ago
A project management methodology that explicitly deals with this variance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_chain_project_managem... One of the key insights is that estimate-driven planning creates an algorithm t
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by antoinevg 8y ago
Personally, my optimum is three 8-hour days a week. I have also found they need to be consecutive.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
I have found major variation depending on geography. In the USA it's almost expected that you should request changes and trust levels may go down if you don't. In many parts of Europe the client's response is often that they
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by antoinevg 8y ago
When company looks at you funny for doing this: Run the other way!
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by antoinevg 8y ago
I kept expecting this to be satire. /speechless
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by antoinevg 8y ago
Brilliant.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
Older developers can usually do in one day what takes a hotshot 20-something a week. More importantly what we deliver costs significantly less to maintain. For managers in for-profit [1] companies there's a clear argument for why you&#
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by antoinevg 8y ago
Speed. It is not everything.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
A good general rule: If you are planning on providing the functionality in the future please refrain from deprecating the existing mechanism until your replacement is fully complete. Early access may fly on Steam but in the real world your
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by antoinevg 8y ago
Oh I know you weren't asking, I was merely responding to the incongruence apparent in your own expectations of the world.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
I feel like you misunderstand me entirely. You're going to have a really hard time finding good hires if you restrict yourself to the pool of people who can "problem-solve something basic" according to your definition of &quo
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by antoinevg 8y ago
You're asking the wrong question. For all software businesses there is only one question to ask candidates: "Can you help us ship working software that solves the problem of our customer" What I can tell you is that there are
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by antoinevg 8y ago
The problem is that here you are optimising your test for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah . Which is great and all, but it it's not a quality which correlates particularly well with the stated problem you ar
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by antoinevg 8y ago
And no one owes you a white boarded BFS implementation which bears no resemblance to how they would approach a problem in the real world.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
From what you said I think you overestimate how happy working on your own goals will make you and I think you underestimate how happy your marriage is making you. It doesn't have to be either/or. Look at the excluded middle.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
My Dude… there are so many more roles programmers can play in the world than this little fantasy of yours where you get to be Mr Scrooge McDuck.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
Please don't hurt the metaphors. They have feelings too.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
I find it doubtful that you are asking in good faith. This is a topic that has been discussed to death for years and there are ample resources on the Internet for anyone who is genuinely interested in alternative approaches to whiteboard in
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by antoinevg 8y ago
Yet, most people with a computer science degree have not come out of the university with having written such a task scheduler under their belt.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
I tried to buy it but for some reason Paypal refuses to use my existing balance and instead asks for my card. Is this something you can control on your end?
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by antoinevg 8y ago
You are upset because you don't have a majority. Which means you completely missed the point Rushkoff is making: Winning did not require a majority and misguided efforts to establish a majority are backfiring to the extent that it cont
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by antoinevg 8y ago
All laws should include the reason for why they were made.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
I think philipov is saying that the reason politicians are not acting is because they do not believe any action is possible. So, if they believe no action is possible this also means they view this as the last round in a game of prisoners d
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by antoinevg 8y ago
The thing is... around fifteen years ago there was still at least a semblance of support for folk who were researching these very problems. When the current culture of "hyper growth at all costs" promulgated by the unholy trinity
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by antoinevg 8y ago
Bwauhahahaha.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
Strike two.
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by antoinevg 8y ago
I think the folk who really stand to experience grave reputational damage here are Google, Uber et al!

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