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by autarch 14y ago
"You have to be very smart to be able to design a normalized constrained DB well." But you can be a complete moron and write "[a] properly written application layer [that] prevents data loss from stupid mistakes"? What's the difference? Wri
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by autarch 15y ago
This seems like a good example of how screwed up immigration policies are in this country. We should be running out to other countries and actively recruiting people like her to immigrate here. She's smart, she's hard-working, and she's obv
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by autarch 15y ago
And an HTTP server can return a custom body for most errors, so the server can provide even more info if it wants.
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by autarch 15y ago
I think pseudo-hashes were always marked as experimental, up until they were removed. That said, I'm pretty sure you're right that backwards Per 5 broke backwards compatibility with Perl 4 (and presumably 4 with 3, etc.)
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by autarch 15y ago
I always joked about creating a twitter account named "shittr" where I would tweet a message describing every bowel movement I had.
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by autarch 15y ago
This book is fairly out of date, being almost 9 years old now. I wouldn't recommend it. A better choice for programmers wanting to learn Perl is chromatic's Modern Perl ( http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/ ).
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by autarch 15y ago
Also don't forget employees of small, profitable companies. I work for a small, profitable company right now. It's great. The pay is good, it's low stress, and I have a lot of control over the direction of the product and the work I do. The
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by autarch 15y ago
I agree that founders take on much more risk and stress than the early employees. I think the source of the discontent that some early employees (like me) express is that the rewards for a founder are worth it, while the rewards for an earl
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by autarch 15y ago
"I'm sorry, doctor, I'd like to pay you for the emergency brain surgery, but since the accident I can't remember my money."
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by autarch 15y ago
I agree that they should do a better job presenting this. How hard would it be to add some sort of "You can play again with X, Y, and Z being different" after you finish the game? But it's not that hard to find out about regardless.
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by autarch 15y ago
> So the only people who will ever discover this are the hardest of hard-core OCD types. Or people who go read a little tiny bit about the game online, like me.
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by autarch 15y ago
I dunno. Civil suit? Do I have to have all the answers? I just think that the system we have now is both broken and unethical.
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by autarch 15y ago
We could have ownership of a sort without copyright. Copyright lets you tell other people what they can do with a copy of a work after it's released. I think the only right the law should protect is the right to release a work or not.
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by autarch 15y ago
I think you're conflating two things. I'm a proponent of abolishing copyright and other so-called intellectual property. I do believe that information, once made public , should be unrestricted. This is orthogonal to the notion that privat
705.
by autarch 15y ago
That seems fine to me. I'd like to see all content under a CC-BY-SA license. If that were the law, I'd be happy with it.
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by autarch 15y ago
Personally, I'd like see copyright entirely abolished. However, I think as a compromise something in the 2-5 year range could work. This is plenty of time to exploit the financial possibilities of the initial release of a creative work, and
707.
by autarch 15y ago
Another link to page 2 of an article.
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by autarch 15y ago
This link goes to the second page of a two page story.
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by autarch 15y ago
In the US, there's usually a local school board for the city that's in charge of buying textbooks. Of course, there's a lot of different factors that they have to account for, like state and federal standards, as well as the limitations of
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by autarch 15y ago
I think the overall problem is that wikipedia attempts to substitute policy for expertise. As other have pointed out, wikipedia has to deal with lots of bad edits from people who are not motivated by a pursuit of facts or truth. To deal wit
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by autarch 15y ago
Is this any different than Ruby or Python (or any other scripting(ish) language)? Ruby and Python are both good for sysadmin scripting, web frameworks, and big apps. So is Perl. The fact that use strict exists is hardly a flaw. It's a usefu
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by autarch 15y ago
What about the amount of dev time and sysadmin needed to fully use each option? If you want to take advantage of AWS for spiky use, you need to automate the heck out of starting and stopping instances, redistributing requests to new machine
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by autarch 15y ago
These are all fascinating, but I immediately noticed some dumb typos like "compatable" and "I'm a aspiring ..." In a way, these typos are almost worse than ones on a boring resume. They ruin something that approaches perfection.
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by autarch 15y ago
I think you're overstating the friction. After I graduated, I wanted to learn Mandarin. I signed up for a course at the University of Minnesota through the Continuing Education department. I didn't have to apply, it was really trivial. I to
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by autarch 15y ago
My experience has generally been that large corporations don't really have any wiggle room here. The contract is created by a legal team that is totally separate from the division hiring you. Generally, a smaller company is more willing to
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by autarch 15y ago
The point being that one should compare both the pay and the hours of the two jobs. Another way to look at it. If you get paid $100k per year for 40 hours a week, you might consider taking a job at 32 hours a week for $80k.
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by autarch 15y ago
My experience has been that startups demand a larger pay cut of early employees.
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by autarch 15y ago
Here's the thing about each layer after the founders owning 10%. In his example, layer 2 (first employees) consists of 5 people, each of whom own 2%. Those employees probably took a pretty significant pay cut to work at this startup. Let's
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by autarch 15y ago
No, there really isn't a better way. All the rules behind music theory are based on what sounds good, not the other way around. What you can do, however, is push yourself to try out new harmonic structures. You can make your chords more com
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by autarch 15y ago
You could probably do something similar in English by using words that incorporate smaller words - "the sum of summer" or something like that. I'm sure there must be examples of poems that do exactly that.

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