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by auxbuss 16y ago
This is a good post, and I agree with you up until your refinements of point (c). If I dream up a improvements to my employer's business, but the incentives are not there to pursue them within that business, then you bet your arse that I ca
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I've always done this with contracts, in any part of life. If I don't like a clause then I amend it or spike it. SOP as far as I'm concerned. No-one has ever complained, although there might be some discussion.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I wanted to agree with you, and I'm only on Facebook because of non-geek friends, but I survive with twitter, newsfox (Firefox plug-in), and tumblr -- sometimes sharing via dropbox. Buzz is, unfortunately, a vacuum. And Google Reader for so
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Scanning the QR 404s for me, and I can't find it on the Market. Is this US-only?
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Yes, it's very instructive. It's written in the typical terse cookbook style. Read the Amazon reviews, they nail it pretty well. http://www.amazon.com/RESTful-Web-Services-Cookbook-Scalabil... I preferred it to RESTful Web Services , whi
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Neat, but the title should be "A few...". "Few" and "a few" mean different things -- not many, and a small number of, respectively. And just for completeness, "the few" and "the Few" are additional and different too. English is sometimes wa
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I'm wondering whether you could monetize ScribTeX by offering an API to submit docs and return PDFs. I can think of examples in the past where I'd have paid for that in a heartbeat. Just an idea.
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Generation Y chooses the mobile Web(opera.com)
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I agree, and have an additional comment: If the comments become part of the documentation, then you need to ruthlessly edit them to remove incorrect advice, duplication, and redundancy. If you simply leave everything there forever, then the
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I don't think that removing it from the curriculum is a bad thing. But not for the reasons suggested by the article. BNW isn't a great piece of literature, imo. I understand it's place in literary history, but it's aged badly, and pretty cl
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I hesitate to say "of course", because it sounds trite, and the underlying issue is serious. But this is precisely what we did in the UK during the IRA (Irish terrorist organisation) years. And we were encouraged to do that by the media and
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It's undoubtedly an interesting book, but it's also beautifully written. Any reader would be hard pressed not to be interested simply because of the way in which the author engages the reader. As well as the historical education, I took awa
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I'm calling bs on this. You have to keep the train moving. That keeps the cash coming in. You can't stop the train. So, you have to take what you have and somehow -- that's what you are being paid for and hopefully you have the chops -- man
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Turn it around. They are making a non-interrupting request for you to tell them something about you; they are showing interest in you. It's for you to decide whether to call or not. They are, in effect, saying, "Call me, I want to know". Th
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Thanks, Philip. Much appreciated.
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Ask HN: Daily HN slowdowns to the point of being unusable
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Ask HN: Semantic Web good intro
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Go and have a look at, say, Sammy. There is not a lot of heavy duty stuff gong on in JS-land. Particularly on a phone, the amount of JS required is tiny; certainly not enough to impact power consumption unless one is completely incompetent.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
It's just common courtesy to respond to folk who send you a cv. I've always done this and will always do it. Even when I worked for a Big Name tech co., I worked with HR -- she was terrific and unique in my experience with HR -- to ensure t
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Just adding my score of 32, which was a surprise. And quite a confidence boost. Just hope the test results aren't rigged. They ya go, over-thinking things.
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Nokia reabsorbs Symbian(bbc.co.uk)
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Our Banana Republic(nytimes.com)
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by auxbuss 16y ago
My comment was about the fact that I'd like to commit to it (for production work), but as a player not getting much love from devs, I cannot bring myself to do that... yet. Fantom would bring _me_ most of jRuby's benefits, but with familiar
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by auxbuss 16y ago
A couple of years ago I had to devise PHP sort algorithms for Danish, German, and Russian. (Unsurprisingly, native speakers are essential for testing this kind of thing ;) ) It was surprising at the time that these sort algorithms were not
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I really wish that Fantom http://fantom.org/ received more love.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Liar's Poker (Michael Lewis) Rereading. Initially in preparation fro his latest, but in reality, it's just a great, fun read. Laugh out loud funny in places. It's like Alice in Wonderland in that it gets better with age and experience.
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Google Engineering Management Mistakes(docs.google.com)
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Developers say Microsoft has "betrayed" them by changing Silverlight strategy(bbc.co.uk)
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Should workers be forced to clock out to smoke?(bbc.co.uk)
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Captcha adverts capture your attention(newscientist.com)
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