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by auxbuss 16y ago
That's kind of the way mathematics expands its knowledge base. Not always, of course. But it's a fine approach. It's an application of the KISS principle.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I've done similar. Last couple of years I've been using Redmine for issue tracking. (Hint: Run under JRuby with glassfish gem and don't use sqlite.) IM has generally worked better than email, prefering to keep useful chunky data in redmine
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Then, on the face of it, you have poor quality workers, or folk that are the wrong type to work remotely. For cross-checking, CI (with code coverage), tdd, and pairing helps a lot, I find. And they're cheap to do.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Working remotely is different to working together in an office, of course. It requires different skills and a different type of motivation, ime. It also requires far better communication skills. Weak communication skills can kill productivi
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by auxbuss 16y ago
How often do you all sit in the same room? How often to you pair, or simply work together physically? First thing that struck me was the size of the team. Eight techs is a big team, especially for a start-up. I'm generalizing, obviously, as
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Can you clarify the question a bit more, please. For me, at least, learning a language and solving a problem with it are two different things. For example, I can solve problems in quite a few languages that I would never claim to know. Many
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by auxbuss 16y ago
That's one reason why a business must have a competent CIO on the management team. Sometimes you can let the apparent changes ride, since they are politicing between other senior members of the team; sometimes you can simply say, "No"; and
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Perception is everything. That's people's reality. We can rationalize until the cows come home, but that won't change anyone's perception. For that, you must convince them, individually. The problem is not, I believe, Facebook's inability t
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by auxbuss 16y ago
This is an excellent and simple anecdote of someone discovering why TDD (and its siblings) is a fundamental core skill in software development. What I really like here is that the author has provided a simple numerical explanation for the c
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How games will rule the web for next decade (TED) [video](blog.ted.com)
5 points by auxbuss 16y ago|0 comments
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by auxbuss 16y ago
For those who have no idea what Prop 19 is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_19 Basically, a marijuana legalisation proposal.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I choked on that one too, but mainly because it echoes the kind of thing pseudo knowledgeable non-tech folk say in real life. At least in my real life.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
You sound like someone who most folk would welcome on board. Don't worry about limited experience so early, I know that's easy to say, but it really won't matter in the near future when you have moved on. Remember that to recruiters you are
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by auxbuss 16y ago
On my laptops, I've used Ubuntu since Badger (2005). I went to Ubuntu from Debian, because everything on the laptop suddenly worked. No more kernel compiles or weirdy-beardy deep hackery. Linux on the desktop has arrived, I thought. But I'l
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Fascinating that NASA are now having to reverse engineer existing spacecraft parts that they have lying around in junkyards, since they forewent the opportunity to document during development, apparently due delivery pressure and use of con
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Lost technologies(toptenz.net)
24 points by auxbuss 16y ago|5 comments
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by auxbuss 16y ago
This isn't actually using the Reability plug-in, though, when it's installed. So, it doesn't pick up users' Readability settings, which are very important in many cases. Thus, one has to apply Readability to the Fancyboxed page in any case.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
tl;dr Guy with ten year experience switched from Java to Ruby two years ago. Issues with Rails' threads and performance. ActiveRecord doesn't do what he needs. Adoption of node.js has highlighted issues with Ruby libs that block and folk ar
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I liked this: from your thesis: "If a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems, a computer scientist is a machine for converting caffeine into algorithms."
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by auxbuss 16y ago
http://www.smashingmagazine.com periodically do a jQuery plug-in round up. Go there and search on "jquery plugins" and you'll pull up all sorts of goodies. As a bonus, they have some useful technique guides. The quality is variable, but a
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I get four days out of my HTC Wildfire. That's with wireless, gps, and sync always on, 24/7. I'm syncing email every 10mins, twitter dm's and mentions every 15mins, facebook every hour, weather every 3 hours, plus gmail & google calanda
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Possibly the cost of energy to heat the plastic. But at some point that cost is mitigated by the environmental benefit. Many could argue that that point happened some time ago. The cynic might point to destabilising the oil cartels and the
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by auxbuss 16y ago
kludge
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Why is this voted down? It's true, no-one here has a coherent, rational understanding of why Intel has made this move. Everyone is asking why and no-one can comprehend the move. Nothing wrong in that. Either Intel has a crafty powerplay or
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Kurt Vonnegut memorial library to open in Indianapolis(guardian.co.uk)
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Where the author says conservative, he means liberal. (From afar, I understand my Colonial cousins' struggle with these two words.)
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Came over to HN for answers to this WTF. But even here we have none. AV is snake oil. What do Intel have in mind?
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by auxbuss 16y ago
They could just write crappy drivers and be done with it on that basis. Plenty of folk out there, cheap, who can write crappy drivers.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Google are no better. I can't send email to gmail addresses -- well sometimes I can and sometimes I can't -- because Google (sometimes) says of my server: Our system has detected an unusual rate of 550-5.7.1 unsolicited mail origina
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by auxbuss 16y ago
You need an android app. But I suspect that you know this. Good luck.

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