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by azanar 18y ago
I know of no one who has been tricked by the wealthy into believing they should sacrifice the most basic necessities of life for the sake of some greater ideal. If you know of someone, I will be happy to stand corrected on this point. But I
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by azanar 18y ago
>I think the optimal strategy is to pick something you enjoy but that can pay the bills. Most people could probably enjoy multiple professions. Choose the one you would enjoy that pays the best. I think this is pretty good advice, but w
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by azanar 18y ago
This is quite an assertion. To make sure I'm getting this right, I can't be happy without money to buy my happiness, and if I ever believe I can, I am simply giving into the group-think that the upper class has foisted upon me. Either I'm d
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by azanar 18y ago
Advertising in general can be a no-win proposition. Posting ads for a 2-5 years of experience programming gig garners a similarly flood-like number of responses, and you get a near equal number of bad programmers. The key difference is now
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by azanar 18y ago
>And "I could be productive with any of those languages" is a very bad sales pitch. People don't want a generalist. Which people? I'm not asking this to be provocative, but this one of those points where a lot of people seem to have str
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by azanar 18y ago
There is another distinguishing factor about the Group 2s that I really wish the article had brought up; some of them honestly don't give a damn about the product. The product is an end-point, and after that they either need to find another
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by azanar 18y ago
I've gathered from enough people that being a parent runs a moderate likelihood of changing my perspective on this; time will tell. And I also wasn't presuming on your capabilities as a parent, or anything else about you; just on the argume
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by azanar 18y ago
I am not a parent, so I'll admit a skewed perspective here, or perhaps a lack of context entirely, but I think you need to be very careful about putting forth authority -- what I assume you mean as discipline and respect -- as a sufficien
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by azanar 18y ago
I understand the sentiment of not wanting to mold your children's interest by your own. But, I think there is a difference between exposing your child to something you find interesting to see if it interests them too, and pushing your child
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by azanar 18y ago
> Even with my noise-canceling headphones, I can never escape the feeling of movement and noise around me. If you are anything like me, the root cause may not be the noise and movement. It may instead be the anticipation that the noise
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by azanar 18y ago
The variation I was referring to was precipitation amount. The monthly average precipitation graph for Seattle looks very much like a sine wave. The graph for most Eastern Seaboard cities look much more like a constant function.
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by azanar 18y ago
From someone who was only able to handle Boston's climate until he graduated from college, we have seasons on the West coast too. We just don't experience them all in one day as often. :-D In all seriousness, there is seasonal variation bot
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by azanar 18y ago
There are books on here that I think are worthwhile, that could be called classics, given the attention they've received. But not the whole list. Generally, they are the ones that are specifically tied to the act of software development, of
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by azanar 18y ago
> No other good books on algorithms, but lots on patterns. CLRS is on the list; 28. And I, likewise, was unhappy with his exclusion of technology-specific texts. It seems as though he is asserting that generalizable ideas can only come
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by azanar 18y ago
> However, it is part of the nature of business to be full contradictions and exceptions. I agree with you on this point, and so I voted you up. I disagree with the implication, though. There are two possibilities that come to mind when
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by azanar 18y ago
Nice. I'm not the only one from there. BU '04.
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The effect is the same; as soon as the bottom line turns red, the business's survival becomes acutely time-bound based on burn rate and available cash. And yeah, there are plenty of things they could be doing to make up that 10%. But there
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by azanar 18y ago
>Newspaper circulation is actually more than I expected...all this bitching and moaning about how newspapers are dying, and they only lost 10%. That is enough, though. Businesses don't just care about sales, they also care about net pro
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by azanar 18y ago
I don't think that holding services legal liable for short-notice service cancellations is the correct way to go, as annoying as the cancellation might for the users involved. It would become yet another diversion of time and money away fro
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by azanar 18y ago
I worry about the absoluteness of 2 & 4. I've seen too many places where reasoning similar to that of 2 results in developers prematurely punting to quick and dirty hacks to get a trouble ticket closed faster. It may not be possible to
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by azanar 18y ago
I've been happy with it. I've run a variety of operating systems on it, and haven't run into any problems. Other people's mileage may vary compared to mine. If you want to comparison shop, Parallels and VirtualBox are also options. Others I
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by azanar 18y ago
I think we'd be better off if the qualifier were mandated, regardless of holding a degree and at what GPA. The metaphor of a degree being a pointer to a body of knowledge fits well here -- I think it was pg who I originally got that metapho
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by azanar 18y ago
> The top ten percent probably don't reinvent the wheel when they don't have to. True, but they can invent the wheel because there isn't one, and they can do so in a way that others will find it useful as well. It is a different point t
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by azanar 18y ago
And if you try even harder, you can make something that is compact, but elegant and functional. It is still architecture, but it is good architecture. It's not the architecture that is the problem, it is the architect. Or specifically the m
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by azanar 18y ago
Maybe you didn't mean to phrase this as you did, but at-will employment, which is what most corporations adhere to now, allows people to leave on their own at any time. Most people don't though, unless they are forced out, because of fear o
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by azanar 18y ago
I was concerned I'd need to elaborate on this a bit more. I don't deny that any of the above traits can be barriers to success. The underlying problem I see requiring attention is different, though, than the problem you and thras suggest we
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by azanar 18y ago
> The problem is that there is a difference between a call to improve yourself and a call to quit and find other work, you’re hopeless. I think it can also depend on the attitude of the person who is being called. Depending on the persp
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by azanar 18y ago
You're not entirely wrong to be frustrated, and I'm under the impression that most people here would agree with you that you shouldn't have to be a emotion-pandering brown-noser to get ahead. The difference I see in the comments to this art
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by azanar 18y ago
That was quite judgmental. And it might not even be wrong; I am also bothered to all hell by bad grammar as well, and noticed that about his comment. But I'm not ready to presume that he will remain as uncollected and scattered when given
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by azanar 18y ago
Sometimes the choir needs to be preached to, though. It helps to hear someone else put into words what one might be thinking intuitively. It also helps to know that more people are thinking the same thing than any individual might give cred

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