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by azanar 18y ago
Breasts aren't considered part of the genitalia, and also breastfeeding isn't exactly a lascivious display. That they did this does not strike me as a legal thing, much more a PR thing; they don't want to piss off anyone who is offended by
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by azanar 18y ago
> As a commenter on Joel's blog mentioned, Sturgeon's law applies: 90% of everything is crap. As I asked in the other thread too, are we prepared just to accept this as a truism. There is a fine line between fundamental law of the unive
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by azanar 18y ago
Was it really necessary to treat this as a binary choice? This comment and the one above it seem latent with severe blowhard sentiment, where one declares that x sucks, and the other declares things other than x that suck more. It takes
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by azanar 18y ago
I didn't get that implication, but I did get the implication that it was a lesser priority. Granted, it is very hard to get inflection from text, and this strikes me as one of those emotional appeals where inflection matters, but his saying
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by azanar 18y ago
Leaving. As would be my friend.
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by azanar 18y ago
>While I'm not discounting the existence of porn addiction, I think you'd find that rate of addiction (i.e. the number of people who have seen porn compared to the number of porn addicts) is very very very low. But what is porn addictio
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by azanar 18y ago
>firstly, the climate permits it. i assume now that any company holds a latent 10% rif in good times, just waiting for a bad market so it can lose the 10% to throw the market a bone With you so far. Although they'd have done better to p
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by azanar 18y ago
Being a mathematics major as well as CS, can offer a recommendation of a book for each of set theory and mathematical logic. Each were the basis for the course I took on the topic, and recieved pretty good reviews on Amazon: Karel Hrbacek a
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by azanar 18y ago
That's not to say that that's a good thing, mind, it's neither good nor bad, but it's a fact that maybe 1 in 10 people employed in the software industry will need to know big-O, perhaps even less than that. I don't think the ratio is that
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by azanar 18y ago
You're not the only person I've heard from to experience that feeling, although you are the first I've heard from to be so candid about the costs of such sacrifice. Others I've discussed these feelings with still feel an unerring duty to sa
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by azanar 18y ago
As for making your living by doing your calling, you either have to make some sacrifices or be very fortunate and have your calling happen to be something that's lucrative. Unless you work for a job that is minimally demanding, you most li
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by azanar 18y ago
>I and many others like me, have a great drive, but not for our own self-gratification, but for the betterment of many and I think that's a far greater thing than wanting to create the next IBM or Wells Fargo or whatever the hell. Drive
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by azanar 18y ago
The interview process, or some sort of skills assessment process, is still necessary even after the referral. Otherwise, you run the risk of hiring someone akin to the boss' nephew who claims web programming skills, but has never been in th
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by azanar 18y ago
Some of those specific terms aren't the most commonly used for the associated concept, which can lead to confusion and frustration. Furthermore, some of the definitions are either too restrictive, not restrictive enough, or don't seem to ma
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by azanar 18y ago
No problem with the idea of letting peoples' brains run wild on a problem. I suspect you and I could debate for some time about your latter point; I'd worry about things ranging from bus factors to developers who become expert in some set o
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by azanar 18y ago
That could be even worse, even if your co-founder is still available. What if your co-founder is stuck on a difficult problem, and needs a second set of eyes on the code to help him out? If he has been writing vomit-code the whole time, wil
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by azanar 18y ago
I'd have to understand more about your situation to really give any sort of advice. A few questions come to mind: 1. Do you believe what the startup is doing is worthwhile? How much of what keeps you there is just a need for a job, and how
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by azanar 18y ago
You will if you ever need to maintain or expand it for any reason, and the person you might otherwise call on to do so is unavailable.
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by azanar 18y ago
1. Unless refactoring existing code makes new code easier to write, or fixes existing but broken functionality. The design of least resistance may not be obvious the first time a section of code is written, and patching around the design is
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by azanar 18y ago
>The real refactoring work is done in your head. This has totally been my experience. Moving a method or variable up or down in the inheritance tree, extracting part of a method, inlining method calls: all of this is architectural refac
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by azanar 18y ago
Productivity is a difficult thing to measure, because the units people use aren't consistent. I'm going to try to respond using the metric of productivity I've become most comfortable with, which is quanta of robust functionality per unit t
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by azanar 18y ago
It depends on what you define as theory, though. Things like analysis and extending algorithms, and understanding the concept of recursion, fall well into the realm of theory. People I've dealt with of the second type go completely off-cour
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by azanar 18y ago
Is there a defining moment/revelation/etc you can think of that might have tipped you into the first type? I ask because it seems that experience and the right people aren't sufficient conditions, and that picking up the books requires moti
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by azanar 18y ago
It demonstrates a conflict of priorities between you and most of those around you, if my rather unscientific gathering of data is tending toward the true mean. It demonstrates a desire to improve and understand, both toward yourself and to
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by azanar 18y ago
I've had the benefit of similar illumination where I'm employed, although without the same level of patience. The same explanation was given time and again there, too; incurred technical debt due to prudence. They were small, and thus didn'
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by azanar 18y ago
Not that the person who states is the guilty party, but this strikes me as an immediate sign that someone got tired of thinking and was compelled to feel a sense of control and certainty by turning what was said into a truism. They might be
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by azanar 18y ago
Source, please. Just from my own anecdotal evidence, my ability to learn from a teacher was based far more on their knowledge and passion than their genitalia.
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by azanar 18y ago
Two things: 1. You seem to have settled on a root cause ghetto shit-holes being the lack of social and cultural bonding rituals between one member of each gender. Generally, I look at cultures like that and see things like oppressive govern
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by azanar 18y ago
"I'd also say yes heterosexuals are sure to raise kids better. What could be better than getting both a woman and a mans point of view on the world? :/" How about the points of view of multiple women and multiple men? You make the mistake h
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by azanar 18y ago
I agree that 10-15 references is totally bogus; I said so much in a reply to a different comment. I'm still boggling though, actually more so than I was before your reply. You mention examples here that make the whole process seem incredibl

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