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by azanar 17y ago
This works if you want it to be available for just you. Say for instance you have a dev server, so security isn't as big a deal* used by a team of people, all of whom would want access to the same basic packages. It seems that /usr/local/
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by azanar 17y ago
The way I've been doing this so far is to let admin be the group of /usr/local/ and then let them have write perms within that directory. For what I do, and how much security I need on my personal machine, it works out pretty well. I suspec
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by azanar 17y ago
Better. I still have some more comments though. Since this article is pretty much dead, you can hit me up by email if you're interested. :-)
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by azanar 17y ago
In the end all of their impressive designs are doing nothing but making more work for themselves and everyone around them. It’s as if their work is only designed for getting them their next job, rather than keeping them in their current on
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by azanar 17y ago
I'll cover initial impression first, and then go from there into specific things I notice. First impression: way too much pimping, way too little describing. The front page seems more focussed on who uses it and how awesome they think it is
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by azanar 17y ago
Awesome. Thanks for posting this. But I do have a question regarding a couple of the items on your list: === 1. Sodium Nitrite. Through carelessness, it can result in the production of carcinogens; in large quantities this can cause cancer,
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by azanar 17y ago
Of course you can. Nobody is saying the GPA doesn't measure something, the question is whether or not it measures something relevant to the hiring decisions of your shop. From what I've seen, there is actually a negative correlation betwee
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by azanar 17y ago
Focus on one thing only: results. What I did, who it was for, why they needed it, and what they accomplished with it. What of the developer who works on something ambitious that ultimately flops and becomes a total write-off for the compa
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by azanar 17y ago
Honestly, it would serve more to guide my questions than it would to just flat dismiss someone as untalented or apathetic. Curiosity and genuine interest develop at different times for different people depending on the circumstances of thei
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by azanar 17y ago
I think this is trickier than just saying "do this, you obviously have time", but not for the reasons that derefr gave. I think you are assuming things that may not be true of all people, and then using that to draw very broad strokes which
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by azanar 17y ago
There is one sure-fire way to identify a good programmer: their work. In fact, it is by definition the way that we should evaluate programmers. It is the great equalizer, and with web technology, exposed for all to see. Unless you are pre
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by azanar 17y ago
I think this perspective is overly simplistic. But then you might have meant it that way, so the rest of us can fill it in with our sundry biases. So, here's my chance to make my biases obvious. :-) Hiring a programmer who has built stuff i
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by azanar 17y ago
An interesting meta-pattern appeared in my thoughts when I combined GPD, DFD, WAD, IAD, CYAE, and DBD. It's acronym is FDD, which stands for Fear Driven Development. A few other patterns may make appearances, depending on the organization,
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by azanar 17y ago
I do think that the truly great programmers blog very infrequently because they have better things to do. This is really presumptuous, and makes a leap from correlative to causal on the back of a couple of blanket assumptions. The first i
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by azanar 17y ago
Additionally if someone promoted themselves as "I have X score on SO" it would worry me. You have stated this twice, but the reason why this should invoke worry seems to have been left as an exercise to the reader. Perhaps there is some s
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by azanar 17y ago
[It] creates a cleaner language and forces people to think Pythonic when programming in Python. The question is whether "Pythonic," as the community defines it today, is optimal in all cases. As an analogue, there have been enough talks a
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by azanar 17y ago
Nope - just a style thing. You don't need lambdas either - named functions are just as powerful. It depends on what you define as power, and how wide of a continuum you are willing to presume that it runs. Named functions add two levels o
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by azanar 17y ago
I've been coding in perl and python since I was in about 14 or so and feel like I can accomplish pretty much any task I want in it, but I know that I'm nowhere near good enough to start applying for jobs as a programmer. how did you fina
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by azanar 17y ago
If I may interject, I think in most cases it's much, much better to use a network of connections rather than random walk-ins. You're much more likely to get someone that not only performs well, but also fits in well with your company's per
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by azanar 17y ago
Not a problem. Just something that should be consciously acknowledged and accepted as best against alternatives, not something that is unconsciously drifted into due to inertia, familial/societal expectations, or anything else that removes
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by azanar 17y ago
As long as he believes in those values -- and isn't just accepting them by societal default -- there's no reason he should feel guilty. Totally agree. But these values are so often a societal default, and so often never thought about
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by azanar 17y ago
This has made it very clear that, for me, happiness is a fundamentally internal thing. Your outside circumstances (within reason) have only marginal effects on happiness. I agree with your take on happiness; it is fundamentally a matter o
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by azanar 17y ago
There's also potentially some pride to swallow, but it's badly placed pride in the first place. The life-prevalence of perfect mental health is near zero. It's not just a matter of pride; for my sake is a certain amount of skepticism in w
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by azanar 17y ago
Kids aren't as dumb as adults think they are. It's more a matter of perceived fragility, both in the physical sense (safety hysteria) and the emotional and psychological sense (provider hysteria). This is constantly reinforced by other pe
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by azanar 17y ago
Do you think they need as much of the "things" as parents seem to feel obligated to provide for them now? There is no need for this false dichotomy of "things" or "complete lack of things". As I've commented on here before, I and a lot of t
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by azanar 17y ago
"...this sounds to me more like EA deciding that now is a good time to get rid of some underperforming employees and several inherited offices" Perhaps it is sampling error, but the companies that have downsized that I've known people at ha
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by azanar 17y ago
The article doesn't make any claims to being anything near comprehensive. The author describes it as being his own bash cheat sheet, and posted it just in hopes other people would find helpful what he found helpful. A change of submission t
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by azanar 17y ago
The author seems to be stretching quite far to reach her conclusion, which seems to be to be that intuition is just another aspect of emotional response. The difficulty I have had in trying to explain this intuition is that there is a fee
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by azanar 17y ago
I honestly an unable to take this author very seriously, in spite of a few insightful nuggets he has within his article. The minimalistic approach he takes is one I follow to a degree myself, but for radically different reasons than he does
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Seattle doctors try flat-rate no-limit primary care(reuters.com)
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