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by azanar 17y ago
Some people prefer the latter; when things go wrong, you cycle the power switch and then contact the manufacturer if the problem still exists. I think some people take comfort in the notion that they are not ultimately responsible for whet
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by azanar 17y ago
"But what if you're an experienced engineer? What if you've already learned the technology contained in the tool, and you're ready to stop worrying about it? Maybe letting the wizard do the work isn't a loss of knowledge but simply a form o
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by azanar 17y ago
You reacted better than I did, then. I was positively repulsed. The hypothetical dialogue he provided between the candidate at employer suggests what he is really looking for here: people who are honorable. But it has to be his definition o
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by azanar 17y ago
That's oversimplifying. Based on a metric of producing code that fulfills the requirements, they may be as much an A player as the assertive developer down the hall. The thought of including assertiveness in measuring employee performance h
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by azanar 17y ago
Isn't the subservience part of what many employers are looking for? I think some are even looking for it legitimately. It is. Even more astonishing, at least to me, is that it is what some, maybe even a lot of, employees are looking for
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by azanar 17y ago
Thinking about this from the interviewee side of the table, the answer I am given to this would provide me with a concrete datapoint about the culture I would be entering into. Is this a place where we are constantly seeking out better unde
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by azanar 17y ago
Who wants an employee who never questions the requirements? More than you might imagine. Think of all the people you've worked with, in whatever capacity, who never question requirements. It seems likely they will hire people of the same
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by azanar 17y ago
Learning the language and the du jour APIs will also not make you a skilled Java developer, which is what I think the author means; doing that in any language X will not make you an X developer of any reasonably high skill. The problem I ha
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by azanar 17y ago
Is the engagement and fun of advertising really a zero sum game? As a thought experiment, I can imagine sample groups of advertisements I've seen where even the best ad would garner my disgust, because it was so unbelievably obnoxious and
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by azanar 17y ago
Many critics offer a better solution: Make the mice want to go through the maze. Or, find the user when they are already looking for a maze to go through, and take advantage of that to entertain the user and get some brand placement at th
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by azanar 17y ago
I don't see anything wrong with that either, but I think the quote is phrasing it slightly wrong. Here's how I would write that sentence: "Employers justify shunting aside mid-career programmers on the ground that they lack the motivation t
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by azanar 17y ago
That still leaves the problem of reputation-building; a paper where an individual is only one of 20 authors probably isn't so impressive on a CV. Is the effort expended for the paper able to be divided cleanly into chunks 1/20th the size,
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by azanar 17y ago
When your entire research program is based on your having to convince your funding agency to give the bucks to you and not to the other guy, you create competition and moreover you are rewarding the people who are the most competitive. Th
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by azanar 18y ago
Do not program defensively. (See http://www.erlang.se/doc/programming_rules.shtml#HDR11. ) I cross-referenced to the Erlang documentation, and they provided no other real justification for this rule, other than to say that the burden li
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by azanar 18y ago
There are companies that have the data to back up the statements in this and similar articles. They just don't give it away for free. :-) Not just directed at rgrieselhuber so much as the whole community, what would you say are the predom
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by azanar 18y ago
Your kid breaks his leg skiing, just like a trillion other kids every winter, and you march up to the guy asking for what sounds like evidence you can take to court, wtf do you think his reaction is going to be? That he's going fall all ov
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by azanar 18y ago
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Is-Wolverine-Leak-Investi... This was linked off of the Dallas Observer blog here: http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/04/so_what_l... How legit this is, or how credible Dallas Observer is,
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by azanar 18y ago
Thanks for the perspective on this; it appears I did misinterpret what you wrote in the originally linked post, likely due to the lack of context you mention. The reaction I had to this was primarily due to me seeing in this post the storie
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by azanar 18y ago
I am somewhat of the same way with having a hunger for knowledge itself. I've found that what happens when I go from technology to technology isn't so much a reinvention as an augmentation. Maybe your experience has been different, but I've
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by azanar 18y ago
I think this is a deeper question than the downvoting you're receiving suggests that it is. There is a certain amount of one's desire to learn that is a matter of personality, and my understanding is that there is some degree of a person's
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by azanar 18y ago
There's more to take away than that, although yours is one big tangible reason why he got left in the dust. The major point I got from this article is that you can't stop being hungry for knowledge and expect not to get beat by those who ar
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by azanar 18y ago
Inexperience != idiot. Although, experience would make it easier to determine if the relative lack of clue is due to the former or the latter, or perhaps both. The former is far easier to rectify, but only if they also have the curiosity an
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by azanar 18y ago
It could be taken as a reply to both. To karl11's comment, it could taken as a caution not to read too much in MoM sales figures. Some of (a lot of?) the variation seen could just be seasonal variation, or even insignificant noise.
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by azanar 18y ago
When people quote financial figures, especially anything to do with real estate, I actually assume the opposite unless they explicitly state "month over month." It may be a bit counter-intuitive at first, but it is the convention of financi
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by azanar 18y ago
This strikes me as being worried about the same thing, especially in a market ripe enough for you to have real competition. Presumably, in trying to best your competition, you and/or they -- hopefully both if both are paying some attention
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by azanar 18y ago
How concerned was the first founder that while he was getting money together, another startup would develop a competing product and spend the year working full-time while he was working part-time on his own? If such a competitor appeared in
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by azanar 18y ago
Agreed with mdolon's thoughts, but another thought occurred to me while reading through this: * As a parent, it is likely you have more and varied business connections than your son/daughter. Do you know anyone you could introduce them to w
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by azanar 18y ago
On the downside, I've now become part of the super-nerd stereotype: jobless and living in my parents' basement. =) You're probably just being facetious, but you're not jobless; you just don't have a job that involves working under contrac
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by azanar 18y ago
Home ownership strikes me as just a symptom of another more fundamental sacrosanct value in society, that of stability and security. The author alludes to that in the article, but I think he needs to play it up more. For many people, this
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by azanar 18y ago
Homeownership by itself is not useful, but it does promote saving. For the average family, a home is the most expensive thing they will ever save for. After 10 years in that mortgage, they'll have significant equity that they probably woul

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