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by bmj 12y ago
I have fairly extensive experience with Titanium, and my impression is that the UI can get very laggy if you are not very careful with the way you generate and manipulate the elements on the screen. Going "over the bridge" (parla
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I did a whiteboard-based interview recently. I am very, very bad at these, mostly because I tend to freeze up. Fortunately, there were two parts, and by the second part, I was more comfortable, and did significantly better [0]. Your poin
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by bmj 12y ago
The new MLB commissioner has responded to questions spurred by the WSJ report [0]. [0] http://deadspin.com/rob-manfred-wont-rule-out-a-shorter-base...
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by bmj 12y ago
So much love for Lego. Maybe Minecraft fills a similar role in today's kids? Yeah, LEGO is still a big deal. My older boy has participated in LEGO-based robotics competitions, and both of my boys still spend time just about every da
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by bmj 12y ago
Thanks for posting this. Imagine what would happen to the country if, after Obama was elected, every single right-leaning person employed by the government up and left. Government services rely on continuity, particularly stuff like welfare
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Agreed. Even if you think the tax code benefits the $interest_group_of_choice, reducing the number of automatically flagged audits, for example, due to better algorithms, is a win for everybody.
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by bmj 12y ago
This is a cultural thing, though. Since childhood, we are taught that you are absolutely always quiet in a library. Open office plans tell a very different story (with the OP underscores--collaboration), so I suspect it would be a long, di
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by bmj 12y ago
From TFA: I wrote Gitlet to explain how Git works. I didn't write it to be used. It would be unwise to use Gitlet to version control your projects.
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I've typically done some variation of the following in order to take long road trips with my family: * Take two or so weeks of vacation. * Work remotely (hotel, friend's house, coffee shop) for a week or so. * Take another
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by bmj 12y ago
Having worked in a variety of office environments over the last 15 years, my favorite has been shared, closed office space. My employee moved into a relatively small building which had 2-3 person offices in it. The devs were one, QC in an
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by bmj 12y ago
There is always vigorous discussion about whether A6 can actually exist. I know some desert tower routes have been graded A6, but most end up being downgraded. Actually, there is at least one free scare-fest on the Big Stone: Leo Houlding&
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by bmj 12y ago
I agree with you, but I think there is far too much cultural baggage (at least here in the U.S.) for a less-than-five-day week to ever work. It strikes that in white collar jobs, people feel the need to think that their work time and prese
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by bmj 12y ago
It's been a long time since I was in school, but if memory serves correctly, there were plenty of dis-engaged parents in the 1980s, too, but the schools didn't seem to suffer the same ills they do today. My wife and I homeschool o
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by bmj 12y ago
I heard Templeton was one of the most egregious of the bunch, but didn't realize Pappy was similar. These days, it seems worth it to spend my money at a local distillery (Wigle Whiskey), where they go from grains to finished product i
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by bmj 12y ago
I recently came across a blog post[0] that examined where U.S. whisk(e)ys were actually produced. Turns out many of the top-shelf brands aren't actually produced in the manner which they are marketed. My impression, at least among bo
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by bmj 12y ago
On one hand, I totally agree with you. Despite that fact that I don't "use" it everyday, I think my liberal arts education (both in high school and college) was immensely useful in teaching me how to think. On the other hand
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by bmj 12y ago
I assume Caldwell and Jorgenson haven't proposed a grade for the entire climb, since they've not redpointed it in a single push. While I am excited to see Caldwell succeed on this thing, I'm probably more excited for the day
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by bmj 12y ago
Yeah, I think the only time you need to ask permission is if the refactor would cause additional regression testing. Depending on the system, and unit test coverage, this may not even be a big deal, but sometimes, if you have a dedicated Q
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by bmj 12y ago
I suspect this isn't a goal of those Ruby devs. It almost seems that "Ruby" is more like an ideology rather than a language, at least from comments like "Continuous changes is Ruby." Note that I'm not trying t
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I think this is part of it, but there are also issues of infrastructure as well. Many aging eastern cities, with their challenging (read: hilly) topography, make it prohibitively expensive to radically redesign roads.[0] Additionally, I t
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by bmj 12y ago
I wouldn't attribute the movement to Google, strictly speaking. I suspect that during the first dot-com boom, open offices were all the rage because they were cheaper. When I entered the industry in 1998, my employer (a start-up) h
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by bmj 12y ago
Having done a fair bit of Titanium development, I wouldn't classify it as a solution for the parent's query. Yes, it is executing JavaScript via the OS's JS engine, but it is drawing native widgets, and jumping between the J
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by bmj 12y ago
The difference here is that the Monopoly question is asking the candidate to reason about how to solve the problem with a computer program. The author admits that there can be biases, but isn't that the case even with work sample test
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Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5596578
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This makes sense. There are plenty of people who do not run or work for start-ups that deal with these very same issues, every day. And many of them don't have the choice to leave the office at 5:00 so they can spend that three hours
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Worth reading: Jean-Paul Sarte's reasons for declining the prize when awarded to him in 1964: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1964/dec/17/sartre-...
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most technical roles aren't generating revenue Wait, what? The products I build don't generate revenue for my employer?
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Reminds me a bit of the story of the Russian family that lived in a remote section of the Siberian taiga: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russ... Granted, they weren't alone (it was a famil
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Do you think there /is/ a solution to the problem? Or is this just one of the side effects of capitalism? I'm not trolling here...just curious. My own mind tends to go in the direction of the parent, but, I also see how enf
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What people don't want is the inconvenience of dealing with people who don't operate exactly like they do. As far as I'm concerned, this is a feature of living in community, not a bug. I realize there are differences between

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