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by bmj 14y ago
I've found a good, British-style rain cape is light years better than waterproof jackets and pants. Better airflow means you sweat less. Another trick for the cold: unless it's Sweden-cold, you should be a bit chilly when you get on the bi
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by bmj 14y ago
Culturally, getting a new car is much more rare so there is less pressure to do it. I agree, and this isn't just for Gen Y-ers, either. Most of my Gen X friends (I guess I'm a Gen X-er, too) have no interest in purchasing new vehicles.
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by bmj 14y ago
How much of the difference between the C# and Java ecosystems is due to the age of the language? Of course, I agree with you, too, because we have a "liberal" language (C#) tied to an extremely "conservative" company/platform (Microsoft),
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by bmj 14y ago
I agree completely. My hope, too, is that more dad's like us (I was the "primary caregiver" for large swaths of time when my wife was in grad school) will change the perception.
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by bmj 14y ago
I guess I didn't fully get the point in my mind across. Yeah, some people are poor caregivers (like most anything in life), but some people also don't expend the energy to be competent caregivers (that is, they are perfectly capable of get
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by bmj 14y ago
I agree with you, but why do people think this way? Because there are fathers who absolutely cannot function as a caregiver to their own children. I have friends who have trouble watching their kids for a few hours on a Saturday afternoon
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by bmj 14y ago
I think this is a good point, but, also, see edw519's comment at the top. You should work on your estimation skills, but management should understand the values you give them are for the work, not necessarily today + your estimation. Stuf
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by bmj 14y ago
Paraphrasing, art (as opposed to software) is something contributed to society for enjoyment, software is for work. How is a game for work? To qualify this, I don't necessarily disagree completely with RMS' aims for free and open softwar
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by bmj 14y ago
As someone who was once an inexperienced web dev, I bet this probably didn't come down from marketing, and instead is the result of inexperienced/uneducated developers.
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by bmj 14y ago
Some conservatives and religious types understand the construct of marriage to serve certain social purposes as well--primarily procreation and the raising of a family. I'm not advocating that perspective (history shows this isn't always t
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by bmj 14y ago
With the advent of pretty print in Chrome's web development console (and add-ons available for Firefox), minifiers are less of an issue for learning how a site works. I suspect that minifier arguments are no-win situations: either someone d
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by bmj 14y ago
It feels like the only way to fix this is to tweak the "demand" variable, perhaps through legalization. I wonder what the cartels' reaction would be to legalization? Would they willingly give up their massive amounts of wealth to become
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by bmj 14y ago
This is definitely not an edge case. How many kids do you see at the grocery store with their noses in an iPhone will their parent(s) shop? That said, it would be nice to have the option of telling the app to cache your credentials.
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by bmj 14y ago
Yes, this is my sense, too. I have 25+ days of vacation a year, and I take every one of them. My manager has more vacation time, and he takes every last day, generally to very isolated locations. Our CEO is known to go off the grid for w
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by bmj 14y ago
There's a difference between getting funding from the NEA for the purpose of pursuing your work and starting a Kickstarter campaign for designing consumables. Yes, artists "make great T-shirts," but how is that the same as receiving a gran
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by bmj 14y ago
I agree with you, but there's another issue here: some of your friends may not actually respond to email messages. Personally, I'm a fan of email and letter writing (and not a fan of the phone), but I've fallen out of touch with several fr
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by bmj 14y ago
I wonder if the better course of action would be to lobby the major hosting providers to include Ruby and/or Python with their base plans. Really, isn't that one thing that keeps PHP chugging along? In the consulting work I've done, my cl
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by bmj 14y ago
I'm not a CEO, but I keep a similar schedule (replace his meetings and schedule reviews with development), and it works well for me. I'm up early, work for ~90 minutes, then get the kids up and ready for the day. Same thing in the evening
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by bmj 14y ago
I don't disagree, and I'm trying to criticize Mayer here--I think the "article" is a bit poorly written, and I imagine some mid-manager somewhere reading it and thinking "oh, I can make my devs works 100 hours a week, as long as I let them
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by bmj 14y ago
Well, I think that's the problem with the article--is the advice geared toward start-up employees, or current Googlers? I agree that in a start-up, you should likely expect longer weeks (even all-nighters), and maybe you do need to ask to
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by bmj 14y ago
In my engineering group, we don't have project managers or analysts. We have product managers (who are responsible for much more than a project manager, and make more than the average PM, methinks). The lead engineer on each project does
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by bmj 14y ago
So HN is all wrong, eh? It has been argued here before that HTML is nothing more than "assembly" for the browser, and if it renders properly, why does it matter if the layout is done via nested tables or CSS?
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by bmj 14y ago
Actually, they remind me of BMW Isettas[1]. [1] http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/isetta-3wheel-special.html
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by bmj 14y ago
As someone who works with devices which require good timekeeping, I'll add another question: if the devices are communicating with a central server, why doesn't that protocol include a time update from the server?
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by bmj 14y ago
Specializing is often very lucrative. Especially if you specialize in an obscure bit ERP/MRP software. Yes, it's not exactly cutting edge, but I know folks who do a minimal amount of consulting each month to maintain these systems, whic
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by bmj 14y ago
Thoughts on SRWare's Iron Chromium implementation? http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
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by bmj 14y ago
Well, except that unlike using Flickr for photos, AIM for chat, and MySpace to connect, using Facebook puts all your eggs in a single basket. As others have pointed out, that is likely the source of much of the disdain for FB 'round thes
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by bmj 14y ago
Yep, that's how it works with my employer. Typically, your email address and network ID are setup prior to your first day, which doesn't bother me much since what I got matches what I'm used to using.
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by bmj 14y ago
Have you done any blue collar work? Depending on situation, many folks carry large thermos of coffee with them, and between morning and afternoon breaks, and lunch, quite a bit of coffee is consumed. Yes, this is my experience (and that i
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by bmj 14y ago
Actually, there's another element to growing food you missed: industrial agriculture companies actually have "closed source" seeds. Scientists muck with the genetics of the plant, and one effect is that a farmer can no longer glean seeds f

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