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by bmj 15y ago
But, this should not have taken three hours. Seems like most of that time was spent waiting for unexpected[1] blocks. Why context-switch if it is possible that you'll need to do again in two minutes? [1] Of course, when does web conferenc
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by bmj 15y ago
Agreed, but if you are forced to use VS2010[1], it's nice to have the keybindings. [1] Yes, you can survive without the IDE if you are doing .NET development.
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by bmj 15y ago
I use this daily in VS2010, and have used ViEmu in previous VS versions. Generally, I like it, but it can be a bit sluggish at times. The only plugin I have running is JSLint, so I suspect it's VSVim causing the problems (though it only ge
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by bmj 15y ago
Yes, me too. The Vim extension is quite nice, but I wish it could do buffers rather than tabs.
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by bmj 15y ago
Yes, this. About a year ago, I finally bothered to understand the buffer concept in vim (after a brief stint in emacs), and suddenly any tabbed editor felt clumsy.
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by bmj 15y ago
I'm not suggesting you need to learn the flavor-of-the-month, merely that you don't become so comfortable in your current toolset that you perhaps can't quickly learn something new. For me, it's a matter of assessing whether, in certain in
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by bmj 15y ago
I think your writer analogy is a bit flawed...it may be more of a question of a poet trying to write creative non-fiction, or a novelist writing sonnets. The language is the same, but the framework is different, and in some cases, you may
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by bmj 15y ago
I would say "as much as ever," but I agree with your basic premise (as a guy with a philosophy degree). I'm not sure philosophers are disappearing from the public consciousness--rather, they are being replaced with pseudo-philosophers. I r
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by bmj 15y ago
I don't think it is poorly worded, though this sentence is a bit clumsy: The existentialists argue that any formal, self-consistent religious structure is necessarily broken -- God is dead -- not that the essence of religion, finding meani
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by bmj 15y ago
Ivan Illich's vision for education may finally come to fruition. Matt could have expanded his risks a bit more, at least to point out that no system will ever be perfect, and, ultimately, every student is different. Completely razing the c
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by bmj 15y ago
This is a good point. Personally, we often hire accountants to minimize our tax burden, yet when companies do the same thing, we like to label them as "evil" (at worst) or "shirking their duty" (at best).
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by bmj 15y ago
That's because Stewart and his team want to learn about the topic. You assume that our lawmakers are that passionate about every bill in front of them.
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by bmj 15y ago
That's certainly plausible, but given everything we hear and know about Google screens its employees, is it indicative of a problem that their contractors pull off stuff like this, even if it wasn't condoned by Real Google Employees? If yo
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by bmj 15y ago
It strikes me that the FDA is powerless in the face of the corporate lobby. While allowing CAFOs (among others) to "police themselves," the FDA aggressively pursues raw milk producers and farm-to-table organizations [ http://farmtoconsumer
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by bmj 15y ago
It's simple - when you are working, you aren't free to take long and/or frequent calls from family/friends; or go fetch grocery even if you are working from home. When you are at home, unless it's a serious outage, you don't take unnecessa
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by bmj 15y ago
I think you're reading this as "I am trying to do away with material things and spend less money." But, really, I think this example is "I live out of my backpack because I have money in the bank and it affords me great flexibility in my l
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by bmj 15y ago
Yes, because the URL hint would be "plus.google.com" rather than just "google.com." The latter could link to Groups post, a Google+ post, or a page under the official Google site (google.com). Each represents a rather type of communication
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by bmj 15y ago
why do most programmers work so hard at pretending they're engineers? In my experience, this is a regional thing. For my first ten years in the industry (on the east coast), I never met another programmer who called herself an engineer.
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by bmj 15y ago
But "google" is pretty normal, right? Or "yahoo?" Or "bing?" Your point is well-taken, but I think it's just a matter of normalizing the name. Granted, "duck, duck, go" doesn't roll off the tongue as smoothly as the other services, but I
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by bmj 15y ago
Is this controlled by the color scheme itself? I'm running Solarized Dark, and the sidebar does have the same scheme as the editing window.
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by bmj 15y ago
One thing indicator I like use for "cultural fit" (as we don't have a lengthy interview process for our team) is how much the interviewee asks about our team. Are there any questions? A few generic questions? Or some deeper, probing ques
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by bmj 15y ago
Agreed. Since we homeschool our kids (and my wife does a large percentage of the schooling), when I work from home, I am relegated to the home office or the cafe for much of the day. My typical work from home day starts around 6:30 AM, and
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by bmj 15y ago
Reminds me of the Sleepy City ( http://sleepycity.net/ ) folks.
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by bmj 15y ago
That seems at least slightly unreasonable. I think it's appropriate to ask the candidate to write pseudo-code (or real code, depending on the problem), especially if you are just examining how the candidate thinks through problems. I'm pe
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by bmj 15y ago
Sounds like a reasonable policy. I'll be curious to hear how it all turns out.
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by bmj 15y ago
How are you keeping the students accountable if they are not being graded? I'm not attempting to criticize the idea (I'm rather interested in it), but I'm curious how you deal with the student that says "I'm not being graded, so I'm not do
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by bmj 15y ago
How big is the ESA? Does any one of these companies (or even the three colletively) wield enough power to change the stance of the entire organization?
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by bmj 15y ago
That's kinda my point--if you don't like the service, then you should leave. That seems to get the attention of tech companies these days.
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by bmj 15y ago
Isn't this a bit different than your analogy? Google+ is a free service, and is hardly the only content-hosting/blog-esque product available (and it's free). Certainly, if you (and others) don't like Google's policies, by all means, let t
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by bmj 15y ago
Yes, me too. I use the dark theme in Visual Studio and Vim, but have the light theme running in SQL Enterprise Manager (which I use rarely). I like both themes, but have been sticking to the dark one because of display issues on my laptop.

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