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by bmj 16y ago
Messner's solo ascent is generally considered to be the last time a climber was truly alone on the mountain.
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by bmj 16y ago
Alpinism, mountaineering's crazy sibling, takes this a step further. Often, cutting edge alpinists (the people who do dangerous, high stuff with little more than a pack on their back) don't climb for the summit--they climb to plumb the dep
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by bmj 16y ago
I think the intersection of programmers who use Vim and programmers who use VS for their day job is much higher. I do a mix of .NET, Perl, Javascript, and HTML at my job, so depending on my current task, I may be using VS2010 or Vim, so it
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by bmj 16y ago
I think the bridge analogy can work a different, equally effective way: we can build software based on well-established and tested engineering principles, with tools and materials that have a known, verifiable set of behaviors. I'm not a ma
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by bmj 16y ago
Good points, but, how many interviewers would severely penalize someone for not even knowing what a binary tree was? I think explaining the tree and asking for an implementation could be a fair question, but only if the question assumes th
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by bmj 16y ago
I agree, though I think, perhaps, the author has a point about something. It's one thing to be asked to write code on the whiteboard for a practical problem. During the interview process for my current employer, I was asked to sketch out
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by bmj 16y ago
Yep. When I did a brief stint at an ad agency, we had print designers doing web layouts, which meant much of the design could not be rendered easily (or at all) via HTML and CSS. That meant we spent a fair bit of time cutting up PSDs and
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by bmj 16y ago
I'm having the same dilemma. We have the back-scatter machines at our airport, and given the reports, I'm tempted to just cancel our plans, or just drive.
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by bmj 16y ago
Because management provides a monetary award with such recognition.
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by bmj 16y ago
This is something my employer has instituted--any employee has the ability to call out another employee for a job well done. This is on top of an employee of the month program. Upper management takes this program very seriously (the award
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by bmj 16y ago
In my experience, some funds may keep their technology choices close to their vest.
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by bmj 16y ago
I wonder why he took the job? Seems like he could do better work from the outside, as it were.
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by bmj 16y ago
I read the lack of mentioning source control this way: it is just assumed that they use some sort of version control system, and for many of them, they are content to use whatever is used in their working environment.
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by bmj 16y ago
I suspect that builds, or big IDEs, are the biggest performance sinks for devs. If I'm doing non-.NET stack development, I'm pretty sure I could get by with 1 GB of RAM, and probably less if I don't need to have a database instance running
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by bmj 16y ago
This is what we do. The biggest benefit here, for us, is that if a release goes horribly wrong, or our testers find a disastrous bug, we can easily roll back to a clean state and only lose the time it takes to load the VM. I've tried using
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by bmj 16y ago
Perhaps I'm biased, since I very much believe you can call me whatever you want, as long as I'm suitably paid. This function-over-form attitude is why I prefer startups. Then I'm biased, too. I don't work for a start-up (100+ employees,
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by bmj 16y ago
Even smaller companies can work this way. During last year's review, my manager (who is also a lead developer--heck, even the VP of engineering writes code on a weekly basis) told me that he wanted to score me higher, but some people frown
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by bmj 16y ago
I agree. Open-ended play is very important, I think. Give him stuff to build things that don't require instructions or guidance (or, at least much guidance). I am routinely amazed at what my kids build with tinker toys and blocks...
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by bmj 16y ago
My guess regarding the wheels is that the designer was looking at old school BMX mag wheels as a model rather than the current crop of Aerospokes. Your other criticisms are valid, too, though if you look at what most manufacturers offer as
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by bmj 16y ago
Hard liquors are also easier to produce.
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by bmj 16y ago
Actually, all available evidence points to the fact that legalising drugs like heroin actually decreases their usage. Would you suddenly take up heroin if it was legal? Do you know anyone who would? But then why is alcohol and tobacco use
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by bmj 16y ago
I have two kids, aged 7 and (nearly) 5. Yes, it absolutely changes your life. The degree to which it does, however, is up to you. My wife and I waited 'til we were both 30 to have kids (we had been married since we were 24). Because we w
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by bmj 16y ago
My experience with Windows Mobile (not Windows Phone 7) emulators is that because of the huge variety of devices, they only give you an idea of whether the software will work on the OS. The issue is, of course, that each family of hardware
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by bmj 16y ago
While our web applications get around-the-clock use during the business week, there is plenty of downtime on the weekends. Really disruptive stuff (generally hardware or OS-level changes) is done on the weekends, but normal deployments and
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by bmj 16y ago
I wonder if some of this discussion would have trended in a different way if the pilot's post wasn't festooned with the markings of a "tea party-er?"
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by bmj 16y ago
Though, of course, Anderson's looks certainly changed over the course of the show's run. By season 5-ish, she was much sexier, and wasn't afraid to use that. That said, I agree with your general assessment of the gender balance in the X-Fi
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by bmj 16y ago
A friend of mine runs a climbing gym that has used Groupon several times. He said it is indeed a double-edged sword: it's tough to swallow the cost, but at the same time, the sheer number of customers the Groupons generated helped pay for
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by bmj 16y ago
I likely wouldn't have it installed, except for the fact I'm currently developing a Silverlight app (online editor for an in-house DSL). Actually, I probably would install it, if only because Netflix uses it for their online player.
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by bmj 16y ago
I've done stacks of Java programming in gVim, and, yes, I had to look up some of the APIs, but for the most part, it was just fine. Using Ant allowed my just use the shell to build. For C#, I don't mind VS2010. My laptop handles it just f
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by bmj 16y ago
Another motivator we've used for our older boy: give him reading time before bed. Now he's allowed to stay up a bit later (a benefit of homeschooling is there's no pesky bus to catch the next morning), as long as he reads. He really looks

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