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by bmj 16y ago
Biopace-like designs returned to the PRO peleton a few years ago, though the shapes are a bit more radical.
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by bmj 16y ago
He == the original poster I think straight out of university, at least in my experience here in the States, having a degree from a "known" school helps. That said, it does not prevent you from getting good work, especially if you've alread
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by bmj 16y ago
I think, too, that this is said about quite a few professions, by people working in those professions.
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by bmj 16y ago
I suspect one of the problems with WPF/Silverlight adoption is the requirement to learn another layout language. I'm working on a rather large Silverlight 4 app, and am generally happy I don't have to work on many UI layouts. I can't mu
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by bmj 16y ago
As I grow older, the more I realize there is nothing new under the sun. The biggest difference between the current crop of 20-somethings and the previous crop ( my generation) is the internet--ideas are easily accessible, so anyone can wr
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by bmj 16y ago
This is true, and homeschooling with some sort of curriculum is a nice balance, I think. My wife and I follow a "classical" curriculum with our kids at home, but at the same time, we are flexible according to what works and what doesn't, a
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by bmj 16y ago
I agree. My current project was turning into a bit of death march (due to a number factors), and I was finding motivation hard to come by. My manager decided that we would begin doing "pre-releases" to QC in order to give them a chance to
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by bmj 16y ago
ColdFusion is built on Java.
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by bmj 16y ago
To be fair, many of the laptop issues have less to do with Linux and more to do with the hardware manufacturers. There's lots of hardware out there, and the manufacturers just don't produce drivers for anything but Windows. Certainly, the
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by bmj 16y ago
In my experience, at a small liberal arts college, there is little motivation for research, so even if the professor is teaching four or five courses a year, it is possible that they aren't doing much outside of the classroom work. Thus, t
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by bmj 16y ago
Question #1 is far more important than question #2. In fact, I'd argue question #2 shouldn't even be asked. I work with some folks who are very, very good at their jobs, and I get on with them well enough during work hours, but I have zer
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by bmj 16y ago
I didn't mean to imply that Vibram produced a mediocre product that took off thanks to a book and a trend. Vibram did do their design homework, and the shoe itself is well-designed. My point is that without Born to Run and the "natural"
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by bmj 16y ago
I have a friend who works for a running publication (and is a long distance runner), and she noted that Vibram got kinda lucky with this design. Born to Run was published after they introduced their shoes. While Vibram's marketing depar
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by bmj 16y ago
I agree, and follow the advice with my kids. But this is the key bit: When you have something to offer, maximize and concentrate that time, and then get the hell out of the way. I know some parents that kneejerk to helicopter parenting b
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by bmj 16y ago
We're also one of the few animals to actually prepare our food, too. Does that mean we shouldn't do it?
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by bmj 16y ago
According to the regulations that govern my employer's domain, developers cannot have access to production. We have a sysOp representative who knows the software (but isn't a dev) who does have access to troubleshoot issues. In cases of s
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by bmj 16y ago
I think the issue here is buy in from management. If I work at a Windows-centric shop, it's much easier to sell a different platform if it doesn't require building new servers for it. It's much harder to pitch a project when your requirem
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by bmj 16y ago
When I last worked at a start-up, our product was built on the MS stack, and saved significant cash by allowing MS to author a white paper detailing how our product leveraged the .NET Framework and SQL Server. We still paid out some of the
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by bmj 16y ago
I agree. While I note upvotes while I'm looking at the discussion threads, I rarely look at the leaderboards or a user's profile for upvote counts. And if it wasn't for my own count next to my username, I likely wouldn't know how many upvo
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by bmj 16y ago
This is desperately needed, I think. I've fought the modeling the tools used by EF4 for months now (especially back in the dark days of beta). POCO support in the official release of EF4 was very helpful, but the fact that the XML model s
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by bmj 16y ago
I wonder how much of a talent drain Google has been? I know several folks there, and apparently they have been hiring steadily over the last year or so. EDIT: I think the demographics have something to do with it. As another commenter poi
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by bmj 16y ago
I know many graduate students that buy homes during their stay in Pittsburgh rather than renting, and simply sell when they leave. Often, those homes end up in the hands of other graduate students.
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by bmj 16y ago
I've never worked on a farm, but my family purchases our meat and dairy products directly from a local farmer (who farms in the manner Joel Salatin--that is, he is a grass farmer). One benefit of buying this way is that we have gained an u
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by bmj 16y ago
The other commenter makes a good point, but I also think we simply acknowledge that there are some jobs that do not require a full college-preparatory education. There are some trade schools available, but these are generally viewed as bei
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by bmj 16y ago
I'm doing a Silverlight app as well (project management/code editor tool--does it sound like a solved problem? Why, yes, it is!). I concur with much that has been written, but here's a few other comments... If you are working with RIA/WCF
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by bmj 16y ago
The problem with this approach is that it immensely devalues non-knowledge-based jobs, which still very much serve as the backbone of our infrastructure.
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by bmj 16y ago
Fortunately, I work at a shop where I don't need to force this issue. I took four weeks off this spring to road trip and climb with my family. I had three weeks of PTO in hand, and my manager, and his manager said go for it, under the con
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by bmj 16y ago
But if you don't go and track down the meaning of a word, you may be missing something. Obviously, meaning can be gleaned from context, but if you really want to understand the message the author is attempting to convey, it's worth the mom
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by bmj 16y ago
I think perhaps limited replay for questionable goals might be useful (the French team would be watching from home if this were the case), and it wouldn't interrupt the flow of the game much. I don't think we'd have a situation like we d
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by bmj 16y ago
Interesting take on the NYT article here: http://inmedias.blogspot.com/2010/06/if-any-friendship-coach...

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