bstewartnyc

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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
# there is no 'balance', only this algorithm running my life while(True): task=getNextTask() if priority(task)>priority(current_task): backBurner.add(current_task) current_task=task startWorkOn(current_task) else:
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
Well it is a kind of hack
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
20% lighter - because that was a big problem lugging around that heavy iphone 4. slimmer - because that thick fat iphone 4 taking up way too much room in my pocket faster - because my iphone 4 is too slow? what I'd upgrade for: screen that
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
When I see things like nerf guns, ping pong tables, free soda and snacks mentioned early on in the job description I pretty much pass it up right away because I assume that is all offered instead of competitive salary and equity, and to att
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
Why would someone need a "formal" education to do this?
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
:x
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
Vjj
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
Great more fake stuff, just what we need.
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
How does one know?
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
Hmm. Yeah making $300 per week sounds really great. Not. Silly article.
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
Good question: I've been one or the other for 19 years and I dont know what the difference is. When I tell non-tech people I am a "software developer" they think I'm some kind of "designer" rather than programmer - when I tell them I am a
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
Ronald Reagan was a wise man and great president.
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
Dumb.
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by bstewartnyc 14y ago
Math seems to work out real well for me...
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by bstewartnyc 15y ago
Its much better to live poor when you are young then when you are old. You really, really dont want to be poor when you are too old or sick to work...
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by bstewartnyc 15y ago
Started in 1983 on Apple IIc, writing text-based adventure games. I was 13 years old then. First professional job in 1991.
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by bstewartnyc 15y ago
I live the burbs and commute to the city by train - but out here I love my car... I never need to drive in traffic.
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by bstewartnyc 15y ago
I dont know if most people will need to program computers (write code) but I do think the formalism of "imperative knowledge" is actually in its infancy now. And by that I mean the study of processes, the formalizing of "how to do things",
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by bstewartnyc 15y ago
+1
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by bstewartnyc 15y ago
I'm a 42 year old software developer, and I stay current: SOLR, Hadoop, HBase, Storm, iOS, Clojure, HTML5, etc. Its harder to keep up now (primarily because of less time to study and play with tech) but I still love it. Also, keep studyin
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by bstewartnyc 15y ago
If options are "underwater" at the time of acquisition, it can be part of the deal that acquiring company does not need to honor those, and they are basically deleted. That happened to me, when options at a public company were acquired by
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by bstewartnyc 15y ago
I somewhat agree with this. It is mostly a question of making decisions that "scale". If engineers are mostly deciding "how to build" something, then managers are mostly deciding "what to build". Assuming managers are not just "schedule kee
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by bstewartnyc 15y ago
Steve Jobs created products that people love and are more than willing to pay for, even wait in long lines in the rain for. Even during the slowest economy the Apple store at my local mall is filled with life. Stallman loves his "freedom"
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Ask HN: Best language for Linux web service development
1 points by bstewartnyc 16y ago|0 comments
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by bstewartnyc 16y ago
Have you used core text at all? Particularly, I'd like to implement some highlighting features inside text views. I'd also like to implement a hybrid text view / drawing canvas (ability to draw over a text view, while retaining scrollabil