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by buckbova 13y ago
Blocked from my work. Bluecoat likes to categorize many of these .io domains as "Suspicious". It's annoying.
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by buckbova 13y ago
I'm sure there's a lot of younger brothers out there that caught savage beatings from one of your "non-abusing" types. Just another type of leadership I suppose, do as your told.
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by buckbova 13y ago
I just started on "JavaScript Allongé" and am really enjoying your prose and working through the examples. Good job! I had to look up what _allongé_ meant as I've never heard it ordered. It sounds like the perfect drink. &q
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by buckbova 13y ago
Red-gate has some decent and current t-sql programming books and mssql dev books available for free. http://www.red-gate.com/community/books/
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by buckbova 13y ago
Powerful stuff. Not sure it's a hacker new article. Any south africans out there to comment?
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by buckbova 13y ago
* no insurance Now every single developer, contractor, sub-contractor, general contractor, professional engineer, material supplier, home owner, renter, insurance agency .... must have insurance.
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by buckbova 13y ago
"For those of you in the coastal elite who are reading this post for the perverse pleasure of finding out just how unaffordable your city is . . ." You caught me.
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by buckbova 13y ago
All of our (the CS degree program I attended) 100s/200s courses in the late 90's were taught using C. From what I remember they didn't "claim" to use any particular language and basically if they did I wouldn't
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by buckbova 13y ago
Well what do they teach in schools? When I was attaining my degree during the end of the last century, Java (and XML) was being trumpeted as the saving grace for all soon to be software professionals. We were all in love OO programming and
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by buckbova 13y ago
Try this quiz. It's based on a quiz I saw posted on HN a while back. http://sqlfiddle.com/#!3/3973f/1 Edit: I'm not allowed to reply just yet, so I'll post here. You need to add the boss first to th
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by buckbova 13y ago
Drinking excessively makes one smarter. Consider it culling the herd. The weaker slower brain cells die off, leaving the stronger faster brain cells to propell your brain power to peak levels.
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by buckbova 13y ago
When the site is back up, I'll verify the link and post here. It's been about 2 months since I've used it. Simple query stuff though. Basic aggregate stuff. When to use "LEFT JOIN". Creating a scalar function. Mult
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by buckbova 13y ago
I've used this for interviewees. Set them up with a test fiddle with questions set in the comments.
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by buckbova 13y ago
VC might run out in 3 weeks.
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by buckbova 13y ago
I'm over 10 years out of college. Last time I implemented a linked list was probably in my second year of a CS degree. I still remember and will probably never forget how to at least psuedo-code a linked list. But you are right, I hav
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by buckbova 13y ago
In nearly every profession there is a ceiling for the doers. There is a position in a senior/lead/architect role and a pay rate you hit within companies that you can't exceed besides some annual 1% raise. Those who are still
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by buckbova 13y ago
Some of my experience on hiring "older" engineers (I currently have over 10 years experience in software eng/dev): 1. They have a family with responsibilities, sick kids, and dance recitals, etc. The bad: Leads to, less profe
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by buckbova 13y ago
Nearly everyone I've ever spoke with thinks: - they are a hard worker - they deserve more money than they are making - they are stronger and/or smarter than the majority of their peers - they are a good driver It takes quite a bit
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by buckbova 13y ago
Funny how this is a regurgitation of this similar article: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-11/in-praise-of...
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by buckbova 13y ago
What this article describes is not micormanagement. It is more about company leaders imposing their will on the company's products. From my experience, this is false: "There is a natural limit to when micromanagement makes sense.
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by buckbova 13y ago
If using chrome, the Chrome Toolbox has a handy mute all tabs feature. I have it muted by default. https://code.google.com/p/chrome-toolbox/
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by buckbova 13y ago
At the end of the day after I built something with my hands or even dug a pit, I could sit back with a beer and truly let my mind go, content with what I'd done that day. As a programmer/developer/architect, my mind is never
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by buckbova 13y ago
I point complete novices to http://www.weebly.com/ . It has a gui site builder (wysiwyg) and what not, and is considerably simpler than wordpress. What does barley have over weebly? Can I download barley and install on my se
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by buckbova 13y ago
> Why Your Startup Can’t Find Developers Relying on recruiters. Recruiters are notorious for buzzword searching and resume stacking. And Googler's probably don't respond to interview requests because they don't trust or re
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by buckbova 13y ago
Options (if you are publicly traded) are a great way to pay talent to stick around, especially if your stock is trending upwards.
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by buckbova 13y ago
I'm going to agree, as a Sr Database Architect, that once you have these skills and some experience under your belt you will never want for jobs. There is one huge caveat. Sometimes it is so boring that I often daydream of attempting t
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by buckbova 13y ago
> It's simple probability. No it's not. It's hype, buyout rumors, etc. The stock price will fall hard.
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by buckbova 13y ago
This is a risky investment as it was. Poor stock holders are getting screwed by this. If you are holding, sell as soon as you are able. I'm always amazed when a company can have such a high share price when it hasn't proven it has
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by buckbova 13y ago
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/09/supporting-modern-brow... "As a note, we’ll of course continue to measure traffic from IE8 browsers to your website." That's all I need google. Thanks.
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by buckbova 13y ago
I was excited to see this: "Automatically updatable VIEWs" But then read this: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_... "Simple views can now be updated in the same way as regular

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