californiaguy2

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by californiaguy2 17y ago
I wasn't trying to be cool, I was answering his question in a straight forward and honest manner. Other people seem to be more interested in trying to blow smoke up his ass talking about interesting problem domains and how money doesn't ma
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
Anyone who claims that money is an adjunct and doesn't work in academia or charity is bullshitting not only who they're talking to, but themselves as well.
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
Sure you did, you mentioned elance didn't you?
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
Good, reliable programmers are very expensive. Think $200k/year minimum. This might not have entered into your vision of reality but I assure you that's how it works. If you keep getting shafted by cheap programming "talent" and keep look
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
> It's how America doesn't produce anything anymore. This article is about an American company that produces equipment that makes solar panels and microchips.
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
Every time I've thought about using Twisted for something, I go back to their documentation and remember why I wrote it myself with asyncore last time.
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
Stop the madness. Just stop it.
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
I think I admire Ellison more.
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
"We want someone who is passionate enough to spend the weekend working on something cool" Tell them you want more cash and equity for your hard work. If they don't give it to you, quit. Why are you putting yourself through this torture?
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
At the risk of sounding crude, I experimented with all sorts of drugs and sex in college, but the best high I've found yet is scoring business. Maybe I am a money loving robot, but that's my position on the matter.
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
> I stayed up for 3 days without sleep to implement this thing You probably could have done it in 2 days if you had slept.
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
This is what I've always done. Are there really people out there who feel the need to explain themselves to carwash attendants and waiters???
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
This story has so many missing pieces it's not even worth reading. What I want to know is who's the engineer he suckered into getting his first codebase up and running?
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
The use of words instead of numbers to indicate integer values is especially annoying to me.
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
I don't know if this is "beautifully designed" - more like "sparsely and starkly designed, which conforms to someone's particular idea of beauty".
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
NEWSFLASH: As people get older, they start turning into the old people!
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
> how much of a loser we actually are. And if that happens, then you go back to fixed income and live happily ever after. At least you're not left with the unknown.
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
I think reality is somewhere in between "V-shaped recovery" and his predictions of misery until the end of 2011.
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
> Adding software cannot improve the hardware What do you mean "eh"? Software can definitely, without a doubt improve the performance of the hardware. That's what device drivers and firmware exist for.
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
Like regular velcro, shear load capacity is probably much, much higher than the force it takes to pull apart. Think about the most common application of velcro - shoes - you're keeping the two sides of the shoe together. Velcro prevents
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
Yeah, rsync.net
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by californiaguy2 17y ago
The : separates the protocol and location, and // is the root level of a path.