californiaguy

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by californiaguy 17y ago
Recruiters and HR are the worst people to deal with in the entire technology industry.
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by californiaguy 17y ago
I'll never understand the people who ask for opinions on a public forum and then get upset at the people who post their opinions.
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by californiaguy 17y ago
Hacker forums are a lot like indie rock bands.
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by californiaguy 17y ago
If I were to talk to him directly I would tell him to either drop out of school and be hardcore at his work, or drop out of work and be hardcore with school. At this point in his life he hasn't actually finished or built a damn thing, acad
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by californiaguy 17y ago
If you don't have the personality to tell them, just print out a small label that says "Please don't touch the screen" and tape it to your laptop.
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by californiaguy 17y ago
> bad advice Most reality-based advice is hard to listen to and sounds arrogant and demeaning. Too often HN is just a circle jerk session of smart people telling each other what they want to hear ... possibly on a thread about how the
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by californiaguy 17y ago
If you're in the US just tell them your wallet was stolen. They'll put you in another line and often times it'll actually be faster than the main security line. I've done this multiple times, the first time after I actually did lose my wall
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by californiaguy 17y ago
Set lofty goals. Attain them. Repeat. Right now you're living a mediocre life. You live in an apartment, you program web sites and haven't finished college. What's so special about that? Why do you need to be incredibly sharp for that?
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by californiaguy 17y ago
> Django is very much in the Unix philosophy of code re-use I'm very much in the philosophy of not tying myself to a particular package management system or distribution. Especially not Debian. If a package has deps, the documentation
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by californiaguy 17y ago
In my experience Debian users are generally dorks who have very little concern for how things are done in the real world.
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by californiaguy 17y ago
> Dependencies are the exact reason a plain tarball isn't good enough If your web app needs complicated deps, it sucks. Which is kind of my point about Pinax. It's fucking embarrassing that you can simply untar some very complicated
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by californiaguy 17y ago
You sound younger than me, so I'm going to clue you in on a secret to life. > no financial situation to move anywhere else That doesn't exist. You make decisions first and then figure out how to execute/pay for them later. We're not t
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by californiaguy 17y ago
The only way to deal with people like that is to move out. Why are you structuring your happiness in life around his actions?
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by californiaguy 17y ago
Pinax is a monstrous pain in the ass to install and use for the following reasons: 1) Bad documentation. 2) Bad installer (installer??? Django apps should be installed with cp and tar.) 3) They attempt to bundle everything with their chee
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by californiaguy 17y ago
> Buy SharePoint, MS CRM and a So avoid buying enterprise software and related service contracts... by buying enterprise software and related employees?
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by californiaguy 17y ago
Uh, chemistry is also the basis of computing. Chemistry, physics, mathematics, these are pretty much the basis of reality as we know it.
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by californiaguy 17y ago
Mail.app in the office, mutt if I'm terminal bound.
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by californiaguy 17y ago
> Don't do what I did. Au contraire, I did what you did (probably to the extreme, I was on academic probation 2x and did more drugs than I can remember), and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone if they have the mental fortitude to a
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by californiaguy 17y ago
You just need the following: proper editor, proper debugger, years of painful experience.
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by californiaguy 17y ago
> ignorance or a need to create an eye-catching headline What is it about being a hacker that makes us so surprised and/or upset when marketing works on us? As if we just lost an intellectual battle? Marketing works, people. It's just
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by californiaguy 17y ago
If you're going to put someone in the coding hot seat like that, at least give them the decency of having 30 minutes alone with a computer.
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by californiaguy 17y ago
I don't know, did Benjamin Franklin? http://www.epa.gov/superfund/
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by californiaguy 17y ago
http://www.slate.com/id/2188684/ The eligible bachelor paradox.
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by californiaguy 17y ago
no
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by californiaguy 17y ago
> lots of Asian girls are only looking for white men This usually wears off around age 25 after these girls realize that the world is slightly more complicated than TV portrays it to be. Note that I'm talking about the ones who date on