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by cjbos 17y ago
"If the screening process is passing women by because they are not technical ninjas or dont want to work 80 hour weeks or dont do so well in alpha male interviews" Except for your last point there the others are pretty bad stereotypes. For
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by cjbos 17y ago
But the Baroque cycle is a prequel of sorts to Cryptonomicon, its worth slogging past the first 2/3 of the first book, it gets very good after that.
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by cjbos 17y ago
Daemon by Daniel Suarez, it really reminded me of Stevenson's work, highly recommend it! http://thedaemon.com/ Also loved Microserfs and JPod by Douglas Coupland.
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by cjbos 17y ago
How do you detect for codec support though? Or does the browser take care of that for you? Of everything coming out of the HTML 5 standard this is the least exciting imo, there is alot more involved in building a video player on the web tha
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by cjbos 18y ago
I agree with most of your comment, and would add that there are hidden costs with choosing the windows platform that are not so obvious such as: Easier access to support with OSS web platforms than .Net. I find OSS proponents much more open
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by cjbos 18y ago
A small warning here, the free express version is a little crippled. I went through the .net mvc Nerdinner tutorial last weekend (was bored), but the express version didn't support the unit test setup, nor does it support scm plugins (So th
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by cjbos 18y ago
I think it has alot to do with the color of the boxes too, swap the "not yet participating" color with the "opted out" color and it comes across alot less threatening to me even with the same copy.
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by cjbos 18y ago
Oh cool thanks for the heads up, I just installed 9.6 and it's right there in the "What's new in 9.6" copy. "Quick Find Have you ever forgotten the page where you found that great article or that perfect gift? When using Opera, the browser
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by cjbos 18y ago
Something that allows me to search across all my old browser history (Content of the pages not the titles). So I can find all those blog posts and articles I forgot to bookmark for later reading at the time. (I guess I could start using stu
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by cjbos 18y ago
And New Zealand too.. there are zero quality Mexican restaurants there. Its not Mexican, but the best Peruvian food I've had outside of Lima is in Amsterdam http://www.casaperu.nl/html/casaperu.html can't recommend it enough! (My wife was
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by cjbos 18y ago
I do have a question for you, I really like your other startup/app (The tabletop gaming one.). I read your post yesterday so and found my way to another blog post about how you managed a huge surge of traffic from Penny Arcade, which seems
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by cjbos 18y ago
I agree with this, I grew up in a family where both parents dropped out of High School (Was possible in the 60/70's in NZ as the unemployment level was almost non-existent). Education was always second to sporting achievement in our family.
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by cjbos 18y ago
I finally registered an account so I comment on your post. I think you have it spot on. I never attended any university and in my 13 year career it's only ever been an issue three times (Incidentally all 3 here in the US, I've only been her