clifanatic

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by clifanatic 10y ago
Steve Jobs founded Apple. Apple changed the world. They fired him. They became a joke. They brought him back. Apple changed the world, again. Steve Jobs died. Apple became a joke, again.
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Should the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Be Stopped?(backchannel.com)
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by clifanatic 10y ago
I think a lot of people are going to disagree with you because they _want_ you to be wrong, but my observation (as somebody who got a solid education and a good GPA from a tier 100 university) is that in a lot of places, this is absolutely
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Anything with "Hacker" in its name gets my eyes rolling Ummmm.... Look up...^^^^
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> I got SO bored with drills/memorization. That's because you're lazy. I know you really genuinely think you aren't, but you are... I'm dealing with this same mindset in my 13-year-old son right now. That'
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> very few of them show evidence of having read the article Americans stink at reading, too.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Well, the reality in America is that in most places you can take time off if your kid gets sick... you'll just be "downsized" during the next "reorganization" if you ever do.
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Airbnb’s female employee representation down since last diversity report(techcrunch.com)
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by clifanatic 10y ago
The maxim of the software company manager: "If it takes more than an hour to do, it isn't worth doing".
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Can't stand working alone? Go to the open area. But the low-grade sadists that rise to positions of authority in U.S. corporations will punish the people that don't go to the open area. It's not about what you produce,
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> But virtually every successful company is run the opposite way Because every company is run the opposite way. The subset that comprises the successful ones ends up grouped in with the open-office sadists by default.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> I will never understand why this is such a point of contention on HN Because people keep trying to disguise penny-pinching stinginess as "collaboration" when it's proven time and time again that it doesn't work.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> My financial advisor and his friend want me to build them an iphone app You can get a new financial advisor. My _wife_ wants me to build her an iPhone app.
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Wait, what? O'Reilly books are being crowdfunded now?
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> Most software engineers are bad and refuse to admit it to themselves (which would let them get better) Well… not to be confrontational, but in the context of this post, you seem to be implying that if most software engineers (which wou
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Which is a step up from the documentation you get (if you get any at all) in custom development: /** * The constructor */ public Wimbulator(boolean q)
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> unlike e.g. civil engineering It isn't like people don't wonder why it takes so long or costs so much to, say, build a road, either. It seems like everybody massively underestimates how long it should take to do something th
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> in CRUD app #34 If CRUD apps were as cut-and-dried as you're flippantly implying, then they _would_ take a few hours to complete. There have been many, many attempts at auto-generating CRUD-app frameworks: Visual Basic was one, S
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by clifanatic 10y ago
> axing the escape key vi users, prepare to revolt!
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Snapchat, Skype put users' “human rights at risk,” Amnesty Int'l reports(cbsnews.com)
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by clifanatic 10y ago
As a vi user... NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Hm - I have read many times that the "premature optimization is the root of all evil" quote was misattributed to Donald Knuth and actually came from C.A.R. Hoare, but here it is in print, and he seems to present it as his own thou
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Well, I don't know if "boring" is the word I'd use, but I like _transparent_ stacks: if I make a mistake, it tells me where I made a mistake in a way that I can interpret. All of the "boring" stacks have this
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Women in computing to decline to 22% by 2025, study warns(usatoday.com)
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by clifanatic 10y ago
What was it originally? And I think you mean "sum up" ;)
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by clifanatic 10y ago
"If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization".
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by clifanatic 10y ago
As much as I love and identify with these rants (keep 'em coming!), I think as much damage is done by trying to think long term (and guessing wrong) as by focusing on short term. In the abstract, I agree with the author in general tha
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Not everyone can be a programmer(blog.lelonek.me)
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by clifanatic 10y ago
Why can't usenet be the new usenet?
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by clifanatic 10y ago
4chan is populated by uncultured assholes. Reddit is populated by self-righteous assholes. Between the two, I actually prefer the uncultured ones - at least they're self-aware.

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