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by columbo 14y ago
Regardless of if I agree with this statement (I don't) making a public statement like this is a very dangerous choice. You've effectively said "I wont hire women because they might go form babbies" on a public forum. If you ever have or eve
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by columbo 14y ago
Here's a possibility: On his blog he has a field to enter in your email address to subscribe to posts. If he's recording IP addresses there's a good chance his friend (not the son) would have put in his email to follow. Once he got the IP a
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by columbo 14y ago
The coffeescript rocks/sucks crowd does not belong here. This person wrote a blog post explaining something using a language he is familiar with. If articles are boiled down to a shouting match because the java-haters or the coffeescript-ha
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by columbo 14y ago
That's an interesting read, and I just found this on reddit: http://www.moongadget.com/origins/dune.html To take a quote from your source: "Every writer owes a similar debt to those who have come before." - this is something I believe spe
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by columbo 14y ago
What's wrong with copyrighting work so someone can't just steal your entire source-code and call it their own? Just like you can copyright a book so nobody can steal that exact instance of your thought process but people can still write ver
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by columbo 14y ago
I think it speaks more to the community than the language (and arguably there is also no such thing as a community). After years of consulting I can't remember how many times I've walked into an Enterprise Java Shop(TM) to find TemporalSyst
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by columbo 14y ago
Not being from the bay area can anyone on that side of the planet who survived the first bubble (2000) to today give an honest assessment on if attitudes really have changed[0]? Around here (midwest) not much has seemed to change. I don't s
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by columbo 14y ago
> Is it so bad to live and die with some regrets? It's a good question. Too much paper has been spent on rehearsing the same story of "Do things now because when you are old you'll be old and it wont be as fun and you'll regret it becau
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by columbo 14y ago
> But really why is that level of equity share of any influence in anyone's hiring equation? To be fair the article doesn't say if it influences many people or not. I do think it is putting emphasis on something that is simply of no re
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by columbo 14y ago
Yeah, from a revenue standpoint I can understand why, saying you are from google means you passed the 'google interview' or something. Therefore those candidates are probably easier to place (there's an assumption of excellence). That doesn
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by columbo 14y ago
So why doesn't Amazon / Hulu have just as many movies as netflix? Is it a licensing issue? It can't possibly be a bandwidth or availability issue.
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by columbo 14y ago
> Why would I care about the difference between a list and a hash table. > A lot of people tend to assume hostile bias against knowledge simply because they've been successful without it for a while. I don't necessarily see it like
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by columbo 14y ago
It is a good idea but I'll stick with using join.me (or skype, vnc, or teamviewer) so the candidate can have their own development environment. Writing code in this doesn't really give you anything beyond watching how long it takes them to
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by columbo 14y ago
>I'm seeing it more and more--job descriptions with perks about nerf guns and happy hour, or new grads who joined a startup and are bragging about ping pong tables and free coke. This is apparently something that people see as a fun cul
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by columbo 14y ago
Purposeless unit tests are a waste of time. These are tests against your compiler or external frameworks. For example: @Test testAddUser() {assertNotNull(new User("columbo").save())} Wahoo! the ORM works! The biggest proble
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by columbo 14y ago
This is off-topic but I couldn't read the article past a few lines. The blurry background kept getting my eyes unfocused. Maybe it is time I see an eye dr.
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by columbo 14y ago
> impractical I believe if they kept the scale at 10km the page would be 53 kilometers long.
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by columbo 14y ago
It doesn't bother me that make_person_an_outside_subscriber_if_all_accesses_revoked is long, it bothers me that it seems too specific to be a method. Part of the condition is in the method name (if_all..), that's something that really seems
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by columbo 14y ago
The system I'm working on got press via the local news a few times (they love running scrappy tech startup stories, so it was one 30 second Channel 5 type interview and a news story). There wasn't a direct bump in sales because of it. Every
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by columbo 14y ago
A random pool of people is nearly impossible to corrupt. Make someone's full-time job as a juror and the system WILL corrupt. A pool of "experts" will become a bidding war and only the large pocketbooks will win. Everything from patent infr
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by columbo 14y ago
Wearing the same outfit over and over to emulate Steve Jobs is like cutting off your ear to emulate Van Gogh.
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by columbo 14y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence A file filled with identifiers is not extraordinary evidence to link this to the claim of being a FBI laptop. It is only what it is (a file of identifiers) and says nothing about where it
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by columbo 14y ago
Why blindly trust an unknown entity that may have ulterior motives?
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by columbo 14y ago
Whoever edited this image had ZERO experience with image editing. I think that's an interesting point to consider. It isn't that the person was bad, the person was _untrained_. A bad graphic designer, say someone who dabbled in photoshop ov
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by columbo 14y ago
Not the OP: My personal and business blog is on a cheap host but my product is on linode. I do this for two reasons: #1 - I don't want my blog to have anything to do with my service. I don't want it near my service. I don't want some WP-0-D
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by columbo 14y ago
> Should journalists be allowed to have opinions[1][3]? I'll play devil's advocate and say No. > Should scientists be allowed to have opinions? > Should programmers be allowed to have opinions? No. You can't just -believe- that
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by columbo 14y ago
The problem with single words is it is very easy to lost on the definitions. Kindness, cleverness... what does that mean? Here's how I would have worded it. Given a company of a 100 people working on the same product, which do you think wou
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by columbo 14y ago
That is a really cool video but I'm not sure if I'd take that to say "humans are better long distance runners". The fact is that humans are the most intelligent species (excluding dolphins and mice) and have used that to their advantage. Fo
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by columbo 14y ago
That's just as much Samsung's fault as it is Apples. They could have dismissed this guy or any other juror, possibly without giving an explanation, or they could have argued that he wouldn't be impartial. It bothers me that we seem to be at
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by columbo 14y ago
http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/physics/anim... Pronghorn Antelopes, on the other hand, can maintain speeds of 60 mph for miles at a time. "If the Cheetah and pronghorn were running side by side, and if the track was longe

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