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by columbo 13y ago
> I've gotten a meeting invite at 9am for a org-wide all-hands at 10am that day. Always a bad sign. Oh boy, I went through a couple of those during the dot-com bust. Best thing to do is dial into the conference number, even if you are i
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by columbo 13y ago
It might be easier to think of $200k as -only- $100 an hour. That is not a very high rate for a contractor. Anyone here who has been through a contracting company has probably been billed at that rate. The most successful that I've seen has
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by columbo 13y ago
Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. Personally, once I have something that works it's much easier to go back and understand the entire system. It's just time consuming getting to that point.
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by columbo 13y ago
The only real success I've had with outsourcing is when it is done around something specific and the output is treated like something we found on github. Here's an example: I needed to control an arduino board in Java, I didn't know how to
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by columbo 13y ago
> Prison has to be scary. No it doesn't. The problem with chest-thumping-ego-driven-bullshit like this is that it is very fact-adverse and causes more problems than it solves. Your type of prison is nothing more than a gang training cam
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by columbo 13y ago
I believe 2007-2008 represents the end of one era and the beginning of another. The changes that happened during that time were huge.
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by columbo 13y ago
> This is just as disingenuous as the parent and isn't even close to representing the most common situation. http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.a... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#P
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by columbo 13y ago
> 3) The guy from a culture where the average TV viewership per capita is 4 hours and 38 minutes per day (per Neilson 2012) could never have spare the five minutes to throw some beans in a slow cooker. Also all home cooked meals take 8
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by columbo 13y ago
Most of these systems feel like skins on previous iterations (vbulletin, usenet, irc, reddit). Here's the things I don't see and I'm pretty sure I know why. * The OP doesn't own the post, the OP is just the person that started the conversat
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by columbo 13y ago
This is really off topic, but could you speak to the battery life of the pixel running Debian? What you're describing is exactly what I'd like to do.
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by columbo 13y ago
http://www.hotel-online.com/Trends/CarolVerret/GenerationY_N... > Eric postulates that because their earliest influences have been television and Nintendo, they are “stimulus junkies”, easily bored. They are skeptical with well-develo
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by columbo 13y ago
> Did you completely understand what cyclomatic complexity was without following that link? Seems confusing that answering "No" to this (meaning you did NOT know what cyclomatic complexity was) would be a net positive for refactoring?
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by columbo 13y ago
When a company makes a guarantee that they do not uphold. You buy a storage bin from a company that guarantees 24x7 security and your stuff is stolen because there was no nightwatchman on duty then you have a case against the company. That
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by columbo 13y ago
It's the attitude more than the bug. People (and to a greater extent Developers) don't always have the greatest grasp on language. And this DOES NOT mean everything needs to be 'sugar coated'. Want something removed? Create a definition of
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by columbo 13y ago
> In reality, "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is advice given to new programmers so they don't waste time dinking around with micro-optimizations instead of thinking about algorithms, data structures, and higher order r
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by columbo 13y ago
Entire businesses have been formed from the nuances of government state/local regulations. I kid you not, http://www.sos.state.tx.us/ucc/forms/UCC1.pdf on that form section 1g and 2g there's an option to check NONE if you do not have an o
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by columbo 13y ago
I did CF over a decade ago, I remember this: http://nowostey.net/uploads/posts/2010-01/1264151016_84f0bc9... was one of the first things that I really liked that was killed by the Allaire -> Macromedia -> Adobe mergers. I'm not su
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by columbo 13y ago
Flying Saucer worked great for me: http://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer/
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by columbo 13y ago
> why would the ai be millions of generations smarter? Pure uneducated speculation on my part. 1) In order to emulate a Super Nintendo you need hardware at least 20x faster than the hardware needed to run the Super Nintendo natively.
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by columbo 13y ago
> "upload" our minds ... to explore the universe I don't think it'll ever happen. Uploading something just means making a copy, and if that becomes possible the AI potential would be millions of generations smarter than a carbon copy of
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by columbo 13y ago
I have a check for 1,000 shares, grand total $14.99 :) issued to me on January 2002. So yeah, 1.4 cents a share. I still have the check somewhere, I never cashed it, I've always been meaning to frame it.
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by columbo 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong: But anything you make with a 3d printer, ignoring super-high-precision work, you can make out of a block of wood and time, correct? The only real benefit to a 3d printer is it idiot-proofs the task and provides for
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by columbo 13y ago
I'm not on facebook, but from what I've seen there doesn't seem to be an easy way to broadcast your donation. I wonder if people would be more inclined to donate if it also broadcasted "columbo gave $2" over "columbo likes this". If it sort
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by columbo 13y ago
Honestly it depends on what the goals of the test are. Ask 10,000 people in <x position> the same generic question. So ask 10,000 Sales Managers if they like dressing up for work , look for a correlation, compare the correlation to
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by columbo 13y ago
While I do kinda-sorta believe that wealth increases the odds of happiness I -really- don't get the question. For all we know richer people are conditioned to say they are content because of the social stigma of being a depressed-rich indiv
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by columbo 13y ago
> It seemed to work for Apple. One of the greatest features of our universe is that the rules break down as you reach the extreme ends of any standard distribution. The most survivable weeds in my backyard are clovers and dandelions. Ho
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by columbo 13y ago
I would bet 99% of this is legacy support. Someone in <insert big company> built an entire system over assuming the password is CHAR(6). Unfortunately these fixes aren't always as easy as updating the column and introducing salt/has
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by columbo 13y ago
I can see a legitimate reason. This allows you to keep a digital copy of your key. In the event that something unexpected happens, like you are in a different state and you misplace your car keys, you have a digital backup that can be turne
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by columbo 13y ago
It's actually just poor wording: http://askubuntu.com/questions/1441/why-does-ubuntu-download...
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by columbo 13y ago
My #1 install on any server is fail2ban, then it's server specific stuff.

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