csbrooks

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by csbrooks 12y ago
Oh what the hell, fine, let's acquire them for billions.
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by csbrooks 12y ago
"As an indicator, the chart below shows Google search frequency for rent related phrases." That chart has no y-scale, so it's impossible to tell if it means anything.
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by csbrooks 12y ago
If you want every one of your employees to be a "superstar", just pay them millions a year, and the sports metaphor is a great fit. Otherwise, sometimes you gotta work with what you've got. In real life, you can't just l
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Some placeholder text got left in: "Remember, keep it concise, yet personal. Ask yourself: if someone stopped reading here would they be ready to make a contribution?"
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Exactly! Austin is awful! Please stay away! (cough)(cough)
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by csbrooks 12y ago
What happens to the person staying in that room who decides at the last minute to stay an extra day?
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by csbrooks 12y ago
It's unfortunate that signing up via Facebook or twitter or some other OAuth method gives people such a creepy feeling. It sure is a lot more convenient for everyone involved: don't need a password, no email confirmation, sometime
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by csbrooks 12y ago
What are the advantages of doing this over just paying for computing power on AWS or some other cloud service? Feels like it would be a very small niche at this point.
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by csbrooks 12y ago
>I have used CoffeeScript extensively, but this has always been on contracts where the decision was made by someone else. >It is important to learn and use real JavaScript (IMHO) rather than all of these transpiled languages. This is
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by csbrooks 12y ago
Photos of the keys? Bad idea.
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by csbrooks 12y ago
If you're not sure who he was (I wasn't): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake > Joseph E. Lake, Jr. (b. June 6, 1964 - June 1, 2014) was a science fiction and fantasy writer. > ... > Lake publicly
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by csbrooks 12y ago
I've forgotten my password with them plenty of times, and never had that experience. You had paid for the domain? It wasn't just in your cart?
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by csbrooks 12y ago
This is a great way to make sure you only hire people who are just like you. I'm not a fan.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
First thing I did, Ctrl-f, 'journey'... JACKPOT!
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Is it really a function with a single line of code? O_o
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by csbrooks 13y ago
It was between the employers, who were also working together on business projects. They asked us to help enforce it, by telling them if a recruiter reached out to us from one of our partners. Felt questionable to me.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Are non-solicitation agreements between companies illegal? I'm guessing blacklisting people is illegal, but is not actively soliciting employees illegal? (I'm not commenting on morality here, just legality.) My last employer had a
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by csbrooks 13y ago
I told my kids about this. They were like "how is that like Netflix?" I realized to them, Netflix is a company that streams video to you. They don't remember a time we used Netflix to get DVDs in the mail.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
In my experience, if you find yourself starting a sentence with "I'm not racist but..." you need to think long and hard about what you're saying.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
My wife was at the Mohawk, an hour and a half before this happened. :( Pretty scary.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Yeah, why is that? I guess when you shut the phone off the right way, it signs off the network or something? But what if you just pop the battery out with no warning?
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by csbrooks 13y ago
>Texas is great if you are white, wealthy, and in the oil business... WHAT!? >or if you live in Austin Oh, ok, carry on.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
> "And journalists, for their part, have a long tradition of careful and nuanced thought when it comes to weighing private interests against public ones." I'm sure some do, but as a whole? Come on.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
>This was the guy who... I missed something. Which guy?
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by csbrooks 13y ago
http://u8this.com Food diary site, mostly done as a learning experience, and because I wanted it. Blog post about how I made it here: http://chris.brooks6.com/2014/02/19/side-project-u8thiscom&#x2F
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by csbrooks 13y ago
I liked this analogy, and found it informative.* *Not a farmer, not a vegetarian, just a programmer.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Neat idea. One potential downside: people like me, who are incredibly non-photogenic.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Is it ever true, though, in these situations?
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by csbrooks 13y ago
There isn't one in terms of publisher behavior. Either way the series gets axed.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
This line toward the end is key too, though: >That's how you suss out the rare 10% of community feedback that is amazing and transformative. So don't obsess over every bit of user feedback, but figure out what matters, and what

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