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by csbrooks 13y ago
>It feels like a sort of sad desire that the world be more fair. I don't understand what's sad about that desire at all.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
>so PG gave the definitive answer: Talk to them. Which the poster has been doing, and it hasn't worked?
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by csbrooks 13y ago
I wonder what the person did? If it were me, I'd be tempted to just pop out the back way, and take the train to work or something. I'm sure the protesters are hoping for a big confrontation. OK, actually, if it was me I'd sta
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Exercise! http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/guide/adult-adhd-and-exercise
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Sorta neat, but I wish there'd been a landing page that explained it, and said "click here to signout!". Because now I have to sign back into everything...
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by csbrooks 13y ago
> ...frees up all of the hamburger line cooks... Frees them up for what? Unemployment?
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by csbrooks 13y ago
A question that occurred to me reading this: ATMs aren't connected to the internet, are they? (Seems like that would be very tempting for the bank in terms of convenience, but very dangerous.)
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by csbrooks 13y ago
The thing that helps me work through this is to be very aggressive about a small list of features for "version 1". Focus on getting version 1 online and working, and put all your shiny ideas on the TODO list for version 2. Once ve
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Hey, that's awesome! I've experienced this in my own life too, and I didn't realize why until you put it into words. I focus a lot more now on projects that I know I can finish, and work aggressively to keep them in scope, as
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Very informative, thanks!
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by csbrooks 13y ago
> There are enormous industries out there that need skilled programmers but lack the sex appeal of a startup or coverage in TechCrunch... How do you find them?
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by csbrooks 13y ago
I worked on shopping cart software for the web in 1996, and the company I worked at, Evergreen Internet, had been around a while before that. I wonder if anything we did constitutes prior art.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
> Wage-based employment is a moderate improvement upon slavery by direct force. Someone who was actually a slave would strongly disagree.
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Basic Web Scraping in Ruby with Mechanize(csbrooks6.github.io)
1 points by csbrooks 13y ago|0 comments
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Oops, sorry about that! Fixed now.
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'Carmack Lines': Playing with Javascript(csbrooks6.github.io)
23 points by csbrooks 13y ago|17 comments
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by csbrooks 13y ago
The big advantage of software though is that you don't have to maintain a fixed ratio of developer:user like that, though. Sure, your employee count should increase as user count does, but far less than linearly.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Has anyone looked at getting it building for Windows? What would the major obstacles be?
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Although to be fair, Compute! magazine at least had a checksum calculator to help you make sure you entered each line properly.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
> I had this discussion with my teenage daughter As a parent, I'm picturing you giving this very articulate and coherent argument, and her stomping her feet saying "dad! I hate you!" and storming off. :)
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by csbrooks 13y ago
I suspect that having sued a previous employer might block off more future employment opportunities than a conviction record.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
This made more sense after I figured out MTV was Mountain View, not Music Television. O_o
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Good point, I didn't think about code snippet formatting.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Does using GitHub pages imply a connection to some project hosted on GitHub? (The side-project I'm working on isn't on GitHub.)
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by csbrooks 13y ago
What's a reasonable place to put up a development blog for a side project, if I want to spent as close to zero time as possible messing with configuration? Don't say "install this blog software on your web server"; my si
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Coincidentally, the executives making the decisions are shareholders, too.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Seems overloaded. What's the site about?
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Technology tends to get miniaturized over time.
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by csbrooks 13y ago
Actually, I meant is a degree really required? Personally, I left college with a couple of years left to go, when I realized I could make just as much money without a degree as with one, and I could teach myself anything I needed to know,
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by csbrooks 13y ago
>B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical discipline required No exceptions?

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