dcreemer

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by dcreemer 16y ago
Thanks for this post and everyone's links. I'm just considering a return to Emacs after a run-in with RSI and several years wandering in the TextMate forest. This is very helpful.
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by dcreemer 16y ago
This is possible -- I too sold my plane for more than I paid for it, but I'm sure that's just down to luck. I had one annual inspection that cost ~$3K -- it could have cost $750 or $8K -- you just never know what's going to break next, and
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by dcreemer 16y ago
"...once you own a plane your running costs are low..." not really. I owned a light-sport plane for ~ two years. It was a great airplane, and cost about $20/hour for fuel to operate (and cruised at about 110 mph). However, the tie-down was
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by dcreemer 16y ago
I'm a happy customer. I use gevent for a small program that resolves every short link in the Twitter firehose. The code makes ~100-200 HTTP requests per second, waits on a few thousand outstanding connections, and streams out the results.
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by dcreemer 16y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say "not to worry about it" -- though I agree with your point. For example problem #1 -- "too many database calls" (and the related #4 "wrong use of O/R mappers") are good warnings to those either just starting out in
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by dcreemer 16y ago
No media outlet is unbiased -- and that's fine. Whenever I read an article (especially opinion pieces) the first thing I do is check the byline and research the author a tiny bit. I stopped watching TV years ago, and have mostly dropped rad
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by dcreemer 16y ago
Since I've not seen it mentioned yet: I use CrashPlan to back up all of my personal systems, both to a home server and to an remote peer. It's a bit RAM heavy, but other than that nicely stays out of the way & does it's job. The killer
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by dcreemer 16y ago
Don't confuse age with enthusiasm for work. I've seen many young 9-5'ers, and plenty of older programmers who work long hours in fun startups because that's what we love to do :-)
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by dcreemer 16y ago
Los Altos, CA (Silicon Valley). Several friends and former colleagues of mine have created a new (and funded) startup -- see http://www.wimm.com for a bit of details and job openings. Unfortunately their web site is all Flash (just notice
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by dcreemer 16y ago
"In France, firing a printing plant employee is hugely expensive. The gent is paid €50,000 per year, works 32 hours per week and 164 days per year. Firing him costs about €466,000 – that’s a French government estimate..." When I had the u
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by dcreemer 16y ago
Not much to tell -- I switched because of price, and have been very happy. Good support, good community, nice docs (e.g. for things like upgrading OS images).