dgabriel

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by dgabriel 18y ago
There are guidelines and laws about child/caretaker ratios. Infants need a lot more one-on-one time than older children.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
That's fine for you, and I tend to agree with you and refuse requests from people I don't really know, but it strikes me as the height of arrogance to define how others should use a social network based on your own preferences and preconcep
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by dgabriel 18y ago
It doesn't really apply here, because the user obviously has an assigned password. Users are quite unlikely to change their other passwords to match their mensa-assigned password. However, it's an interesting point, and possibly deserves d
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by dgabriel 18y ago
We don't know that any spamming was involved. While concentrating on "real friends" is certainly a fine thing to do, if he were, say, a musician in an urban area, he could easily have 1000+ useful contacts, including fellow musicians, prom
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by dgabriel 18y ago
I could not agree more. The web has lots of practical examples and API documentation, but it's fragmented information. This book gives you a thorough, cohesive understanding of the language.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
You have a point as far as ownership of the site goes, but I'm going to strenuously disagree with your second paragraph. You may not be a picture person, but many of my friends are. We have hundreds of pictures of us doing silly things in
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Does mensa store sensitive user data (financial info/ssn/naked pictures), or is it like most sites that store maybe customization options, possibly a calendar, possibly grant access to a forum? Unless there's sensitive data, it doesn't see
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by dgabriel 18y ago
It may be more than that. When you are an extraordinary person, your dating pool is necessarily more limited than it is for the merely ordinary person. I think this is true regardless of gender or sexual orientation. In Boston, we have th
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Replies like this are incredibly unhelpful. I suppose google uses Java because it's such a destructive force. I recommend starting here - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Programming/Struts
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Not to bag on RP, who is a very interesting candidate, but those fundraising numbers are pretty misleading. Let's look at the totals ( http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/ ) Barak Obama - $265,439,277 Ron Paul - $34,442,643
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by dgabriel 18y ago
I looked into Agitar's JUnit Factory, but had to turn away from it when I realized that you send your source code to them to generate the tests. I have yet to work for a company that would feel comfortable doing that.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Ah, there may be mindane aspects of a coding career, but there are mundane aspects to any career. Even entry level coders can contribute and solve interesting problems, but I suppose a lot of that depends on where you choose to work. In an
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Ok, while she may have point about incomprehensible math instructors, the rest of this was filled with blatant ignorance. But that may not be her fault. If she doesn't see programming as a career, then it's possible that the field is incor
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by dgabriel 18y ago
You got downmodded, but it's entirely true that there are very good developers with less than great math skills. That said, CS degrees typically require some mastery of the subject.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Yep. I stopped paying careful attention when I realized she hasn't mastered the very thing she's claimed to master. Her disinterest in programming has nothing to do with her sex, and much more to do with her (ahem) obvious deficiencies.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
The card - Please, don't get me wrong, it's not something that will get any usage. It was thrust upon both of us, not secretly slipped to me under a table. Alcohol prohibitions have more to do with the cultural perception of drinking as "s
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by dgabriel 18y ago
I can't make the meet&greet scheduled for tonight, but is anyone interested in a post-BarCamp news.yc gathering tomorrow evening?
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by dgabriel 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Safire
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Am I the only person who wondered how an aging NYT columnist managed to write an iPhone application framework?
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by dgabriel 18y ago
I completely agree. It's tragic how little we value the strengths and contributions of people who just happen to be younger than 18. True story - I met Robert Epstein's lawyer in Shay's yesterday. He hit on me and insulted my boyfriend.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
That really depends on what you want to do. For most webapps, the algorithm you need already exists in a library, and your job is to tap into it. For those apps that require serious algorithmic innovation, your best bet is to start with a
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by dgabriel 18y ago
What I did, waaaay back in 1996 without a college degree, is call a headhunter in Boston. I had a job at a start-up company in two weeks, and all I needed to get the job was the ability to spell "HTML" and "C". In two years, I managed to
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by dgabriel 18y ago
My brother used to live on Zebra Cakes and Mountain Dew, and he was always super thin. Alas, as he approaches thirty, the Zebra Cakes are starting to show. :)
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by dgabriel 18y ago
I live in Cambridge, MA. While it's not inner city, it's not the burbs, either. I have several parent friends who live in NYC, Austin, and DC, as well. Chicago sounds like a great city to raise a child. My son goes to a Montessori schoo
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Exactly. There aren't suicidal turkeys; they get slaughtered and cleaned and cooked. Why is that so horrifying for a child?
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by dgabriel 18y ago
The examples you presented to illustrate your argument ring false in my experience, and the premise seems flawed as a result. They may seem correct to you, depending on how your circle of friends behave. It might be more correct to say eve
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by dgabriel 18y ago
So is every parent.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
My least favorite pg essay. It's too easy to generalize about parenting, and so little of this essay applies to me. 1. Raising a kid in the city, and quite happily. 2. No prohibitions on swears in my house. Just at Grandma's, and only bec
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by dgabriel 18y ago
Great post & totally agree. silly nitpick: you get free svn integration with Eclipse, too.
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by dgabriel 18y ago
If this blog entry is just a restatement of "there is no silver bullet," then I agree. However, you can't blame the tools or their authors for what some people in the user community claim. The root of the problem is clearly a combination

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