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by dspeyer 16y ago
I suspect really good programmers don't switch jobs all that often. They have a lot of leverage in finding a job they like, and once they've done that why leave? Sure stuff can happen, but not very often.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
If that were really the point, wouldn't they have expanded this to more companies? Microsoft? Oracle? Yahoo?
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Is anyone willing to think about the opposite hypothesis? Maybe programming really is a young person's game. You don't see a lot of startups full of old programmers dominating their fields. You don't see a lot of old programmers creating
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by dspeyer 16y ago
I have yet to hear a definition of free will that isn't circular. I am not convinced the term means anything.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
An electric heater is inefficient if the electricity was generated inefficiently. Inefficient: burn methane at a central point running a steam engine generator, dumping tons of waste steam into the air, run the electricity to your house and
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by dspeyer 16y ago
There's always Google. The hiring never stops.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Perhaps a Ruby User's Group? They exist in many places.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Another advantage to breadth is that you can recognize when another field's tools might be a better fit for your current problem. Being a pure generalist probably sticks you to the initial triage role (which is no fun), but having a very la
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by dspeyer 16y ago
So after all that verbiage, he concludes: Some math was designed to be useful. Science is by definition those practical problems to which math can be applied. He still doesn't know. Very disappointing.
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by dspeyer 16y ago
He has a solid point, but I can't help feeling the cure is going to prove worse than the disease here. Apple blocking flash is like Galadriel taking the ring and crushing Sauron. The reasons it's bad have nothing to do with any redeeming
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by dspeyer 16y ago
Google is hiring in both Dublin and Zurich. Not exactly a startup, but still a very fun place to work.
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by dspeyer 17y ago
Your mileage may vary I guess. I found it obnoxious, dense and far too in love with itself. When I hadn't found a point by the second page (with no obvious indication of how long it was going to ramble) I gave up.
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by dspeyer 17y ago
A good article with a terrible and non-sequitor headline. Perhaps we are moving toward a society that overlooks minor indiscretions. That doesn't mean we overlook everything. With the increase in data, we can start paying more attention t
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by dspeyer 17y ago
Swordfighting is a [set of] martial art[s]. Fencing is a sport. Unless you find a teacher who's interested in things like targetting vulnerable spots, putting power behind a strike and maintaining defense after a point is scored.
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by dspeyer 17y ago
It's cloned from the http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/ . That one was written from scratch in a couple of days after the haiti quake.
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by dspeyer 17y ago
The general warning: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/pacific/2010/pacific.2... The main page: http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/ At 19:18Z it's predicted to hit New Zealand. That'll be the first word of how dangerous it is at range.
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by dspeyer 17y ago
I stopped reading at "Cyber ethics? Hello! Most hackers I know think those two words are an oxymoron." Most hackers I know are very concerned about ethics. Almost fanatical. They don't necessarily agree with eachother on what is ethical,
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by dspeyer 17y ago
transistor != chip
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by dspeyer 17y ago
>When that consumer goes to Google News, it lists the > number of sources. You immediately become one of 2,172 > articles. It is never good for a brand to be considered > one of 2,000 plus sources. Ever. That makes you a &
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by dspeyer 17y ago
Is it my imagination, or does this article suddenly stop just before getting to the meat of its argument?
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by dspeyer 17y ago
It's very much a recurring habit of media, though, to take two sides, present them equally and call in "balanced". Depending on the issue and the sides picked, it can sometimes work, or it can legitimize nutcases, exclude a middle, ignore
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by dspeyer 17y ago
This works if your request stream is homogeneous. If it isn't (and they usually aren't), you need to break it up by type and check the 99.9th percentile of each of them. Otherwise you could find that 99.9% of HTTP GETs are asynchronous AJ
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by dspeyer 17y ago
Let's be fair. 3dmark is a horrible way to test if cleanup helped. It's mostly gpu limited, and that tends to be unaffected by OEM crap. Rendering a complex webpage, launching an office suite, or watching high-def flash video would be mo
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by dspeyer 17y ago
The leverage of having tons of money obtained from their monopolies. For Microsoft to "offer more revenue" they would have to pay the money straight out of their own coffers. It's unlikely their non-monopoly divisions (which are barely pr
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by dspeyer 17y ago
I have this literally all the time. It isn't freaky because it's normal. Can anyone describe what its absence is like? Do you suddenly become able to move? Are you moving before you wake up?
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by dspeyer 17y ago
All the links on the right of the map go straight to the remote sites in question. That's still where Google is driving the traffic.
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by dspeyer 17y ago
Does anyone have any details? Is ICANN declaring a single true text-encoding for URLs? There isn't much room in them for metainfo.
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by dspeyer 17y ago
I've always found a good principle to be that functions should do something and classes should be something and it should be possible to explain what that something is in a short sentence. If an if or switch statement can become a map of f
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by dspeyer 17y ago
I hate code like that. A lot. It means that you can never trace control-flow. You see a function call you don't know where it goes. And all the underlying logic is hidden. There's no telling how many files you'll have to dig through to
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by dspeyer 17y ago
How is hulu.com social? Most of the non-social sites are places you'd only go if you're looking to buy something of a specific brand. They're probably losing to amazon (not shown) and the recession. Others are old-school news sites, which

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