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by dwc 15y ago
Have you considered doing something like pushing with git?
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by dwc 15y ago
Three degrees. That could mean he's industrious, curious and driven. Or it could mean he had money enough to delay entry into doing something meaningful in life, and too little drive to do anything but. I know both kinds. Would anyone hazar
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by dwc 15y ago
Yesterday I finally got the button. I was somewhat busy at first, so I just glanced at the games available. I was somewhat disappointed to see time-sink games, but that's obviously very subjective. Of course they had Angry Birds! Later, whe
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by dwc 15y ago
Thanks. Just for kicks I guessed at the URL /games and was rewarded with a page beginning, "We're glad you want to play games on Google+. Don't worry, your turn is coming up!" and then saying basically what you said.
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by dwc 15y ago
"When you’re ready to play, the Games page is waiting—click the games button at the top of your stream." I keep looking, and it keeps not being there.
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by dwc 15y ago
Perhaps even more geeky / street cred than Linux, I use OpenBSD. But I also have a trusty mbp, and it's pretty nice to have something mainstream enough that it's supported by pretty much everyone, yet still have a shell prompt (for both loc
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by dwc 15y ago
Minor[1] nit: quicksort is not a problem, it's a solution to a problem. The problem in question in efficient general-purpose sorting. 1. It may not be such a minor nit. Too often comparisons are made based on implement algorithm X where t
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by dwc 15y ago
I do have a twitter account, but I closed the page immediately when I saw that's what I needed to do to proceed.
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by dwc 15y ago
I played the original civ, and have played freeciv. Back in the day it was interesting enough, but I no longer find it very interesting due to one thing: I have no interest in learning the underlying algorithmic rules of a simulation in
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50 Years in space: hi-res Project Mercury flight images released(tothemoon.ser.asu.edu)
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by dwc 15y ago
This comes up pretty often. Here's a sentiment that is often present: I heard that to get excellent results I should do X, but I don't see a really painless and trivial way to do X. X doesn't seem practical. When I work wit
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by dwc 15y ago
I think it's even worse: upvotes are upvotes, and the reason why someone clicked it varies. It could mean "I agree," "this was well stated and insightful" or even "I disagree and it's dumb and mean but so represents common sentiment that I
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by dwc 15y ago
At my first real programming job we (developers) went out to lunch together every day. We went out to restaurants, not fast food. Lunch often took 1.5 hours and sometimes 2 hours. Our boss came with us. We were a small company, so there wer
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by dwc 15y ago
Sure, in general. In this case managers were fairly familiar with her and the teams and posited that the success was due to what she added to team discussions. I think they were probably correct. OTOH, having a project success divining rod
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by dwc 15y ago
> Now move up to the manager and tell him that his team > could be 2x more productive. No way will your average > manager believe it if for no other reason than it makes > them seem pretty incompetent.
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by dwc 15y ago
Delivering a quality product within time and budget constraints, consistently. Oh, but that's a team effort, you say? Well, that's the working environment, isn't it? Projects are an awfully coarse measurement, you say? Well, that's the on
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by dwc 15y ago
While what you say is true, it's still a sub-optimal way to conduct business. There could be many, many ways to do this better. For starters, maybe "Your account has been canceled due to ToS violation: 'donation' may only be used for not fo
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by dwc 16y ago
The entire paper is long, and I grumbled at that length. Then I began reading it and couldn't stop. Now it's available in book form with the original material expanded, plus a new section at the end. This book I ordered and read quickly. Th
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by dwc 16y ago
It's ugly, but true enough. You don't have to like it to acknowledge it. It's just another cloud outage bringing down one or more high profile sites. It's a "dog bites man" story.
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by dwc 16y ago
Right on. Periodically, latest a couple of days ago, there's a post / discussion about whether outsourcing core functionality is the right thing to do. There are valid points on both sides of the issue. For my part, if I'm going to be up in
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by dwc 16y ago
Perhaps this isn't really news. These days it's normal.
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by dwc 16y ago
The new hotness? I guess actors are old news now.
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by dwc 16y ago
OS Features: Bigmem support has been missing. This seems to be about ready for prime time. Really good SMP, which just gets more irritating as more cores become commonplace. Really good threading, which hampers porting and/or running some p
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by dwc 16y ago
For myself, some of the main reasons I like OpenBSD: * Secure and functional out of the box. The base install comes with many common services ready to go, and I don't have to worry if I turn them on. * Simple, understandable. With a littl
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by dwc 16y ago
The referencing (i.e., the social interaction) is always that hard part. Many resources are already available, so making one more (even HN specific) doesn't solve anything. If the new resource were decent then it would get referenced, I t
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by dwc 16y ago
This isn't a new problem. Do you think the askers are following through, and actually learning based off of the recommendations? Some do, but most do not. Is there any way to compile the information in one place and p
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by dwc 16y ago
So if I were to learn and use a Lisp and then lure some other non-Lispers I know into a start-up using Lisp, then we would fall into the same problematic cultural patterns? I can see the temptations, but I don't think it would be a forgone
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by dwc 16y ago
I didn't mean to avoid that question. I think I answered it implicitly: if you care about it then take control of it. There's a lot that you can do about your employee that you can't to with Google. You can educate them, align their motiv
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by dwc 16y ago
I would like to ask you about this: I think we had no fewer than five hairy macros for creating complex UI layouts, because everybody wanted to do it their own way, and you could hack something like that out in an afternoo
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by dwc 16y ago
And I think this is what the author was saying. In Lispland you don't get something like Rails, you get a bunch of 80% solutions, all different.

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