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by earl 16y ago
Or, perhaps the author was tired of random wordpress updates breaking stuff and declined to install updates to a working system. Further, the wordpress people can't be arsed to indicate which updates are for security and which updates are
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by earl 16y ago
Having worked on an FDA approved device, may I be the first to say STAY AWAY . I understand the rationale -- I look around at the sort of software every job except one I've worked at produces and am literally terrified of the idea of that
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by earl 16y ago
No, nonprofit colleges have nothing like the same incentives as for profits. For starters, eg community colleges often, by design, lose money on each student they educate. They also, as demonstrated by points upthread, do a better job of
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by earl 16y ago
philk -- I love your idea about forcing colleges to provide stats on how many graduates have jobs and how much they earn say 1,2,5,10,15,20, and 25 years out, but I think in practice it's pretty tricky to do -- how do you classify eg someon
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by earl 16y ago
I don't see much of a dip in time on site. Note also that Alexa is heavily biased (who exactly installs that toolbar?) and that time on site in Alexa is a blend of time on site for new and old style documents. I know nothing about scribd'
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by earl 16y ago
Sadly... no. G has been displaying pdfs as rasterized images. Not at all the same thing.
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by earl 16y ago
I'd like to think you're not stupid and homophobic, but your posts keep undermining that. There are pedophiles that rape girls, and there are pedophiles that don't discriminate between the sexes.
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by earl 16y ago
Refusing to aid bigots only helps children by demonstrating, amongst other things, the value of civil rights, integrity, and principles. Your strategy of letting bigots slide because they don't hate you does the opposite.
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by earl 16y ago
It is the only way to get virtually any customer support from them. ^^fixed that for you. We have one of these threads it seems every week. Across their entire range of products, Google is pretty hostile to their users the second something
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by earl 16y ago
Generically: Learn your tools. Whether it's bash (can I recommend this? http://www.catonmat.net/download/bash-history-cheat-sheet.pd... ) with the ability to do very fancy stuff with the command line, vim, emacs, Eclipse, or the MS tool
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by earl 16y ago
I read the article differently than most of you. I think Zed is still grumpy that contributing a big piece (if not irreplaceable, but unarguably useful) of the rails stack didn't lead to more recognition and, more importantly, the type of
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by earl 16y ago
Sadly, no. " Also, he decided to burn his bridges in the Ruby community, where I guarantee you he could have gotten plenty of jobs without an interview before." I think Zed made it pretty clear in the discussion around the "Rails is a ghe
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by earl 16y ago
Hey, since you're reading Josh, I have a question: isn't the harder part of this securing the chemicals / reagents / disposables / tools to actually perform PCR? I thought you needed special (patent covered) reagents, 96/whatever well plat
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by earl 16y ago
It's funny -- I was reaching for a phrase to describe your post, remembered reading the phrase grinfucker on a blog post linked here, searched, and it's your blog! Small world. It's not quite the phrase I need, but I'd like to repurpose i
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by earl 16y ago
While I think that subsidizing student loans is probably a good thing for the government to do in order to help create a more educated and hopefully more productive populance, I think that schools should be forced to publish stats on how mu
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by earl 16y ago
Seen from a more realistic angle, the school sold her a defective product for $100K. Better yet, the banks bought themselves a sweetheart deal where they sell one of the very very few products that is almost impossible to discharge in a ba
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by earl 16y ago
Note that the author of the blog post apparently works for karmabond, so I'd classify this almost as a devious advertisement for their escrow services, or whatever it is they do. In any case, regarding the gist of the article, let me explai
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by earl 16y ago
Current codebase: 9734 warnings. As a point of pride, none of them were created by me, but it is what it is. Some of them come from since deprecated functions and nobody wants to go back and mess with old code; some of them come from slopp
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by earl 16y ago
Google or Amazon are nothing like a startup, particularly a small one. We don't have time for 6 months or a year of ramp up time; instead, we need people to come in and start being productive far sooner than that. As I said upthread, this
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by earl 16y ago
worked in this case, but yes. But if it makes whiners happy, I could add something like this: The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employers'; past, present, or future; views in any way. Etc et
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by earl 16y ago
"There is a big difference between shipping software and deploying software on your own servers." No there isn't. Features. Users' hands.
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by earl 16y ago
Please -- the company that bought is vista and can't even get critical patches for 0days out in less than a month? shipping software -- the time interval between "git push" and features live in users' hands is less than 30 minutes. Lots of
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by earl 16y ago
clutches pearls and faints
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by earl 16y ago
ps -- MSFT has no clue how to ship software. At Scribd, we often shipped software ten times a week. That's slow compared to lots of web startups that deploy continuously -- see the advocates at IMVU for example. Nonetheless, most web star
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by earl 16y ago
Seriously? Working at MSFT can be a huge negative for us, for three specific reasons: * an entirely different software stack from the operating system to the web servers to the databases to the programming languages to the dev tools; * I'v
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by earl 16y ago
Ditto. Similar to tptacek's processbound argument, I'd be very concerned that you'd be dumped into an environment with very little supervision and flounder. My experience at four startups has been that they really mean it when they say th
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by earl 16y ago
anecdote: friends and family have spent at least 20 thousand dollars on music in itunes. The people who even know alternatives exist are only tech people and they don't spend much money on music.
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by earl 16y ago
Mozy is a piece of shit. Avoid it like the plague. My favorite bit of their crap software is freaking out at odd times on my mac and sucking all IO rendering the computer unusable. And no, not at scheduled backup times. Perhaps these mor
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by earl 16y ago
" this article makes my head hurt, probably because privacy settings can just get complicated ." [emphasis mine] I think the point is that if the privacy settings are so complicated that even computer literate people have difficulty unders
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by earl 16y ago
web host: prgmr.com -- cheap, works, what else do you want? registrar: godaddy 'cause they're cheap and do dns... I don't actually like them but I haven't been motivated enough to move.

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