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by earl 15y ago
Winer could write a blog post criticizing the treatment of RMS without, say, whinging about Winer's hard lot in life. Since Winer made himself unnecessarily central to the blog post, it opens him up to criticism on those grounds distinct f
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by earl 15y ago
well, the chemical mentioned in the article, HA-1077, is at least a small molecule so it's not impossible that it will pass the blood brain barrier. And we have now exhausted my knowledge of medical pharmacology =P. But if the molecule pa
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by earl 15y ago
I grew up in Wisconsin. We not only had snow days, but we had cold days, where the school wasn't allowed to hold class because they couldn't keep the building at least 50F / 10c. And then when you go to university, you have to walk around
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by earl 15y ago
Yeah, it's just a really weird coincidence that someone who made a couple hundred thousand dollars spamming in college later used the same techniques in a new business? Well, maybe, but you're going to need to do better than say cross my h
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by earl 15y ago
I've turned down job offers over required background checks, for a variety of reasons. I could see how they would be appropriate if someone were involved in handling money or deals or some such, but for a plain dev, it's silly. I'd consid
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by earl 15y ago
I don't think it's obvious that open source displaces commercial for scientific computing. For every example like R which has in many places displaced S-Plus, there are counterexamples like matlab, for which the open source clone Octave is
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by earl 15y ago
In defense of google -- and I fully support anonymity -- youtube comments make the btards look like friendly socially adjusted grownups.
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by earl 15y ago
I don't know what your definition of team player is, but at (almost) any real job, there is shitwork. You know exactly what I mean -- maybe someone has to evaluate a new classifier, and that means spending a pair of 10 hour days looking at
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by earl 15y ago
Your first problem is "completely legal" -- you seem to assume that American law is controlling. Unfortunately, legal is place sensitive. In order to do business in the EU you generally have to comply with their laws. One of the privilege
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by earl 15y ago
Joe Damato has a great albeit infrequently updated programming blog, http://timetobleed.com/ . I think he wrote the memprof ruby gem. Posts HN may really enjoy: an obscure kernel feature to get more info about dying processes [1] a pres
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by earl 15y ago
Ben, My understanding is you are wrong -- while noncompetes are invalid in California, non solicitation agreements are enforceable or at least enough of a grey area that you really don't want to get in a pissing match with a company with in
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by earl 15y ago
> So, it's okay if Apple collects your personal data instead of some criminal? Sure is hypocritical. Criminals: steal tens of thousands of dollars from your bank account. And you may well be stuck with the losses. Apple: knows a bit o
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by earl 15y ago
I think the gp might mean that he doesn't care for the spray of pixels around your logo -- the stuff highlighted in the arrows in my image. To be honest, it isn't to my taste either. http://earlh.com/dump/hn/20111016-ctj3ptc2jqf1m46bg1sh4
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by earl 15y ago
I love that the iphone and ipad are locked down. I gave ipads to family members and I'm finally done with tech support. My parents, girlfriend, and brother were bit by endless amounts of spyware, spam, and trojans because they used wind
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by earl 15y ago
Maybe. There's always the aclu [1], and I'm a proud donor. It's also worth noting that the NYT hasn't always been on the side of the angels. See for example the iraq war -- if Judith Miller wasn't literally blowing the administration she
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by earl 15y ago
I think that perhaps devs saying pms should be able to code is really more like devs want pms to have a deep sense of what can be done with software, what can't, and roughly how difficult things are. You can have that knowledge without bei
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by earl 15y ago
Said kid is already screwed. You now have a choice: either the next time a prospective employee or intern googles the offending company your blog comes up as a warning, or it doesn't. Which do you think will be more effective preventing b
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by earl 15y ago
Benjamin's article is bullshit. The only way to deal with crap like that is name and shame, so that the next time a prospective employee googles the company they notice that they have a habit of fucking employees. Personally, since Fog Cre
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by earl 15y ago
I'm another dev whose first computer was an apple IIgs. I don't know if I'd be a dev today if I hadn't spent far too many hours poking around in basic typing in games from magazine, modifying them, and writing my own. For purely selfish re
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by earl 15y ago
Put another way, employers hope that whining instead of paying the market clearing wage will find employees.
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by earl 15y ago
That's fair, but that's after the initial phone screen. I'm with jrockway: if you want me to complete a coding exercise before both (1) the initial phone screen with an internal recruiter and (2) a technical phone screen, then I just sto
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by earl 15y ago
No, 25% makes you a sucker -- as much risk as the true founder but 66% less reward and 0 real control. (Obviously assuming 2 founders. If 4 founders then my point doesn't apply.)
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by earl 15y ago
Yeah, but unless the offered equity was 50%... then it's a just a job and probably comes with below market salary to boot. Here's a test for being a cofounder: can one cofounder overrule the other? Then you don't have cofounders; you have
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by earl 15y ago
Peoples' alternative is driving or caltrain, not being unable to get to work. Presumably this will go even less frequently than caltrain, so that's what you have to beat on value.
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by earl 15y ago
I may be taking a job in the valley, and I'd be willing to pay up to $15 / day, though obviously the cheaper it is, the more attractive it is. Also, having more than one trip each way is important, or it's too easy to get stranded if I mis
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by earl 15y ago
This algorithm fetish is just stupid. If a function / program isn't slow then it doesn't matter and if it's slow the dev will notice. I mean, come on -- is the dev not going to notice a practically infinite loop?
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by earl 15y ago
Correction: $50 pen body. https://img.skitch.com/20110926-fgc35nm4q2wr8mspaq7c8fpyf7.j...
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by earl 15y ago
Retails for $50. https://img.skitch.com/20110926-fgc35nm4q2wr8mspaq7c8fpyf7.j...
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by earl 15y ago
If I had to guess, the same guys who screwed over netflix, cost them $10M, then posted the smarmy bullshit below: http://33bits.org/2010/03/15/open-letter-to-netflix/ In particular, note this clause from yelp's agreement: "5. Restrictions
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by earl 15y ago
Meg Whitman is, as far as I can tell, an incompetent moron. Examine the skype acquisition: the way I understand, Meg/ebay acquired skype without buying the backing technology / p2p tech which remained owned by Joltid / Niklas / Janus. Eb

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