ebiester

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   by ebiester 12y ago

   Consider that my sister started out (without a college degree) working basic jobs until she ended up working recruiting. She's done that for years now, but she's reached a ceiling because jobs in HR ask for a degree. Any degree. C
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   by ebiester 12y ago

   They don't need their degrees for their current jobs. That doesn't mean they will be waiting tables forever.
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   by ebiester 12y ago

   Or, alternatively, the simple solutions have all been squeezed out and these are genuinely hard problems.
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   by ebiester 12y ago

   It's really pretty bad. We're not even talking about the wealthy in many cases. You basically have to have an tax preparer who specializes in expat issues handle your taxes, and they aren't cheap. This is not a job for H&
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   by ebiester 12y ago

   Any trouble with window border sizes? I guess you can probably find 30 setting that help with that... Are there any themes that help with that?
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   by ebiester 12y ago

   Or they get a gun and start robbing you and kidnapping your kids for ransom. When people can't eat, they get desperate. When enough people can't eat... well, let's just say Egypt's government didn't fall because peo
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   by ebiester 12y ago

   Why? Consider that on projects where the domain problem is simple yet the user requirements are complex, it may make more sense to optimize speed of development of the client. a webmail client would be a great example of this. The server si
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   by ebiester 12y ago

   In many cases, HR. However, it is often a soft requirement. When comparing two resumes for an entry level position, the college graduate gets the benefit of the doubt. Four years as an assistant manager at Burger King, Subway, and a call ce
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   by ebiester 12y ago

   That's exactly when to use such a machine. While I appreciate a great cocktail, that's not what I'm getting on the average Saturday night at the dance club. I would prefer a faster cocktail in many of those cases.
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    by ebiester 12y ago

    I wish I was done with the series of blog posts that helped me get over this! :) I struggled with this for years and years. This is not one problem , but three: it is a problem with wisdom, speed, and discipline. Luckily, we can learn tri
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    by ebiester 12y ago

    QWERTY doesn't really make sense from today's standpoint -- however, most of us still use it because switching costs are high. (I think about switching every once in a while...) But however much I prefered the Amiga due to my love
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    by ebiester 12y ago

    1. While the Amiga was ahead of Apple in some ways, there was a reason people bought the Macintosh. It was a better user experience for most people. 2. NeXT would have been considered the "Fantastic technology that was never appreciate
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    by ebiester 12y ago

    I agree, and perhaps misspoke there. However, I find that I have a limit to the number of hours I can program a day, and a number of hours in meetings I can have in a day, but the two don't interfere with each other much so long as I&#
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    by ebiester 12y ago

    Or, they have a lot of meetings and only work for 2-3 hours.
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    There's nothing wrong with paying for software, but enterprise support is a complete black box here.
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    How much is it? "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    Let me give you an example. I've had people try to "debate" gay marriage. I get "facts" by anti-gay organizations that spout bullshit. Now, I have two options. I can counter with my own statistics and studies, but t
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    http://www.derailingfordummies.com/derail-using-intellectual... "Check your privilege" in an argument is short for, "your experiences don't extend to those who don't have your particular skin tone&#
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    I start reading my RSS feed in the morning sometimes on a tablet. On the bus in the morning, I switch to my phone. Sometimes, when I want to read something in more depth or send to a colleague at work, I open it up on my work computer. Then
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    There was a time in the Super K era where the stores were pretty well done. The grocery store side was even pretty nice. It did pretty well in some areas, but they just couldn't change their reputation and Target kept the high end and
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    The actual land would likely be distributed. Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas would probably build plants, as would Australia, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, Mali, South Africa, Namibia and countries in other major deserts. In fact, African pr
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    It's an acquired skill, and it requires a team that is willing to do it - the trick is to lower impedance toward writing good tests.
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    I believe that it's a useful conversation to have -- if we are all just trying to ship code, when are we going to have the discussion of what makes code readable? What makes code reliable? What makes code quicker to deliver? Further, a
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    So, here is my use case. (I'm about to start a blog.) I think I have interesting information, but it's infrequent. I would like to connect with people who also find what I'm writing about interesting, but I don't expect
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    Other businesses are also not required to pre-fund their pensions and few other businesses are not required to go to congress for a price increase. The cost of mail has not kept up with inflation, there are some very expensive routes availa
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    I don't think that DHH is arguing against decoupling but rather he is arguing that certain decoupling practices that are encouraged by TDD interfere with the readibility of the application.
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    If there are enough people complaining that the error recovery system is invoked far too often, the "one-off" bug should instead be given higher priority as a design flaw.
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    Temple of Set is still around? I remember reading about that as a kid.
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    I'd go so far is to buy the time (through money or barter) of an existing senior web developer in your target language for 4-8 hours. There is nothing like pairing with someone who has already done this to get over so many of the intro
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    by ebiester 13y ago

    For those who don't know what FIPS mode is (like me): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NS...