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61-year-old computer springs back to life(cnn.com)
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by edw519 14y ago
Enterprise ending: The Big 5 auditors refuse to certify the suspension bridge because in their opinion, it doesn't satisfy GAAP & SOX. $10 million is paid to the Big 5 auditors for a program of education and documentation to convince ev
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by edw519 14y ago
Design matters more than the feature checklist Not in any enterprise I've ever serviced. What enterprise people really need to know: I already know from existing reporting that 984 orders (18% of our backlog) are already past due. For tho
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by edw519 14y ago
...what's left? Where do I begin? - Drilling down multiple levels for greater understanding. Being the "anti-poser" by knowing what's really going on under the hood. Sharing this insight with others. Amazing what a difference maker this o
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Can ideas get you high?(cnn.com)
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by edw519 14y ago
1922: heroin 1932: alchohol 1942: nicotine 1952: amphetamines 1962: marijuana 1972: acid 1982: crack cocaine 1992: crystal meth 2002: X 2012: smartphones
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by edw519 14y ago
Skimming this, I noticed a few mistakes. Also, the story started a little too late for me. I would have loved to have heard about pg's earlier inspiration...I often wonder if he drew it from the same places as me: the classrooms of Doc Sh
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Voyager I on cusp of interstellar space trek(post-gazette.com)
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by edw519 14y ago
It is not merely rude but evil that anyone accepts a status quo of ignoring the unhired. +1000000 I have not often been in the job market, but every time I have, I've been stunned by this practice: Run an ad, get a bunch of resumes, ignor
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Did Climate Change Kill the Mayans?(science.time.com)
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by edw519 14y ago
My default response to any "good programmer, bad programmer" post: A smart accountant once told me that the answer to "How much money did you make?" is always, "Who wants to know?" If it's an investor, the answer is "A lot." If it's a custo
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by edw519 14y ago
What I liked most about this post: not so much the answers, but the fact that the answers were all so different...further emphasizing that there rarely is one right answer , but many possibilities and that you have to find your own. Great
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by edw519 14y ago
something else, these people: For Alex, who asked, "Why can't I just hit F7 and get what I want?" For Jerry, who asked, "Why can't this software just do things the way WE do them?" For Sarah, who said, "We never have enough information! The
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by edw519 14y ago
"I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, 'If you don't v
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by edw519 14y ago
This is who we are and what we do. Not me. I'm one of those programmers who's been doing this for a million years and would much rather talk about my customers' issues than my own. To me, programming is just a means to an end. The real is
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by edw519 14y ago
So you've had months to prepare this and you're still not ready? You knew about this storm for the past week and didn't scramble to finish before it hit? Hitting a deadline "no matter what" is a great metric for effective entrepreneurship
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by edw519 14y ago
If someone can’t climb out of the details, and see the bigger picture from multiple angles, they’re often wrong most of the time. This works both ways. If someone can't get more than one level below the surface and understand the details
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Penn State lineman's life is proof that higher math & college football can mix (post-gazette.com)
1 points by edw519 14y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 14y ago
AP Classes paid for 10% of my college. I'd like to find more scams like that.
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by edw519 14y ago
#1 Lesson from all of this: Instead of talking about your product to your prospect, talk about something your prospect cares deeply about to your prospect. I had no idea what you did and didn't really care until you used it in context of so
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90% of Incubators and Accelerators Will Fail and That's Fine (techcrunch.com)
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A Crash Course in Getting Hired at the Next Facebook (theatlantic.com)
2 points by edw519 14y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 14y ago
Actually, this is valuable data. As a potential employer, I care more about the candidate's ethics (or lack thereof) than their ability. I could always teach them, but I could never trust them. Coursera should just publicly identify cheater
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by edw519 14y ago
The next 48 hours were spent fixing hundreds of bugs in all sorts of places we never expected things to go wrong. Launching quickly # Launching prematurely. I think that it takes this kind of suffering to fully appreciate the fine line be
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by edw519 14y ago
No, just variable naming. As we speak, I'm maintaining some old code with the following variables names: - CommandRec - Command - Comm - Com along with the fact that some of these are reused for different purposes and all are g
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by edw519 14y ago
Variable naming and early exits are not details. They are fundamental issues, two of the most common causes of shitty code. Most programmers don't understand how important they are and relegate them to the pile of "coding standards" or ju
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by edw519 14y ago
The best programmer in #8 already did #7. So he never had to write a lot of code to handle poorly structured data. That's why he says, "What's the difference?"
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by edw519 14y ago
Excellent question that is difficult to answer. I'll give you a short response here and then write a blog post with example code when I have time. Put your email in your profile and I'll make sure to let you know when that's ready. A little
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by edw519 14y ago
How to be an Excellent Programmer for Many Years (Excellent==Successful. Money & fame are more difficult to control.) 1. Choose a small subset of available technology, learn it intimately, and embrace it. Then evolve that subset. 2. Und
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by edw519 14y ago
I know these kinds of things aren't the best for HN, but every once in a while, you gotta have some fun. Great job, OP. On 12/31/09, I did one of these as a 10 year prediction. Funny how some things change and some don't: Hacker News 12/3

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