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by edw519 15y ago
1995 Q: How can you verify the quality of a < mover / restaurant / hairdresser / babysitter / dentist / chiropractor / handyman / etc.>? A: Ask your < friend / relative / neighbor / workmate / schoolmate / etc.>. 2009 Q: Sam
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Nice post. Proactive work. Thinking outside the box. Getting things done. Very encouraging. Sounds like a place where I would want to work. Just one major nit... (This is directed not only to OP, but to everyone in our industry.) Raising
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2 quick stories: 1. My fraternity brother's father (a successful doctor) took the two of us out to dinner. He asked what I was studying. I told him computers. He said, "Good. As you know, I want John to study medicine. But if he didn't want
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When I first saw the title of this essay, I thought I already knew what I was going to say... Something about how my own todo this now has only one item on it, the single most important thing to do next. I gravitated to this based on the gr
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1979 Recruiter: "On a scale of 1 to 10, how's your COBOL?" edw519: "10." Recruiter: "Great! I have tons of work for you." 1983 Recruiter: "On a scale of 1 to 10, how's your data base?" edw519: "4. But I'm a 10 in COB
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Reminds me of this oldie but goodie: Good umpire: "I call 'em as I see 'em." Better umpire: "I call 'em as they are." Best umpire: "They aren't anything until I call 'em." Same thing: Good programmer: "I am a <501 or xxx> developer.
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Why it's OK to leave a tech job at 5 p.m.(cnn.com)
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Asperger's Are Us comedy troupe plays off their disability(usatoday.com)
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This time next year on reddit: "From working my ass off 90 hours per week running a business that wouldn't scale to nice salary/benefits for 40 hours. I'm taking home the same net and I feel like I'm on vacation." I don't want to sound too
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Age 10, me: "I want to be a professional baseball player." Others: "Get serious, you'll never be good enough." Age 16, me: "I want to publish comic books." Others: "Get serious, that's no way to make a living." Age 22, me: "I want to teach
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For those of you now browsing Hacker News at his cubicle during his break under soul-sucking fluorescent lights : You can have it both ways (work for BigCo and build cool stuff), but it's not easy. You have to make it happen within the c
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Best soft launch ever on Hacker News! This one had everything: - Build something you want. - Build something other people would want. - Turn your passion into a business. - If you need it, build it. (Love the S-hook idea!) - Off
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Asking "When will I ever use math?" is like jogging and asking, "When will I ever use these calf muscles?" (The answer to both is "all the time", but that's not the point.) I was a math major who did independent research in Elementary Numbe
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Death to Word - It’s time to give up on Microsoft’s word processor.(slate.com)
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How Instagram founder Kevin Systrom became insta-rich(latimes.com)
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Impressive, but who wants to look at some half naked dude when you could look at this: +-------------------------+ +-------------------------+ | BEFORE | | AFTER | | | |
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How to hire C players: Do what everyone else, including recruiters and HR departments, are doing. How to hire B players: Implement serious recruiting processes and plan to spend a lot of time on it. Get creative with hacks like OP's. How to
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The first two shareholder lawsuits were filed Tuesday in federal court in Chicago after the markets closed, seeking class-action status for people who bought stock before the company restated fourth-quarter financial results on Friday. Pe
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The Lifecycle of a Project Manager: Phase I: (Idealism) Treat building software like building a bridge. Analysis --> Design --> Development --> Testing --> Implementation. Phase II: (Pragmatism) Realize that Phase I doesn't
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Rethink your Startup Website: Make a Net, not a Funnel(whattofix.com)
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There's nothing wrong with the math. I never said there was. In fact, I praised it as an elegant solution. It just requires better educators to explain it, with analogies and metaphor. You're right. In theory. In practice, no one does t
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I love it and I hate it. Why I love it: It's precise. It's elegant. It's rigorous. It's based upon solid, proven science & theory. It's a perfect application for a computer. And most of all, it does what's intended: it works. Why I hate
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1940 Census - Opening April 2, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern(1940census.archives.gov)
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I was looking for something and found an old green-bar print-out of an SPS program I wrote in 1971. This was at Gateway High School in Monroeville, Pa., the same school pg went to a few years later. I imagine they upgraded to a modern langu
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Wow, what a great thread! Just another thing that makes Hacker News so good: read something written by an expert and then engage in a discussion with that expert. Derek, please go to www.askolo.com and register today. This is a brand new Ha
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by edw519 15y ago
The answer to any question starting with "How do you convince your boss..." is always the same: Give them an easy way to present it to their boss as their idea.
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To fix government, call in the geeks(cnn.com)
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Billionaire Paul Allen kicks off 'brain observatory' effort with $300 million(cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com)
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For a lark I'm going to take an old project that has been running for years without a hitch and I'm going to retro-actively add tests to the code. I'm really curious how many bugs and unexpected behaviors will turn up. Last week I got an
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No need for that. I had already done every job and knew exactly what would happen. But your question reminds me of another time when I did do that. I was the IT Director and got tired of the lead programmer bitching about my decisions. So w

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