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Retired mathematician rocks math world with claim that he's solved $1M problem(nbcnews.com)
3 points by edw519 8y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 8y ago
Gettysburg by Ken Burns. The best thing I've ever seen on TV. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/civil-war/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Civil_War_(miniseries)
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by edw519 8y ago
3 things he said: 1. "I only worry about 2 things: getting our work done and keeping our people." 2. "Every senior dev I hire must have done one of two things: either ran their own business or was a one-person shop. That&#x27
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by edw519 8y ago
1. % time spent programming, % time spent not programming? 2. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you love your job? 3. The biggest thing that would raise answer to last question? 4. On a scale of 1 to 10, the quality of the busin
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by edw519 8y ago
...to make up for a slower brain, less stamina and decreasing memory... This is NOT normal and should not be accepted as such. I'm 63 and have been programming professionally for 40 years. I'm currently working on several projec
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by edw519 8y ago
2007 High school acquaintance: Join us on facebook! Me: What for? So you can treat me like shit like you did in high school? 2008 Cousin: Join us on facebook, so you can stay in touch. Me: Why don't you just tell me wha
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by edw519 8y ago
...there isn't even a single person who stops the clock to evaluate what went wrong... This is perfectly consistent with 99% of the management behavior I've witnessed for years in the enterprise. We understand that we live in a
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by edw519 8y ago
I have done this so many times that now, it's my default routine. "Dazzling" includes not only the work that I do for them, but also by doing it as if I were already remote . Writing emails, requirements, specs, and reports
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by edw519 9y ago
This may be the only 2 word "How To" I've ever written: Just quit. 1. It's a job, not your life. 2. It's a company, not a person. 3. "Top Tier" means neither. 4. If you were hit by a bus, they&#x
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Running Java in a Container(mesosphere.com)
212 points by edw519 9y ago|74 comments
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by edw519 9y ago
Great answer. Especially because it's a) so logical and b) so against "generally accepted practice". I never provide or look at anyone else's code before getting to know them for these and many other reasons, but mainly
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The Serial-Killer Detector(newyorker.com)
3 points by edw519 9y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 9y ago
Letting brilliant jerks ruin it for others is a management problem, not a brilliant jerk problem. Great comment of an instance. The class: "Letting <anything> ruin it for others is a management problem, not an <anything>
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by edw519 9y ago
The longer I work, the more "High Quality Code Base" matters to me. Maybe after you've had enough of working on so much others' shit, not much else matters.
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Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you(yahoo.com)
2 points by edw519 9y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 9y ago
I usually read the comments first but this time I read the article first because there weren't any comments yet. I was aghast. Then I saw I wasn't alone when I read the comments from you guys. How could something so horrible happe
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by edw519 9y ago
Employee (individual contributor / middle manager) Pro: More work and fewer meetings LOL, IF ONLY! Another example that people in silicon valley (and yc in particular) have no idea what goes on in the real world. (HN reply in one win
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When Tech Disrupts Wealth and Stability, ‘Angels’ May Be Solution(nytimes.com)
2 points by edw519 9y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 9y ago
<rant> I call B.S. 1. "associated" means nothing. "Anything" can be "associated" with "anything else". "significantly related" is almost as worthless. Correlation is better than associ
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Ed Weissman (edw519 on Hn) on Managing Software Projects and Leading Engineers(mesosphere.com)
6 points by edw519 9y ago|0 comments
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by edw519 9y ago
Don't forget the non-tech stuff. Good engineers are everywhere. Good engineers who know how to write, can run projects, can lead people, and can get stuff done are much rarer. Tech skills make you competent. Non-tech skills make you se
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by edw519 9y ago
Why don't you benchmark it yourself and let us know what you learn. Data > Rumor.
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by edw519 9y ago
Nice list! Thanks for the gift to the community, Max. I bet this took a lot of work to curate. I'm following you. Better yet, I'm following who you follow.
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Failory – Learn from other entrepreneur's mistakes(failory.com)
33 points by edw519 9y ago|5 comments
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First woman to win math equivalent to Nobel Prize dies at 40(usatoday.com)
1 points by edw519 9y ago|1 comments
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by edw519 9y ago
Another technology solution to a non-technical problem. 1. Fly Southwest. 2. Board earlier than most others. 3. When someone eyeballs the adjacent seat, yell into your phone, "The ointment works much better than the lotion when
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by edw519 9y ago
The Happy Dance You know the feeling, when you get something working for the first time. Something that has never been done before and will never be done the first time ever again. And you just did it. You received input, thought about it,
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by edw519 9y ago
"Why 1955 was a good year to be born to shape our future." Bill Joy, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidtt, Tim Berners-Lee, Bill Gates, James Gosling, Dave Winer, Tim Bray, Ray Ozie The center point of this rare astrological alignment in th
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by edw519 9y ago
Maybe it's just selective breeding. The insects with DNA that made them more likely to hit a windshield didn't live long enough to breed. :-)
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by edw519 9y ago
Maybe the most effective practice I've ever had. Check out #49 here: http://v25media.s3.amazonaws.com/edw519_mod.pdf

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