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by efsavage 14y ago
I'm feeling a little guilt for being amused that someone got fired from a Ruby job for writing 20th century Java.
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by efsavage 14y ago
I wouldn't worry about people "stopping". As long as companies have use-it-or-lose-it budgets, they'll find a way to spend the money somewhere. And as for geocities, untrained people putting content out there for the rest of the world to s
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by efsavage 14y ago
Yes? This is good thing, right?
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by efsavage 14y ago
"Dont get me started on Eclipse install process." Actually, please start. I install the JDK via an installer, unzip Eclipse, run eclipse.exe, and it just works. Am I missing something?
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by efsavage 14y ago
I don't remember ever seeing "obscene numbers of nines" claimed by Amazon. For S3, yes, but not EBS. The '9' character doesn't even appear once on http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ . What it does say is this: "As an example, volumes that operat
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by efsavage 14y ago
I just switched one of my electric bills (Maine) to 100% wind power, and at the same rate (actually less for 1 year with promo discount, then the same). Millions of toxic batteries are a problem, but I wouldn't be surprised if some future s
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by efsavage 14y ago
> This innovation happened completely and only because of the dreaded saturation of the market you are complaining about. False. This happens with or without the 3 new players. Those 5 players are going to be vying for a bigger piece
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by efsavage 14y ago
Its not so much an exception as a predictable response. Admitting something is luck is a display of weakness (in pretty much any culture, I'd imagine). You're far more likely to encounter such displays by those who can withstand it. Buff
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by efsavage 14y ago
It's all fun and games until they bring an alien back with them!
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by efsavage 14y ago
No, I was just refuting that LCDs were a step backwards from CRT until recently.
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by efsavage 14y ago
I think you're about right. I'm 35, and remember many times as a youngster being stuck at traffic lights behind stank-ass Mercedes diesel cars. It's been a long time since I've seen/smelled one of those though.
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by efsavage 14y ago
The switch happened more than 2 or 3 years ago. My ~$600 2004 LCDs had similar or better color, the same DPI, and a response time that was fast enough for anything short of FPS games, and that was against my beloved FD Trinitron. My ~$80
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by efsavage 14y ago
"There is no rule that any company should be required to license their IP" ...unless you're a monopoly. That's the point of anti-trust laws, that they are special cases. When you're using dominance in one market to maintain dominance in a
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by efsavage 14y ago
DRM may have been mandated, but Apple's refusal to license FairPlay to other manufacturers, and refusal to allow the iPod to support any other DRM, was not. Jobs' spinning this into a victory for the little guy rather than an anti-trust dod
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by efsavage 14y ago
"combining self-interest with empathy for others" is basically the real-deal Adam Smith brand of capitalism. Not the hollywood/cliffs-notes version we're living in now...
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by efsavage 14y ago
You're right in that there's nothing inherently wrong with a monopoly. There's only things wrong with how you got it, and more importantly, how you use it. When you use collusion to build one (or a cartel), that's a problem. When you sta
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by efsavage 14y ago
Many people spend all of their time in meetings, and I think it makes perfect sense to allocate their office space to meeting space. As a developer, most of those are completely non-productive environments. http://www.officesnapshots.com
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by efsavage 14y ago
> But cutting yourself until you bleed doesn't seem a healthy behavior. (To take the analogy probably too far) Due to any number of legal/psychological/morale/etc issues, sometimes you need to draw a little blood just to make sure that
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by efsavage 14y ago
Y combinator seems to have focused on people that have hustle and a decent idea. I don't think they're lowering the requirement, a 22 year old with hustle and no experience and no idea isn't a great investment. Instead I suspect they're c
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by efsavage 14y ago
That variability is precisely why I'm freelancing, so I bill hourly, in quarter-hour increments no less. I worked 13.25 hours yesterday, for 3 different clients, and I'm getting paid for all of them. Last Friday I worked 6 hours, because
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by efsavage 14y ago
I don't think he meant chasing dollars as in "make as much money as possible", but as in the fact that many (most?) non-criminal lawyers spend their time starting, defending or trying to prevent disputes that are ultimately just about money
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by efsavage 15y ago
It's not even about being complicated, the flaw in the argument lies in "What is true is true. If we keep testing it and it keeps working, then the insights hold." It's essentially the difference between science and engineering, and why so
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by efsavage 15y ago
"We spend little time investigating crash bugs." Isn't "not crashing" kind of an implicit responsibility of any programmer? There are some bugs that aren't worth fixing, but even the most rare set of circumstances shouldn't be causing a cr
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by efsavage 15y ago
Good admins resist change. Great admins can tell you why.
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by efsavage 15y ago
From 2010 (although still relevant)
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by efsavage 15y ago
Requiring a stylus for everything is certainly sub-par, but there are certainly cases where the precision of a stylus is nice.
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by efsavage 15y ago
A business, startup or not, is not a solution to a problem (that's called a product). It is a series of solutions to a series of problems. As some of these problems are caused by the aforementioned solutions, it's important to be able to
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by efsavage 15y ago
Right, the solution here is that if you're going to sort by Bayesian average or Wilson score confidence interval or something besides what we're familiar with, reframe it to avoid my "something's wrong" detector. Hence the fact that people
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by efsavage 15y ago
"company culture" is what she was trying to fix. If someone has a TWSS bot, I'm guessing there are some more serious bias issues, perhaps like the author said, that people aren't even aware of. "because they tend to be" is the type of excu
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by efsavage 15y ago
IANA sociologist, but I'd consider TWSS (or the much rarer TWHS) one of those "undertones" types of biases like always asking the female co-worker to take notes or the male co-worker to help you move your desk. Anyways, I think her response

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