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by efsavage 15y ago
Maybe I'm similar, but I can say that based on comments I've seen here I'd be far more likely to email jemfinch back than up_and_up.
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by efsavage 15y ago
If that's your natural communication style, your "more professional" style is probably drone-ish and fake. The probe most active on that first contact with an applicant is the honesty one, and it's pretty easy to trip when you're not in yo
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by efsavage 15y ago
Business folks have over-simplified Jobs' contribution to everything by making it seem he single-handedly was responsible for anything .
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by efsavage 15y ago
Are you using some old version of JSP? Not unlike many other mature technologies, many times people are just victims of some arbitrary corporate standard and not the tech itself. As far as limited, I looked at Django strictly for it's vaun
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by efsavage 15y ago
They can raise prices by making points more expensive, and don't have to re-price everything else.
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by efsavage 15y ago
I still don't see the problem here. They're a small, selective network, with relevant ads that don't need to be intrustive to add value. I think the author is saying that more of these are part of the solution, as they can tune ads to the
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by efsavage 15y ago
I use, (and pay for), Readability, and I don't really see this as a extra work or a hack or a a necessary evil on my part. Even if these interstitials weren't there, I'd much rather hit tilde without even thinking, than have to read a page
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by efsavage 15y ago
Makes a good hide-in-plain sight crypto key. I could see James Bond using this and destroying the key as the bad guys approach with a little 52 pickup.
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by efsavage 15y ago
Try/catch may be an anti-pattern in a dynamically-typed language, but not in a static-typed language. In static languages they're important and valid because they help avoid the "returned a null what?" question.
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by efsavage 15y ago
I get it from the US.
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by efsavage 15y ago
So removing error handling makes code "confident"? There were some other good points in there about encapsulation, but communicating to users properly trumps looking pretty to programmers.
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by efsavage 15y ago
A small part of me wishes that I didn't enjoy coding so much, or that I wasn't good at it, or that it didn't pay so much better than woodworking, which I find just as enjoyable.
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by efsavage 15y ago
And more specifically: It appears to be common Hackernewserthink that "productivity" equals "the ability to type code as fast as possible".
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by efsavage 15y ago
You asked for an example :)
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by efsavage 15y ago
You wouldn't be asking for examples if he was a woman!
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by efsavage 15y ago
You can pay your loans off but still increase your debt by taking out new loans. In the case of most governments, this is usually how they pay off the old loans.
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by efsavage 15y ago
We're 0% productive most of the time. Sleeping, commuting, meetings, lunch. Adding a negligible amount more for tooling is not really an issue. I'm essentially dependent on Eclipse when doing Java. It takes me < 1 hour to get it set
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by efsavage 15y ago
> I've worked with really awesome people who are completely lost without [insert proprietary single-platform editor here]. And this is bad why? I'd rather be 100% productive for 10 years and then retool than 80% productive all the time.
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by efsavage 15y ago
While a silent unilateral change is bad form, as is requiring an upgrade for a minor feature like this, Java 6 is almost 5 years old now...
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by efsavage 15y ago
It's ugly and people want to use where they are also spending millions of dollars to make things not ugly. End of story. Oh, and in the interest of making the future happen just a little bit faster, please fire anyone who thought otherwi
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by efsavage 15y ago
So...did you get it? $400/month for a T-1 is a lot more than the $55 I pay for fios, but certainly within reach for someone who needs it for work, and you probably break even if it lets you stop commuting and/or cancel regular phone servic
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by efsavage 15y ago
Oh I'm not saying that those answers don't have their place. When you're at a bar or some industry event or chatting with someone in a compatible professional environment, sure. I guess I was thinking more in line with the last person who
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by efsavage 15y ago
patio11's answers are cute, but if you say things like that you'll probably just end up defending yourself against people's misinterpretations. "So you're a teacher?" or "You mean like a security guard?" I think the best approach is a midd
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by efsavage 15y ago
Actually I saw an example of this twice earlier today. I did a search for some relatively common terms ("api debug" or something like that) and a friend's companies API came up on the first page. Hopped into incognito mode, was not to be
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by efsavage 15y ago
Interesting, these are the exact reasons I have trouble using anything but Java. I don't work off specs anymore, and I can pivot/refactor in Java like nothing else I've yet used or seen. Scala might contend with this eventually but the to
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by efsavage 15y ago
7. Scale down. Trim all of your expenses to bare minimums, get rid of anything that is costing you money but not making you money. You'd be surprised how little freelancing you need to do when you're running lean.
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by efsavage 15y ago
I stand partially corrected, you can apparently run OS X in a VM, but only on an OS X machine you buy from Apple. "to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system en
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by efsavage 15y ago
> It's not "any computer you choose", but any desktop or laptop with hardware components that are supported. Did you know Windows Server 2008 doesn't have drivers for early Intel Gigabit Server NICs, so you can't run that OS on an unsup
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by efsavage 15y ago
Not trying to be persuasive, I was just entertained by seeing Apple fanboyism raised to the point where people think OS X is now open source, and figured I'd have some fun and spend a few points on the inevitable downvotes.
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by efsavage 15y ago
> I can assure you, controlling everything is the last thing Apple wants. Apple is not proprietary. Hell, Mac OS X is the most popular open sourced operating system on the planet. The Safari web browser is just a thin shell around webki

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