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by efsavage 16y ago
Same here, but makes it easy to pick a sound file for broken builds!
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by efsavage 16y ago
Kudos to you not only for a great piece of work, but for calling it a "project" and not a "startup".
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by efsavage 16y ago
Programmer seems generous, he seems more concerned with writing word docs and running Visio architect.
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by efsavage 16y ago
I think you are absolutely right. While we all have natural talents and proclivities, being good at one thing, like coding, doesn't mean you're hopeless at another, like designing. I think coders expect that if we can't design as effortle
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by efsavage 16y ago
"the prosecutor won't even comment on 'hypothetical situations'" Which is ironic, since that is the core part of his job, to present a hypothetical scenario (an alleged crime) and argue it actually happened.
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by efsavage 16y ago
IANAL but this isn't as clear as that. A contractor can't come in and take out the new bathroom he installed because you didn't pay him, and I'm guessing similar protections apply to repossessing a website.
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by efsavage 16y ago
"On the hacker radar screen, Perl is as big as Java, or bigger, just on the strength of its own merits." And 10 years later, I know a bunch of hackers using Java, and not one single person, even former perl junkies, that is using Perl for a
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by efsavage 16y ago
Things I am worse at at 34 vs. 25: Staying up late, coding until the wee hours. Things I am better at at 34 vs. 25: Not needing to stay up late, or code until the wee hours, and yet accomplishing more.
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by efsavage 16y ago
A company well-stocked with full-stack engineers who can communicate makes the execution of good ideas so frictionless and the death of bad ones so quick and painless that it cannot help but to succeed. If this is the caliber of engineering
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by efsavage 16y ago
"I wonder why US and UK publications publish this topic over and over." "Ireland and Greece are tiny countries. Their problems are totally blown out of proportion." I think you answered your own question, I bet if you asked a number of Amer
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by efsavage 16y ago
"the best example you can set for your kids ... is to pursue your dreams, not an income" My father did this, in several ways, and failed massively at all of them, and yet for reasons I can't really articulate I 100% agree with this.
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by efsavage 16y ago
Yeah, I think the programmer version of this is "I've got a great program/site, I just need someone to sell it!".
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by efsavage 16y ago
1) No, you can have a Java webapp up and running in < 1 hour for < $10/month on an EC2 micro instance. 2) Compared to the other popular languages right now, Java will solve far more performance problems than it adds. And yes, perfo
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by efsavage 16y ago
I think it depends on the attribution. If I see I, but no personal name, it seems weird. If there's a name, and we is used, it should be clear who the other people are.
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by efsavage 16y ago
You might be surprised how many people out there have fooled themselves into thinking their company is so great that people will work for them for a discount. “I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money beca
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by efsavage 16y ago
I think there are a few edge cases where you can disclose your salary, like if you're on the high end because you've been at a company for a long time, and don't expect to get that much elsewhere, you can tell them, and also tell them you'r
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by efsavage 16y ago
It's obviously going to be easiest if you do it from the beginning, but even retrofitting won't be a huge issue. It's probably also easier if you secure your entire site rather than piecemeal (like just for logins). I actually did it last
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by efsavage 16y ago
Using secret APIs and not allowing third-party developers to access them so that first-party apps are better. Seems to me I've heard this before...
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by efsavage 16y ago
"this isn't the type of thing TechCrunch is going to be buzzing about." You say this like it's a bad thing. He's got a good idea here, and his audience is a much larger superset of TC's audience, so I wouldn't hold the lack of appeal in th
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by efsavage 16y ago
"A good example is "give me the square of all the items in this sequence who are divisible by 3"" A good example? Really? You get paid to write stuff like that? Because I don't. If you're going to promote a language as a better solution,
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by efsavage 16y ago
Also, there are many apps/teams that don't have "clients", and a spec is not really worth writing, much less maintaining. Specs are great when you are a larger team with stakeholders who aren't part of that team, but if you're a small tech
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by efsavage 16y ago
The list seems to be more "web app homepage designs", and doesn't really offer any evaluation (or commentary) on the actual design of the apps.
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by efsavage 16y ago
This is the way the CSS spec was written. Firefox (and then KHTML) specifically went against the spec. This is because they didn't have page zoom, and too many developers were using px because it was far more consistent than any other uni
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by efsavage 16y ago
1. None. 2. Yes. 3. Confident? - Yes. Guaranteed? - No, nor would it be with 100% coverage either. 4. Absolutely (Java + Eclipse + proper use of Exceptions). Somethings need/should be unit tested, but most "glue" code benefits far more fro
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by efsavage 16y ago
True, I meant trivial in terms of complexity (as opposed to encryption). Implementation/migration would be tricky, but not impossible. Also, anyone who's worked with their APIs before knows not to underestimate Facebook's commitment to the
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by efsavage 16y ago
This privacy problem is trivially solvable. Facebook should generate a surrogate key for user/app relationships, and only share that with the apps. Then my ID cannot be tied back to me by anyone but facebook, and I cannot even be tracked
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by efsavage 16y ago
Yeah, a name like mint.com has a truckload of authority, while wesabe sounds like some foodie's blog. "I think the examples of Amazon, Yahoo, eBay, Google, and plenty of others make it plain that even ludicrous names (as all of those were t
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by efsavage 16y ago
"unless he can somehow sustain his current income indefinitely" If he sustains it for 2 weeks he's pretty much set for life.
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by efsavage 16y ago
Back when IE6 was the best browser available, I used this exact technique to kill off Netscape 4 requirements.
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by efsavage 16y ago
85k before taxes. And no, advances in the music industry are not paid back. You won't see any royalties until they've exceeded your gross advance, but so long as you've delivered the record the company won't come to you and demand repayme

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