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by elptacek 17y ago
Likely this sounds petty and glib, but I have yet to meet a programmer who had the kind of administrative sense that makes a 'good server guy.' The politics surrounding change management and policy enforcement require technology administrat
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by elptacek 17y ago
When I said religious, I didn't mean one of any organized religion that begins with a capital letter. I meant it in the sense of social construct. By my definition, atheism is a belief construct and falls into the subcategory under philosop
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by elptacek 17y ago
I experienced something similar a while back when I tarred up a live instance of a wordpress installation and fired it up on my local machine. To deal with redirects, I changed /etc/hosts to resolve the live domain to the local IP. While I
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by elptacek 17y ago
This sounds like a great self-help book. Think it'd get me on Oprah?
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by elptacek 17y ago
Likely. Too busy working. ;-)
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by elptacek 17y ago
This reminds me of a book I've been meaning to read for over 10 years: http://www.amazon.com/Leveraging-People-Profit-Hard-Manageme...
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The End Of 9-To-5: When Work Time Is Anytime(npr.org)
31 points by elptacek 17y ago|24 comments
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Franklin meant Us, not Them.
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by elptacek 17y ago
This article is long and makes me want to throw something at Lori Gottlieb. Not that I'm advocating violence or would commit it... it's just written in that sort of smug, grating style that makes me browse away after the first 10 paragraphs
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by elptacek 17y ago
The analogy to the plumber only works if he's remodeling your entire bathroom, choosing your fixtures, the color of your tile and where the toilet goes. Generally, plumbers don't do that... but interior designers do. Likely if a web and int
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Open Wi-Fi 'outlawed' in Digital Economy Bill(news.zdnet.co.uk)
18 points by elptacek 17y ago|5 comments
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by elptacek 17y ago
In general, I agree with you. As applied to our kids, specifically, it doesn't ring true. They are both excited by the same games: Spore, Club Penguin, Rock Band, Zelda, Pokemon. Some of which seem like 'playing house' (Club Penguin) and ot
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by elptacek 17y ago
Very interesting. These two articles explain a few things for me: 1. Why I can't ever seem to get into video games (or games in general). 2. Why the hobbies I do enjoy use skills that are difficult to acquire and take a lot of effort to mas
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by elptacek 17y ago
Yes, the part about not overworking people. And, to a lesser extent, the part about not taking funding.
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by elptacek 17y ago
Selection bias ;-)
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by elptacek 17y ago
psst: www.makeupalley.com <-- has been around for at least 10 years. lots of copycats, but i'm pretty sure it was the first of its kind. certainly the first social networking site i joined; makeup alley predates orkut. founded by a woma
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by elptacek 17y ago
Where I grew up, there is a saying for logic like this, "horse manure." I apologize -- I know you and Tom are cozy. He thinks very highly of you. You get an "A" for effort, but you're missing the point. Joining start-ups does not suck. Lemm
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by elptacek 17y ago
I like this response. Having watched my grandparents' and parents' generations age, and being the age I am, it's easier for me to discern what constitutes an individual failure and what is simply a mistake of ignorance. If only the problem
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by elptacek 17y ago
Of course it will make them wiser -- in the exact same way bailing out the banks has put an end to CDOs.
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SCO GROUP, INC. v. NOVELL, INC.(leagle.com)
2 points by elptacek 17y ago|1 comments
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by elptacek 17y ago
Curiously, I'd come to a few of these conclusions myself since I started working for my current employer. A lot of people make that sort of Knowing Face when I tell them that I work for my husband. Sure, switching from being the boss to bei
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by elptacek 17y ago
Thank you, Paul Graham, for talking me into buying another pair of shoes!
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by elptacek 17y ago
The smart thing to do would be to save off the pages of your followers, grep out the identifiers and then replay the unfollow action through a fuzzer.
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Scientists crack code, raising the bar for digital security(nrc.nl)
1 points by elptacek 17y ago|0 comments
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8% of Human Genetic Material Comes from a Virus(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by elptacek 17y ago|3 comments
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AT&T wants out of landline business(google.com)
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by elptacek 17y ago
Or you could set a regex in a proxy to replace the value="" in the server response to value="foo" :-)
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by elptacek 17y ago
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." Attributed to Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. patent office, circa 1899
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An abacus is a better idea than you think. Most people struggle with mathematics because it's not presented in a way that people who are not mathematicians will understand. Read the biography for any $FAMOUS_SCIENTIST and you shouldn't be s
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by elptacek 17y ago
I second education. Not just the software for teaching, but the software that the teachers use to manage schedules and grades. And the software that the school uses to manage student information. And the software that the school library use

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