etjossem

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by etjossem 13y ago
Might I suggest discussing version control with your clients in the future? "Collaboration" might be an over-charitable word for the relationship between you and the other freelancer, but even an agreement to commit in two branche
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by etjossem 13y ago
I like your style. Hope you find a good gig.
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by etjossem 13y ago
Let's say you're applying for an incredibly basic credit card with a line of $1000. Would you expect the bank to obtain a copy of your credit report? Probably; that's standard practice. Would they also try to determine prior
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by etjossem 13y ago
Note: http://www.revolution.co.uk/ made a remastered edition, so I'm not sure of the legal status of the game (i.e. if any demo or full versions are available for projects like this).
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by etjossem 13y ago
I'd love to see Beneath a Steel Sky in HTML5 form. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky http://www.gog.com/gamecard/beneath_a_steel_sky
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by etjossem 13y ago
Someone at Palantir has just explicitly denied this connection, for what it's worth. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/07/startup... Relevant bit: "Palantir’s Prism platfor
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by etjossem 13y ago
Quantified self wasn't enough. Behold ... the quantified dog!
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by etjossem 13y ago
"But a human life is not just a means to produce outcomes, it is an end in itself. When we evaluate our friends, we don’t just measure the consequences of their lives. We measure who they intrinsically are. We don’t merely want to kn
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by etjossem 13y ago
Tangentially related: a Facebook app called Social Roulette (which purported to have a 1/6 chance of "helping" a user delete his/her account) was recently deactivated. http://fffff.at/when-you-dont-own-yourself/ Facebook certainly doesn't
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by etjossem 13y ago
Correct; this was a social experiment. The aftermath is explained here: http://fffff.at/when-you-dont-own-yourself/
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by etjossem 13y ago
I'm going to suggest something radical. Spell-checking one's work before publishing it is more important to design on the web than one's choice of font. This is a provocative article, but it has so many typos that I can't take the readabili
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by etjossem 13y ago
Sporadically.
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by etjossem 14y ago
It's a piece of common knowledge that this study neither supports nor challenges.
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by etjossem 14y ago
"Programmers on Stack Overflow: older users like teaching."
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by etjossem 14y ago
Dr. Murphy-Hill uses absolute StackOverflow reputation as the only metric. He demonstrates that older developers spend more time sharing knowledge than their younger counterparts, but I'm not sure about the jump to "skills improve over time
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by etjossem 14y ago
I can only speak for my company, but the advantages of equipment diversity outweigh the costs. We've already written "new developer" documentation for both Mac and Ubuntu, which we'd have to do anyway at a certain size. If the site looks ba
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by etjossem 14y ago
Agreed. When you say "all the shiny Apple products you want", you actually mean "the fixed cost of your equipment is irrelevant compared to the value you create in the long run." Say so in plain terms. The most attractive type of equipment
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by etjossem 14y ago
The best part is at the very bottom of the log. A customer enters the IRC channel to ask for support after ryann (the hacker) finishes explaining the attack. Customer: "hello, i forgot my password and linode's email reminder service doesn't
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by etjossem 14y ago
Context --- Master Git and a novice API developer stood together in a crowded office. "I am trying to merge two massive XML files," explained the API developer, "and I am getting many tedious conflicts. You must have a strategy for making t
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by etjossem 14y ago
I don't know how widespread browser support for Ⓑ is, but it's the most intuitive symbol I can think of. Maybe ⓑ?
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by etjossem 14y ago
Could be an intriguing way to detect other developers visiting the site and communicate with them. Last time I checked, the front page of https://vimeo.com was using the inspector console as a recruiting tool.