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by flocial 15y ago
This feels just like the prelude to WWII with all these conflicting alliances or maybe the Cold War is more appropriate.
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by flocial 15y ago
The thing she misses or doesn't emphasize as much is that self-created identities are just as valid as your birth name. The same goes for your avatar versus a mugshot. The phenomenon of universal full names is relatively recent across his
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by flocial 15y ago
This title twists the quote. It's asking the reader a rhetorical question whether they would hire Steve Jobs but immediately lists Bezos and other innovative founders. I don't think Steve could get a decent job even when he was young nor d
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by flocial 15y ago
The design has its moments but I actually like NYT. The only thing I would like more is fixed dimensions for items on the front page, maybe 2 column layout with both sides perfectly aligned per item. The draw of newspaper sites is both th
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by flocial 15y ago
Welcome to China+ ! In Japan they're also debating mandatory ID for Internet cafes. They have soft guidelines that no one follows because it's bad for business. Cafes here don't let you just plugin like in Europe. Also comes with tons o
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by flocial 15y ago
That's pretty easy for some alpha male security analyst to say. Setting clear goals and boundaries requires discipline on the part of both developers and managers. It's not slacking off or lack of commitment unless you're hiring unmotivat
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by flocial 15y ago
Every interview process sucks. I interviewed and got a job at a company that modeled their hiring on Google's asking me puzzle type questions. I can do really good with those. Doesn't say a thing about my coding skills. I feel sorry for
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by flocial 15y ago
I think the F-35 is a better example. The selling point was re-usable components for three different jets. The only thing soaring are project costs.
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by flocial 15y ago
I guess "My Freetime Project" would be more accurate but probably wouldn't get much votes. Still there's a lot people can do in a weekend, more so as a team. Startup Weekend (Foodspotting is alumni) and Rails Rumble come to mind. Ycombinat
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by flocial 15y ago
I can't agree with you more. I remember coming across a blog of one such individual, rejected school and Japanese corporate society, drifted for a while but suddenly got the urge to quit being a NEET and traveled the world. Learned Englis
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by flocial 15y ago
This reminded me of the flipside of doing everything the client wants: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
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by flocial 15y ago
I found it via GitHub's "Explore" section which is also a gem.
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Real Blogging for Hackers Written in C(fallabs.com)
27 points by flocial 15y ago|18 comments
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by flocial 15y ago
The boss is usually avoiding the train wreck that is his family life. It used to be that ever so often they would get off early, around 8PM, so they could go drinking to hang out some more until the last trains. Not so much with the youn
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by flocial 15y ago
Well, we need not look any further than Hacker News to see how using pseudonyms only hurts interactions behind a veil of anonymity. These scary posts got me yearning to commit Google+ suicide to minimize risk. I don't want to play high sta
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by flocial 15y ago
Sadly, this is pretty much Japan in a nutshell. People don't complain either. It wrecks your productivity, health, and family. Also does nothing for the economy. The funny thing about the threat of power outages after the earthquake is
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by flocial 15y ago
Philosophy certainly got left behind as science marched into the forefront. We certainly don't live in a age when one could be a world class mathematician, physicist, and philosopher at the same time. Who is the greatest contemporary phil
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by flocial 15y ago
Sad but true. Octopi can make or break a project. http://thechangelog.com/post/1156862826/octobot-java-scala-r...
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by flocial 15y ago
The only time I ever feel productive is when I develop a full-on obsession to do something and improve at it. Other times it's the feeling of being part of a greater force for the better. Then I start cruising and here I am. Cardiovascula
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by flocial 15y ago
I guess they never heard of Tokyo Promenade. It's a blogging engine implemented in C99 with no external dependencies on top of Tokyo Cabinet. http://fallabs.com/tokyopromenade/
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by flocial 15y ago
Or 3. Call the bastards on their bad behavior so other programmers think twice before applying. There's nothing wrong with outing a company that treats their employees like expendables. The gaming industry's had a bad reputation for horrid
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by flocial 15y ago
This is opinion versus opinion. I'm sorry to say there's no real content here. The author went from Yahoo to Craigslist so there's no such thing as premature optimization at that scale and with the small staff at CL you can be sure that c
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by flocial 15y ago
He spearheaded the adoption of MongoDB and probably Redis at Craigslist. That's more action than most commenters will see in their entire careers.
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by flocial 15y ago
Now the Angry Birds have something to be angry about. Weaving this into the game would be epic. The Angry Birds Lodsys Defense Fund Edition where your favorite birds destroy the patent pigs.
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by flocial 15y ago
Long live the JVM and here we go again comparing Java to Rails the framework. I've seen the pros and cons of both Java and Ruby. From an organizational standpoint it's hard to beat Java. The performance is there and in a team setting sta
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by flocial 15y ago
They could have had Sun for $7.4 billion with Goesling (already there) and MySQL as part of the deal along with all the other departed talent. Personally, I don't know why they didn't go after Palm (much cheaper than these barely alive sta
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by flocial 15y ago
Thanks for the help. As you say, original detractors emphasized that Greece was at most a little over 2% of the EU economy but we've all seen how one bad apple can take down the whole barrel. Perhaps they need a stronger ECB. DSK was doi
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by flocial 15y ago
This illustrates the sad state of affairs. The technology is there to distribute this equitably (using torrents). Scanning these documents is a non-trivial task and most people would only need a handful of the papers in this collection fo
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by flocial 15y ago
The EU sort of rescued Greece, now Greece sort of defaults. Portugal, Spain, and Italy are not that far behind. The biggest problem, aside from Greece's fiscal mess, is that Germany can't muster up enough political support to clean up aft
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by flocial 15y ago
Well, these are also short-term gains. When developers are your mainstay and the culture tanks everything else goes with it. Despite these cuts they say that Google's offering multi-million deals to hang on to talent that may go to a hott

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