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by frossie 16y ago
I realized that people who stand around the window watching the construction workers are not actually doing anything useful. Although they feel like they are having a blast. Whoah. Feeling like you are having a blast is useful. This isn
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by frossie 16y ago
Well that may be true in theory (and I used to think so too) but in practice I have only really seen two kinds of code in production: good code written by good coders and bad code written by bad coders. Yeah, it is true that some languages
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by frossie 16y ago
Peace is not as much fun as war. Why not a Middle Way :-) We can start off by acknowledging that you can write good code and bad code in any language; and different languages have different strengths (and weaknesses). However I don't see
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by frossie 16y ago
If you've never done the equivalent, it's only because you haven't been around computers very long. Dude, in twenty years with computers I have never re-installed an OS to fix a problem (obviously this is distinct from installing a new
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by frossie 16y ago
I decided to wipe my Mac, reinstall the OS, and see if that fixed it. So reinstalling the whole OS was higher up the troubleshooting chain than just trying it out from your wife's computer? Err...
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by frossie 16y ago
While I do respect your larger point... The reason why they don't have pretty often is because they can't afford abortions. A lot of the research in that article was done in the UK, where cost is not really a factor. Abortions are covered
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't know about that. It's not unPC to make fun of lawyers, but I sure wouldn't like for programmers to be the butt of those kind of jokes. I actually personally witnessed a trainer on Sexual Harassment Avoidance say "You can't make fun
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by frossie 16y ago
Well deserved, if nothing for their funny advertising copy: For those who haven't seen it: http://antenn-aid.com/ "Technical Specifications: Uhm... it's a sticker"
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by frossie 16y ago
Well I'm not at all your target audience for this question, but this is a standard software issue. The important thing to remember is that we developers care a lot more about software versions than "civilians" do; and the real reason we car
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by frossie 16y ago
The words "Responsible Disclosure" are Karl-Rovian in prejudicing listeners against researchers and in favor of vendors Yeah, the phrasing totally puts the onus on the reporter. I felt really sorry for an HNer who posted a while back ( h
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by frossie 16y ago
Sad isn't it. And good managers want that feedback, but if there is no workplace structure for it, it's hard to obtain properly because HR isn't handling the anonymity, training on how to give the right sort of feedback and so on. Hmmm. May
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by frossie 16y ago
Oh dear, take it as sine that I haven't had my coffee yet.
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by frossie 16y ago
Slightly off-tangent, but: What is the top reason people leave jobs? (Answer: they dislike their immediate manager) I know this, everybody knows this, and still it amazes me how few places have bottom up (or so called 360) assessments of
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by frossie 16y ago
Not sure what you are really asking. In practice, stuff that I buy online that does not result in a physical object turning up at my door are (in no particular order): 1. eBooks 2. iPhone apps/audiobooks 3. Freemium subscriptions 4. "Donate
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by frossie 16y ago
Doesn't mention the #1 objection to drinking alcohol while on a diet: Drunk people don't pass up the peanuts.
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by frossie 16y ago
Now they need some kind of robot gizmo to do the page turning....
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by frossie 16y ago
The actual content in this story seems to be here: http://www.connectivityscorecard.org/countries/united_states...
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by frossie 16y ago
New submissions can't be downvoted, so for those I can only learn from which ones (mine or other people's) get the most upvotes. I think I have noticed there's a huge time-sensitivity on which stories "catch on". In other words, I suspect
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't down-vote for disagreement. I down-vote for comments that I think are seriously detrimental to the goal of maintaining high signal-to-noise in HN. For example, imagine a comment that just said "LOL!". Yes, I would downvote that, and
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by frossie 16y ago
I am now the only employee aside from the CEO. He continually complains of being broke, accusing me of having money saved up and even hinting to me and the board that he's going to kill himself. He seems less and less stable. I continue wo
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by frossie 16y ago
I think Google must have underestimated the task. Or overestimated their own interest in playing this game.
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by frossie 16y ago
Pet peeve: nothing "cost" Steve Jobs 4 billion. He did something that meant he did not eventually gain 4 billion, in hindsight. I really hate the trader-talk notion that you have "lost" money when they mean "failed to gain". Gah. It's not t
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by frossie 16y ago
The idea is simple - you pay full whack, but ask to 'Go Halves' and nominate the charity of your choice. You then receive a plate with your food bisected neatly down the middle (in the manner of a Damien Hirst), or just half the portion si
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by frossie 16y ago
Yeah sure, it might affect how much people like you. Unfortunately, when you have to sit around a table and decide who has to be laid off, I am sorry to say I have never known likeability to be a consideration. If someone is nice you will f
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by frossie 16y ago
I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on HN, but Daytimer is not a dictionary word, so you're threading on thin ice. Does the dot-com actually have to do something with Daytimer? I mean, is this a "Daytimer-sucks.com" kind of situation, or a
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by frossie 16y ago
First, well done for wanting to improve your skills and contribute. You might find these links useful (especially the first, which is identical to your question): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/117561/what-are-good-open... http://pyt
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by frossie 16y ago
A person who doesn't smile, or isn't overly friendly is a douche-bag? I think you have your definitions mixed up. Introverts, reserved people, naturally taciturn people, super-shy people, people from cultures that don't show their teeth at
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by frossie 16y ago
Weird, weird list. Smile? Be a friend? Eh? Is this a social club? My list is a lot shorter: (a) write lots of good code out of personal inclination (rather than being forced by code reviews or because you are being nagged or whatever) and (
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by frossie 16y ago
For those who didn't make it past the first page, this one's new on me and became an instant favourite: You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.

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