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by galdosdi 10y ago
Do they have a parallel set of stairs next to them? That usually seems to limit crowding, since the bigger the queue for the escalator gets, the more likely newcomers are to just take the stairs instead of join the escalator queue.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
No, I was not referring to the article. I'm only referring to the poster I directly replied to.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I'll counter your anecdotal evidence with my own anecdotal evidence, which is that I've observed either the opposite or no difference in the companies I've worked for (I'm a man in IT in NYC). Either way, anecdotal, so s
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by galdosdi 10y ago
The author thinks that Joel is contradicting himself (since how can it be both easy and hard to tell if a developer is great?), but I don't think so. In fact, it's hard to tell for sure how good a developer is before hiring, but e
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by galdosdi 10y ago
(1) 20 companies to get an offer is very high for software engineering / related work in major hubs (eg NYC, bay, etc) (2) If you're applying to similar jobs (in terms of skill) then a single amount of prep can be shared among man
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Actually, you're right. I admit my above comment was just lighthearted and not so meaningful
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by galdosdi 10y ago
You're behind the times. "Russian hacker" is depracated for the meaning you cite; all users should migrate to saying "400 pound man on his bed" going forward
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by galdosdi 10y ago
You make a very good point that we've been making driving easier for a long time now. But those things don't uniformly work fine, unless you ignore human factors. The big danger here is https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I wouldn't be so certain that "all interstates in the US" are uniformly easy to drive. A specific counterexample: the BQE (Brooklyn Queens Expressway) is technically signed as I-278, but poor maintenance, frequent and shorten
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I mean, it depends on the structure. Maybe a crummy one was chosen in your case. The fact that individual shops are rolling their own or choosing their own structure means on average they have a poorer one than a language that picks good de
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Oh, I agree that trying to write Java in JavaScript is frustrating. To be fair, JavaScript is a language that cries out for some kind of structure to be imposed upon it.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Oh, that's wonderful, thanks for posting it! That parable says precisely what I was trying to say, but more succinctly and beautifully
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> FDE is also apparently not entirely impossible to bypass Sounds vague, can you please elaborate or cite? (I am not aware of this and if properly set up, I doubt this is true, so I am excited to learn what you know about this)
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Actually I would count the skills you describe as "smarter." The fact that we don't all assume this is a sign something is wrong. Maybe it lies in that I don't remember too much emphasis in CS education on legibility and
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Yes, what you're missing is that userbinator is probably trolling us
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Not these days. FDE is so common and easy to use now, it might well have been an option you blindly hit upon install. And that's just in consumer environments. In corporate environments, in any company with a half-decent infosec depart
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by galdosdi 10y ago
You must not be aware that you can set a password (which ssh-keygen calls a passphrase) on your private key file. The private key file will be encrypted and without the password will be useless, if your password is strong. Then you get the
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by galdosdi 10y ago
It's true (so I hear) that C# has been ahead of Java on this for a while, but I think the JVM is ahead of the CLR in terms of ecosystem. If you like F#, maybe try Scala on the JVM. Did you use Java 8 last time you worked with Java? And
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by galdosdi 10y ago
It probably comes from an earlier experience with a crappier Java. But Java 2, Java 5, and most of all Java 8 (and IMHO, a gradual attitude change from J2EE-style architecture astronautism to Guava-style DRYism) have transformed it into a v
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by galdosdi 10y ago
They'll still profit from additional ad revenue when other people, like your friends and family, view your posts and use facebook longer than they would have because they are interested in you and your life.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
That's just fine, as long as on-call expectations are fixed as part of the job offer, just like salary is. If the on-call expectations change for the worse later, that is exactly the same as a salary cut. IANAL but I believe (in the US
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> Gson and Jackson require you to write EJB-style objects to get automatic serialization Not the case. I successfully used Jackson combined with Lombok to achieve some really nice DRY class definitions that Just Worked with Jackson. It t
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Ah, but there's another layer: each side would work hard to keep the other side as uncertain as possible about its own capabilities, since that makes the other side less likely to make the optimal decision (eg, they might start a war t
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> Your model seems to involve people with no desire to save money, willing to spend every last cent if only the right shop would open on their block. So, sounds like the model should work well for Manhattan then? ;-)
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Craigslist has offered direct-to-consumer sales of cars for years. Car dealerships are a relic already as far I'm concerned
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> The asset also has depreciated in value by then. Just to be clear, that's a GOOD thing. You want depreciation to happen NOT on your watch, BEFORE (or after) you own it. Something that starts at $20,000 will lose a lot of value on
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I agree. I don't get all these little rules for getting the best deal on a new car. It seems like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic in terms of financial health. You can get a much better deal by just buying a used car. Try saving
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by galdosdi 10y ago
If you want a container-like technology that already has the large cluster management, scaling built in and is ideal for software whose source code you control think about trying kubernetes (and/or any similar competitors).
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Databases have been using master/replica lately, which, fortuitously is (usually) actually slightly more precise anyway, and so is strictly better in every way
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by galdosdi 10y ago
It does seem that way. It's kind of how a few people have food allergies, but a larger number of people have foods they refuse to eat despite not having allergies. It's not uncommon to find out that someone who merely has a prefer

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