gaustin

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by gaustin 14y ago
Some cool stuff, but not much I need with any regularity. Other sources are more than fine. I'll be excited when they stock the types of high-carbon steels that Aldo Bruno[0] sells. I'm still waiting for someone to disrupt the hard to searc
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Sergey Brin Wearing Google Glasses At Charity Event(plus.google.com)
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by gaustin 15y ago
I think another subtle thing some might overlook is that you specifically said "serving." That is something like 2 oreo cookies or a handful of baby carrots. It would be a different story if you ate two baby carrots and then half a package
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by gaustin 15y ago
Looks like you live in Calgary, based on the website in your profile. Definitely a lot of blacksmiths up that way, but you might have to get out of town a little bit. Blacksmiths are always having hammer-ins (hackfest/demo day analog). If y
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by gaustin 15y ago
I was visiting Chicago a while back and rode the North Central from Vernon Hills into the city a few times. One day we stopped, waiting for the tracks to clear, in an industrial area I got to drool over a bunch of BIG decommissioned power h
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by gaustin 15y ago
I used to be the bug fixer guy. There was nothing worse to me than a blank file. There's something simple and focused and comfortable about fixing bugs for a lot of people. It does take creative, critical thinking to fix bugs it's different
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by gaustin 15y ago
> Have we become a society of emasculated pansies that fears little pocket knives? Some people are afraid of just about everything. I make knives. (Some people immediately jump to the conclusion that I must be a nutty survivalist, when
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by gaustin 15y ago
> Or take LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is great. Usually. If > you're using it exactly as they intended. When we wanted to > make some of our models automatically supply some query > parameters, though...well, let's just say
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by gaustin 15y ago
I think it's even harder to manage the expectations of an already experienced developer coming into this program. I did something similar with another company and ran into the issue that they were expecting to pay significantly less than I
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by gaustin 15y ago
It's a $200 alternative to a $7,000 device. Seems like a bargain to me.
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by gaustin 15y ago
It's also quicker, easier and more effective than navigating most companies' support tools. I don't want to spend half an hour or more registering, confirming and entering a bug report that will most likely be ignored.* * A company taking r
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by gaustin 15y ago
Actually, there are custom gun makers. There is somewhat less room for "handmade" when it comes to firearms, but they still get pretty creative where possible. I don't know any makers personally, but I do belong to the same blacksmithing cl
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by gaustin 15y ago
It's not that handmade is always, better. It's that handmade is often better when it comes to specific uses. It's similar to the choice you make when you write code when you could have taken something off the shelf to use. Sometimes you nee
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by gaustin 15y ago
From TFA: 'a [GroupOn] spokesperson said it was "difficult to give an accurate figure" for how many businesses are repeat users of the site.' Really? I would have thought it would be pretty easy to run a query on their accounts and find out
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by gaustin 15y ago
Being authentic.
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by gaustin 15y ago
This is probably not something I should talk too much about on a venue filled with potential employers or coworkers. But I think self-awareness is important, so I'll say a few things. You're right on with the confidence (and persistence?) i
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by gaustin 15y ago
This is an avenue I'm investigating. Just trying to find the right place to go. Right now I'm doing a software craftsman apprenticeship to increase the quality of place I can get a job. When that's done (it's a 20-30 hour commitment on top
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by gaustin 15y ago
The biggest difference to my mind, the one that bugs me most, is the opportunity cost. Sure, I have no commute, low mortgage for a big house, no sales tax and easy access to some of the most beautiful unspoiled wilderness in the entire worl
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by gaustin 15y ago
> If you're making $50k you're being screwed. I'm being screwed then. I have a CS degree and a business Masters degree. I'm a "senior" developer and make $55k. The primary employer in my area is the Montana State government. Programmer
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by gaustin 15y ago
Same here. At 29 I've finally internalized the reality that nothing valuable comes easily. Dreams and goals don't accomplish themselves. Right now, I'm working my ass off to do a software craftsmanship apprenticeship. It has taken time to d
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by gaustin 15y ago
What are the problems that you see with Gitorious? I just set it up at work and it went very smoothly. I'd like to torpedo it before we actually start using it, if it's going to be a problem.
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by gaustin 15y ago
Get a pair of Kahtoola microspikes and you won't have to worry much about falling on ice or snow. I run all winter in Montana with these. They handle streets or mountain trails without a problem. http://www.kahtoola.com/microspikes.php
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by gaustin 15y ago
And I just read it on a smartphone in my back yard in extremely rural Montana. The room for "physical" innovation is shrinking. But the importance of physicality is diminishing, especially location. Modern innovation seems more subtle and
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by gaustin 15y ago
I would be ecstatic to have an idea that's both reasonably achievable and that has reasonable chance of making some money. Yeah. Not shooting for the stars. I'm just looking for a base hit to build some confidence.
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by gaustin 15y ago
I have no ideas that I'm comfortable and interested in investing time and energy into. It's that simple.
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by gaustin 15y ago
<< That said, a small ops team (three people) can manage thousands of machines without much difficulty, and you can probably share two of those with the dev team as Dev-Ops guys, with one grizzled old sysadmin to handle the nastier
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by gaustin 15y ago
How much of this doom and gloom is it reasonable to worry about? How much of it is marketing for the kinds of books this guy writes, which seem of the same theme?
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by gaustin 15y ago
It actually says "$100 million in all time sales." Which means that they had sold $100 million worth of software since the time the company was founded. Still impressive, but very different than $100 million in revenue per year.
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by gaustin 15y ago
How does that compare to the other languages in the Bantu family? Long ago I studied Ichibemba, and think it had something like 18 noun classes, too. IIRC, Finnish has something like 28 noun cases. That is intimidating.
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by gaustin 15y ago
Same here. But somehow the numbers always get recalculated when they pass through my supervisor's hands.

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