geophile

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by geophile 13y ago
Awesome but blatant and shameless name drop. (I'd do it too, if I could.)
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by geophile 13y ago
Paging Dr. Funke.
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by geophile 13y ago
From other comments here, having someone on-site there improves the odds. But why bother? If you're a startup, you are creating one more unnecessary problem. Also, if you're a startup, you probably are going to be changing things
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by geophile 13y ago
Assuming you aren't trolling: No, absolutely not. My experience, at two companies, is that what you save in development costs, you quickly pay for (and then some) in management overhead, and low code quality. Some of the code we got wa
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by geophile 13y ago
I agree completely, which is why I didn't generalize further.
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by geophile 13y ago
Better question: Why are Americans obsessed with 'leadership'? With leadership defined as being charismatic and influential, not necessarily wise, correct, or even logical. I think a large part of the answer has to do with the bel
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Nader Engheta(en.wikipedia.org)
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by geophile 13y ago
Yes, exactly. I was at a startup that wasn't going so well, and we had the standard three weeks per year. It was already socially awkward to take those three weeks. Then the policy was changed to "all the vacation you need".
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by geophile 13y ago
Someone will mention Jeffrey Dean of Google.
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by geophile 13y ago
Mike McMahon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_McMahon_(computer_scientis...
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by geophile 13y ago
Fabrice Bellard
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by geophile 13y ago
Equating attention to an internal mapping of mental processes makes sense. I don't see how that leads to the subjective feeling of consciousness. This article, and Dennett's Consciousness Explained both argue for schemas that woul
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by geophile 13y ago
- Why not just write ',' instead of '=>'? Is there an actual reason for this other syntax to exist and to be used? - Why does the array have to be explicitly dereferenced? Isn't it obvious from context? - Why cou
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by geophile 13y ago
It was a very long time ago (< 2000), so I don't remember if I ran across these topics. I worked through one of the popular perl books of the day, cover to cover. If the topics you mention are basic, and existed at the time, then I
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by geophile 13y ago
My perl experience was brief and a long time ago, so apply a large grain of salt. I find perl to be a language that makes it easy to write bad, incomprehensible code. I'm sure it's possible to write good perl. If you're going
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by geophile 13y ago
I spent a lot of time teaching myself (in the 70s). Then college courses, where I learned about data structures, algorithms, structured programming (all the rage, back then, a precursor to objects), and many other subjects. Then grad school
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by geophile 13y ago
Uhh, because they can?
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by geophile 13y ago
A similar technique worked for me. I had an IOmega Jaz drive, which accomodated 1GB cartridges. (The same company produced the better known Zip drive.) The cartridges kept getting stuck, and any attempt to remove the drive seemed to complet
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by geophile 13y ago
Serious question, as I haven't used Windows in years: How reliable are these things (the current generation of Surface)? On an aircraft, a BSOD could have a literal meaning.
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by geophile 13y ago
I remember reading this paper in grad school, in 1976, and thinking that I was already hopelessly behind -- 6 years! And that I'd never catch up. Little did I realize that the amount I didn't know about this field would grow expon
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by geophile 13y ago
Open office plans suuuuuuuuuuuck. They are soul-crushing, productivity-destroying disasters. Especially if you are trying to code while the telemarketer android is right next to you, repeating his or her script for the 90th time that day. B
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by geophile 13y ago
Well this is just great. Whenever the NSA head, General Keith Alexander is asked whether the NSA has the capability to do <fill in the blank>, he responds by saying that the NSA is not authorized to do <fill in the blank> So
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by geophile 13y ago
That font gives me DOS and Windows 3.11 flashbacks.
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by geophile 13y ago
Respect. All that said, this font looks pretty good to me as a programmer, (12 point version, at least), and I'm going to try it out when it's available. I've been looking for a good font to use in emacs on OS X and have neve
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by geophile 13y ago
So the market makes sense to you, but the product is not focused? What about equity? You should know exactly how much you have, and this should be backed up by documents stating how many shares are outstanding, what options you have, vestin
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by geophile 13y ago
You are too focused on pay. Continuing for a limited amount of time without pay is not unheard of, but if I were in that situation, I'd want the founder to be completely open about what's going on. The fact that he isn't is o
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by geophile 13y ago
What exactly is getting slow? Inserts? Updates? Queries? Which ones? Have you looked at the slow query log? Have you checked the plans for the slow queries? Are these MyISAM tables or InnoDB? 150GB and 100M records is not huge, not even clo
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by geophile 13y ago
I hope Greenwald is being careful. I worry about him ending up like Michael Hastings.
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by geophile 13y ago
Geo indexing for any key/value store: https://github.com/geophile/geophile
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by geophile 13y ago
Speaking through my hat here, having read nothing about the deal. But is this the hiring of the new CEO? Sort of like Apple buying NeXT to bring back Jobs?

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