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by glimcat 14y ago
If you're going to allow dozens of Camera* names, why the heck don't you just allow them all to be called Camera and let people sort them out by publisher? It's not like you should be using the name as the GUID anyway, or like Camera is a r
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by glimcat 14y ago
> we haven't had a vaccine for the last 10,000 years of human civilisation, so what's another 10? Terry Pratchett. Him and who else? Whose grandmother? It takes time to make sure these things are safe and statistically likely to work, b
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by glimcat 14y ago
It looks like this was primarily examining the safety of the drug in human subjects. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00411580 Trial went from 2005 to 2010, results are just now out. Medical research is so slow , but there is some
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by glimcat 14y ago
Most places without an HR department playing gatekeeper are unlikely to care, provided that you can communicate well about your skills and if you can back it up by showing prior work (via Github, etc.).
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by glimcat 14y ago
> We'll be charging for it down the line Implement billing. Now. No excuses.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Not saying you did, just that the journalist has failed to meet minimum standards. On the other hand, the problem could have been resolved with a phone call - from your lawyer, if necessary. Immediately making a blog post out of it on your
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by glimcat 14y ago
My first thought on these matters is usually "unscrupulous affiliate." This is particularly so when the writer hasn't bothered to contact GoToMeeting first. The fast reward loop behind posting sensational and confrontational headlines unfor
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by glimcat 14y ago
My first thought is to force a password reset via email on the next login.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Yes, however, I'd strongly suggest optimizing for development time in the early stages of a project. This may influence how you evaluate the pro/con sheets for a given technology. There is a significant body of existing code and tools which
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by glimcat 14y ago
"They’re in the remote possibility of building intelligent machines that act, and even appear, as humans. If this is achieved, eventually intelligent weapons of mass destruction will be built, without doubt." Worrying about this strikes me
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by glimcat 14y ago
The addressing scheme is descriptive. But the demographics of the modern internet are such that a descriptive method is confusing to broken. Most users will assume everything ends in .com, or more likely, they'll just type in the name and e
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by glimcat 14y ago
A somewhat mercenary perspective: There is always new tech coming out. Tech workers have a perception that they must be up on the newest tech in order to remain valuable. Halfway decent tech books therefore sell like candy in a continuously
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by glimcat 14y ago
Amy has lots of good points, but I'm of the opinion that her "$30x500" premise for building a SaaS ISV is backwards. You're often better off targeting "$500x30" instead. * Most every place that publishes stats has shown that the higher-tier
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by glimcat 14y ago
At a basic level, over 99% of the internet is text files and simple databases. Why would you have web pages? The interface is often important.
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by glimcat 14y ago
My big unanswered question going into the article was "What the crud is Flattr and why should I care." Starting your posts off with a brief introduction of who you are is often a good idea. Flattr is a micropayment system. You pay them a mo
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by glimcat 14y ago
It has some nice points, but I quickly hit tl;dr mode. Resumes or resume analogues should be concise unless they're actually portfolio demos, in which case they should still be concise.
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by glimcat 14y ago
I type by muscle memory, but I wouldn't use a blank keyboard. Brainfarts happen.
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by glimcat 14y ago
<?php include("header.php"); ?> Between the above and the huge range of existing PHP projects, I always install PHP regardless of what else I'm using.
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by glimcat 14y ago
> P.S. Note how I do not anchor costs around the price of coffee. Well, neither does Starbucks.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Yes, but try to do a few projects over the next year which are strongly relevant to your top five choices. Toss the results up on Github - or better, attempt to monetize the results (i.e. never tell when you can show).
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by glimcat 14y ago
If you have previous programming experience, I don't think that it matters much. You can always look stuff up as you go if you already know enough to know what you're looking for.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Can I register my business phone number or a fax number? The National Do Not Call Registry is only for personal phone numbers. Business-to-business calls and faxes are not covered
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by glimcat 14y ago
It's less about reducing the barrier to jobs than it is about targeting different jobs. The two years for an MS is also typically considered to have a great payoff ratio in terms of both personal and career development, although that's no g
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by glimcat 14y ago
On Microsoft scales, very little. Particularly as a share of the project's overall branding and marketing spend.
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by glimcat 14y ago
They exist. They're just expensive, dangerous, and require an expert operator. There are also strong constraints on the altitude and maneuverability (between physical/design constraints and the increasing likelihood that you'll lose control
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by glimcat 14y ago
Because the value in making it easier to use is low. Often, the value to make it more confusing is high. Not all "bad" webpages are that way on accident. Also, factors like social media integration aren't implicitly good.
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by glimcat 14y ago
You use a series of members under tension or compression to support a load-bearing surface spanning a gap. Then you see if it falls down under a static or dynamic load. It's a common exercise for engineering students. I hear there's a nice
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by glimcat 14y ago
I couldn't tell you the first thing about Perl, or any number of other common tools and languages - and I've been programming for about 25 years. I've just used different tools so far.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Given that he describes it as "Hello World attached to a random number generator" - quite possibly so. But it became meaningly profitable due to the design iteration and statistical marketing that followed, not to mention familiarity with i
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by glimcat 14y ago
Even among well-funded startups, having a usefully specific definition of the target customer and where you fall in relation to their existing value structure is something of an accomplishment.

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