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by gommm 16y ago
Out of the comments, I really liked the link to Seth Godin's post on the lizard brain http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/01/quieting-the...
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by gommm 16y ago
Ah I'm glad I'm not the only one to be horrified by this guy's version of rational thought
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by gommm 16y ago
* My advice to anyone who fits this bill (as do I), next time you think "I should have done it myself", stop yourself and instead ask "What could I have done differently to help someone finish this task better?" * Thanks for the advice. I'm
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by gommm 17y ago
That was my bible when I was a kid, I spent so much time reading and pondering over it... It really is a great book although it's getting to be a bit outdated, a lot of the concepts and ideas can still be very useful.
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by gommm 17y ago
The problem is that from my experience trying to hire here, it's extremely difficult to find good engineers.... Cheap engineers are dime a dozen, but quite a few I've interviewed can't even do the fizzbuzz test. And of those that could most
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by gommm 17y ago
Could you say that the Mona Lisa is the equivalent to The Seven Samurai? If so in what way is it equivalent? How do you define art? I for one would say that the Longest Journey, Grim Fandango, the Secret of Monkey Island and Sanitarium are
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by gommm 17y ago
Shanghai, China (well Morocco right now because I'm on holidays)
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by gommm 17y ago
1) Before iTunes you could buy DRM free music from emusic 3) Before the iPhone App store, you could get applications freely without any problem on the Treo or even on windows mobile...
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by gommm 17y ago
Congrats Patrick... I've followed your posts since the Business of Software days and you've been an inspiration to me.　 I haven't had your courage though, I quit my job in Japan before working on my own projects... Too many hours of overtim
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by gommm 17y ago
The ultimate solution for a RSI addled programer...
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by gommm 17y ago
Glad I'm not the only one to sometimes be a bit childish and do this :-)
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by gommm 17y ago
I have a similar system, I imagine myself in an elevator going down and as it goes down I fall asleep. Before finding this system, I would need at least an hour to fall asleep. I think it works by quieting my internal voice and giving an im
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by gommm 17y ago
Meetings are special cases, on the contrary to podcasts and audiobooks they are designed to be boring :-) But yes I think I'm the same as you, I can ignore what other people are saying to me (my girlfriend hates that) but it's hard to ignor
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by gommm 17y ago
Well, if you want to do some rails work I might have something for you... You can contact me at jobs -squiggly sign- agiletomato.com
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by gommm 17y ago
Hopefully the French government does not take inspiration from that... Some of the best students at my universities were from poor countries and would have a hard time paying a tuition.
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by gommm 17y ago
In a lot of small/middle sized companies, you officially have paid vacation but it's badly looked upon to actually take them. It's the same as being the first one out of the office at the official ending time... In bigger multinationals lik
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by gommm 17y ago
Of course, logically it's the same, but when dealing with people (and politicians are people), names are important, and naming it a transition period, means that it's clear that it should be discussed then.
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by gommm 17y ago
That's true, but I think that users would probably be confused if they can't chose the card type...
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by gommm 17y ago
This could be fixed though with a transition period after the law is expired, where the law is still valid for a few months while it's being discussed. I don't think any of those ideas can work perfectly with our existing democratic system
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by gommm 17y ago
Yes, I don't think that it would work if laws are retroactive... But then it's quite unfair if they are not. It is an interesting idea, but I think there'll be a lot of tweaking to be done to the process to get something effective. For exam
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by gommm 17y ago
Anyone knows where that law comes from? "A person may not walk around on Sundays with an ice cream cone in his/her pocket." It makes me kind of curious
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by gommm 17y ago
Same as for button repairs and trouser cuffs repairs and so on, I bring it to the shop down the street where they fix it perfectly for less than 3$... (Living in China is great for that)
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by gommm 17y ago
42-45C is the temperature of the very hot onsens in Japan (at least according to the thermometer reading at an onsen I visited there)... So no I don't think it'd cause injuries...
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by gommm 17y ago
This made me laugh, I didn't completely experience it first hand because I was working in a small 12 people company (and my boss was 31, so rather atypical for japan). But, from what I heard from my friends working in big multinational comp
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by gommm 17y ago
Ha, A friend of mine who worked at Square soft was paid like this (his salary was his age multiplied by ten plus some bonuses and of course some extra money because he was married if I remember well). Since he was a foreigner and foreigners
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by gommm 17y ago
So in this case, it's the law of supply and demand...
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by gommm 17y ago
Why not a chance to use Tarsnap? just curious...
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by gommm 17y ago
Well, that's really why if there was a way for the community to mark interesting comments from banned users (sort of like the flag/unflag thing), it would make it much easier to manage... No need to point it out, just click on a link and if
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by gommm 17y ago
AppEngine is not blocked from here... What is bloked in China is google group and some parts of google code (sigh)... For accessing any website, I just use a ssh tunnel to a vps in the US and have almost no loss of speed or latency when rea
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by gommm 17y ago
Same here, for spammers, of course I completely agree with the treatment... It's just that sometimes some long standing members are banned and there doesn't seem to be any reason for it... I didn't know that PG didn't like us alerting peopl

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