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How can you compete with Google?(jessenoller.com)
40 points by gthank 16y ago|17 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
The CDN is a different subdomain; can Adblock not handle this?
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by gthank 16y ago
The theory is that they know your entry-level and do some mentoring, code review, etc. to teach you about those sorts of things. That sort of depends on you getting a job with a good company, though.
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by gthank 16y ago
Cooperative Eduction ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_education ) is another great option. I think it gave me a huge leg up on the students who didn't participate.
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by gthank 16y ago
I could have sworn that was the submission where I found the comment, but I couldn't find it again for my reply, so who knows?
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by gthank 16y ago
Discussing "the proper valuation for a company" is pretty much begging a regulator to at least investigate price-fixing.
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by gthank 16y ago
Actually, I posted it because somebody linked it earlier today in a comment and it was the best (and earliest) explanation of the Bike Shed phenomena (in a software context) I'd seen.
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by gthank 16y ago
Maybe there were, but I haven't found them. Maybe the title should be "The Earliest Bike Shed Email I've Seen". Also, it gives a pretty thorough explanation of the history behind it, something left out by most references I've seen.
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by gthank 16y ago
Firefox on the Mac is a decidedly second-class experience. I still use it from time-to-time because of extensions, but Chrome, and especially Safari, are far more pleasant out-of-the-box experiences.
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by gthank 16y ago
A lot of people have these things they call lifestyle businesses: if they're meeting payroll and expenses, and loving what they do for a living, they've 100% satisfied their goals. I'm not sure that's what is going on in Scribd's case, thou
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The Original Bike Shed Email(freebsd.org)
99 points by gthank 16y ago|23 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
While there is a straightforward way to implement Back and History, the point is that traditional web dev technologies give it to you for free, so it's one more thing to think about. Compile time definitely gets better if you reduce the num
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by gthank 16y ago
While I agree that it's not a good idea to hand GWT to a bunch of <snip>enterprisey developers who "don't like working in the browser"</snip>, I think that's exactly how it gets used by a lot of companies (based on the quest
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by gthank 16y ago
One thing about your final point: you should probably be asking yourself why you need a web application that doesn't act like most web applications. If you don't have some really compelling story that you just can't (reasonably) tell in t
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by gthank 16y ago
I think it depends on your perspective. If you like being a web developer, then I strongly suspect GWT is not for you. A (non-comprehensive) list of things that are likely to bother you if you're a web dev (and like it): * Things like progr
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API users & API wrappers(yosefk.com)
1 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
I used to love the "Clean" light until I realized what you pointed out: you'd better want to put away all the dishes right then, which is a problem when you just need a spoon to stir the soup, etc.
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Reimplementing LINQ to Objects: Part 2 - "Where"(msmvps.com)
2 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
That does sound like a much better approach.
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by gthank 16y ago
People have a problem with this for a number of reasons, including but not limited to: 1. They feel duped. They gave some money to a person because they thought that person was down on his/her luck, then find out that they were played. Peop
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by gthank 16y ago
You need the pick your homeless person carefully if you do this. There's a nontrivial chance it will result in verbal harassment and/or a confrontation.
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Prefer Using Futures or Callbacks to Communicate Asynchronous Results(drdobbs.com)
3 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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Why the USP for Every Technical Product Sounds the Same(crankypm.com)
1 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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Faster than grep? Old age and treachery beat youth and skill every time.(ridiculousfish.com)
226 points by gthank 16y ago|27 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
When I'm researching new tools/libraries, the first thing I read is the README. If it's worthless, then it's a fair bet the tool/library is, as well, and I won't be using it by choice. After that, I look at the official documentation. If al
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by gthank 16y ago
What amazes me is that this is presented as somehow novel. Quotes about power corrupting have been floating around for 100s of years. The most famous, "…absolute power corrupts absolutely", is from 1887 (see http://www.phrases.org.uk/meani
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B-School and the Missing Product(crankypm.com)
3 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
Being forced to accept a fair(ish) compensation is way better than just getting disappeared by the government and/or mafia.
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The post-Hurd HP opportunity(theonda.org)
1 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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The (Code) Smell of Hell(dadhacker.com)
4 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments

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