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by harold 16y ago
I enjoyed listening to Jack Dorsey. Kudos to Kevin for letting Dorsey tell his story, mostly uninterrupted. Kevin though... so many of his questions have the word 'like' in them. "Like, what was that like?" or "Like, a working prototype?, l
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by harold 16y ago
I recently purchased the 11 with the same config. Xcode runs happily enough on my iOS and Mac OS projects. It runs my web dev stack just fine (Textmate, Python, Django, Nginx, Apache, Postgres) It reminds me of how much I appreciated the fo
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by harold 16y ago
Any time I hear a politician say "those are just facts" I immediately get suspicious.
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by harold 16y ago
There are processes in place already to keep one accountable while driving. We can debate the effectiveness or lack thereof, but this is not the solution. Generally, traffic citations and tickets are only reported to the DMV and insurance c
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by harold 16y ago
good advice. Most insurance policies will require a survey as well.
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by harold 16y ago
Interesting that Obama's trip abroad has been accompanied by so much saber rattling from our end. Makes me wonder what they know and why all the chest thumping all of a sudden.
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by harold 16y ago
I think the phrase should be: "The last programming language I will ever learn - until the next one comes along."
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New site lists California City and County salaries(sco.ca.gov)
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by harold 16y ago
A good repair kit is necessary. I used to commute by bike regularly and flat tires would happen from time to time. There's a lot of sharp debris out there on the roadways. Not a terrible thing to deal with if you have tools and a patch kit.
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by harold 16y ago
I once had a client that paid with a bad check. To make matters worse, the check had arrived several weeks late. Rumor had it that his business was on shaky ground. I knew something was up when the teller at my bank noticed the client's nam
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by harold 16y ago
Healthcare? Without debating the merits of the bill, there's no doubt that it represents a huge increase in government bureaucracy.
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by harold 16y ago
It appears this sort of salary inflation is happening at many levels of government. Salaries for the city of San Luis Obispo, Ca. posted by the local paper here: http://slonews.thetribunenews.com/city_salaries/slo/
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by harold 16y ago
Same here. The performance boost is very noticeable. A great upgrade and easy to do on the recent Macbook Pro lineup.
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by harold 16y ago
I admire Ron Conway for his business acumen and regard for entrepreneurs. But he's taking on a lot of needless baggage for continuing to talk about a meeting he himself did not attend, and for continuing to speak on behalf of his partner in
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by harold 16y ago
"Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased – not a reduced – flow of revenues to the federal government." – John F. Kennedy,
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by harold 17y ago
The rigidity of this approach surprises me. I certainly think pair programming has value. But I don't understand why this company would be so rigid in enforcing it as the only way to develop software.
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by harold 17y ago
Reminds me of an old chinese proverb: "My neighbor came to my workplace to tell me my house was on fire. But I hate my neighbor, and chose to ignore him. When I got home, my house was no more. "
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by harold 17y ago
Which is why Jeff and Joel are also rolling out serverfault.com and superuser.com experts-exchange gets most of its traffic from gaming Google. It isn't that useful of a site.
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by harold 17y ago
This thread on the 37 signals site infers that the administrator of a Basecamp account has access to the passwords of that account's users. Stewart the project manager now knows your password and that of everyone else on his team...