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by hcayless 15y ago
There were teachers at your all-boys school whose job it was to prevent the Lord-of-the-Flies scenario and if yours was anything like mine, they expended a lot of energy on that task :-). You're attempting to rationalize the mostly-male sit
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by hcayless 15y ago
Yeah, it tends to make me a bit irritable after the 500th time I've seen a resume touting the candidate's skills with DreamWeaver, so I sympathize. But while the article is a well-intentioned rant, it's still a rant. In short, if you're loo
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by hcayless 15y ago
I've been working from home as part of a distributed team for the last 3 years. It's great. You do have to be disciplined and intentional about a bunch of things that are more likely to happen naturally in a collocated environment, but that
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by hcayless 15y ago
There seem to be a few bug reports all around the same phenomenon. See also JRUBY-6162. I started digging into it a bit last week, but I was in the middle of a release and didn't have time to get very far. My working hypothesis is that the
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From Technologist to Philosopher(chronicle.com)
10 points by hcayless 15y ago|1 comments
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by hcayless 15y ago
The significant thing about this is that a major outage like this (which started yesterday) doesn't seem to have been followed with any sort of official acknowledgment by Oracle. Is that a sign of their engagement/commitment to the Java com
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by hcayless 15y ago
Google Translate does a decent job on the text: "A number of Oracle's site is down for the count. This is certainly Openoffice.org, Java.net and Netbeans.org. Visitors are greeted with the error message "Error 503 - Service Unavailable. " T
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Oracle Datacenter Crash(digi.no)
1 points by hcayless 15y ago|2 comments
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Flipping to Grilled Cheese(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by hcayless 15y ago|0 comments
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by hcayless 16y ago
Sigh. English grammar is hard. The word "than" is a conjunction (like "and"), but it can also be used prepositionally. Your second sentence is more colloquial American English, and it's not wrong, but it's also not wrong to keep the nomin
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by hcayless 16y ago
I agree this is a bubble, and is likely headed for a crash. It's hard not to be worried about what may happen then. In the best case, higher ed. would largely be replaced by something cheaper, but maybe just as effective. In the worst case
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by hcayless 16y ago
The big takeaway here is that if it's really "versus", i.e. the programmers and sysadmins are having a power struggle, you're screwed. If one side or the other "wins" you're even more screwed. If your programmers and syadmins are working a
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by hcayless 16y ago
A good moderator will have a question ready for each speaker, just in case there are crickets. I've certainly seen dumb and ideologically or politically motivated questions, but I think almost any discussion is better than no discussion. A
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by hcayless 16y ago
It's an excellent question. My answer is, use XML for data if you need features that come with it, such as validation, or if you'll want to use it with tools/standards that orbit XML, like XQuery, or if you have a situation where you're de
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by hcayless 17y ago
That's definitely true. I see that as corporate culture though: if your culture is such that you work all the time, then we aren't a good fit for each other. I like spending time with my family.
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by hcayless 17y ago
"He also needs developers with open-source expertise -- a rare talent, he says" - Shane Kilgore Surely OSS developers aren't particularly rare beasts. But perhaps they don't want to talk to him. That and the bit about AJAX the programming
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by hcayless 17y ago
Good to see Muphry's Law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law ) is still in full effect.
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by hcayless 17y ago
Herd immunity helps, but the problem is that no vaccine is 100% effective and there are those who can't get vaccinated for health reasons (such as allergies, compromised immune systems, etc.). So, if you like, we're all relying on herd imm
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by hcayless 17y ago
Never really done pair programming, but I'm struck by how much it's culture-dependent, and how easily it can be undone by initial assumptions. "We'll save money on furniture." "That guy's good, but too expensive."
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by hcayless 17y ago
Well, the name of the site is "the defeated spirit"...so maybe it's that on purpose...
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by hcayless 17y ago
If I were huffing Pam, I'd be a little worried about this: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/e/exogenous_lipoid_pneumonia/i... Seriously. Don't do it.
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by hcayless 17y ago
Yeah but if you're a local newspaper (which is what this post makes me think of), your competition isn't the other local papers (if there are any). It's Craigslist, Google, etc. You aren't going to beat them because they aren't playing th
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by hcayless 17y ago
Sturgeon's Law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law ) seems worth invoking here. The thing is, if big companies didn't get weighed down by their own bulk and bureaucracy, how would small companies ever compete with them?
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by hcayless 17y ago
In my experience as an interviewer, the original post was an example of what I always hope for--when the interview turns into a real discussion, and you're able to gain insight into the interviewee's character as well as his/her technical p
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by hcayless 18y ago
Your example is of misspellings, which are incorrect. But the use of "literally" as an intensifier is common usage and can't be called incorrect. Languages evolve, and the meanings of words can change as they are used by their speakers an
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by hcayless 18y ago
This is not a criticism of the article, which is actually very balanced, but I get very impatient with people who attempt to proscribe perfectly legitimate usage. "Literally" can be used as an intensifier, regardless of the truth of the st
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by hcayless 18y ago
They should just get it over with and give him a MacArthur Genius Award....
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by hcayless 18y ago
Jobs doesn't have typical pancreatic cancer, or he'd almost certainly be dead by now. He has a carcinoid, some of which do pump out hormones that can cause effects like weight loss (and nausea, diarrhea, etc.). These symptoms are treatabl