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by helmut_hed 16y ago
Presumably the OP is suggesting that one's inbox be of zero length, not that you actually delete the message... File emails you wish to retain in a suitable folder - they'll be waiting for you when you need them.
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
I have seen lower-tier VCs who cared not a whit about their reputations take control, fire the founders and do a 100 to 1 reverse stock split in exchange for modest additional funding So... why was additional funding needed? Why were the
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
God, really, I hope this turns out to be right. If our brains are fundamentally different, we (men and women) are doomed to never really understand each other, which I find totally depressing.
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
Or the unobtainable person fantasy... btw I hope the parent parent poster means he learned about this from Dan Savage, sex advice columnist, and not Randy "Macho Man" Savage, professional wrestler. Although that stuff is totally homoerotic
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
Well... actually I'm surprised no one has questioned this conclusion from the OP. They say this: "Gay people are not sexually interested in straights" but in fact, what their data indicates is better stated as: "Gay people will not attempt
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
The guys who do the interrupting power dynamic thing don't do it to their bosses - only their subordinates and competitors. This, too, is part of the "skill set" they bring. The attitude of their manager is extremely important in this - s
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
As a tech guy who has repeatedly been hired by companies founded or run by Indian immigrants, I have only this to say about the immigration of foreign entrepreneurs: more, please
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
Great comment. I think what people are missing here is that Dijkstra regards this difference as a bad thing, one that we are not capable of handling! It's not something to be proud of at all.
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
When he says this: ... the subculture of the compulsive programmer, whose ethics prescribe that one silly idea and a month of frantic coding should suffice to make him a life-long millionaire I feel like he's describing many a startup toda
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
I was struck by this quote (in regards to Rio Tinto): Until last year, China was trying to buy more of the company As far as I know "China" does not buy things. Their government, maybe. I'd like to know if a Chinese government entity or
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
I write unit tests so that I can refactor fearlessly . How does the author handle situations where he can either 1) put in a hack to fix a bug or handle a feature request, or 2) restructure the code to make it fit the modified problem des
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
I appreciate that shout out to Antonio's Nut House, one of the few places I actually enjoy hanging out in the South Bay
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
It's an interesting question, and to me a real ethical gray area. At my favorite bar, I usually tip very generously, and all the bartenders know me. I tend to get my first drink free, and if I stay for a while, often a shot with the barte
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
I've got to come in on Dave's side on this one. He does not say that "technology hasn't changed." Here is what he says: "And if you think there's much difference between JavaScript and C, you're dreaming. Or between JSON and XML or plain
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
Technology changes all the time but there are a few arguments that never seem to die... WYSIWIG vs. doc prep languages like TeX (or Scribe, remember that?) was a hot topic even back in the 80's, with similar arguments being made. Everythin
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
I spoke recently to a friend of mine who had moved back from NYC to SF, and he told me that when you tell people in a bar you're a software engineer, they get this condescending look and say, "oh, IT..." (as in, the people who fix the compu
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
I'd like to believe that's true. How about perception , though? I've taken a year off now... am wondering how I'll be perceived when I start interviewing again.
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
Yes. However the poster is just describing, honestly, what life in the trenches at a big company is like. It shouldn't be a surprise that Google is this way now. Large organizations behave in certain ways because of human nature, and GOO
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
I like C++ but I think this article is helpful. Having come up the curve in the last few years, I notice a lot of things I stumbled on are listed... If this were titled "things to watch out for in C++" it could be a useful guide for peopl
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
I've followed this case over the years and it's completely in character to see that he has no remorse whatsoever. He had been draining funds from his company, Hollinger International, into his own pockets for years. Shareholder pressure f
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
But some code really does suck! I mean, really. I don't disagree that often I fail to understand why someone did something a certain way, on the first reading. But after I understand all the logic, and have run test cases etc., the fact
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
It seems to me that the first point made (on the performance of Squid's LRU caching) is really just that Squid is doing a bad job at it, and Varnish doesn't try at all (lets the VM system take care of it). In theory, managing memory at the
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by helmut_hed 16y ago
I was with him until this: "Dr. Norman Doidge ... describes how pornography causes re-wiring of the neural circuits. He notes that in a study of men viewing internet pornography, the men looked “uncannily” like rats pushing the lever to rec