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by herge 15y ago
I like the terms "Somali warlord style of management", which seems to line up with all the stories I've heard from Sun. Also, I need to start using "Non-technical middle management" more often from now on.
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by herge 15y ago
We had a server with half a TB of ram. It was a lot of fun until we had to reboot it, and then it took half an hour to perform a memory check.
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by herge 15y ago
Apple also posted a 'huge loss' in 1997 and '98. Is this really a surprise for a company that had a CEO change and had to retool their product line?
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by herge 15y ago
Tell it to the UX designer that got fired for answering to Dustin Curtis. http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html
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by herge 15y ago
Why doesn't everybody use UTF-8? How much overhead is incurred in encoding a non-ascii language (say Chinese) in UTF-8 compared to UTF-16?
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by herge 15y ago
The charge is not for the phone service, but for the routing service Twilio offers.
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Americans Won’t Welcome Web-Piracy Crackdown: Joe Karaganis(bloomberg.com)
2 points by herge 15y ago|0 comments
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by herge 15y ago
That is what I do not understand about how the SOPA debate has proceeded. Google is one of the fastest growing, most profitable and innovative companies in the world, and a clear example of american innovation and economic dynamism, and yet
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by herge 15y ago
I always have the impression that Agile is sort of like the True Scotsman or the Communist Manifesto "If it didn't work, it's because it isn't really agile."
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by herge 15y ago
Is "Agile" is still the best out there? If I have a team of 4-5 bright people, the best way to get them working as a team to produce software for a limited group of people is agile/scrum, right?
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by herge 15y ago
I hope that Oracle's corporate customers are profitable, because they are really doing a good job of pissing off the programmer community.
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by herge 15y ago
Enough to satisfy my Radio 3 listening ways. The only big hole in their repertoire is big group back catalogue. For example, there is no Led Zepplin, Beatles, etc)
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by herge 15y ago
Would love to read a copy of "Dagwood Splits the Atom" http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/atomictoys/dagwood.htm
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by herge 15y ago
Rdio is half-decent in Canada.
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by herge 15y ago
"At that time, Kessler also said his company sees cable-cutting as no more than a temporary austerity measure that will cease as soon as the economy takes a turn for the better." To steal a page from John Gruber, this sounds like one to kee
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by herge 15y ago
On the same topic, here's a chrome extension to make comment boxes have a monospace font: https://github.com/jdz/github-font-fix It helps a lot when typing code and markdown syntax in the comment boxes.
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by herge 15y ago
Every time I hear somebody complain about how disloyal/lazy/demanding "Generation-Y" is, I wonder if would we would be more "loyal" if we had not seen on a first hand basis how big companies treated our parents with layoffs, cutting back be
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by herge 15y ago
> However, the VIM trick that I picked up at work today is NOT the sort of thing I would have been happy with a professor 'challenging' me on during my courses. University teaches you the things that you cannot learn on your own.
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by herge 15y ago
How much is access to your Facebook account, Gmail, Twitter, etc, worth? What happens if the bank offers to lower your rate if you give access? What happens if you cannot find a bank that gives you a loan without insisting that you give the
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by herge 15y ago
Bribing someone is a crime, and not something you want to admit on a website. I think there are U.S. laws that also forbid U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials.
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by herge 15y ago
How many people in the 60s smoked pot? Just because a majority does something does not mean it will become legal.
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by herge 15y ago
Reminds me of the chaos monkey from stack overflow. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/04/working-with-the-ch...
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by herge 15y ago
Saw your presentation at Montréal-Python, it was very good. Have you played with pointfree ( http://markshroyer.com/docs/pointfree/latest/module.html#mod... )? What do you think about it compared to Moka?
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by herge 15y ago
Thanks!
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by herge 15y ago
Ideally, you would use a tool like less or sass to generate your css (which we don't), so your comments would be in the underlying file but not in the css given to the user.
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by herge 15y ago
As far as we know, they also aggregate news on commodities, but we analyse and aggregate the news by commodity and by identifying price movement information. We also provide a large number of sources, bringing in news from many different pr
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by herge 15y ago
That's funny. We tried it on Windows 7 and everything looked good, but I'll look into it.
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by herge 15y ago
Did we meet Saturday after the Montréal-Ouvert? It is all python with some nlp libraries and home grown and tendered algorithms.
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by herge 15y ago
Not only for professional traders but for anyone interested in commodities. We want this tool to become the place to go to get information about the commodity market.
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by herge 15y ago
Page load speeds and more aggressive caching are big tickets on our todo list.

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