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by hrabago 16y ago
Extra vacation, sure. A promotion? That depends on what you're already doing, and when responsibilities a promotion carries. I've seen several instances where people got promoted but didn't receive an adequate enough raise. If you belie
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by hrabago 16y ago
I think the question "Can you even stop using it?" is closer to "Do you even have that choice anymore?" rather than "Can you avoid going to Google branded websites?". There are so many services either owned or somehow connected to Google t
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by hrabago 16y ago
$5M is definitely not retirement money if you're only 30 years old. I figured at that age you'd need about $15M, and even at that you'd need to make sure you invest it properly to at least keep up with inflation. I've always thought that F
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by hrabago 16y ago
This is why we put comments there. Personally, I put comments so future me will remember what the heck I was thinking when I wrote it. That said, there's no doubt there's code that definitely sucks. Some of it is mine, too. If I wrote it
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by hrabago 16y ago
Just think of it as taking "Release early" and "Iterate" to the next level. In this case, your iteration involved executing on an idea, building a business out of it, then selling. You've been there, done that. Now you're equipped with l
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by hrabago 16y ago
It works better if there's someone to hold you to that deadline. I've set deadlines on personal projects before, but with no one to call me on it or check, it just goes by without me meeting it.
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by hrabago 16y ago
For enterprise software, the story that keeps coming to my mind is http://venturehacks.com/articles/pricing
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by hrabago 16y ago
To be fair, we want the same thing in return, while trying to get by with the minimum effort exerted by the other husbands.
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by hrabago 16y ago
I believe I've read these points multiple times from multiple sources, but this one post puts them together rather effectively. I'll be printing this out and sticking this on my wall (as well as keeping this in my Notes app) so I can review
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by hrabago 16y ago
The problem is that "their life" is so much a part of "youe life" (for the poster above you). Good relationships with other people are a huge part of what makes life better. I've always imagined that if I ever get FU money that it would all
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by hrabago 16y ago
The way I solved this was to save a screenshot on my desktop of a web page with instructions on how to take screenshots.
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by hrabago 16y ago
I typically send all three. I send the link for the driving directions, I send my own summary which makes sense to local people, and a screenshot of a map, with my scribbles on there. "There's this landmark, here's where you turn, this is
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by hrabago 17y ago
This reminds me of a story about how Manu Ginobili's family, who refused to move to the US, has to live with police protection to keep from being kidnapped. I can't find the exact story I read from before, though. http://sports.espn.go.com
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by hrabago 17y ago
I have this problem as well. I keep getting the urge to code. I keep hoping it becomes practical and that I get something (meaning $) out of it, but the truth is that's just an excuse I use to justify spending so much of my free time to c
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by hrabago 17y ago
I imagine a word processor's equivalent for a painter would be the easel, or maybe the brush handle, not necessarily the paint, the brush bristles, or the canvas. It affects how the creator works, which indirectly affects the resulting work
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by hrabago 17y ago
This sounds like unit testing. It sounds good when you hear about it, and you think you probably should be doing it, but you figure you're okay even without it. And then you actually try it and then BAM! you realize its value and the diffe
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by hrabago 17y ago
Goes to show that just because you model something after another, it doesn't mean they'll look or feel similar. The underlying design of Java might have been influenced by Objective C, but the use of the two languages feel very different.
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by hrabago 17y ago
We've tried this at work one time during one of our iteration retrospectives. It took a while for the meeting organizer to explain how it worked, and took a while for people to adjust to it. The consensus at the next meeting was to just go
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by hrabago 17y ago
I've learned long ago (before I ever touched a computer) not to give the term "Engineer" too much weight, since it was explained to me that the janitors in my grandfather's office were called "Sanitation Engineers".
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by hrabago 17y ago
It's good that they clarify that this is only commit counts. I guess I'm not too surprised since Google, as a newcomer (relative to Apple), surely has a whole set of features and ideas it wants to implement that Apple hasn't considered bef
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by hrabago 17y ago
Their about page shows a group of people all standing on the balcony. http://www.bloomframe.nl/about.php
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by hrabago 17y ago
Before the iPhone came out, I was itching for a powerful phone that came close to being a browser-enabled computer in my pocket. The only devices I could get at the time was WEP browsers with very high data fees. The iPhone brought us a ful
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by hrabago 17y ago
Only if the SDK supports it. I can't, for instance, put widgets on the lock screen to see how many unread emails I have. Or have the locked device light up due to an event that my background process detected.
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by hrabago 17y ago
There's no conflict there. In an actual school, you're not the one setting the curriculum. This involves a lowest common denominator of a variety of subjects, some of which you'll never apply. I imagine that now he's spending his time study
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by hrabago 17y ago
> Technically true, but almost all phones are acquired via subsidies anyway. Again, yes, in the US. In some Asian countries, you can walk into any mall and there will be any number of stores selling new or used cellphones all of which a
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by hrabago 17y ago
I think a lot of people would like to think of themselves as smart. I do, too. I'm smart, you're smart, and he's smart as well, but it's all relative. Instead of thinking about how smart I am, I instead think about how much I don't know, es
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by hrabago 17y ago
Happened to me yesterday, too, from an HN link - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=819367
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by hrabago 17y ago
These are how buffets are where I grew up. When I moved to the US, I was surprised that buffets here allowed me to leave food on the plate while I went to get another plate of food.
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by hrabago 17y ago
The demo also works in Safari 4 on a Mac.
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by hrabago 17y ago
I think people underestimate what it takes to make a good game that people will be willing to pay for. Take Flight Control. It's a very enjoyable, addictive game. However, if you take this same game and its mechanics, slap a different se

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