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by hsmyers 14y ago
In my experience (in the software industry), if you micro-manage you are in my way and I will run over you (possibly on my way out the door!)
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by hsmyers 14y ago
I'm certainly willing to believe the cited paper (both versions), but it does seem to contradict my own experience in teaching unlikely students how to program. I've found that a excellent litmus test is the ability of the student to follow
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by hsmyers 14y ago
The way I remember it was a bit more complicated. IBM initial card size was originally based on the size of a bank note. To say the IBM just had 80 columns isn't enough, they also toyed with a 96 column card as well. And I wouldn't be surpr
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by hsmyers 14y ago
For no reason I can think of this reminds me of Spacewar. I've no idea why, just does. This was in 1962, see: http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.ht... which predates even me. I didn't know about it until Steven Bran
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Not a perfect metric as he admits, but a great deal better than nothing. One thing that has bothered me from the beginning is the problem of the user's retention of the information. How do we do a min/max of sufficient complexity to deter c
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by hsmyers 14y ago
Given the wide variety of Javascript add-ons and modules, A brief explanation of what the product does and what it might be used for placed in the read me document would have been nice.
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by hsmyers 14y ago
A more familiar example can be found from 1944 with John Campbell, Analog and a short story: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/John_W._Campbell,_Jr .
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by hsmyers 14y ago
I'm somewhat oblivious to color schemes, but I was a little annoyed by the editor showing code with semi-colons and then getting the little yellow triangle that complains about unnecessary semi-colons that you put there in the first place.
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by hsmyers 14y ago
JavaScript seems to be having the same problem that other languages have developed over usage time. It becomes increasingly difficult to know what package does what and more importantly information of the pros and cons of the package. Does
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by hsmyers 14y ago
This is simply a restatement of what Philippe Kahn showed the world and more particularly Microsoft. The Borland compiler came pretty much from no where and became a serious competitor for the powers that be. While the IDE was quite impress
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by hsmyers 14y ago
The other day while reading about the growing discontent with the price of subscriptions and remembering the similar problem with the price of student text the only thing I could think about was that few of today's texts are better than the
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Interesting and certainly new to me. I found that one of his links was even more useful and interesting: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cdn I've added this to my browser as a button for quick reference and am now off to
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by hsmyers 15y ago
For those bound to Windows, GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6002) provides a current version with an installer as part of the DL---actually the installer is the initial DL, the rest is done as part of the install. In so far as I can tell
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by hsmyers 15y ago
In a very long work career, I've spent time in just about every office configuration you can imagine. As I read this article and the comments here I thought back over where I was most productive and most comfortable. And surprised myself! A
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Cheap and easy to use. Also does not obscure original key info. http://www.amazon.com/Simplified-Keyboard-Lettering-Transpar...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
While certainly not cheap, the B2 was brought in under time and under budget. I also think we got our monies worth out of it in the several wars it has been used in. Source; the project manager. Disclaimer: he's my brother---we are both a l
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Given what I can do in notepad, this doesn't quite do it for me. Yes, notepad is not what-you-see-is-what-you-get, but it doesn't take that much to create a HTML repel and that followed by alt-tab allows me pretty much every thing I want. I
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by hsmyers 15y ago
SVG would be wonderful if it were not for the lack of native support early on in browser land. That skips over the none trivial problem of what it takes to create a symbol/glyph in SVG. Not only do you have to be a competent typographer, bu
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Well we already know that crowdsourcing works for funding---that it works for coding is no surprise. The folks over in Bio have learned that lesson. All of which makes me wonder about a future (at least to me) formal mechanism to allow proj
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Didn't know about CCAN http://ccodearchive.net/ I plan on investigating. Am home bound so attending the conference is not possible as much as I would like to. Am hoping for videos and similar post conference so I can get what I can :)
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by hsmyers 15y ago
emacs in Unix. EditPlus in Windows. If I'm in a hurry in Unix, I'll use gedit depending on the distro...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
The only question that matters is "Can you do the job?" If you don't hear this question or for those doing the interviewing, if you don't ask this question, then there is something seriously wrong. All of the rest is pretty much a waste of
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by hsmyers 15y ago
We don't, but cats do...
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by hsmyers 15y ago
My first admittedly smart ass remark was "If you have to ask, then the answer is 'No'" But that doesn't treat the question as legitimate---which it is. For me the answer has always been 'Yes' but perhaps not for the reasons found in the rem
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by hsmyers 15y ago
I wonder if it has occured to anyone of the discovers that there might be a market for seeds and seedlings. I suppose that it would take a few years to develop, but I'd love to have one on my front porch :) I've already got a competitor wai
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Had to wait until after the Vietnam thing plus 8 years as an art major. When I walked across campus and sat down in the keypunch room I very shortly began to spend all of my time there. This was before you could have a machine at home so I'
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by hsmyers 15y ago
Shakespeare had it wrong---not kill all of the lawyers, leave them on the list sure, but first kill everyone in human resources. Ask yourself how many times the first question asked in today's interviews is 'Can you do the job?' To my admit
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by hsmyers 15y ago
If I'm feeling lucky, I point out that my nick name in prep school was 'hubris' and that I earned it :)
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by hsmyers 15y ago
The diploma and $5.00 will get you a mocha at your average coffee shop. Seriously, the question is too general for a specific answer. Best I can come up with is the classic 'It depends'---specifically on the details of the degree. Is the em
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by hsmyers 15y ago
As we get closer to the next big version (wherein most of the apocalyptic changes take place) I'll be reading HN for useful lists of alternatives. Anyone with useful suggestions can chip in now of course :)

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