itgoon

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by itgoon 16y ago
Kudos to Zed, for at least attempting to find a workable middle-ground. It's a change from the usual and useless finger-pointing.
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by itgoon 16y ago
I have no problem with this. He doesn't need to re-invest - he's the only investor (more or less). As was pointed out, there's other sites which do a better job, so if you don't like it, don't use it. Mr. Newmark and his staff are well-off
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by itgoon 16y ago
The operative word is "premature". Optimize when it is time to optimize - the OP touches on that. If you know a given routine will be run a lot, then some optimization right off the bat is a good idea. Now, that "knowing" is a little more d
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by itgoon 16y ago
The user should hide in the cabinet underneath the chessboard.
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by itgoon 16y ago
I think that is a good datapoint, myself. If there is a predisposition for people to choose "5" under those circumstances, we will have learned something.
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by itgoon 16y ago
That's funny. I got a few dev groups to update their documentation by comparing it to a recipe: list everything needed, first. List the things which can be done ahead of time. After that, preparation steps, and then the actual time-critical
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by itgoon 16y ago
Ditto, only for Scheme in general (I used Chicken the last time around). I chose Racket this time for all the "batteries included" stuff. I've never shipped anything written in Scheme, but my excursions into it have always left me a wiser p
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by itgoon 16y ago
> the old saw about competent sysadmen trying to write themselves out of jobs When I preach this, I modify it to "always eliminate your role". Your job won't go anywhere, but what you're doing for that job should always be changing.
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by itgoon 16y ago
I didn't like it at first, but took the opportunity to spend time getting to know it. IMO, it is a better way of navigating around. If I'm wanting to go a child of a folder three levels up, I just click the little arrow next to the appropri
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by itgoon 16y ago
The reason you don't keep files in your database is that file systems are much better at handling files. Faster, more efficient, basically all the reasons that a single-purpose layer tends to be faster than a general-purpose layer. Database
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by itgoon 16y ago
Shameless blog plug. http://itgoon.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-want-online-persona-man...
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by itgoon 16y ago
I don't know. I know that other IDEs have such functionality for other languages. I don't worry too much about the previous developer's style, because reformatting is a couple of simple keystrokes. As is reformatting it to another's standar
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by itgoon 16y ago
This is the version of the software with one or two additional features, and one or two additional zeros on the license cost.
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by itgoon 16y ago
No hypervisor host for FreeBSD, poor ZFS for Linux. If either situation changes, that's when I'll give up my opensol machines.
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by itgoon 16y ago
Well, if we're doing the anecdotal thing, then I'll be happy to back up mr. maroon. My current contract is with one of those Fortune 500 companies. I work in server ops, and am very much aware of what we have. There are a couple of thousand
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by itgoon 16y ago
To me, that seems less like a hosting company, and more like increasing utilization. I'm another one of the "been there, done that" crowd, back in 2002-2005 - and it was much easier then. I eventually sold for a small loss. Rather than targ
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by itgoon 16y ago
Basically, newspapers and magazines have the same problem as CDs: you have to buy a bunch of crap in order to get the one or two bits that you actually like. I suspect that ones that serve a focused niche will continue to survive, just not
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by itgoon 16y ago
For me, family is easy. It is our custom to charge each other full rates, period. Saves a lot of bad feelings. For friends, I usually request some kind of equivalent work for trade, or full rates. For example, I'll clean up your viruses if
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by itgoon 16y ago
If he gets offended so much that he doesn't see the point, then he doesn't view himself as a partner. He thinks he's the boss. The most important thing to convey is that you are both bringing value to the table, and neither of you can do it
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by itgoon 16y ago
Pick some aspect of his job, and say the same of it ("Accounting? That's just addition and subtraction!" "Sales? That's just going out drinking"). If he gets offended, just smile.
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by itgoon 16y ago
The problem with the underwater plumes is that they can't be contained. While you may have the image of an underwater oilslick, it isn't - the oil can be measured in parts per million (you might not even notice if you had a glass of it). Th
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by itgoon 16y ago
Develop the discipline. Do you brush your teeth every morning? If so, how did you develop the discipline for that? IMO, there's even more similarity between the two. If you skip brushing for a day, you'll have slightly bad breath. If you sk
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by itgoon 16y ago
The Home Depot case has been resolved in the little guy's favor: http://blogs.findlaw.com/decided/2010/05/unkindest-cut-home-...
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by itgoon 16y ago
In an ideal situation, you would not be okay. BP wouldn't have even the potential of protection, and your investment would be wiped out. Your punishment would be proportionate to your involvement.
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by itgoon 16y ago
I'm using it for a handful of internal projects. The selling points for these scenarios were that the server is cross platform, the server footprint is really small, and there is rich and mature-enough library support to use it from just a
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I want an online persona manager(itgoon.blogspot.com)
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by itgoon 16y ago
Never underestimate the brainpower of someone who has nothing to do but think about one problem. Goes for dogs, too :)
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by itgoon 16y ago
Here's a dumb question: most *nixes come with vi as the text editor, but the shell uses emacs keybindings. Why is that? (btw, if you learn emacs well enough, you're commandline-fu goes through the roof)
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by itgoon 16y ago
My own view on "lifetime" anything is that I'm taking a gamble on whose lifetime is longer, and consider that when choosing that option. Ultimately, the amount I pay comes down to how long I think the company/product will last. Anecdotal, I
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by itgoon 16y ago
And it has one of the best IMAP-centric rants, ever: http://sup.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/sup/imap.rb "fucking imap fucking sucks. what the FUCK kind of committee of dunces designed this shit." Classic.

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