itgoon

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by itgoon 16y ago
That's more of a startup oriented attitude. To continue the house analogy, if you wanted to avoid the premium associated with the higher contract, could enter into a similar agreement with the builder. He builds the house on the cheap, in e
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by itgoon 16y ago
If you build a house by having it done by a professional, you're going to be paying more to have it completed. There's usually contract clauses and insurance to ensure that you're not left with a half-finished house. When you hire that prof
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by itgoon 16y ago
> I haven't had a virus in 14 years. That you know of. I can say the same thing, but I always put in that little caveat at the end. Same for being hacked. I've looked for evidence, and never found any reason to believe otherwise. I've d
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by itgoon 16y ago
This teapot just happens to be the right size, in the right place, for these tempests.
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by itgoon 17y ago
I feel your pain, in more ways than one. Any site that keep running for a decade is impressive in and of itself. I, for one, won't try to second-guess your decisions. The Onion has been around for a long (internet) time, and I suspect most
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by itgoon 17y ago
Well, it was pretty lopsided, but there were some things that IPy was pretty good at. Exceptions are much more efficient, there were some bright spots in dictionary and string manipulation. Given that CPython is about Python, whereas IronPy
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by itgoon 17y ago
Worth every penny: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
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by itgoon 17y ago
I'm only just getting into my first nosql (Cassandra), so I've got no real-world data on it, but I think it would perform in the "well enough" category in performance. Just implement the tables with two columns: a key and a value, and index
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by itgoon 17y ago
I've gotta "me too" this post. Writing my side-project in Clojure has been pure fun.
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by itgoon 17y ago
Heh. I've been reading the various discussions about all of this, and having considerable experience digging into internals to find performance problems, it still seems to come down to one thing. Does it _feel_ fast?
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by itgoon 17y ago
> Where there is a will for violence and anarchy, the dominant or pre-existing "laws" only become pretexts, never deterrents, or they become marginalized by "circumstances". That's probably the most astute observation I've heard this we
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by itgoon 17y ago
Well, I'm going to be the dissenting voice. I agree that they should give you better guidance as to your budget before you accept the position. As for contacting your predecessor, I wouldn't bother. You're not going to get an honest answer
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by itgoon 17y ago
Not really. That's actually one of my favorite "health check" questions: when was the last time you restored? Most places have very reliable backup procedures. Most of those have very poor restore procedures - I'd say about half fail when p
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by itgoon 17y ago
I think his timeline may be too short, but I don't think it is that far off - 20 years, maybe. I would certainly agree that smell-recognition may be more difficult than image-recognition. However, there's been a lot of progress on that fron
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by itgoon 17y ago
I'd always heard it put as the "seven whys", but yes, it does work. The number is probably irrelevant, but the idea is to keep pushing for the deeper meaning (or root cause, in this case). If you can keep your reasoning from being circular
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by itgoon 17y ago
I think not heeding robots.txt would cause them more problems than it would solve. Currently, it gets used for more than "deny/allow all" - it is selective. If I have to worry about stuff I don't want indexed being indexed, then I'm going t
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by itgoon 17y ago
Speed? I doubt it. Fluency, absolutely. If a programmer is spending a lot of time thinking about typing, instead of "just typing", that's time spent away from the core problem. While fluency and speed are related, and fluency may lead to or
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by itgoon 17y ago
Get out more. Pick a hobby that requires some kind of interaction - the drama class is a fine example - and then commit yourself to it for at least a year. You don't need to "relate", or "understand" other people. You just need to recognize
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by itgoon 17y ago
Why would they all be working on the same thing? If you've got 20K+ employees, 100+ developers isn't all that many. Hundreds of departments across dozens of businesses leads to a few dozen projects going on at once. Add in the maintenance o
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by itgoon 17y ago
D'oh! Yep. There it is.
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by itgoon 17y ago
Am I the only one that found that two-frame, click the + to read the answer format really irritating? Did I miss a link where I could've avoided that. Good interview, otherwise. Just a PITA to read.
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by itgoon 17y ago
> I strongly suggest this kind of risk to be dealt with at the human resources department. Assuming that the only problem is that they are inexperienced... On a team of that size, you're not only doing development, you are (or should be
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by itgoon 17y ago
Many, if not all, of the various restrictions I've seen put into place were done in reaction to a legal problem. IM gets banned because someone leaked a secret. Websites get blocked because of a rash of sexual-harassment lawsuits. On-access
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by itgoon 17y ago
Yeah, this is bad. It isn't like standing up a Linux box, or OSS CMS, or something like that, internally. Now, if Amazon or someone were to offer a variation of EC2 that did satisfy all the various privacy/data retention laws and regs... /m
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by itgoon 17y ago
I once worked an issue with a crashing Exchange server. It had to do with a connection being reset in the space of time between the server checking if the connection was good, and actually using it. The client could reproduce it at will, an
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by itgoon 17y ago
That's why you don't bring it up again. This isn't theory; it works, at least for me.
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by itgoon 17y ago
Your relationship with the people you know will change, regardless (been there, done that). Many of my long-time crowd are ecstatic to make $15/hr, and we still hang out on a regular basis. After a few mistakes, here's the tack I've learned
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by itgoon 17y ago
Hm. Now I wish Brahms handed out gloves with their cones. Especially kid-sized ones. *edited for poor grammer
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Pash - PowerShell for Unixy systems(igorshare.wordpress.com)
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by itgoon 17y ago
Horse hockey. While I know that there are a lot of horror stories (and I can tell a few), some of the most productive "programmers" I've ever met used MS Access or Excel. If you don't consider advanced usage of these applications as a form

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