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by jacobquick 14y ago
valve's people aren't very young, mostly they hire senior people. the narbacular drop kids were an exception.
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by jacobquick 14y ago
Senior linux system administrators are in very short supply. Companies have given up training people for that kind of work, schools don't teach it, and most of my sysadmin friends migrated to management or dev over the past few years. I've
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by jacobquick 14y ago
It has a few really nice use cases (legacy one-off winxp servers running software from defunct vendors, rhel3 host for old image software aquired by adobe and shelved? perfect in both cases), but the other stuff I've seen it put to has been
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by jacobquick 14y ago
It doesn't have a standard implementation, each company kind of makes it up as it goes. Google's is different from Microsoft's, though it's prone to the same issues on a smaller basis.
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by jacobquick 14y ago
I forwarded Valve's employee handbook to an economist friend a few months ago, and he suggested that whoever set up the company was actively experimenting with public choice theory, and that from that perspective the good and bad things men
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by jacobquick 14y ago
"Yeah, this article reads like a propaganda piece." Reason is largely funded by oil interests like the Koch brothers (one of them is on their board). They've been running pro-oil for at least 6 years or so (when I saw the first of the artic
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by jacobquick 14y ago
...making it the best spam filter yet discovered
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by jacobquick 14y ago
He wasn't asking the guy to take it down in this instance. He was directly responding to the legal threat. The history of the situation is there for context.
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by jacobquick 14y ago
When I was working at startups in Cambridge, there was a company there that had a similar reputation called "JumpTap". They were in the same building as us and their people complained a lot a the nearby bar. Long hours, long weeks, no recog
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by jacobquick 14y ago
This was my first thought, too. First it's "why would GM want to hurt Facebook" but now I'm up to "which banks backed Facebook's IPO vs which banks are helping out with GM's reorganization" so I guess it looks like a little like Facebook is
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by jacobquick 14y ago
I actually like seeing this development in tech because it shows we're not completely isolated from the broader social shift happening on the internet, as its culture starts to catch up with its user demographics, and the internet's brillia
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by jacobquick 15y ago
hey thanks for posting this, I'm about to start wellbutrin this month myself
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by jacobquick 15y ago
"were" there "were" plenty of casual ubuntu users. soon there will be plenty of casual mint users.
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by jacobquick 15y ago
This kid's a...kid, I guess we shouldn't expect a long view from him. What he sees as a slippery slope is a normal part of education that's hard to spot if you're only in the system for four years. Professors have been complaining for decad
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by jacobquick 15y ago
I'm not looking to move things to the jvm anymore, I can't trust oracle with the future of stuff I may need to update and maintain.
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by jacobquick 15y ago
The blog post is long-winded but the site is dumb: "I'm not going to tell you what my site does but please upload me your CV." How about you make a fake result set so I can see what you're up to instead of being another useless "social tool
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by jacobquick 15y ago
If you're a coder or tech just wait until January, companies start deciding who to hire and advertising work then. Until then just chill out, go to the movies, do stuff that isn't computers and decompress. The panic will pass shortly. If yo
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by jacobquick 15y ago
That's awesome to watch. If you start with an outline of statements you want to make, you spend less time picking through little clauses around the things you want to say. You have half an outline there to start with: your list of things to
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by jacobquick 15y ago
I for one made at least 30 accounts to request this evidence be presented forthwith