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by jakejake 12y ago
If you have somebody at your company who is well connected, good at making connections and is good at delivering presentations to investors, then you can get money even if your office is poorly run.
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by jakejake 12y ago
Unfortunately in today's climate it might be realistic to say "algorithms are solutions to interview questions" Although I do believe the more tools you have in your toolbox the better. Knowing algorithms can be incredibly h
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by jakejake 12y ago
I kinda agree, on my deathbed I doubt I'll be thinking about work passwords! I can't really think of much of anything work-related that should be a secret known by only one person and released upon death. I feel like part of my jo
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by jakejake 12y ago
There's a lot of interesting names here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marihuana_Tax_Act_of_1937
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by jakejake 12y ago
I've messed around with coding on mobile and basically came to the conclusion that it's only practical for emergency situations or making very minor tweaks. But in an emergency situation it can be extremely valuable to be able to
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by jakejake 12y ago
An alternative that I use is the Dell L100. It's not quite as heavy as the IBM, but they have a nice solid feel, they're USB and you can get them new for under $40.
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by jakejake 12y ago
I agree 100% with your feelings, and on top of that I find it to be a bit of humble-brag when I hear people talking about how much sleep they skipped to hit a deadline. I have to bust ass once in a while to hit a deadline, but I always cons
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by jakejake 12y ago
I think showing a small benchmark like that somewhat indicates the target use case. I would just guess, it's something to use for single-user apps. Perhaps storing user preferences or something. Most likely an app that is storing dat
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by jakejake 12y ago
NYC is an awesome city, but you have to admit that walking around certain streets of NYC is not really a fair comparison to touring a top-of-the-line factory!
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by jakejake 12y ago
That's nice to hear, I've always wondered about that. I grew up in a small town where every business for young people to hang out would fail. It was partially because we didn't have much money to spend, but I realized later i
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by jakejake 12y ago
I would think that places who have wait staff would not appreciate people taking up tables without ordering since it would directly affect their pay. But a coffee shop that does mostly take-out business may not mind so much having the appe
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by jakejake 12y ago
The adage "those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" comes to mind when I read this article. If you simply write off the GoF patterns then you're likely to spend a lot of time creating inferior solutions to c
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by jakejake 12y ago
I don't think you need to work on side projects to be a great programmer. It's just that there are very few great programmers who don't have a variety of side-projects. It's a natural side-effect of the desire and curio
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by jakejake 12y ago
As long as you pay the taxes when they are due, it doesn't matter if you collected them with each paycheck or pay a lump sum at the end of your tax period. Smaller businesses are allowed to file (and pay) quarterly. The smart thing to
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by jakejake 12y ago
It's totally understandable how these companies get themselves into this situation. Your employee gets a paycheck of $1000 and in addition to that you send off $700 in payroll tax. Well, if your bank account is low you can pay the em
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by jakejake 12y ago
We had a deal with our landlord for paying a reduced rent amount for one year, after which it would go up by $1,500 per month. Well, we had quite honestly forgotten about the deal and the same automated rent payments just kept going through
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by jakejake 12y ago
I actually enjoyed this article and it's definitely reassuring in a way to read about other people's struggles. I have to take minor issue with the "entrepreneurs don’t talk about their most difficult moments publicly"
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by jakejake 12y ago
I don't think it was a case of "let's make the next greatest CMS... what language should we choose..?" I suspect it was more like "what can we build to showcase Symfony." So, using PHP is somewhat the point o
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by jakejake 12y ago
(Edit my math was a little off since the article was talking about expenses per pound for the middle men, but total cost at the restaurant) Anyway, I think the markup at the restaurant is the highest. Maybe on the coast you can get a 2 lb
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by jakejake 12y ago
The part about being a commodity, wearing business casual and not working remote is something that I experienced early in my career. So my thoughts and fears of that time keep me motivated. All of us in tech right now are pretty lucky, bu
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by jakejake 12y ago
Same here - I like having my IDE full screen on my main monitor and my browser or emulator on the other. I recently had the brilliant idea to try three monitors, figuring that if two are good then three would be better. This only lasted ab
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by jakejake 12y ago
Verizon could have legitimately argued artificially throttling at the Level 3 connection is necessary to protect their network. But they didn't say that at all. They basically bragged that their own network is running well under capaci
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by jakejake 12y ago
For what would otherwise be considered a mundane task, this page is absolutely epic. Nice work!
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by jakejake 12y ago
I would only do that with written permission from the employer. Even if the system didn't have any major technical secrets, you could inadvertently reveal subscriber statistics or some other information that was considered private. A
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by jakejake 12y ago
I'd probably prefer that var b = a would just generate an error. You would have to explicitly copy or clone an immutable object in order to create the variable.
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by jakejake 12y ago
I'm a fairly happy aperture user but have been thinking about moving for a while since practically everybody uses Lightroom. How did you find the transition?
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by jakejake 12y ago
Aperture has a pretty nice method where you can save photos in the library or in a separate location. You can also have multiple libraries (which are basically just packages and you can go in and access the jpg and raw files as well) I&#x2
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by jakejake 12y ago
Ah, interesting. Our team came from using more traditional tracking systems and Pivotal Tracker got us re-thinking our strategy. We're not big enough to do full-blown SCRUM but Tracker been a huge help with managing our release cycle.
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by jakejake 12y ago
These demos always amaze me. Can somebody enlighten me as far as the way the size is measured - does it typically include all of the assets such as music and textures? I was watching a few of the demos and it blows my mind that the audio w
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by jakejake 12y ago
This sounds like sour grapes. I have no insight into Pivotal Labs except that we have used Pivotal Tracker for quite some time for our startup. Unless there's some major pricing change is coming, I don't see what about them is con

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