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by jakejake 13y ago
I liked the part of the article concerning "what is programming" and how we seemingly see ourselves plumbers and glue makers - mashing together various parts and trying to get them to work. I felt that the article takes a somewhat
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by jakejake 13y ago
From your description I would say that you are 5 - intolerant of normal bullshit. Every company, no matter how slick from the outside, will have some variety of disfunction going on inside. If I did believe in my team then I would try to do
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by jakejake 13y ago
Thanks for that - looks like an interesting site for all kinds of math-related subjects. I found another page that I felt like offers an nice overview of the Fourier transform and various practical uses, without getting into the actual impl
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by jakejake 13y ago
I love this story because it shows the true reality, for most people, of starting your own company. It is a long haul of trying and re-trying things and looking at the results. There is a lot of joy when you see the graph move up, and a l
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by jakejake 13y ago
This is fantastic. It's amazing how the right graphic can really clarify a somewhat tricky concept like merging.
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by jakejake 13y ago
That sounds like a pretty sketchy theory to me! As a musician, back in the day you had to learn to play your instrument without making mistakes in order to work and record. These days with software based recording you can edit so easily it
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by jakejake 13y ago
It probably is just a death by a thousand cuts rather than any one specific thing. The pace of the sport is slow. It's doesn't have the level of physicality of other sports. The players are not necessarily good looking or in go
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by jakejake 13y ago
Same here, I thought it was going to be "open source" as in part lists that people had used to build their own bikes. The site still looks useful and probably will be even more so when there's more bikes to choose from.
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by jakejake 13y ago
It's maddening! 2048 seems like it's so ridiculously hard playing the normal way. Then you play this game an it seems like it should be impossible to lose 2048.
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by jakejake 13y ago
I find that the "idea" person must really find a partner who can edit and curate his ideas. At the same time the partner who is doing the editing has to have enough social skill to know how to keep an "idea person" from
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by jakejake 13y ago
Congrats on the new gig! Being somewhat older myself and in a position of hiring (seeing a lot of young developers) I would have to say that you are just doing a few simple things that make your age a non-issue. The negative thing about ol
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by jakejake 13y ago
It is a good point and I agree with you it can be annoying to be forced to upgrade perfectly good software. But it does cut both ways. Legacy support is generally good for customers, but a burden for developers. As far as development and
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by jakejake 13y ago
I think the 10x label is just something that is easy to say and comprehend. But the real impact of a high-performing developer is probably way more than 10x. It's not really about lines of code. It might be that this person makes a
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by jakejake 13y ago
Expiring certs and domain names kinda haunt me. It's such a silly task and for most of us we only have to deal with every year or two. Yet if you forget, your site goes completely offline! All the work spent scaling and automating t
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by jakejake 13y ago
This is just the way Apple has always been. Keep up or fall behind. They're not focused on providing backwards compatibility. They leave the door open to losing customers to companies like Microsoft with these kinds of decisions. Bu
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by jakejake 13y ago
The author might consider using Microsoft products because they are obsessive about providing backwards compatibility. That's one of the positive things about Microsoft products. The downside is that they have to deal with a lot of o
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by jakejake 13y ago
If PHP was the language you knew best and your goal was to launch a product - then PHP would be a reasonable choice. If your goal was to be cool, then obviously PHP would be a terrible choice.
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by jakejake 13y ago
I get a sense that some people change languages or frameworks frequently just due to boredom, inability to commit to any one thing or a desire to pad their resume with buzzwords. It's just like everything else - great programmers will
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by jakejake 13y ago
They said they use it on their own production servers so of course I couldn't resist... http://scoutapp.com:5555/ Really nice looking monitoring, though. I think it's fun to see the stats scrolling by.
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by jakejake 13y ago
I'm in my mid 40's, still programming away but basically have been building and leading teams for a while. As it turns out I really like working on improving process. I've watched friends my age burn out and leave the indus
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by jakejake 13y ago
Anybody writing routing code would be foolish to use this, or any other "simplified" article as a protocol reference. But, I'll agree that it is presented in such a way (and with enough technical detail) that any technical e
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by jakejake 13y ago
Ah yea, I didn't think about that. Thank you.
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by jakejake 13y ago
I was thinking it's perhaps promo for blockr.io ? But, it is interesting because it's a transfer of coin worth over 110 million dollars USD (with today's conversion rate anyway).
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by jakejake 13y ago
For a laymen like myself, why is this particular transaction posted here? Is this recently stolen coin or something, or just a curiosity because it's such a ridiculously large amount?
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by jakejake 13y ago
I feel like I should know more about it since I spent so much time writing Perl in the 90's, contributing modules to CPAN, etc. It seemed like the de-facto language for dynamic web sites for a while. I have to admit I never fully und
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by jakejake 13y ago
Well it's not just pure sexism that would make an investors or co-founders nervous about a pregnancy. If I was starting a venture with capital for 10 months of runway, and my co-founder told me that they (or their spouse) was 3 months
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by jakejake 13y ago
With all the recent news obviously I'm glad I didn't decide to buy on Gox! The difference in what I'm talking about is that Bitcoin was selling for $135 on Gox while simultaneously selling on other exchanges for $700. That&#
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by jakejake 13y ago
Yikes I guess I shouldn't feel so bad about my 0.03 btc that I lost.
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by jakejake 13y ago
It's tempting to buy some bitcoin from mtgox just on a lark since the selling price is so low there. It's a heck of a gamble but would be a steal if they manage to pull themselves out of this mess.
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by jakejake 13y ago
Looks like fun! One suggestion might be a more visible way of showing the hate level rather than a decimal number. It took me a minute to figure it out. Seeing a list of topics with 63.2 and 50.9 on them - I couldn't really figure o

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