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by jbjohns 18y ago
Um, no? They're going to sell a part of their company to pay off their debts. But if you still don't see the difference just realize that they can only sell so many percent of their company until they have nothing left to sell and the c
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Does the way people use your product determine if your business is legitimate or not? If you did much IRC back in the day then you know that no such site will need to make fake women accounts to get guys to sign up. There are enough peo
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by jbjohns 18y ago
What is the ;-) for? You think you've found one? If so, you would do better not to judge people for whom the sum of your knowledge is: "they don't completely agree with me". ;-) The last project I did at my last job I did several hours ov
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I'm sorry, I have to (strongly) disagree. I used Perl professionally for 5+ years. I was the one that always added bindings to C and C++ libraries. I wrote a massive OO network management system that used all kinds of meta-magic (keep in
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by jbjohns 18y ago
That's strange, this is the first negative review I've heard (not that I've been digging for them). Most of my friends have one and every game I've plaid on one of their systems was amazing. They all also seemed to be really impressed wit
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but personally I'm not going to joyfully embrace the glorious opportunity to throw away 45+ hours of my life every single week to help make some rich people richer. Personally I wouldn't just travel (m
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Who cares about the 360? This time around Sony and MS came out with a more powerful 'same thing' while Wii innovated and made something really interesting. Why, my wife is even considering letting me get one of those. :)
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by jbjohns 18y ago
"fairytale-like cash bonuses on the north side of $20,000" ?? That's what? Around 20%? Hardly "fairytale-like". The last place I worked was around 30%, and the place I currently work has an average (well, had until this year) of 40%.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
This is an interesting/tragic aspect of (at least) organizations, professions and technologies: Once created, they become a sort of living thing. No matter how "obsolete" the world may see them now, they don't want to die and will do ever
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by jbjohns 18y ago
No, in terms of new adoption: http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/12/07/python-surpasses-perl etc.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I interpreted his comment to mean new programmers. Maybe smart people have gone there in the past, and some of them may not even have left yet, but I would think that someone just getting into scripting is very unlikely to start with Per
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by jbjohns 18y ago
The pre-college education in the US really is that bad (pg references it in one of his essays). I took a typing class in 9th grade (closest thing we had to computers in my "backwoods" school). I was typing up to around 115 wpm or so, mayb
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by jbjohns 18y ago
He was actually pretty nice to perl (even went as far as to say you will have to use it). What exactly would he have had to say for you not to be offended? Say it's as readable as Python? It isn't.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
If you do think Perl is a productive language then you (a) are a unix system administrator and/or (b) have never used a truly productive language.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
The issue with SVN is simply the work flow it forces you into. I can't tell you how many times I've looked at someone's repo and see .bak files everywhere. I know right away why they're doing this because I did it myself when I used CVS/S
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by jbjohns 18y ago
>Slavery would probably be very profitable if allowed in America today. I completely disagree. The problem with slaves is you have to feed them if you want them to work. While Americans (afaik) spend the smaller percentage of their
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Ah, enough people say programming languages should be terse that I thought that's exactly what you meant. Concise is clear and short, terse is less characters but unreadable.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
I can't name either (because saying the sector and how successful they are would be saying who they are). As far as success; they are miles ahead of their nearest competitor.... in the US. They only do well in places that allow one to abu
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Terse no, absolutely not. Concise should be the goal.
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Looks like you have it ok in NY as well. I worked in the south in a "right to work" state. The base hours were 45 and you were expected to be in your desk by 7:30. They had automatic badge readers on the door which when unlock when you
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by jbjohns 18y ago
It was made by an American, so what is the insight it gave you? That maybe America doesn't have a good work/life balance and it's starting to bubble up?
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Universal health care I'm not so sold on, but the possible options aren't just (1) universal health care and (2) the incredibly awful system the U.S. has. I'm an American living in Switzerland, for example, and here it is simply the law tha
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by jbjohns 18y ago
It's not that simple. If Da vinci would have been forced to sit in a pod all day every day, having meetings every morning about how much progress he thought he would make on some painting that he knew he would just be redoing again in 6 mo
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by jbjohns 18y ago
Unless, of course, the company you've entrusted your savings to loses it all 2 weeks before you retire (e.g.gets heavily involved in opaque that end up being worthless)....
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by jbjohns 18y ago
(1) Who cares what fellow workers would say? Do work to make them happy, or yourself/your family? (2) What kills morale for me is idiot work-a-holics who think they will get ahead in the company by parking their butt in a seat more hours th