jdbernard

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by jdbernard 14y ago
The first twelve paragraphs boil down to: * Qualified software engineers are hard to find, it's like hunting or detective work, but they do exist. Not really a myth-shattering revelation, I think we all agree with this. * People are afrai
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by jdbernard 14y ago
> I really don't understand how scheduling fixed-time appointments became the natural order. It depends on the work you do. Most of us on HN are typically doing open-ended work. We do not really know how long it will take. Time-fixed
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by jdbernard 14y ago
Have you used any of these languages? The Wikipedia list is overly simple at best. The common thing that these all share is easy access to the world of Java code, much of which is very well written. The Java standard libraries are well-writ
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by jdbernard 14y ago
> Taking in that sort of money raises the stakes dramatically. Nobody loans you a billion dollars to build a $50 million/year business. That was OzzyB's original point: Twitter should not have taken big VC money. They took too much mo
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by jdbernard 14y ago
Used to work in the industry manufacturing and programming these cards. You are exactly correct, the credit network provides more protection for the cardholder than using your debit card.
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by jdbernard 14y ago
I think a founder is unlikely to be the kind of person who can sit around all day doing nothing. I used to have a job where I had literally nothing to do four days of the week and it almost drove me crazy. I could not sit idle all day on
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by jdbernard 14y ago
I do care about the money I spend. Our family plans a zero-balance budget every month, meaning we track every dollar. I still end up getting Starbucks once or twice a week. That would fall into the "snacks and candy" category. I do not go t
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by jdbernard 14y ago
The guy who made this app set up a timeline here: http://ucouldfinish.com/conduct/ Reading his side of the story it seems that the University IT blocked it first out of fear of being overwhelmed and then the University looked for some way
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by jdbernard 14y ago
> Let me communicate with a unified UI and unified contacts. This was from the top comment. It is suggesting the solution is to glom everything together. I think the comment you are responding to is concurring with their parent commen
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by jdbernard 14y ago
I completely agree with you. When I write code, the actual code only captures a small fragment of the total mental model that is my solution to the problem at hand. There is so much information about the problem that is not captured purel
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by jdbernard 14y ago
Sure, but why is it stupid to value acceptance over assertiveness? > I make remarks like the one above in part to help other women realize they do have other options. So, the "correct" option for a woman facing discrimination is to grow
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by jdbernard 14y ago
I do not think she is arguing in favor of her "limitations". You are completely missing her perspective. The way you seem to value assertiveness is a typically male perspective. The female perspective often devalues assertiveness and instea
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by jdbernard 14y ago
This is an incredibly male view of things. Why is assertiveness the better choice? Why should life be about elbowing your way through everything? Why do you have to be such a tough guy? > you'll always stand on the side-lines and will f
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by jdbernard 14y ago
“I think I better play it for you,” is what she claimed the PR representative said. That is incredibly condescending, bad assumption notwithstanding. If I was a female gamer I would find that insulting, even if I was clueless. The assumptio
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by jdbernard 14y ago
I am in the same situation. Two kids, 3 and 1, one more on the way. I had to start taking a long lunch to go to the gym. Thankfully I have the flexibility to work a little extra in the evening after the kids are asleep. I find it a lot hard
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by jdbernard 14y ago
Yeah, but it seems like one of those tools you write because you want it to work your way, not necessarily because it doesn't already exist. I have a few of those: tools that already exist but I wrote my own for fun or because it fit my wor
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by jdbernard 14y ago
Not really. Most people put forth a minimal effort into learning how to ride. Most people can ride a bike, but far fewer are able to regularly put five miles on a bike. That requires a much higher level of training and conditioning that mos
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by jdbernard 15y ago
Other: Visual FoxPro
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by jdbernard 15y ago
But that's the whole reason I'm using Ubuntu in the first place: sensible defaults. There are plenty of other great distros out there and switching is easy, especially to such a close relative of Ubuntu like Debian.
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by jdbernard 15y ago
True, but the lack of evidence is not proof of falsity, especially when the subject of discussion carries a stigma.
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by jdbernard 15y ago
Minecraft is still up for me... is a short-lived DDoS news?
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by jdbernard 16y ago
I worked for a fairly large company (Gemalto). Developers had shared offices, two to an office. The office had a partitioning wall through the middle, but it did not extend the whole width of the room, so it was semi-open space. There was a
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by jdbernard 16y ago
I know it is old, but no-one has hit on exactly what is happening. It is decision trees, and it does make use of the winnowing effect of true-false questions. The last ingredient is user feedback. If it cannot correctly guess your character
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by jdbernard 16y ago
If you haven't been following, the design of the antenna makes is such that you can short-circuit the antenna if you hold wrong. Even in areas with good to great coverage, this can make you drop calls and have weak or no reception. Poor rec