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by jfb 17y ago
I disagree. I don't find many similarities between what I do and what a "real engineer" does. I do not consider myself an engineer; I write software. Nowhere in the 18 years I've been doing this for money have I met anybody that could ex
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by jfb 17y ago
How about the massive downside of their existing outside the main GOOG infrastructure? Why is there not feature parity between my free Google account and the Apps for Domain that I pay for? RIDDLE ME THIS, GOOGLE!
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by jfb 17y ago
Nobody likes propping up insane petrodictators, but all the good names are taken.
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by jfb 17y ago
It's a social hack. I think it's pretty clever.
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by jfb 17y ago
OK, I know I'm old, but really, did she have to lead with that?
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by jfb 17y ago
SMS costs. Notifications don't.
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by jfb 17y ago
jfb from nowmov here. There was never really any friction, the meetings always tended to be pretty matter-of-fact and collaborative. We didn't have any direct competition, so I don't want to speak for the embed* guys, but everything was a
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by jfb 17y ago
He's a machine. We're all in awe of him.
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by jfb 17y ago
Which is a ghastly future to contemplate.
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by jfb 17y ago
Congratulations; we love and rely on Redis and are looking forward to the future.
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by jfb 17y ago
How is this news, exactly? I use it and love it every day, but ... eh. EDIT: Well, I see it's turned someone back onto LaTeX, so good on the submitter, then.
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by jfb 17y ago
It's like being called "cool" -- you cannot apply it to yourself. When people ask me what I do, I tell them that I program computers.