jimfl

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   by jimfl 17y ago

   C'mon, that porn name formulation is as old as the hills. --Duffy Kauffman.
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   by jimfl 17y ago

   What if nobody buys Twitter, and it continues to be a huge mystery to self-styled analyst types, and it continues to be of use to people who have figured out to make use of it?
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   by jimfl 17y ago

   I used to just replace the protocol with nsfw:// so that clicking the link would go nowhere, and that recipients would have to replace nsfw:// with http:// . I was thanked on many occasions for this convention. This is a nice automated ren
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   by jimfl 17y ago

   I only ever do ask one question in an inverview. I decsribe a simple application and then ask the candidate to design the database schema and business objects to support it. That usually takes up the time I'm given with the candidate, and t
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   by jimfl 17y ago

   The domain itself may be worth a couple hundred bucks, but your app and the time you put into it is worth much more, so you're on solid footing negotiating a better deal. It would be a PR nightmare for them to just pull the plug on you.
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   by jimfl 17y ago

   People are great programmers when they're working on something that they're interested in and the feel like they're making progress on something, and learning things from other great programmers. Hiring is part of this, because not only sho
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   by jimfl 17y ago

   I have noticed this as well, and not just the time I got downmodded for responding "XSLT" on a thread asking what folks thought were the most "tranformational" programming languages.
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   by jimfl 18y ago

   The more people in middle management (i.e. people who are not officers and people who are not leaf nodes) the more difficult it will be for the organization to make rational decisions, and the more compromises will be made to the quality of
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   by jimfl 18y ago

   Obviously Einstein was wrong: http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/innovative_techno...
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    I am made to understand that the IRS will accept tea bags in lieu of the balance owed.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    It is a poor teacher who is not eclipsed by his students.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    Also, I love the ability to keep navigating without losing the currently playing track. This seems like a basic, necessary UI trope for any sort of temporal media.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    Um. The first tune rocked my socks off, and I'm gonna let the next one play too.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    For the same reason nation states and sports franchises still exist; The human need to identify with something larger than one's self. Embrace it, because that's why people flock to your Yet Another Social Network startup.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    Since forever.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    That's weird. I remember reading about 'brown fat' in the 80's in OMNI magazine. It was the same deal, fat that was burned first, before storage fat.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    Learning lisp or any other language in which closures are a common idiom should be a prerequisite for building anything of any size out of Javascript. An understanding of closures will aid in a big way in figuring out why your browser rapid
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    If the bubble is unstable then it probably just needs constant modulation, meaning the FTL ship is flown more like a helicopter than a rocket ship. That makes it more maneuverable.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    A utility is a business operated for a profit. Corporations will take the path of least resistance to this profit, and since hardened systems are expensive to implement and manage, and since they have mostly been entirely unnecessary (no me
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    I love this distinction. It's like the distinction between accuracy and precision.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    I will have Manny's Pale Ale from Georgetown Brewery anytime I find it on tap. It's a perfect balance of hops and malt.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    Three words: Pair as needed.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    Because each of the cables is a different length, and each of the things plugged into the computer is a different distance to the edge of the desk, and each cable has a different stiffness, and tendency to retain the shape of having been ti
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    I tell people I am a Software Developer. I'm not a programmer, though software development occasionally requires programming. I certainly don't say Software Engineer, because what we do doesn't resemble engineering, no matter how much adher
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    No self-respecting crack dealer is going to settle for $500K/year!
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    Also, Humans and Chimpanzees are very similar, and yet we can't use the universal language of mathematics to communicate with them. Dolphins and Octopus are akin to us in intelligence; no spikka math. Alien lifeforms are likely to be order
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    Mathematics is a human language. It reflects the human mind, as well as the human condition, and has already been shown to be less than universal (i.e. that there are true statements which cannot be arrived at via method of proof given axio
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    Here's a recent twitter story for me: A few weeks ago, I was sitting in my living room, and I heard a bunch of emergency vehicles. I went to the local live 911 site and saw that there was a large heavy rescue response at the interchange bet
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    There's nothing simple about dating.
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    by jimfl 18y ago

    XSLT. Hahahahahaha!