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by jimfl 15y ago
Indeed few boats that size are as maneuverable as a tug. It's a good metaphor for a skilled developer: even with that kind of agility, it can take a while to change the direction of something with a huge momentum. And a software project has
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by jimfl 15y ago
This reads like it was written by an exploratory text generator. For example, at the end of one of the paragraphs we find the sentence "Is happy to read the whole file."
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by jimfl 15y ago
Check, check, and check. Amazon also takes Visa and MasterCard.
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by jimfl 15y ago
"I figure if I was a millionaire, I could hook that up."
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by jimfl 15y ago
The deal is that 4chan is influencing the mode of discourse on the web. For what that's worth.
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by jimfl 15y ago
Working backwards from the customer isn't necessarily giving the customer what they're asking you for, but defining a product which will, in fact make something easier, more fun, or scratch an itch to the extent that they will give you mone
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by jimfl 15y ago
What frightens me even more than Luke taking the edge routers to Anchorhead, is this phrase: "When we received alerts and reports from customers, our operations team began to check our infrastructure." which suggests that they didn't have m
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by jimfl 15y ago
I worked for a Silver Lake owned company, surviving multiple quarterly layoffs, and 3 CEOs. The only metric for these companies is EBITA, and dropping people helps maintain that number. The PE firm is making money all the while the actual c
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by jimfl 15y ago
You have. The other side of the story is that there is no story.
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by jimfl 15y ago
A number is the sum of its digits, raised to the appropriate powers Sum(i=0..n, a[i]*10^i) 123, for example is 3 + 2 * 10 + 1 * 100. A power of 10 (10^n) can be re written as (1 + 9 * Sum(i=0..n-1, 10^i). For example: 100
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by jimfl 15y ago
Any number subtracted from a re-arrangement of the digits results in a multiple of 9.
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by jimfl 15y ago
"In the future, the scientists plan to investigate the possibility that quantum space has three dimensions of space, as Sorli explained." I LOL'd.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Oh, thank goodness. Just yesterday I tried to deploy 6 different apps from the IIS app gallery, with 0 successful deploys. I thought maybe I was starting to go retarded. Apparently there are some bugs which prevent parameterized deploys fro
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by jimfl 16y ago
The half life of most software is 18 months or less (the number of users decreases by half), so you can be way sloppier in it's construction.
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by jimfl 16y ago
The BBSs of the 80s had the concept of the Twit Bit, which, if set for a user, they were the only ones who would see their posts. It was if everyone else were simply ignoring their posts.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Even better, logs are databases, and not a linear sequence at all. Often, I find that I am interested in some very specific subset of what happened; between these dates, from this IP address, in this module, errors of this kind, etc. If log
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by jimfl 16y ago
There is no such thing as bad press.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Not having a phone is extremism? That's rich! It is, however, a common attitude. The fact that I don't have a phone is generally met with incredulity. Sometimes I like to trick co-workers by connecting to my VoIP phone with a SIP client on
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by jimfl 16y ago
There is a band of the economic spectrum in which entrepreneurialism can be practiced at the scale and with the low barriers to entry we currently enjoy, and so macro economic news can be hacker news. Also, many successful startups simply e
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by jimfl 16y ago
I am a .NET developer, and I am trying to hire excellent, well-rounded .NET developers (hint), and I can tell you that it is non-trivial, specifically because many .NET developers are not particularly well-rounded, nor have the vast majorit
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by jimfl 16y ago
You can't do whatever you want with a device that is connected to a cellular network of any sort.
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by jimfl 16y ago
"Hey, Jules, which one of these commits is yours?" "Mine's the one that says 'Bad Motherfucker' on it."
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by jimfl 16y ago
Be sure it is worth it. Smart developers can smell an arbitrary deadline a mile away. The need for extra effort need to be tied to something more tangible than the Gregorian calendar and/or an executive's bonus. Stimulate a culture of owner
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by jimfl 16y ago
And if you insist upon making anonymous or pseudonymous comments, you're a troll.
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by jimfl 16y ago
A good engineering team will design with various simultaneous failure modes in mind. I've never ever seen this mindset on the business side.
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by jimfl 16y ago
The correlation, however tenuous, that I arrived at is the abiding interest in the hacker community to find a fitness regimen that interferes the least with the 16-hour workday.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Fascinating. I read the whole thing. Then I flagged it.
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by jimfl 16y ago
I have published a library, but no apps.
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by jimfl 16y ago
"Apple didn't invent the tablet..." Completely disagree. All previous attempts have been nothing more than laptops with the keyboard torn off, and a stylus sensitive screen. You can actually watch Apple invent the tablet right before our ey
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by jimfl 16y ago
Actually, it is called pedantry.

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