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by jjindev 13y ago
You just did describe a new problem and process. If you have someone on staff you can watch him closely. On the other hand "exit day" brings complications ... especially for sys-admins. Edit: and so it wouldn't surprise me
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by jjindev 13y ago
If you had unlimited budget, and disgruntled ex-employees were a greater risk than current employees, what is your short term strategy?
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by jjindev 13y ago
The company started with stolen data and stolen clients. Salesmen wanted to steal clients and data again. It was life on a pirate ship. I'm tempted to say it had to end badly, but I suppose there are some companies which do rise abo
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by jjindev 13y ago
You guessed the "maker" blog ;-)
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by jjindev 13y ago
When I looked at this, and ran my primitive simulations, I decided that it really, really, mattered when you were born. 70 year averages, or 140 year averages, matter very little when markets and economies turn on spans of decades. I mean,
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by jjindev 13y ago
That's very good that "show dead" shows hellbanned, and all I could ask for. And it's not like I was worried about HN specifically, more the ability of smaller, more focused sites to self-AstroTurf by omission.
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by jjindev 13y ago
I dislike the idea of hellbans just because it is invisible to the non-banned community, and they are unaware of how they are being "shaped." I think I've seen it happen on a "maker" blog where the comment wasn&#x2
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by jjindev 13y ago
As I mentioned in the other Slashdot/HN thread, I too think it is all about the front page algorithm. The [thing] is though, I don't really doubt the structure. A lot of "new" and few "front page," filtered al
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by jjindev 13y ago
Yes, there is a Back To The Future aspect. That said, cpus are just cheaper and easier these days. POWER, as a core, might break out.
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by jjindev 13y ago
This was full on alarm and blinking lights on my old Android Droid X. About 30x the sound volume of a text message. It only woke me up, but I wondered how smart they were. I mean, someone driving might have been shocked into an accident.
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by jjindev 13y ago
It ranges from large companies who say "this is an important issue, let's meet next month to discuss" to small companies who say "I was worried about that, so I made a fixed decision an hour ago." There really are
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by jjindev 13y ago
Definitely. And I wouldn't discount that bliss-period at a new organization. If it is happier, it is happy.
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by jjindev 13y ago
When I was a young man, at my first job, I expressed my discontent. My dad (Viggo Jensen, RIP) gave me sage advice. He nodded his head, and said "it takes about 3 years to find out what's wrong with an organization. After that
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by jjindev 13y ago
At some point they must cycle (with TAs?), right? How else to amortize fixed costs?
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by jjindev 13y ago
As I say in my other comment, since it is web-distributed, it "can't" have carrier specific software. "Assembled by me," in black, with (almost) pure Android.
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by jjindev 13y ago
"Where is this heading?" ... "Instead, it comes with an almost pure version of Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean." I think the color shells is misdirection, it's a way to get the Moto resellers on the (almost) pure stuff.
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by jjindev 13y ago
For reasons not completely unrelated to the rant.
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by jjindev 13y ago
Perhaps I should expand the history, for those who don't know. In the early 80s, QNX was the first fully multitasking operating system available for the IBM PC architecture. It was small, efficient, real-time, and somewhat idiosyncrat
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by jjindev 13y ago
[buried my lede: the front page algorithm] I'm new, pointed in by the coursera startup engineering course. I have no idea how large that cohort is, or how uniform it is. I certainly scan the headlines for startup themes (tech and othe
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by jjindev 13y ago
I really liked QNX, when it fit on a couple floppies, and before it swallowed the POSIX anchor, and so .. sure.
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by jjindev 13y ago
I only want Linux to succeed because I want there to be open software stacks, especially for poor and beginning developers. Android's implicit distribution of LInux core means a more secure open stack ecosystem (even if it is special
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by jjindev 13y ago
My fantasy vision, predating go, was publisher/project/version with /src and /bin below all that (separate bins and srcs). I am open to re-balancing that tree ;-), but somewhat surprised that version wasn't in from
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by jjindev 13y ago
Perhaps the people who click with Go will just be different in their natures than people who click with other systems and frameworks. Programmers are not a uniform population, and tools which map well with subsets have real value.
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by jjindev 13y ago
plot twist, my friend's anglicized name is Nan, but in Vietnamese I think it is a number. (nth birth)
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by jjindev 13y ago
I had a funny experience. Before I ever worked with Go a developer I'd worked with (and argued small details and big philosophies), told me "why don't you use Go? It seems your kind of language." From my later glances
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by jjindev 13y ago
Reminds me of a story a police reservist told me. Guy got a license plate caled "none," and instantly had thousands of outstanding warrants. (The cop thought "none" was trying a fast one, and so deserved it.)
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by jjindev 13y ago
It seems the go team chose a method that would produce zero name collisions under parallel development. That's the highest goal, but of course the burden of it is that paths below /src must be kinda long to support it. A "r
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by jjindev 13y ago
I think it's good to have a low-overhead method for infrequent writers (people who want to expand beyond their tweet on occasion). Medium seems a good name and place for that. On the other hand, I can totally see why people who write
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by jjindev 13y ago
I love old books, and was amusing myself by reading a geology text from around 1880. It was my first exposure to that science. It amused as I started that I might end up with a good education, a hundred years out of date. As I continued
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by jjindev 13y ago
Excellent, thank you. FWIW also, comparing that $200 pricepoint, Newegg recently had a Lenovo server Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GH Dual-Core; 4GB RAM; DVD ROM, no-disk, no-os, for $250. (reputed backdoor at no extra cost!) Update: I just went to

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