jksmith

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   by jksmith 9y ago

   Obviously not a ssae 16 environment.
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   by jksmith 9y ago

   Yeah but you know where a man's brain is.
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   by jksmith 9y ago

   Interesting point. So what does this suggest about some of the highest paid CEO's being in industries with business models that are already quite stressed, like cable tv? And how did they get their assets in the first place?
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   by jksmith 9y ago

   And cheaper.
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   by jksmith 9y ago

   MSFT is starting to get it. Many startups are being funded for stupid projects that target the US and are based in SF. The future belongs to markets like Africa and S. America. They currently take about 6% each of world's total softwar
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   by jksmith 9y ago

   What you just said hurts my feelings and makes me want to be violent. The greatest freedom is the freedom to be personally responsible. Laws that curtail speech generally are orthogonal to that freedom. Think about it.
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   by jksmith 9y ago

   https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/09/simple-habit-2-5-million/
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   Y Combinator-backed mindfulness app Simple Habit raises $2.5M(techcrunch.com)

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   by jksmith 9y ago

   Feel good piece. When you see consolidation as orchestrated by Tribune and Sinclair, that's a natural step in the evolution of any dinosaur business that is declining. In the immortal words of Danny Devito in the movie "Other Peop
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    by jksmith 9y ago

    Sure. Say you have 40k respondents in a survey who were each asked if they use toothpaste X (yes/no). Save all answers in 5k bytes, then map to any particular respondents answer by shifting right by 3 and checking remainder. Then test
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    by jksmith 9y ago

    Great way to encode discrete answers for qualitative survey data. Reads are smoking fast.
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    by jksmith 9y ago

    Hah remember it well when I was trying to get to 20 stone.
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    by jksmith 9y ago

    Well the hippie lettuce situation is an interesting outlier. Just as much an exception, it's also not in the main workflow of pharma because of the heavy agri origin. But that also means big agri is also probably keeping a close eye on
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    by jksmith 9y ago

    I doubt any classed manufactured drugs would become legal in US unless major (1st tier) drug companies figured out a way to actually make money with them, no matter their potential benefits to consumers. Profit potential has by far the most
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    by jksmith 9y ago

    Have you gotten any feedback from anyone who has honestly met their definition of successful?
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    by jksmith 9y ago

    Been keeping up with Nimrod for a long time, and would love to make some money with it. Just doesn't have the libs I need. If you want to see Nim get some traction, have it spit out some golang.
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    by jksmith 9y ago

    All Wirth languages did this. Great for clarity when a specific mapping is needed. Damn I miss me some Modula 2.
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    by jksmith 9y ago

    Some snarky drift: Then post-college commercial reality sets in, where using mind numbing boilerplate supported by frameworks and heavy ides (as opposed to libraries, custom or otherwise, and an editor), is SOP. Join the programming masses
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    The Nick (local dive bar) closed at 4a to keep from turning into a B&B. Saw RHCP there - good show.
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    >>companies need to be held accountable for their actions and act better towards their customers. Exactly.
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    Seems to me that what is most unfortunate is that surrounding passengers didn't support the passenger dragged off the plane. 4 or 5 people standing up and threatening something along the lines of "Why don't you take my seat t
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    I love how the latest generation of interest in a particular development area like UI goes down the road of reinvention thanks to the latest in thing or programmer prejudice. The wasted bandwidth is insane. Somebody needs to write a variati
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    When I was in high school at the end of 70's, I worked in a motorcycle and gun shop (seriously). We used to see a few Suzuki GT 750 water buffaloes come through there for various repairs.
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    Yeah nothing like that powerband. Pure ridegasm.
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    Hell yeah at least he used a bike old enough to be a two stroke. Four stroke dirt bikes are just wrong.
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    It's really no big deal. Popped a bicep, so at Andrews they just did an arm block and sewed it back down. Will have another block done for a detached tendon on my ankle. Blocks are the way to go where appropriate. I can't stand be
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    Yes. A toolchain that's easy to code, easy to test, and easy to hire for provides more business value, especially as teams get larger. Why this is assumed to be some xor with advanced or clever programmers is really too bad, because ac
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    Damn that's sweet. I remember all the IIS restarts. Prolly in the 100's.
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    I'd like to take this time to show some love to ISAPI extensions and filters. Wrote some kickass stuff with that technology about 15 years ago (in Delphi of course).
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    by jksmith 10y ago

    Imagine how many good ideas may have been lost because those pitching them didn't have any connections? They don't even get the chance to be boring.