jmadsen

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by jmadsen 14y ago
youngster at 45. can't wait till I retire so I can finally learn some of the fringe stuff I want to play with but have no time. to me, being a programmer is living the life of a perpetual student. how can anyone grow bored with that?
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by jmadsen 14y ago
If I can oversimplify a bit, as Murakami-san say: You used to put up with the b.s. that went with working a lifetime in a large, bureaucratic organization. Now that the security & benefits are no longer assured, you see more mid- to upp
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by jmadsen 14y ago
although I guess we can't say "crackers" anymore... damn young people.
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by jmadsen 14y ago
Yes, we are. "Crackers", on the other hand...
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by jmadsen 14y ago
I tend to reply to "Does working from Home work?" with "Does working from Work work?" Having spent a few years in a corporate environment, and many more as a consultant in other people's corporate environments, I can tell you first hand tha
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by jmadsen 14y ago
Yeah, com'n people - little common sense here. 1) If everyone is leaving food on their plate, cook smaller portions. 2) If occasionally there is food on the plate, or it just kids "being kids", stick it in the fridge. I agree with the very
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by jmadsen 14y ago
exactly. One makes the head, two make each arm, etc... of course, you can't do that with computer software
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by jmadsen 14y ago
Without commenting on any of the other aspects of this, The petition couldn't get 25 THOUSAND signatures, although I think it was up for at least a month (I tried to sign at one point before the Wired article but it was also down) In a coun
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by jmadsen 14y ago
yes. looks like they preempted not having to care ;-)
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by jmadsen 14y ago
possibly. Namespaces are very new to php, so programmers who taught themselves via php might not have much experience using or general knowledge of them
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by jmadsen 14y ago
Won't start a big argument, but replacing kanji with hiragana would make the language a vaguely-worded nightmare. Massive number of homonyms; huge number of verbs with slightly different nuance achieved through a different choice of kanji.
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by jmadsen 14y ago
"Angular also has its own testing suite rather than integrating one of the existing popular JS test frameworks like Jasmine." are you sure about that? pretty sure it uses Jasmine. From the tutorial: "Angular developers prefer the syntax of
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by jmadsen 14y ago
sorry to break in on the generalizations, but - When I lived in Spain they killed so many cyclists every year, it was the source of macabre jokes. I found that to be true in several other countries. Probably should leave out the "Europe vs
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by jmadsen 14y ago
Swearing in a conversation is one thing; Not having the common sense not to publish something you took the time to sit and write & presumably reread and edit is another. Guess what? There are lots and lots and lots of awesome programmer
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by jmadsen 14y ago
+1, although I don't think it is a sexist term. This is a professional site, for a (hopefully) mature, professional audience. Step 1: Grow up and learn to write mature, professional articles. I didn't bother to read it because of the headli
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by jmadsen 15y ago
Wonder if the US govt, et al will suddenly stop spouting "terrorist organization" nonsense about them now?
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by jmadsen 15y ago
Sorry, that's lame. I grew up in a small, all-white community where jokes about blacks were common and accepted. when I grew up and moved away, I learned how bad that was. so I stopped. I don't ever, ever slip up, because I don't think that
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by jmadsen 15y ago
Yes to your first sentence; I'm not sure about the rest. I couldn't help but feel this essay was in response to an earlier HN thread where his speaking style was criticized a bit for its unpolished nature & being essentially "un-listena
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by jmadsen 15y ago
absolutely - david crockford has the same problem, and I just simply couldn't listen to his entire javascript series had brilliant university professors who were the same. people need to realize that this is fixable, and is very important t
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by jmadsen 15y ago
+100 Tired of sources supposedly at the top of their profession (WSJ) who simply repeat these money claims and don't ask to see any sort of study to back them up. They printed another claim from the Motion Picture industry claiming "100,000
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by jmadsen 15y ago
Yes! I'm so glad your comment didn't get lost in the shuffle. This is just a boring repeat of all the people who once read an Econ 101: Intro to Macroeconomics textbook, and then sit and describe the world economy based on these first step
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by jmadsen 15y ago
yeah, "being grammatically perfectly." is obviously of lesser importance to them :-) I know, I know..troll
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by jmadsen 15y ago
"How can I reduce or avoid SPAM?" - Do not sign up at sites with poor site security
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by jmadsen 15y ago
what we need - one more reason to jump on our smart phones during dinner with friends or family :-P (I DO see the "cool factor", but still..)
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by jmadsen 15y ago
This is a case where I toss all my personal philosophies aside and say, "Yeah!" They now do "news segments" on what's being said on Twitter. Make the news agencies behave like grown-ups, even if it kills them.
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by jmadsen 16y ago
A few days ago there was a link on this site to a victims search database, but I am unable to find it now. If anyone knows the link, could you please post again? thank you
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by jmadsen 16y ago
sounds exciting! might take a look myself