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by jmvoodoo 9y ago
This is absolutely true. Ive been lucky that the last 17 years of my career have been spent reporting to the CEO and have had a large amount of leeway in my position. That's not always the case and a bad leadership team can't crea
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by jmvoodoo 9y ago
First off I hate the phrase "Rockstar dev" because it gives the impression that someone can be successful without the support of the team, which is wrong. Second, I hear this extremely often: Rockstar devs don't like to mento
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by jmvoodoo 9y ago
My "standard" team typically has two jr engineers, and two Sr engineers. When we hire Sr engineers we hire people that like to mentor others and see it as part of being Sr. Jr engineers know that in order to become Sr one of the s
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by jmvoodoo 9y ago
As a Tesla owner this logic seems very strange to me. I hardly ever use the superchargers at a location like a mall unless I'm stopping at the mall specifically for the charging station. So it's clear to me that the mall has the
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by jmvoodoo 9y ago
That's how a win-win works. If Wal-Mart can make a profit by getting people to save money there's nothing wrong with that. Especially when compared to the banks that make significant money fining you for being broke.
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by jmvoodoo 11y ago
Just a single data point, but my parents bought their single family home in sf in 1972. It's currently worth about $2M. They pay roughly 400/yr in taxes and as a result there is no incentive for them to ever leave.
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by jmvoodoo 11y ago
Granicus | Multiple Positions | Denver, CO Granicus makes local and state government more efficient and transparent. We are the leader in our space and serve over 1000 government organizations including the US House and Senate. We are looki
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by jmvoodoo 12y ago
The best way to solve a problem is not to have it in the first place. Great programmers aren't better at dealing with complexity, they are better at reducing non inherent complexity and finding ways to break inherent complexity down in
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by jmvoodoo 12y ago
This. And get any skeletons out as early as possible. M&A people love to use them during DD to knock down valuations. If you've already disclosed them, especially before entering exclusivity, then you have a much stronger negotiati
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by jmvoodoo 12y ago
We converted from Heroku to AWS+Chef (we use hosted chef from opscode). We even wrote and open-sourced a application_procfile cookbook that lets you do heroku-like things with Procfile web and worker processes.
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Granicus launches store for civic app developers.(granicus.com)
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by jmvoodoo 13y ago
If Netflix really wanted to turn this around on AT&T, they would just have different prices based on how much each provider extorted from them. Comcast customers would pay more for Netflix than Cablevision customers. Netflix would pay t
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by jmvoodoo 13y ago
By removing the scheme from the url, the browser will use http/https based on the scheme of the containing page.
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by jmvoodoo 13y ago
Fair enough on the straw man. I definitely work closer to 70 hrs a week at the moment.
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by jmvoodoo 13y ago
This entire piece is written from the perspective of someone who sees their job as only a way to make money. That person might look at me and say something along the lines of "look at him, wasting his life away spending time at work.&q
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SF Publishes All City Codes on Github(github.com)
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Github Down(status.github.com)
4 points by jmvoodoo 13y ago|1 comments
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by jmvoodoo 13y ago
Granicus - San Francisco/Chicago 2 full stack engineers, front-end engineers with a desire to learn Rails would be considered as well. Granicus is changing the way that people interact with government. From your local city or school, t
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
Seems like this is a possible vector for font based kernel exploits. Didn't Gauss have some mystery font? Edit: It was Gauss, not Flame, that has the font.
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
Very cool. I'm still waiting for a phone version of the Tactrix open port though. Would love to be able to do in-depth data-logging of my car and ECU flashing from my phone... the market for that is significantly smaller though I'm sure.
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
Additionally, you need the skill and knowledge to be able to tell a good solution from a bad one in the many results you'll get back from a given search.
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
You may be able to sue the state of MA in CA court. At least one person did this to California after moving to Nevada: http://www.hgexperts.com/article.asp?id=5410 Granted, it was the state of Nevada, and Nevadans hate taxes and probably
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
I was going to post something on their site, but apparently you have to have enough karma to give a response now. Use a removable side-loading bean cartridge. The bottom of the cartridge would be mesh, the top open. There would be a spring-
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
Trivial to write the law perhaps, but enforcing it would be another thing entirely.
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
I accessed a network without permission from its owner, and my actions interrupted the normal operation of the network. That's about all I really want to talk about. I was very young and stupid at the time, and have since learned better :)
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
I think I got your point. I just approached the problem from the other side. I think limiting a prosecutor's ability to bargain would be easier from a legislative standpoint than getting involved in sentencing, and more effective since the
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
This. The law should be rewritten to prohibit prosecutors from entering into plea deals of less than X% of the maximum sentence they are prosecuting someone for, with the exception of plea/immunity deals that include providing incriminating
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
This isn't all that out of the ordinary. Back in 1995 I had the SS visit my family's home due to some of my childish behavior at the time. No fun, and luckily nothing ever came of it, but the SS was involved from the very beginning as far a
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
This type of behavior makes me wonder what the incentive structure is (both financially and socially) for these prosecutors? IMO that's what needs to change if we are going to have any sort of real justice in the future. Going after individ
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by jmvoodoo 14y ago
Much easier to stay motivated with 25% of a growing company vs a larger share in a failing company. Hopefully she negotiated some better terms, and has some protection from being pushed out and diluted. If so, this could end up being a very

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