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by jordanpg 11y ago
I'll switch to one of these new-fangled shells if I ever master bash. In any case, bash -- in one of its many forms, colors, and sizes -- is what I usually find myself in front of.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I like the sentiment, but I kinda doubt that the group of folks who would inspect the script before running if only it wasn't so inconvenient to do so has many members. We live in an era of unsigned images and arbitrary code. This is
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by jordanpg 11y ago
There is some subset of all VCS software that contains the handful of commands that 80% of coders need 80% of the time. Conceptually, these commands are very nearly isomorphic for individuals making changes to files by themselves. These pa
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by jordanpg 12y ago
That's fine and even important, but there are huge swathes of the American population that don't understand the distinction between research professors and folks like teachers, instructors, and lecturers. They get painted with on
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by jordanpg 12y ago
One vote for the point of view that says I don't really much care how well-rated as teachers research professors are. My tax dollars should be mostly supporting their research. Teaching should be a collateral duty . It is not a v
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by jordanpg 12y ago
The author isn't writing about any prefixing of the word "so." He's writing about the use that implies "what I'm about to say is really complicated and few understand it but me, but I'm going to take my b
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by jordanpg 12y ago
This is the geek equivalent of corporate buzzwords. Lots of communities do this and it comes and goes in fads. Listen to political commentators. For them, the trendy thing is to start sentences with "Look,..." For tech people gi
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by jordanpg 12y ago
For something simple and very lightweight for Windows development, check out BareTail: http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I don't think this can be true, except for experts. In the biography of Oppenheimer, American Prometheus , he was described as having an uncanny ability to flip through publications and understand their conclusion and significance in
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by jordanpg 12y ago
The answer depends on why you're reading the papers, of course. If it's only a dilettante's interest, then read it like you would read news: skim for a general sense, emphasizing the introduction, conclusion, and graphics. F
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Oh, well the enthusiastic pursuit of lots of money is totally different if it's part of a startup. Also Makers are exempt.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I like the sentiment very much and I think the demo platform looks like a solid foundation. Not crazy, like others, about the "OS". That said, I think that, as far as revolutionizing elections/politics in any important sen
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by jordanpg 12y ago
You're reading me wrong. Dismal means sad, and the caption is meant to be wry or ironic.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Excellent piece of writing. Very funny at times, witty like a satirical novelist. Particularly enjoyed the anecdotes from NASA and the author's conveying of the powerful emotional context of high stakes programming. I pine for a go
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Some good points made, but the author ignores a lot of things about the state of undergraduate (and graduate, to a lesser extent) classrooms. Factors like rampant grade inflation and students with large varieties of extra needs mean that t
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Like the rest of the things in the world, as programming knowledge and competency continues to become democratized and ubiquitous, these tendencies will change. The incredibly competent men who run the show in authoritarian ways that appeal
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I don't really know if this is a fair characterization of postmodernism or not, but I have to wonder about the circumstances under which a total lack of structure would actually be useful in a human life? It seems like to me an intere
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I'm not a hardware expert, but my intuition tells me that the general thesis -- that any given hardware module could be implemented in some way that's light years ahead of where we are now -- is often true. But there is more to
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by jordanpg 12y ago
All of these are generalizations with a kernel of truth. In real life, I imagine the frequency of occurrence of various hiring techniques falls into something like a normal distribution. Similarly with hiring results. My thoughts: 1. It&
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Like standardized testing, whiteboarding problems is another good data point. It provides a well-understood test given in a well-understood context. It shouldn't stand alone, but it might be the case that a person who can't do a
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by jordanpg 12y ago
FYI, this is interesting because of who the tweet is coming from. About the author: > I’m currently a Research Assistant at MIT CSAIL, in David Karger’s Haystack group and an Invited Expert in the W3C CSS Working Group. Unfortunately,
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by jordanpg 12y ago
It's clear that the customer support rep has no training in customer relations, or at least doesn't care about customer satisfaction. It's rather obviously a bad business practice to engage in this kind of conversation with
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Testing and certainly TDD usually fall by the wayside because it takes too long. At least that is the perception. I see two keys to keep tests lightweight, fast, and desirable. First, you should choose testing and mocking libraries and le
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I sure hope the idea of Jupiter and Saturn moon missions captures the public's eye and become economically feasible in my lifetime. In the spectrum of space missions that might actually happen someday, they have the most manageable ti
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by jordanpg 12y ago
However interesting this idea might be, there is a certain demographic in this country that juuuust won't.... quite.... be... able to get their arms around this one.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Is there an Omniref equivalent for Java?
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by jordanpg 12y ago
A little hard to follow? Only because I've never seen it before. This is a great idea. The publishing of code-as-narrative or code alongside narrative is something that will slip into the mainstream, maybe in our lifetimes. Already
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I think we've all been somewhere that had a laughably incompetent "architect". I can think of at least 3 in my own relatively short career, at three different firms. The rest I would describe as... harmless? And yet I can
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by jordanpg 12y ago
One of the biggest values I got from the Dish was as a news aggregation service that I trust , and that is the thing that might put me in the wind looking for a replacement for some time. Andrew identifies as a conservative of some flavor,
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I've always enjoyed this quote, but I disagree that there is much in the way of serious "analysis" happening when ESPN talking heads are arguing about football game outcomes. This Onion classic has always nicely summarized th

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