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by jowiar 12y ago
The whole building is like that - the walls and ceilings of the Vatican museum are one of the finest art collections on the planet, let alone the things that are hanging on the walls. It's worth an experience - the potential of somethi
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by jowiar 12y ago
Well, in the case of some of them, it did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...
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by jowiar 12y ago
One major challenge in the Bay Area often boils down to the lack of a government with the authority to collect taxes and impetus to spend them on Bay Area infrastructure. You either need three city governments and a pile of local ones to ge
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by jowiar 12y ago
Aye - the daybeds (and the beds) were what I was referring to. So much of that mid-century design was focused on designing things that could be constructed affordably - this largely came from the same post-WWII era of suburbanization where
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by jowiar 12y ago
Paging Dr. Norman: http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
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by jowiar 12y ago
The bed/couch is interesting, in that the original inspiration was the mid-century classic George Nelson Case Study collection (Modernica makes the canonical version - it's an awesome modular collection of tables and couches and b
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by jowiar 12y ago
- "returns a saveable object" - "accepts an employee with a notice: option" - "accepts :new" - "returns a hash with :name" Are all within the scope of a typechecker.
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by jowiar 12y ago
When I read code like this and find that half of the tests are, more or less, a typechecker, it reduces to an argument for static typing.
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by jowiar 12y ago
Forget all of that. The most interesting people in tech are largely not in San Francisco (and the ones who you find are loud, while the ones who are interesting you won't find). Instead: SF is a stellar place to unwind. Do that. Catch
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by jowiar 12y ago
The biggest utility problem for wallet was that the processes in question were: "Does this merchant use Square? Sweet - I'll give it a try. Pull phone out of pocket, open app, wait for GPS to lock on and find the merchant, check i
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by jowiar 12y ago
I don't buy that. Most programmers have learned that, in a diff, red = deletion and green = insertion. But I'm not sure that is "intuitive" as much as "learned behavior".
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by jowiar 12y ago
I tend to prefer it, though not on my Kindle - The Kindle interface is optimized for linear reading. On either an iPad or laptop, though? Having search is great. As is having the ability to have a whole stack of them with you at all times.
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by jowiar 12y ago
Here's what I've been doing. I'm running on an egregiously small sample size right now, but so far, so good. My goal is to answer "Are you honest about what you know, excited and curious about what you don't, willin
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by jowiar 12y ago
And moose, for our hockey-playing friends.
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by jowiar 12y ago
I don't like the defense I'm seeing here of "Oh, we're not talking about outright sexists, just equal-opportunity jackasses. Therefore, the claims of a sexist environment don't hold". I've worked with very
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by jowiar 12y ago
Roll back further in history though and the notion of "owning things" was an invention - it wasn't that people wanted to "own a horse" - it's that the entire notion of ownership was invented to determine who go
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by jowiar 12y ago
I think they miss the boat in some ways... Ownership is nothing but having the right to deprive others of using something combined with responsibility for it's upkeep. It can be convenient, but in many cases, for me, it's irreleva
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by jowiar 12y ago
My favorite twist in there is how little "creating" you are pushed to do...
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by jowiar 13y ago
And this speaks, in many ways, to the purpose of HR. It's not good enough to say "We don't think we have a hostile work environment", or "Asking around seems to show that we don't have a hostile work environmen
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by jowiar 13y ago
The other issue with startup-bucks is their value is tied to situations that may affect your continued employment - They're not just a lottery ticket, they're a lottery ticket where "losing the lottery" and "losing
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by jowiar 13y ago
The point I was trying to make is that, over the course of the day, things come up. Most of them I don't need to deal with now, I might need to deal with them in the future, but I don't want the cognitive load of worrying about re
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by jowiar 13y ago
The problem is never dealing with the things you have to do today -- It's dealing with the things you don't. Whether it's things you need to do sometime in the future, or things that you may never need to do at all, or the th
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by jowiar 13y ago
Just a brief correction - the upgrade cutoff is March 1 - See here: http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/support/faq/01-purchasing-s...
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by jowiar 13y ago
> So what about the '*' in C I don't like it... I don't what I'd do if starting from scratch, and there might not be better, but it definitely causes readability pain. > the '.' in so many object ori
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by jowiar 13y ago
I wonder if that explains the Ballmer peak...
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I generally don't particularly like giving punctuation meaning that, well, isn't punctuating. The bottleneck when writing code is almost never keypresses. I think CoffeeScript gets it probably the most right of languages I've
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One of the reasons, at least at a startup, why open plans are common is that they're logistically easier to deal with when growing. Rearranging the furniture to make space usage a bit more efficient doesn't involve a sledgehammer.
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by jowiar 13y ago
The problem I've seen (and continue to see) from Eich and Mozilla is that the apology is denial: "I'm not a bad person! See -- I'm doing all of these good things!" Apologies don't work that way. The right apolo
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That's pretty much the thesis of Bret Victor's "The Future of Programming" talk. It's here, for all who have missed it: http://worrydream.com/dbx/
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by jowiar 13y ago
Based on your name I'm assuming we're trying to find them in the same city...

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