jsaxton86

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by jsaxton86 14y ago
Yeah, I do. I think the only constant thing in software engineering is that you need to be able to learn and adapt. If you spend 25 years at a single organization where you aren't forced to continuously learn and adapt, you'll be at a disad
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
I've also worked with developers in their fifties who are awful. Age bias is awful, and I have worked with a lot of older developers who know their stuff and are extremely competent, but the idea that 25 years of experience automatically ma
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
I think the value of 20 seconds is arbitrary, but there's a good reason why they don't lower it any further. With a protocol like TCP that guarantees reliable delivery, sometimes packets get resent to the server. If the server receives this
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
To be fair to the original poster, you didn't post his entire statement. If you look at the entire statement, he made several intelligent points about TCM, any one of which could have been the starting point for an intelligent conversation
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
Look, if you're talking to investors, you're most likely making a sales pitch. Any competent salesman is going to of course emphasize the positive aspects of what he's trying to sell. If you can say, "We’re operating at X run rate" and inve
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
Also, by the time the user is willing to spend money on your app, they're hopefully willing to pay more than 99 cents.
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
I agree with the idea that purchasing 99 cent app is a total gamble, even if I don't have much to lose. If I were writing a mobile app, I'd have a free version and a paid version. The only difference between the two would be with the free v
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
To me, the confusing part is why NBC only lets cable subscribers stream the content for free. I would guess that the cable companies are paying them to do that, but that is pure speculation on my part. If I can stream everything online, why
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
This article is tangentially related to a question I've been thinking a lot about lately. At many organizations, the amount of time you spend programming is inversely proportional to your skill as a developer. As you become a better develop
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
To me, the most interesting part of this video was the graph of worker efficiency as a function of hours worked per week, which can be found here as part of a fascinating study: http://cmdept.unl.edu/drb/Reading/overtime1.htm
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
At the same time, it is also common sense that you don't need to explain how poorly mismanaged your employer is when communicating with external customers. With that said, had Google said something earlier, Jia wouldn't have had to say anyt
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
Since facebook allows US users under 18 years of age, don't they have a legal obligation not to host porn?
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
After last week's debate I looked for an app where I could get objective, near-real time analysis pertaining to the accuracy of a candidate's claim, since Wolf Blitzer obviously wasn't interested in doing his job. To my surprise, I couldn't
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
I'm just as disgusted as this as most people are, but how is this illegal? In the United States, so long as the MPAA isn't directly giving money to politicians, this kind of bribery is legal. Per Citizens United vs the FEC, the MPAA can spe
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
This algorithm is arguably already patented: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5893120.html In fact, you may remember that Google was sued over this last year: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20056192-36.html?part=rss&... Granted, usi
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
In addition to ridiculous ticket prices, the actual movie doesn't start until 15 minutes after the scheduled showtime. While you're waiting, you're expected to watch advertisements. I don't have any concrete data to back this up, but I feel
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
If I were to take a picture of a baby at a hospital, wouldn't the majority of the features be of the baby, not the hospital? I suppose if there's at least one picture in the album that's of the actual hospital, that's probably all you would
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
Lawrence Lessig argues that the fundamental problem in government is money. Getting elected is expensive, so candidates have to build a network of donors, which creates an obvious conflict of interest if they get elected. A decent introduct
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
Yeah, they have elevators that do that. Here's some marketing literature I found if you're interested: http://www.kone.com/countries/en_gb/products/elevators/konem...
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
There seems to be a lot of interest in minimizing the amount of time users need to wait to get onto the elevator, but this is not the only variable you can optimize. Elevators use a lot of power, and a lot of elevators (especially low traff
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[video] How to Steal a Botnet and What Can Happen When You Do(youtube.com)
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
My favorite part about this hack is the fact that the initial attack vector was PHPMyAdmin. Really? I know SCADA systems used by the electric utilities are required to adhere to security guidelines defined by NERC-CIP (Critical Infrastructu
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
Does anyone have another source for this information?
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
The README file is great: https://github.com/torvalds/diveclog/blob/master/README TL/DR: I've never used GTK before, I know my code sucks, but my little divelog program is better than anything else I could find, and if someone wants to fi
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
While some of these metrics are interesting, I completely disagree with the conclusion of this article. Ferdowski's word choice is not the issue here. The issue is how he went about delivering the news. Had he promptly emailed his userbase
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by jsaxton86 15y ago
A summary of the changes can be found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/29/204