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by jsolson 14y ago
While I don't agree that the default scheme is "disgusting", I have to admit that the alternative presented there is rather attractive. Perhaps I'll give this a go for a while.
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by jsolson 14y ago
> From what I remember, the default terminal emulator on OSX does not even allow customising the color palette! For what it's worth, at least in Mountain Lion you can change the ANSI palette in Terminal.app. That said, it would never ha
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by jsolson 14y ago
Interesting. I actually love the Command key. I see it as a Control key for GUI operations, leaving my actual Control key free for doing things in my Terminal. This is actually a big sticking point when it comes to trying to work on Linux w
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by jsolson 14y ago
It is currently over 400. I've been a bit of a lurker for years, just crossed 400, and no downvote arrows.
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by jsolson 14y ago
So it looks like you can get a Zenbook Prime that's very similar to the $1099 MacBook Air for $900, but yes, with somewhat better specs. It looks like a competitive laptop, although I'd have to hold one in my hands to really know. Looking a
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by jsolson 14y ago
> $2200 is a rounding error. When you consider that the other options aren't free, this becomes even more true. A heavier or thicker case, plastic body, shittier display, or even something as seemingly insignificant as a bigger power br
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by jsolson 14y ago
Amazon's a bit lighter on the C++ these days and has quite a bit of Ruby. As usual with Amazon, though, this is an area where it makes more sense to talk in terms of individual teams than the company as a whole. Some teams build almost ever
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by jsolson 14y ago
Last I tried the two I'm certain I'd have said that, but I'm willing to give it another go. It's been quite some time since I had either one (these days I mostly drink scotch or rye). I certainly wouldn't put JD black above the EW single ba
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by jsolson 14y ago
Spring's Java Configuration can mean a few different things. One is using @Autowired, @Component, and friends to build up your context. One could argue this violates IoC, although I disagree, but that's actually not the interesting meaning.
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by jsolson 14y ago
I'm on the polar opposite end of this. We component scan everything we can, and I couldn't be happier. I have never once been surprised by what annotation based config assembled for me. So, approaches may vary.
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by jsolson 14y ago
Where the hell are all of you people working? I'm about 18 months in, and on my team or any of the other teams I've worked with I haven't seen any of the horror stories people here are describing.
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by jsolson 14y ago
For what it's worth, this is nothing at all like my experience at Amazon. I'm about a year and a half in. My management is technically competent and, in general, has a good feel for where that competency ends. They don't interfere beyond th
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by jsolson 14y ago
First, Jack Daniels is not bourbon; it's Tennessee whiskey. Second, if you're going to tell people to drink Evan Williams, at least point them towards the single barrel. It lacks most of the abrasive industrial solvent characteristics of th
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by jsolson 14y ago
> I've never used a door desk, but in addition to the other negatives already mentioned, I have to imagine that they must be rather wobbly, like the Ikea desks we had at a startup I was at several years ago. They're not. Actually, neith
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by jsolson 14y ago
(a) Valve does it company wide (b) As I understood it, it is only used to determine comp adjustments If you go into it with the view "We're all excellent people, and these people are the best of an excellent bunch, so they're getting the bi
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by jsolson 14y ago
There are a few possible explanations for this, although three obvious ones jump to mind: 1) There is more cancer today or the cancers are more lethal. 2) We are better at diagnosing cancer today. 3) We've eliminated (or dramatically reduce
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by jsolson 14y ago
I say plan all you want if you're going to execute on those plans. Otherwise, think tactically. It's making lots of plans that distract you from simply acting that gets you into trouble. This is just based on my own personal experience, t
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by jsolson 14y ago
Other than the fact that a load balancer is generally a monolithic piece of hardware. The failure modes are well defined, but most of them result in catastrophic outages. I'm going to assume their routing mesh has many points of ingress and
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by jsolson 14y ago
It varies depending on where you go within the company. In particular, you don't have to go that far up (say, the aiming for SDE3 end of SDE2?) before there are pretty good odds that you'll either be a client of lots of other teams or have
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by jsolson 14y ago
So, I spent some time trying to implement the architecture proposed in that talk. I kept finding myself adding just tons and tons of more or less boilerplate code. This felt wrong to me. Surely there must have been a better way. Fortunately
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by jsolson 14y ago
> There's no high upfront cost for physical machines. I paid no setup fees. I signed no long-term agreements. Presumable someone spent some time getting those machines up and running and ready to run your software? Installing an OS, con
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by jsolson 14y ago
> To work we need a quiet environment (or good headphones - I absolutely don't regret buying my latest pair) This is of course by no means universal. My desk at work is in a room full of very quiet types. I could sit there all morning a
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by jsolson 14y ago
> In my experience many C# programmers simply fail to add much exception handling code at all because the compiler doesn't force them to. Still better than: try { // Do broken stuff } catch (Exception e) { thro
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by jsolson 14y ago
Actually, I was lamenting the working-on-my-own-stuff part, not the getting hired part :) I tend to build what I think is a cool pet project, then completely fail to put it in front of anyone other than friends who happen to be in the room
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by jsolson 14y ago
Eh, you're doing better than I am. In general I don't make it past step one.
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by jsolson 14y ago
> You have to remember that when chrome was released it was clearly an attempt at a firefox killer Really? I thought it was a (successful) attempt at building a good browser that addressed the needs of a wide variety of users. I didn't
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by jsolson 14y ago
Make time. I finish a few books per month. My parents manage to read a couple books per week (and managed it when I was a good deal younger and they were both working 40+ hour weeks). Read on the bus. Read on the can. Read before going to b
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by jsolson 14y ago
Here's a thought: high salary, no equity. After one year, no raise, but 20% (or perhaps more) of your salary as equity at the company's most recent valuation. Would any startups consider taking this? Would any other potential employees of s
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by jsolson 14y ago
I think the objection here is that the game isn't actually multiplayer by design. There's nothing about the single-player gameplay that warrants requiring an internet connection. I actually didn't know it was online only, and I've been play
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by jsolson 14y ago
> Amazon I would double check your sources on that one.

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