juan_juarez

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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Things are different in less 'happening' cities, smaller towns or out in the burbs. You can actually spend a few days looking at units and have time to think about which you want. You can come back a 3-4 days later without worrying too mu
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
"The City" refers to the core of whatever urban area you're in. It's meaningless outside of your local frame of reference. The only place in the US that has a halfway legitimate claim universal ownership of that name is NYC and that's ten
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Many people fail to realize that show was not intended to be educational.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Came in to say that much of it's true about Portland. The weather's better. Rent and the cost of living is cheaper, but finding a place close-in to downtown is still highly competitive (ie - you have to be ready to put down a deposit as s
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
If it's easier to have your terminal in a browser tab than for it to be a separate application, that is a major failing on the part of your window manager (or at least your understanding of it).
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
The sad fact is that pretty much every aspect of monetizing and advertising websites is seedy. Unless you're directly selling a product, the road to profitability is full of moral compromises.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Google Maps is just free public satellite imagery. You can barely make out people (interestingly enough, I just realized most people are filtered out of the images). The CIA's had birds for years that are good enough to read license plat
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
I haven't worked with Java in a decade and it still bothers me that it has a NullPointerException when you can't actually manipulate pointers.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
It's interesting to find out just how many ways @ is bad but this article is going to fall on deaf ears. The people that can be convinced that it's bad are already not using it. Those that need to be told why the "ignore broken things and
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Next step, remove all PHP use.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
It's not the language that has problems, it's the environment. If you're already living in Java land, being tied to the JVM is a big plus. If you're not immersed in Java, you need to learn Java (and the libraries) and Clojure at the same
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
That's the point. A great many programmers learn one or two languages over the course of their lifetimes - look at all of the career Java and C# programmers.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
The Cabin in the Woods. 2012 horror movie written by Joss Whedon.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
The big example of a failed project was a tower defense game? These things are a dime a dozen (when they're not free) - why would anyone throw their money behind maybe getting a new one developed when half the would-be game designers in th
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Why did you have to point that out? I quickly transitioned from "ho-hum" to "must kill".
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Try having content before making announcements - you only get one shot at making a first impression.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Huh, I never realized that "maximum awesomness" was synonymous with "basic functionality".
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
That's great if you only have a single developer. Larger teams working together are going to have issue with this. I think that may have been part of why the Lisp Machines died - not only were they obscenely expensive, but they were extrem
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
It says the source was random.org - probably the closest thing to 'true' random you're going to find freely available.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
> In my experience, Drupal is ideal for cheap clients who want a zillion features but don't have the budget. IE - customers you don't really want to be stuck with in the first place.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Ubuntu bug #1 did sort of set a precedent... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu//+bug/1
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Both strtotime() - PHP's "take a string and do your damnedest to make a date out of it" function - and DateTime.parseFromFormat() - the more restrictive TZ-aware class - accept it and give you March 2/3. There's a separate validate_date()
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
> PHP still fails It still fails to reject February 31, I'm completely not surprised to hear that it fails on IPv6.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
File for unemployment. Review your finances & savings. Look into cutting back on things. Figure out how long you can hold out with just your unemployment before you have to dip into your savings (or retirement, life insurance, whateve
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Simplifying timezones as GMT offsets completely throws away local DST rules.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
The standard answer to programming noobs is "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-point Arithmetic". http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
I'd have my resume up to date (and start shopping it around) if my manager was telling me the names of global variables I should be using.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
There's a school of writing "modern" Perl, using source filters and object systems. Bare Perl is a mess but, in somewhat of a Lispy way, you can use Perl to rewrite your Perl. If none of your functions have signatures and you're manually
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
TL;DR - I know Perl.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
> Tangentially, and pardon my ignorance, I'm not a biker: I can't understand people who shell out thousands of dollars for a bike, are these so much better than a $500 one? Think about one thing you're passionate about. There's going t

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