juan_juarez

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by juan_juarez 14y ago
That's a different case. Installing software implicitly means you trust an installer. Throwing random data into a shell prompt to see an ASCII cat is the sort of shit that gave my dad email viruses in the late 90s.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
I'm not entirely convinced that being a "Macbook Air killer" is even that important of a goal. It proves that you can do it & there's a bit of a halo effect but I've not seen enough people using MBAs to think that it's really a major m
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Yeah - why would MSFT suggest an open source solution when they have their own tech? When have you ever seen MSFT suggest an open solution?
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
I'd say the fact that orginizations using the work 'agile' not actually being agile goes hand in hand with old people at "agile" events. People that do it actually do it, people that want to talk about how they should be doing it just talk
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Pair programming's biggest win is that it keeps me on task & not arguing online about whether or not Agile practices work.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Same thing happens if you just try to pass it a bare 3. I'm thinking nothing gets evaluated without parens.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
When I was at Instant Action, a lot of people (outside the company) considered OnLive a threat & competitor to us. Interesting to see that they ended exactly the same as we did - all-hands meeting, layoff, have stuff out of the buildin
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
> Unfortunately, good things are often ignored ...which is why we're still using Unix.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Why is anyone relying on a 3rd party to check domain availability? You can do DNS lookups and whois searches from the comfort of your own machine. There's no need to let anyone else know you're interested until you're actually ready to pu
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Next step, make it smarter than blind A/B testing. http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
They put links to blast content to all your friends on Facebook right at your fingertips. Easy for an image to go viral. Not really sure about a revenue stream but it's probably something shady about getting access to lots of people's Fac
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Unfortunately, they have this little problem of not holding any rights to any of their content. This is of little concern now, as most of it is anonymous image macros and whatnot but, if they get big, some larger rights holders will start
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Nearly any time you think "I need to have variable variable names", you should probably be using an array (dictionary, hash, whatever your language gives you). They're no more difficult to use & far harder to make horrible mistakes wit
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Well, not so much billing address but at least the zip code.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
It's the internet. We like cats. Cute cat pictures make the internet work.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Pretty predicible - modern country music is pretty much pandering to right-wing values. It's not really any different than rap - it's just a matter of who your demo is; inner city black youth with baseball hats or middle-American farm boys
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Exactly - most programs don't generate all that much garbage. We've been working on GC for 40 years now, unless you're being reckless you probably won't notice it.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Is this an indication of community support & language acceptance, or simply Google throwing mountains of money at the project?
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
You'd think somebody would have learned from the mistake of Modernism & Post-modernism.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Maybe these guys will do better by underpaying couriers rather than paying the cost of automobiles.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
You mean Twitter was better when they started out, had no way of monetizing the service & had constant infrastructure problems resulting daily service outages? Yeah, I'd really like to make a single entity with a single point of failure
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
If he was hired for data entry, his employment agreement might not have specified ownership of the program.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
I can't see Craigslist ever stepping up their game and providing meaningful visualization. I can't really see why CL cares about where people are reading the listings - their business model is based on selling the listings, not monetizing
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Alternately, companies can just have policies in place to actually promote & give raises to people as their skills increase. If your HR procedures don't allow for somebody to get a 25% raise after a year, fire the HR - they're easier t
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Yeah, IETF publishes things like this for April Fools day - there's a big list on Wikipedia.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Was it a joke? I seem to remember hearing a similar thing about Lisp Machines actually having foot pedals for parens.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
The basketball reference is a good one - even if you're the best player you've ever known coming out of HS, the odds of making it in the NBA are obscenely low. Spending every weekend and vacation throughout childhood hacking really limits y
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Have you ever read the WoW forums (or any other official game forum)? The signal to noise ratio is absolute crap. The first few pages would be people saying "first!" and it goes downhill & off-topic from there. We're talking about a
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
New Mexico does the same thing with liquor licences. The worst part is that the state's biggest liquor distributor now owns the vast majority of the licenses. "You have to buy all your shit from me AND give me a percentage of your profits
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Writing ASCII in binary is kinda cool when you're 12 and just learning about computers. The novelty wears off quickly. Whenever I see it, I think that some pretentious pseudo-geek is trying to impress people with their knowlege & is t

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