jwatte

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811.
by jwatte 13y ago
Being cognizant of project management implications is actually an important skill for a programmer. Nothing gets developed in a vacuum. If you don't have a CS degree, though, falling back may be harder. Pure web front end development i
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by jwatte 13y ago
The page doesn't explain at all why I should care, especially when compared to gravatar, or a client side library that uses multiple sources.
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by jwatte 13y ago
Agreed, "avatar" means 3d.
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by jwatte 13y ago
You seem to equate rational with internally consistent. I think the latter is necessary but not sufficient for the former.
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by jwatte 13y ago
Would you like some Pirate Cinema with that?
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by jwatte 13y ago
I started my career writing apps for the Mac 25 years ago, but 18 years ago switched to toolchains and later hard-core systems programming as well as databases and 3d graphics. I think the front vs back end distinction isn't sufficient
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by jwatte 13y ago
Why didn't they use the ATmega 8u2 with native USB? The small version is no bigger than the chip on this trinket. Eating 3 kB for the tinyUSB stack is annoying. Also, they claim is has "hardware I2C" which is stretching the t
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by jwatte 13y ago
An ATTiny85 in DIP also runs unassisted. That's not the point of this board, though.
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by jwatte 13y ago
They could, as long as the work was overseen by a senior developer with the appropriate paperwork. However, since when was the IEEE an outlet for computer science? Where does the ACM stand on this?
820.
by jwatte 13y ago
If only firmware development legally required developers with a national basic skills exam, all our problems would be solved! (Actually, the real problem is the race to the bottom because most buyers buy on price alone.)
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by jwatte 13y ago
But the "hard working" middle class should support the society that allows it to exist, no? And society is made up of every person, no?
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by jwatte 13y ago
When you work for 7.75 an hour to support a family, you don't have enough money to "manage," much less gamble or buy jewelry. That's what it means to be working poor. I don't think you could hack that.
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by jwatte 13y ago
Another perspective on BI: "For us, the living." Written by Robert Heinlein in the 1930s IIRC.
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by jwatte 13y ago
That's possible, if you have experience and are good at what you do. Taxes and other social needs will subtract from that. California takes about 10%, Feeds take about 20%, social program payroll fees take about 8%, retirement savings
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by jwatte 13y ago
You mean like Bitcoins? US government is not amused. Power relies on control.
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by jwatte 13y ago
So will Google cover anti-fraud and chargebacks, if I'm not allowed to do that myself using strong tools?
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by jwatte 13y ago
I tried a flow based tool for the Mac in late '80s. It really didn't make things easier - and it had terrible support for things that text languages take for granted, like foreign library import. Computer scientists have not &quot
828.
by jwatte 13y ago
This sounds a bit like "Pirate Cinema" (the book) come true.
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by jwatte 13y ago
Selling out for "so little"? I bet he sold out for over hundred thousand dollars, or more (depending on how long he wirked tgere.) The need to know where food and rent are coming from is strong in humans, and the system takes full
830.
by jwatte 13y ago
PHP was popular way before Wordpress. I remember working on sites upgrading to php3 (with the file extension php3 no less!)
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by jwatte 13y ago
The main problem I have with this is that they are taxing information work that is clean, to fund /freeways/. Way to go, 20'th century!
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by jwatte 13y ago
It would be great if the world actually worked like that even when someone's promotion or political career was on the line. Selective enforcement leads to cronyism and arbitrariness.
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by jwatte 13y ago
If pictures of bad crime and abuse are undesirable, then shouldn't we start with the worst crimes, like murder? And thus ban every depiction of murder?
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by jwatte 13y ago
Your table is perfect: you can't roll 100 on a d100 or rand(100) call. My observation: 0-89 is nothing, 90-98 is consolation prize, and 99 may be meaningful if you're an early enough employee. 90+ is meaningful if you're a fo
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by jwatte 13y ago
The time between college and kids is when you need to both build up a house down payment AND your 401k base. It gets a lot harder after 30.
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by jwatte 13y ago
The pace is set reasonably well, but after a while it gets too slow and I have to give up. Mad props for good amount of polish, though!
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by jwatte 13y ago
There is no way this petition can succeed. The powers that be speak realpolitik, and you don't. It's just that, with easier worldwide media outlets, their secrecy is occasionally exposed for a brief while until we forget. Go home.
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by jwatte 13y ago
I was quite upset that the author seems to think people have a right to deceitful behavior and that society should support secrecy. In fact, the hiding of information and duplicit behavior always aims to benefit the actor at the expense of
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by jwatte 13y ago
I'm not sure I agree work based allocators are out. Specifically, if you follow/mark N references for each M words allocated, you can guarantee to not fall behind and still have a strict upper bound on collection cost/run-time jitter. This
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by jwatte 13y ago
I'd like to see the actual negotiated rate the insurance company paid for those items. I'd be surprised if it was more than 40%, and perhaps it might be less? It's quite bad that those who can afford it the least pay the highest(sticker) pr

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