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by jwingy 14y ago
Can anyone comment on the usefulness of Vagrant over distributing your own virtual box images? edit Found this to help answer my own question: http://www.jedi.be/blog/2011/03/28/using-vagrant-as-a-team/
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by jwingy 14y ago
I'm going to be cynical here and guess that the new keyboard is cheaper to make.
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by jwingy 14y ago
Kinda ironic too when people are arguing about the importance of learning programming because it teaches logic...
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by jwingy 14y ago
This may get downvoted because it may not necessarily add much to the discussion, but I just wanted to say thanks for sharing your story. Takes a lot of courage and it will undoubtedly help someone else (deaf or otherwise).
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by jwingy 14y ago
Sorry I understand the point you're trying to make with your analogy, but I think it greatly understates the fact that deaf people have to deal with this in EVERY aspect of their lives, and not just work. No disrespect, just wanted to poin
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by jwingy 14y ago
Interesting comparison, but I find it hard to relate to at all simply due to the sheer amount of words you need to learn in a real foreign language to achieve fluency. Seems much more daunting to me...but I guess my glasses are tinted.
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by jwingy 14y ago
Ya but sometimes you just don't know who's in charge of making these decisions. I wouldn't be surprised if someone came out and said this was a calculated business decision. Nothing surprises anymore.
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by jwingy 14y ago
The only thing all these counterpoint blog posts are proving is that while programming may or may not be important for everyone to learn in the future, being able to hold and understand cogent arguments most certainly is. I've read at leas
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by jwingy 14y ago
With regards to Vert.x, it seems like really cool stuff. On the blog post about version 1 being released it mentions being able to mix and match several programming languages. Does this mean you can use different libraries written in diffe
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by jwingy 14y ago
Despite everyone's dislike of this, you have to think of this from the company's perspective. What's the cost of producing this? If they get even one sucker to buy into it, it'll have already paid for itself many times over.
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by jwingy 14y ago
Awesome. On a side note, I wonder why this culture of popularity has to be the default in our schools?
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by jwingy 14y ago
Reminds me of a quote I heard somewhere from someone...(I apologize for butchering this but my memory is a bit hazy): "Never make music because you have to, otherwise it will be the end of you..." Corrections welcomed!
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by jwingy 14y ago
Unless you exhibit traits of aspergers such as often having an obsessive singular focus, this isn't about preference, it's a fact of the human condition. You will burn out and you won't be productive.
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by jwingy 15y ago
I didn't read the book but I wonder if what the scientific evidence concludes isn't necessarily the refutation of that equation, but rather that it's more complicated than x-y=z. For example, foods that require a bit more energy to consume
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by jwingy 15y ago
The basic equation is: calories consumed - calories burned = weight loss (or gain) If you lost weight it means you burned more calories than you ate.
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by jwingy 15y ago
Ya, the grass is always greener on the other side isn't it? :)
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by jwingy 15y ago
I'm from Wisconsin and I don't think there's much there. But perhaps that's exactly why you went?
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by jwingy 15y ago
I read somewhere that fitness gyms are about cycling people through their facilities as fast as possible since you could never fit all the people that have memberships there at once. If anything I'd think they'd love to have a guy who pays
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by jwingy 15y ago
These concerns are addressed in the article. tl;dr Working hours longer than 40 leads to counter productivity in the short and long term. 40 hour workers are more productive in all situations except those where workers have an abnormal sin
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by jwingy 15y ago
Yes, all good points. As I think we both seem to be aware of, it really depends on the type of business you're doing. It could be high growth, or slow growth day 1 revenue generating machine, or something in between. It could be primaril
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by jwingy 15y ago
Entrepreneur is one thing - a tech entrepreneur is another. I don't think you can compare the labor pool and funding climate in SE Asia to the U.S. Plus the large, homogeneous, wealthy market of the U.S. is really the key to all this if y
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by jwingy 15y ago
Probably the biggest barrier to the success of online universities is convincing others that the credentials from a online university are worth their weight. If someone could come up with a good, reliable way to prove that, then I think we
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by jwingy 15y ago
See: Overton Window
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by jwingy 15y ago
Well you would hope most people would take whatever Rupert Murdoch says with a grain of salt considering the sort of publications his company runs. A man like him doesn't care about the truth.
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by jwingy 15y ago
Interactive entertainment is a markedly different form of entertainment from movies. You're comparing apples to oranges I'm afraid.
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The CIO's lament: 20-something techies who quit after 1 year(networkworld.com)
58 points by jwingy 15y ago|85 comments
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by jwingy 15y ago
For me, switching to vim means moving my hand to use the mouse less often, which means less stress on my wrist. Of course, if you're typing on the keyboard all day, you still have some risk for RSI, but I find using the keyboard to be much
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by jwingy 15y ago
Lenovo w520 here. Running kubuntu 11.04. I have no issues with it now, but there was an issue until recently with Intel's speedstep and power management. They just released a new bios that seems to have fixed it. Here's a long thread on
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by jwingy 15y ago
The first two sentences of his last paragraph: "Is college really a scam? Most likely, no." Thanks for admitting your title was linkbait? Also, it's fine if you're going to complain about the college experience, but please offer alternative
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by jwingy 15y ago
According to this study ( http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-... ), there's a clear correlation between students from high income backgrounds having higher scores versus students from lower income backgrounds havin

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