kaens

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by kaens 14y ago
Maybe that's true where you live. I left home at 16, spent ten years homeless and hitchhiking, am told I'm quite good at what I do, and have spent the last 3 years or so exerting the herculean effort required to rise through poverty. I curr
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by kaens 14y ago
All I do is learn. I love learning. This is a field that I've found hard to learn about without someone who is passionate about it around. As long as it was clear that the person providing the service was really rather passionate about thei
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by kaens 14y ago
I find that to be true of the poorest people I know as well. Which is way-below-the-poverty-line poor.
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by kaens 14y ago
FWIW, Robert C. Martin is a talented and well-respected guy who has been writing code for more than 30 years. He has shipped plenty of working, reliable products. https://github.com/unclebob -- critique his code. I find it to be pretty da
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by kaens 14y ago
I'm not sure if you're aware or not, but you can fine-grain permissions to anything on the box however you like. There's even built-in documentation.
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by kaens 14y ago
I think this thing is silly, for sure. You're definitely correct about this being something that wouldn't fly well in residential neighborhoods. It also doesn't seem like people in residential neighborhoods are their target market. At all.
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by kaens 14y ago
Loosely related thoughts: If I feel like it, I can tell my editor to display `underscore_functions` as `underscoreFunctions` without actually modifying the text. I don't feel like it. Here's my official "coding standards": Whitespace standa
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by kaens 14y ago
Update: I've had a lot of people ask about the difference between what I'm trying to do and existing tools. I've written a bit about it[1], but the thrust of it is that I want to make something that's usable by people who may not have any
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by kaens 14y ago
I actually somehow missed SUSE studio while looking around for similar things. They're pretty sleek, although I think they're targeting a slightly different audience. I'll be playing around with it for inspiration and possible sticking poin
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I'm trying to make it easy for people to generate Linux live and install images.
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by kaens 15y ago
The most important thing, of course, is knowing yourself. I mean, I have that same twinge about a lot of things, and I had identified it as something I need to evaluate instead of acting on immediately. This lead to me sticking in a positio
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by kaens 15y ago
Will you be able to show off the results? I'd be really pretty interested to see what some 2nd year comp-sci students come up with. The pipe dream part of me wants you to have them stick their results on github and work with each other, or
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by kaens 15y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but most of the possible meanings I can think of aren't ones that would really stop us from having google be an (unfortunate) local maxima of search for too long.
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by kaens 15y ago
They know.
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by kaens 15y ago
I've actually met more friends off of OKC than I've had dates, and the SOs I've found from OKC have been fine with keeping the profile up -- you just mark yourself as not looking, and meet people off the site as mutual friends, assuming you
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by kaens 15y ago
Well, they'll still leave quickly, but they'll stay long enough for you to get their credit card info.
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by kaens 15y ago
The exchange you had sounds very much like someone whose entire job is to sit around all day looking at rather trivial things like whether or not a profile is using a "real" or "common" name, and then going through a semi-scripted series of
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by kaens 15y ago
He gave a talk at google on the subject, it's a great watch: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3897010229726822034
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by kaens 15y ago
If you take one of these good developers, nothing much, other than that they might need to write some things that they wouldn't have to think about in other languages. If you take a developer who isn't as good, or isn't as experienced, and
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by kaens 15y ago
While you certainly make good points from a business perspective, it's becoming increasingly more likely that programmers you can hire that both: + know PHP + are experienced enough to deliver a working, maintainable application are also fl
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by kaens 15y ago
Three words - Tacos in puddles.
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by kaens 15y ago
Mostly by not doing things like hiring a bunch of women to serve beer and listing it as a perk. It's then appealing to anyone interested in the topic, regardless of anything. Just don't do things that explicitly cater to "FOO" if your inten
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by kaens 15y ago
While Bill Maher may or may not make good points, I'm not naive enough to think that he's discovered some sort of thing intrinsic to everyone with a penis, nor to think that he has some great insight on sex, sexuality, gender or much of any
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by kaens 15y ago
But for men, the ultimate perk is a good woman. I'm a man, a mostly hetero-normative one, who disagrees. The idea that there is something undesirable about a situation that gets it called a sausage fest is not about being male per se,
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by kaens 15y ago
That doesn't sound like a good thing at all. Sounds to me like we can perhaps finally just admit that kids go out and get drunk, and haven't quite expanded their reality bubbles past their own nose, and have all us "grown-ups" stop preten
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by kaens 15y ago
While I would agree that believing that slavery is "good" would imply poor morals, I also don't think that morality is objective, and while I think my criteria for evaluation of it are fairly good, I don't think that I would be comfortable
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by kaens 15y ago
I think you only get there by encouraging people, not by shaming or ostracizing them. It could have worked out very differently for Nash. I agree strongly, in cases where the opinion is held out of ignorance or misunderstanding, or some r
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by kaens 15y ago
Part of his point, I think, is that holding an opinion does not harm anyone. Would it be an offensive opinion? Yes. Are you right that there are a bunch of people who would be very angry about it? Yes. And that those people would likely nev
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by kaens 15y ago
I think the driving point, which you allude to is that apologies should be honest. There's a minor point in there somewhere about how wording apologies in terms of the receiver-of-offense is a common tactic for people who care most about wh
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by kaens 15y ago
Ok, what the heck is this? I decided to go ahead and throw an email at this to see if anything came up. The wording sets my "scam" sensors off like mad. Maybe I just have a learned response to "one step away", "just one click away', "don't

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