keithba

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by keithba 14y ago
Email me at {my_username} @ gmail.com. I couldn't find your email in your profile.
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by keithba 14y ago
Back in 2007, I co-founded a startup to do something similar to this. Check out "System 7" @ http://www.kylecherry.com/ for what it looked like (I can't find examples of the software.) We didn't succeed for non-technical reasons & die
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by keithba 15y ago
Absolutely agree here. I've ran into some issues occasionally with IntelliJ when reading an Eclipse tutorial and translating Eclipse concepts into IntelliJ concepts (especially around libraries and unit testing), but otherwise, I find Intel
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by keithba 15y ago
I'm missing something - hours since the start of the year: 2671. Hours of uptime: 2641. That lead to a downtime calc of 98.88 or so. *edited for language clarity. Gah! Original sentence above implied that downtime was 2641.
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by keithba 15y ago
I stand corrected - my memory was saying something between 4 and 5, but looking it up: the post-WWII avg is 5.7.
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by keithba 15y ago
Keep in mind that there's a natural unemployment rate in any economy. The natural unemployment rate is typically made up of two components: people in-between jobs and people with out-dated skills. In programming, we'll always have (in any m
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by keithba 15y ago
As a kid I was an avid reader of Heinlein and Asimov, and they were always talking about slide rules (Astrogators navigated space with them!) This was the late 80s, and I couldn't find one. So, I found plans for one in the public library an
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by keithba 16y ago
Funny you say that - in the seven+ years I worked there I heard (serious, not ironic) versions of this phrasing _many_ times from various senior managers and execs, especially as related to IBM's consulting business.
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by keithba 16y ago
In economics, this is called a Pareto improvement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency The idea is that if there are inefficiencies in a system (or market), we can create win-win situations by reducing the inefficiencies. A cla
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by keithba 16y ago
I felt I had to drop out of my high school because of the one-size-fits all mentality. Outside of a couple of teachers who tried to attempted to challenge me, the rest of the administration felt fine with placing me in classes that were inc
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by keithba 16y ago
Here's what I did to make me better at shipping software (which is slightly different than the question asked.) I read moneyball ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball ) - a book about using sabremetrics to create a winning baseball team
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by keithba 16y ago
Too true - I've been leanring Ruby on Rails 3 + Koala + omniauth today. Lots of fun...