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by keyist 17y ago
I do technical hiring for my company. Here's a bunch of things that I personally like to see -- may not apply to larger, non-startup employers though. * mention in the initial e-mail whether you're applying as local or remote * mention in
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by keyist 17y ago
A seasoned CLI user will trump a seasoned GUI user every single time for the majority of tasks. Take a task like thumbnailing every image in a directory to a certain size. With CLI it's just looping over convert(1). With GUI you have to c
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Core Rationalist Skills(lesswrong.com)
5 points by keyist 17y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
Not a pro (have moderate technical chops, but not the temperament), but here's my 2c: Scales and chords aren't patterns per se -- they're the fundamental building blocks. They're the equivalent of syntax in a language. Not knowing them we
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Walled Gardens, VM Sharecroppers, and "Sugar Daddies"(modernperlbooks.com)
6 points by keyist 17y ago|0 comments
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Free Technology Academy now taking registrations(ftacademy.org)
1 points by keyist 17y ago|0 comments
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How Complex Systems Fail: A WebOps Perspective(kitchensoap.com)
5 points by keyist 17y ago|0 comments
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On developing a Rationality Quotient test(overcomingbias.com)
5 points by keyist 17y ago|3 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
Well-written, but ultimately one example does not a trend make (wrt rms 'admitting' GPL doesn't guarantee freedom) Especially when that example is an outlier compared to most of GPL software. The dual licensing is one aspect, and another i
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by keyist 17y ago
Here's the letter to the EC written by Stallman et al the OP is referring to: http://keionline.org/ec-mysql . Shocking of eWeek to leave out the link. The key paragraphs imo are: "As only the original rights holder can sell commercial li
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Jeremy Allison on why Samba is different from Mono wrt freedom(tuxdeluxe.org)
2 points by keyist 17y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
If you enjoyed seeing the contrast in approaches between Norvig and Jeffries, you may also find the following interesting -- calculating bowling scores in 1. OCaml, no tests: http://alaska-kamtchatka.blogspot.com/2009/07/disfunctional-...
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On Mono, Miguel, Stallman and Fusion with Microsoft(groklaw.net)
20 points by keyist 17y ago|8 comments
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Org-mode 6.31 released, now programmable with multiple languages(thread.gmane.org)
31 points by keyist 17y ago|4 comments
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Robin Hanson: This is the Dream Time(overcomingbias.com)
6 points by keyist 17y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
Didn't expect the results -- thought it'd be less common. Here's a couple of resources I've found helpful wrt understanding and avoiding depression. Hopefully they'll be useful to someone. Short: http://lesswrong.com/lw/sc/existential_angs
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by keyist 17y ago
Some replies to your comment demonstrate exactly why I'm not a fan of forced pairing advocacy and the arguments they use. It borders on the religious: "I love pair programming. Try it, you will love it too" When someone doesn't experience
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Free Software Debate Antipatterns(robmyers.org)
3 points by keyist 17y ago|2 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
Author takes one quote from Terry Jones and miraculously transforms it into "anguish, pain, despair" from the Python community. From the other posts on that blog I get that he's trying to be funny, but this one follows TechCrunch's "trolli
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by keyist 17y ago
Heh, from stevey's http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/xemacs-is-dead-long-... : "If Emacs can't find a way to evolve into (or merge with) Firefox, then Firefox or some other extensible browser is going to eclipse Emacs. It's just a
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by keyist 17y ago
"Being an awesome excellent business guy does mean success in a measurable way." You are committing the logical fallacy of converse accident, essentially saying: "All awesome excellent business guys I have heard of is are successful financi
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by keyist 17y ago
Thanks mbrubeck, great reference. I highly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Step-Innovative-Approach-Spea... as another excellent resource. Written by an engineer for engineers, with detailed flow charts for the variou
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by keyist 17y ago
> GP: It's a crime this isn't on the Kindle. > I wouldn't consider buying this without a Kindle option. I completely don't grok how you could use delivery mechanism as the sole criteria for passing up on knowledge. It's a book for
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Coding Emacs's M-x in Lisp(aaronhawley.livejournal.com)
29 points by keyist 17y ago|6 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
I feel the copywriting of the site is a little over the top. The subject matter is interesting enough that most geeks should want to have a look. Is this a sign of the times? (See also: http://perl6.org ). Sure there's nothing wrong with
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Postfix vs Exim(utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 points by keyist 17y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
HN is pretty usable in w3m / emacs-w3m. To log in you will have to patch your w3m to send "Content-Length" instead of "Content-length" (see http://arclanguage.org/item?id=4419 )
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by keyist 17y ago
Don't assume he's read even a quarter of them. From Black Swan, regarding Umberto Eco's private library of 30k books: "... a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread
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by keyist 17y ago
I think in the subdialect of English known as social media stream of consciousness. Ask Lazyweb about my blog's new design... that's like using the crowd as a source of wisdom... crowdsourcing... OMG I invented a new word wait check urbandi
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Lost Charity(overcomingbias.com)
16 points by keyist 17y ago|20 comments

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