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by kirktrue 6y ago
Marvin purports to fight distractions and procrastination. And yet it lets you customize and tweak things to get it "just how you want." Sounds like a dream and a nightmare in one for OCPD people like moi.
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by kirktrue 6y ago
For some of the large clients I have, they require (and pay for) an independent company to come and audit my home office to make sure it meets their standards. The auditing company was provided with a litany of requirements from our shared
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by kirktrue 7y ago
Just to make sure I am understanding you, are you stating that the top 30% of employees have 3-5 years of savings socked away that they can get to easily? If that’s true, well, I guess I am not in the top 30% of employees of big tech firms.
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by kirktrue 7y ago
Effectively, yes. I run a two-person development company that contracts for tech companies. Out of the five projects we had in February, two have been canceled, two have been put on hold indefinitely, and the remaining contract project is o
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by kirktrue 7y ago
It sounds like you're looking for something like distributed tracing (vs. vanilla logging). Zipkin ( https://github.com/openzipkin ) and OpenTracing ( https://github.com/opentracing ) purport to be vendor&
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by kirktrue 7y ago
I'm only half joking when I suggest you might consider re-shooting and/or re-editing the video to elide the human hand strangling (er, "steadying") the dummy. It doesn't elicit confidence or a positive connotation.
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by kirktrue 8y ago
As a homeowner, I don't want home prices to be high. High home prices mean I can't move my family without incurring a substantial jump in property taxes (even if it's to downsize once the kids move out). I'd also like my
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by kirktrue 9y ago
I've taken a look at that same desk. Are the surface and edges smooth, or are there rough patches that could snag/splinter? Can you write on paper on the desk surface smoothly?
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by kirktrue 13y ago
Say what you will about SWT, but Eclipse's font rendering (use of hints, etc.) on Linux is great. As much as I tried to look past it (and tweak settings ad infinitum), the inferior font rendering of Java-based IDEs is intolerable for m
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by kirktrue 13y ago
This fills a very important void in my family being that my kids can't really type (well or at all) but they love using Scratch. We just got an Arduino but the environment is a bit daunting for them. I haven't had the chance to do
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by kirktrue 15y ago
Awesome. Thanks.
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by kirktrue 15y ago
As the owner of a consultancy I have to acknowledge that FTEs are often appropriate, for good reasons: FTEs are available in perpetuity (theoretically), contractors can be flighty Manageability of FTEs is assumed, while freelancers often mu
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by kirktrue 15y ago
Also a very non-obtrusive way to market your availability ;)
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by kirktrue 15y ago
Great work. Would be nice to keep the regex active as I click different months (presently my regex is ignored). Bookmarked. Thanks!
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by kirktrue 15y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote Mustard Grain is a development shop in the San Francisco Bay Area that deals exclusively with scalability and back-end architecture and implementation. We're always on the lookout for solid, back-end engineers, r
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by kirktrue 15y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - San Francisco/remote I'm the lead developer at Mustard Grain, a development shop in the San Francisco Bay Area. We handle scalability and back-end architecture and implementation. We're always on the lookout for solid,
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by kirktrue 16y ago
Yes, the array bounds checks are inefficient, but IIRC, they're there to prevent buffer overflows that are/were prevalent in C applications.
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by kirktrue 16y ago
Can you elaborate on how stating that a "business plan exists for a reason" is illogical or arrogant?
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by kirktrue 16y ago
There's a bit of caution to be given here. My tax person said that switching between W2 and 1099 work throws up a red flag with regard to the IRS willingness to consider you as truly independent.