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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's not clear to me from the page: does C-x v v commit all modified files (like git commit -m), or just the current file? I'd like more information about how this interacts with the git index in general.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
But, are you sure that the "impractical" degree programs are actually doing any better? Perhaps at top private schools one can get a good liberal arts education, but my observation going to a public school was that the science and engineer
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by kscaldef 16y ago
not all "adult services" are prostitution.
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This sort of thing also tells me that people have an incorrect notion of what our work is really like. As a senior developer, I spend quite a bit of time interacting with people: discussing the problems our customers have; how we can make
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I was similarly curious about that whole sentence. My sense among people I know is that LBGTetc are not particularly underrepresented in tech; and are possibly overrepresented. (Once you correct for the overall underrepresentation of fema
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by kscaldef 16y ago
He's right. Say you have a laser pointer and point it at a screen some distance away. Now, you rotate the pointer such that the tip is moving at, say 1/10th the speed of light. Simple geometry tells you that the spot on the screen will mo
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by kscaldef 16y ago
The article has been edited since I wrote my comment. That was an exact quote from the article at the time. (And I'm pretty sure there was no mention of integration testing at that point, either.)
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by kscaldef 16y ago
But the article isn't about not religiously following TDD. It's about why "I don’t write any unit tests or specs". Testing isn't discontinuously one or the other. There's a huge, continuous spectrum in between the two extremes.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
No one wants to pay extra for glasses and watch a faux 3D illusion. Really? Because I remember a lot of people here a few months ago saying that you were wasting your money if you didn't pay extra to see Avatar in 3D. Personally, I agr
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by kscaldef 16y ago
There is a still popular perception that Macs are for frivolous hippies and PCs is what real people use to do real work. I'd tend to disagree. That might have been the attitude a decade ago, but today I think it goes more like "Sure, Mac
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by kscaldef 16y ago
At least some BMWs have, or had, analog clocks: http://rcaslis.xkill.net/vehicles/1998_BMW_M_Roadster/n02.jp... Just twist the knob in the center to set the time.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
There is absolutely nothing that states that it's fair for musicians or other artist to make millions by mass producing and distributing at almost zero cost. Is it fair for software developers to make money by mass producing and distribut
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Copyleft was conceived as a hack of the copyright system, a necessary evil because placing a work in the public domain allows other people to profit from the work. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft : As Stallman deemed it impract
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by kscaldef 16y ago
And on the other hand, major facets of our society (e.g., public education, labor unions) that clearly are socialist, are never referenced as such. Don't forget the military. Universal health care, pensions, subsidized housing, job secur
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> The nature of software development, and other similar knowledge economy industries, naturally demand a more collaborative & collegiate approach to getting things done, but they are all fundamentally driven by market forces & c
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Relying on a conspiracy of the entire technical staff to keep your job seems like a bad idea to me.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
There are probably not tens of thousands of people with the correct license endorsement. Those who do have a commercial driver endorsement are probably not so keen to rent it out.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Many of the surveys I've seen in doctors offices & similar don't distinguish well between "almost never" and "never". I know a fair number of people in my family are in the "almost never" category. They might have a glass of wine at C
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Do you collect any metrics on user behavior? For example, it seem to me like downvoting (and particularly the abuse of downvoting) is on the rise. But this is just a gut feeling based on my particular comment history.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Could we stop pretending that "NoSQL" refers to a homogeneous set of technologies?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I won't claim to have any solutions, except that in the future I'll be a lot more careful about asking people what their intended time commitment is, and where they want the project to go. I'd also insist on written agreements from the sta
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Maybe this is implicit in calling something a "startup" rather than a "side project", but on both sides there needs to be a common agreement on how much time you put into the project, what your vision for the growth of the company is, wheth
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's also a more succinct variation of Caltech's honor code: "no member of the Caltech community shall take unfair advantage of any other member of the community."
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I don't know the names of the people in most bands I listen to, but have you honestly never heard of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest? I'll give you that Mercyful Fate is a little obscure. (I suppose I should also ask how old
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Well, yes, it's true. My daughter doesn't have 4 extracurricular activities going at once, she has one or two... or sometimes even none at all! The rest of the time, she and her friends just have unstructured play. And, yes, her clothes w
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Sorry, one more note: > Spending 10's of thousands a month is getting up there, but "blowing through" more than $4k per month isn't necessarily an extravagant lifestyle I don't believe I ever said it was. In fact, I called $4K/mo a "re
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by kscaldef 16y ago
For my daughter, I spend about $100/mo on extracurricular activites, $25/mo (averaged over the year) on clothes, $50 once a year on school supplies, a $100 bike will last her for a couple years. Yeah, how do those plebes manage to raise kid
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> Your residence. A decent 2 bedroom place in a desirable part of San Francisco will run $3,000 per month in rent, a mortgage will be much higher. We're not talking anything extravagant here, just 600-900 sq ft. As I said, "I'm also ass
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It was more of a rhetorical device. It's not that I can't imagine how to blow through tens of thousands of dollars a month. It's that that lifestyle just isn't appealing to me.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Or maybe I do have a child and have figured out that you don't actually have to send them to private school, pay for their college (my parents didn't for me), buy them a new car for their 16th birthday, etc.

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