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by kscaldef 17y ago
Keep in mind that "pretty" has multiple meanings.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Try an explanation that doesn't make you sound like a marketing drone. "social services startup" -> "company" "end users" -> "people" "indexes into an easy to find format" -> "helps find" "I work for a company that helps people
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> Boilerplate - repeated pattern - helps orient a reader. The more familiar it is, the easier it is to understand. Every layer of abstraction increases the difficulty in understanding. I really, really think that there's something about
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Ah, but remember he's making hiring decisions based on "pheromone[s] and body language", which don't come through on phone lines.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
No, I'm complaining that it has implicit type coercions, which is one flavor of weak typing. (I suppose, I would also complain that it does implicit coercions in a way which results in loss of precision.)
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by kscaldef 17y ago
There are situations where it's very useful. I've used similar modules for code doing financial calculations. Because Ruby has weakly typed numerics, it's quite easy to inadvertently coerce a value to Float. Once this happens you will sta
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Yes, that was very much my reaction. I strongly suspect this fellow has never lived in Europe, and really has nothing to base his claims on.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> The evidence abundantly suggests I am not alone, either. Given the choice, a lot of people prefer suburbs, or suburbs wouldn't even have come into existence. I'm not entirely sure that's the case. You certainly can't reach a simple c
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It should probably be noted that what's actually going on here is that there's some issue in the Erlang runtime that's hurting it substantially on the quad-core box. On the single-core benchmarks, it speeds up substantially and is neck-and
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I'd have been impressed if it were a real app.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Gilt Groupe (www.gilt.com) is hiring for a wide variety of technical positions. We have a rapidly growing revenue stream and interesting technical problems to work on (building a distributed commerce platform which can absorb 100x request
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Just stick in a introduction, and drop the word "passionate" and suddenly it doesn't seem so awkward. "It's a pretty nice day. Hasn't been too humid lately." "Yeah, sure is. Hey, I'm Kevin" <extend hand, shake> "I'm <name>"
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> At the true elite level Michael Phelps is fueled by 12,000 calorie a day diet, eating that much food just hard. Think 60 Twinkies a day plus a 3000 calorie diet. Even at much less intense levels, it's challenging to eat as much as nec
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Okay, so first, I'm certainly not saying every sedentary person should hop up and run for an hour tomorrow. I'm saying you can get there in a month or two of reasonable effort. And, if you'd prefer, get on a bike for an hour instead. It's
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by kscaldef 17y ago
running an hour at a 10 minute mile (6 mph) is unlikely to lead to injury.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
No, that's a previous study which reached different conclusions from the study which is the primary focus of the article.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Really? You never get together in a room with other devs to talk through & pseudocode a solution to a tough problem?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
The article itself contradicts that explanation: "women were more effective at tasks such as executive supervision and monitoring", "Female directors also had a better record of attending board meetings", "Our research shows that women dire
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by kscaldef 17y ago
How could we, since the article doesn't provide any meaningful information about either? Of course, one can point out that they aren't doing randomized trials, but that seems a touch unreasonable to demand.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It also screens out people who read the ad and don't want to be bothered with your silly games.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Am I the only person who doesn't really like "returning"? a) it's no fewer lines & no fewer tokens b) rather than looking at the bottom of the function for the return value, you now have to scan back to the top I think this suggestion o
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I agree. I was willing to give this guy a fair listen, but that anecdote, and the following claim that sows routinely crush their piglets to death made me think: either this guy is lying, or he fails to realize that something is already ve
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I generally agree with your sentiment, but you should realize that people who live in WA and work in OR still pay OR income tax.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Portland gets the same amount of rain as New York, but it hardly ever rains hard, and many people manage without even owning an umbrella. It doesn't get very cold in the winter, and there's typically only a week or two of 90+ weather (with
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I wouldn't claim it's the full story, but IMO part of what's fundamentally broken is the phenomenon of single-language programmers. This leads to the belief that your entire tool chain needs to be written in a single language. So now ever
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by kscaldef 17y ago
In 1999, ArsDigita was never more than 40 people (and probably started the year with less than 20). It's possible at that time that they were turning away business. I joined in Jan 2000. By August the company was over 200 and the sales s
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by kscaldef 17y ago
perl has bignums too.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
And, in fact, Rails translates NUMERIC fields in the database to BigDecimal values in Ruby. (You still need to be careful, though that you don't inadvertently coerce a BigDecimal to a Float in the course of working with it.)
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I think it's less that he doesn't trust his wife, and more that, as TFA says, "many countries's laws make it difficult or impossible for a court to order you to turn over your keys; once the passphrase is known by a third party, its securit
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It suffices that just one such individual exists to invalidate the claim of the title.

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