lief79

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Hidden in Plain Sight(queue.acm.org)
2 points by lief79 16y ago|0 comments
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by lief79 16y ago
I think it's a mistake to be focusing on the 1 month time frame. You dug in because you valued the people you were working with, and thought that digging and giving your best effort were likely to be enough to pull you through. I've been
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by lief79 16y ago
In case you haven't already noticed,fibromyalgia seems to be a catch all diagnosis. It's a set of symptoms, but they aren't often tied to anything. A few of the systems seem to remind me of my mother whom has recently been diagnosed with a
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How to Save Cleveland(reason.com)
2 points by lief79 16y ago|1 comments
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by lief79 16y ago
First pass, (the obvious stuff): 1. always view the source before posting 2. remove the basic css comments, or ... if the new coders need them, run them through a script that strips them out before copying the files to your web server 3. Mi
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by lief79 16y ago
Since you asked, my guess is psychology. If it was at the top, then most people wouldn't bother reading the comment, as they already know the conclusion. TLDR is useful for and needed by those who are skimming.
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by lief79 16y ago
I hope you realize that you likely have coworkers reading this, and able to determine who you are based on timing and location (since others have already figured out who you work for). I don't think there is anything in here that you need t
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by lief79 16y ago
You are going in based on faith. You should always get it in writing, if nothing else you are making sure that you are avoiding misunderstandings. It is required to be thorough, which is a sign of a good developer.
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by lief79 17y ago
Only time I remember having interesting computer names out side of college, the companies lawyers put a squash to it. Infectious diseases just has so much creativity to it. I suspect they were ok with "cholera", but someone in the legal de
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by lief79 17y ago
Getting the first job was the hard one. (911 with the post .com crash.) If you know what you are talking about, once you have a couple years programming experience, you can generally find something. In this case, the J2EE, Hibernate and S
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by lief79 17y ago
It clearly depends on what you are looking for and their record. If they've created a couple successful startups, and left after they were successful, large and losing the startup culture, then that seems like a reasonable bet. If they jus
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by lief79 17y ago
I'm right at the age he was talking about. Does 3.5 years at my first job sticking through two short-term paycuts to be laid off make up for the now (6 employers) that have followed? * 1.5 years, left after the group was split in half and I
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by lief79 17y ago
The title is good, I was wondering if any of these practices have been successful for others. Alternately, what approaches would you suggest?
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Code for Flexibility: A Manifesto (yield thought)(reddit.com)
1 points by lief79 17y ago|1 comments
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by lief79 17y ago
Technically, the length of the days will average out. Longer in the spring and summer (when the weather is nicer for outdoor work), shorter in the winter. However, the number of snow days won't average out, but I doubt that is being factor
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by lief79 17y ago
You can tell if someone is coming up to speed within the 60 to 90 days associated with most contract to hire jobs. What you can't tell is if they'll pass that 90 day mark, or if that is actually their peak.
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by lief79 17y ago
Less risk / less reward. The last question is key. The start-up will probably drive me to achieve more, but would probably be tougher on the marriage and the rest of my life.
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by lief79 17y ago
Good feedback, thanks. I got placed firmly into test from a split test/development position a few jobs ago. I'd call it a slight burn on my part. The job title of Software Engineer and the reputation of that company make up for it, I just
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Startup versus "startup-like" environment at a large company?
5 points by lief79 17y ago|4 comments
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by lief79 17y ago
How often do you print 16"x20" prints, because only for this size you need 8Mpx? How often do you crop photos? Being able to take in more of the shot and focus in on the details is priceless. Granted, shrinking the picture to 1/4 size is
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by lief79 17y ago
Best bang for the buck/upgrading GPUs. I happen to be using my laptop for gaming now, and it can handle everything, but I fully expect to need a new desktop in a year or two, because I won't be able to update the graphics card. The laptop
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by lief79 17y ago
For the first time, I'd suspect so. It shouldn't have cost more than a dollar or two, which should be easy to recover. However, I suspect the novelty will wear off. I'd like to know what happens a week in. (Or for practical purposes, if
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by lief79 17y ago
Great read, but I'm not sure I can honestly put an entertaining read above everything else. If you are reading Hitchhiker's, the "best books" of the "trilogy" are the 1st, 5th, and 4th. The 2nd and 3rd are relatively weak, but the 4th and
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The truth about AJAX Performance (slides)(thatstoday.com)
1 points by lief79 17y ago|0 comments
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by lief79 17y ago
Along the sames line, if there is a variation, then write it down as the norms or minimums, at a minimum, they will be able to do 3 out of this 6 things, etc.
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by lief79 17y ago
First two jobs were networking, remainder were through recruiters or online ads (note, this is quite unusual). For reference sake, my first job was at a company I had interned with, and my second job was due to me ending up at my soon to b
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by lief79 17y ago
As an emacs user, I find this entertaining. You are correct in that once you know how to use emacs it's trivial. However, anyone that doesn't know the emacs key bindings will see that it's "simply hitting something that looks like 4 rando
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by lief79 17y ago
In regards to young people, that only works if they have no preexisting conditions. Otherwise loss of group coverage risks long term loss of coverage.
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by lief79 17y ago
It depends a lot on the positioning of the petals. There are some makes and models where it's rather easy to accidentally hit the wrong petal, is it's only an inch or so away from the right petal. I tend to drive Toyotas, and their petal p
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by lief79 17y ago
That seems to be ignoring commuters. Suburbanites often commute into the city, raising employment numbers while reducing the number of employed locals. For instance (from wikipedia): Manhattan is the economic engine of New York City, with

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