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by ljw1001 11y ago
Learning that rule is one of the main benefits an internship provides for the young.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
After you finish your TPS report, stop by my office and I'll tell you about working 6 years of my life on a product nobody wanted.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
Smalltalk's death had almost nothing to do with the language itself. It died for four reasons: #1 was price, and especially requiring companies to pay royalties on the software they write with your tools, #2 was the epic mismanagement
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by ljw1001 11y ago
i think you mean hard-working people with real skills - and copious amounts of luck. America used to be a place where most hardworking people could improve their living standard, now it's a lottery where a small minority do.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
Exactly, better than other panama hats for the purpose for which it is used. And I wasn't as KC8ZKF states, comparing hats by one standard and watches by another. You can make a quartz watch that looks and feels exactly like a fine mec
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by ljw1001 11y ago
vintage watches, and hand-made hats, will go up in value simply because there are more people with more money than they can find things to spend it on. It's called Asset Price Inflation.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
If you get really amazing micro-scale engineering, you can get a watch that is almost as accurate as a quartz watch, for a hell of a lot more money. At least with the hat, it is qualitatively better.
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by ljw1001 11y ago
CA has relatively weak laws in this regard and it hasn't hurt their high tech industry one bit. On the other hand, it makes it much easier to start new companies. Strict non-compete laws are a legal barrier that large, lawyer-rich corp
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by ljw1001 11y ago
that's a kind of flimsy excuse for saying you own someone's intellectual output 24/7
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by ljw1001 11y ago
depends on why you want to do this. if you're an engineer in a good job market, you could probably get more money out of your primary job than a side project (obviously there are exceptions). You could, for example, switch jobs, work h
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by ljw1001 12y ago
Thanks for sharing ;)
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by ljw1001 12y ago
how many shitloads in a fuckton? i forget
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by ljw1001 12y ago
nailed it with no whining :)
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by ljw1001 12y ago
for (i = 0; i >-100; i--) print i + 100;
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by ljw1001 12y ago
Very well done.
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by ljw1001 12y ago
For me the problem with GPL is simpler. I see a nice little library that someone spent two weeks on. It's GPLd. I would like to use that for the project I'm doing at work, which has 40 person-years of effort in it. So I can never
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by ljw1001 12y ago
population growth. It drives hunger, unemployment, pollution, resource exhaustion, political instability,.... In systems terminology it is a control variable with many output variables.
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NotNeutrality, or why we can't have nice things(facebook.com)
1 points by ljw1001 12y ago|0 comments
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by ljw1001 12y ago
Seriously? How many american (north or latin) ball players speak japanese?
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Programming's not politics. Fast Times with Steve Yegge(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
1 points by ljw1001 14y ago|0 comments
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by ljw1001 14y ago
There are some good, reasoned comments here. Java suffered through some unfortunate 'best practices' that tarnished it's reputation. Building is uh, suboptimal, as some have pointed out, but if you're working alone just keep it simple and i
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by ljw1001 14y ago
bad customers for a cheap programming service seems like a good match to me. That would be the market working efficiently - and cosmic revenge.
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by ljw1001 14y ago
Well, this is the first commenter's suggestion. My suggestion was let people work from wherever they wanted, pay a 30% premium over local rates, and build a team of very good programmers (who value the flexibility and/or are located in plac
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by ljw1001 14y ago
Interesting. I hadn't considered that people would move to another country to take advantage of the cost of living difference like that.
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by ljw1001 14y ago
I have a better idea. Two better ideas, actually: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396091
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Programmers for $2K per month, More? or Less?(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
8 points by ljw1001 14y ago|16 comments
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by ljw1001 14y ago
The cost of those hard deadlines is often extra bugs that delay the actual launch date. But they make everybody feel like they're doing some serious management. ;)
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by ljw1001 14y ago
I've spent a fair amount of time criticizing the way estimates are done (for example: http://deathrayresearch.tumblr.com/post/4503505772/the-patho... ) but although I empathize, this post missed the flight deck completely. First, as other
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If you forecast using velocity, you're going to be late(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
1 points by ljw1001 14y ago|0 comments
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Customers ruin everything- how customer interaction impacts engineering(deathrayresearch.tumblr.com)
1 points by ljw1001 14y ago|0 comments

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