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by locopati 17y ago
Anecdote != data, however, I will say that my decision to stay in my job is quite tied to the health insurance my family (w 1 child) receives through that job. It is simply too risky and expensive to take a lower paying job that might provi
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by locopati 17y ago
They've yet to have their way with the cold corpse of Star Blazers.
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by locopati 17y ago
Has anyone found the keyword for computer-related jobs? I've tried filtering on 'software', 'computer', 'information', 'engineer' (which does have results but no computer-specific ones aside from EE). Or do those get lumped under 'Professio
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by locopati 17y ago
More details here http://troy.yort.com/anatomy-of-a-malware-ad-on-nytimes-com
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Bully Pulpit(dooce.com)
1 points by locopati 17y ago|0 comments
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by locopati 17y ago
I must stand up in defense of the Newton. It was way ahead of its time when it came to user experience. Version 1.0 was like most version 1.0s not quite ready and its handwriting recognition took a lot of criticism (even getting Doonesbury
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by locopati 17y ago
What is gained by abolishing legal tender since, as you state, another standard will rise in its place?
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by locopati 17y ago
Some suggestions: * reduce the height of the character grid by 2 rows - it is too much to fit the whole table on a 1280x1024 which means you have to scroll to see all the characters * change the list of somewhat arbitrary shortcut links on
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by locopati 17y ago
Interesting idea, but why use arbitary names like 'sprummer' or 'sprinter'? Why not give it a name denoting what it is (like 'rainy season' or 'hotting-up season'?
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by locopati 17y ago
The MTA is not a government agency in the sense of the Department of Defense. The are a public-benefit corporation in the sense of the postal service or Amtrak. Though they draw money from state and city raised taxes. In other words, it's a
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Unstoppable hum(blog.sptnk.org)
1 points by locopati 17y ago|0 comments
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by locopati 17y ago
Scripps Networks Interactive uses Scrum with varying degrees of success (as one of the early comments noted - it depends on the skills of the project owner - but even without that, it helps keep dev focused on deliverables that work).
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by locopati 17y ago
How are these brief entries any less important than descriptions of the complete episodes of BSG, Doctor Who, The Wire, or dozens of other TV shows? Yes, I've read many of those episode articles and I'm sure they get more hits, but we're ta
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by locopati 17y ago
Period.Period.Period.BIG PERIOD.Ghost.Chomp.
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by locopati 17y ago
That's all well and good. There are a lot of internal corporate applications that were developed on IE6. Knowing that IE6 required workarounds that would break in IE7/IE8/FF3/etc, it would be irresponsible of Microsoft to force upgrades to
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by locopati 17y ago
That seems like a common problem. You gather requirements which suggest that the software will be used once or for a limited time, so you cut corners in order to get it done quickly and then years later the software is still being used and
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by locopati 17y ago
The trick with 'no profit' is that it's possible for a company to tweak the numbers such that the books show 'no profit' while great profit was made and distributed in ways to allow that (some legal, some illegal, some gray area depending o
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by locopati 17y ago
And now, some alternative perspectives... 'Most Corporations Don't Pay Income Taxes' http://www.truthout.org/article/most-corporations-dont-pay-i... 'Big business must pay it's fair share' http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/
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by locopati 17y ago
Even if you assume 4 people per car, cars still wouldn't work as well as the subway does for moving people. The original post is an interesting perspective on how important the subways are to NYC, nothing more. Interesting mildly off-topic
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by locopati 17y ago
Tell them to start from their domain. Find a simple problem that could be solved using a command-line utility (ex: bioinformatics tools). Pick a scripting language (Python, Ruby, Perl - any big one will do since they don't have deep coding
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DSLs in Erlang(dukesoferl.blogspot.com)
4 points by locopati 17y ago|0 comments
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Observations on Functional Refactoring(blog.objectmentor.com)
12 points by locopati 17y ago|3 comments
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by locopati 17y ago
'Engineers and Scientists value the truth.' Do you live in NYC or a similarly large city? I think you'd see that engineers (specifically, in the building & construction trades) can be just as corrupt as the next guy (and we're talking p
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by locopati 17y ago
There's something to be gained by networking outside your industry. Not all great ideas exist within the group. Artists talking to coders talking to scientists talking to historians produces connections that may go unnoticed.
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by locopati 17y ago
If social networking online is good, real social networking even better.
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by locopati 17y ago
I don't think developers have a problem with paying a full refund for user-returned apps so much as a problem with paying a full refund for Apple-returned apps (the capriciousness is just the icing on the cake).
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by locopati 17y ago
Monsanto is a company that would probably love to have seeds that only are good for one generation and need to be purchased every planting season (they already do have these for some of their innovations, but I bet they'd love to have total
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by locopati 17y ago
That looks sustainable. I applaud what he's done but also wonder how "owns two jets, two helicopters and a private island" fits with deep concerns about sustainability. Mind you, I'm sure on the balance he's still ahead when it comes to giv
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by locopati 17y ago
I wonder how that article mixes with this one... 'Exposure to New York City as a Risk Factor for Heart Attack Mortality' http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/abstract/61...
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by locopati 17y ago
However, you are an expat and thus subject to the whims of your host country without the recourse of a citizen to expect response to complaints (of course, that expectation varies widely from country to country and within a country). For ex

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