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by lojack 15y ago
Everyone always over thinks it with the whole sit-stand desk. All you need to do is buy a standing desk (I simply adjusted my cubicle) and a tall chair. No adjustment required, sit when you want and stand when you want.
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by lojack 15y ago
I didn't describe this setup, but it sounds to me like they are using Kanban. Properly executed Kanban should have Queueing and WIP limits to prevent clueless roaming, make sure tasks get completed, and provide feedback. If something doesn'
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by lojack 15y ago
> "Cut me a break. I spent 3 weeks overtime getting that thing done, and Fred gets all the credit (and money!)" http://blogs.balsamiq.com/team/2011/09/07/pace/ tl;dr Don't work overtime, work sustainably. All your other issues are wit
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Bash Prompt Builder(andrewray.me)
6 points by lojack 15y ago|0 comments
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by lojack 15y ago
That's reassuring. (putting in my two weeks notice tomorrow to be employee #1)
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The current direction of agile development(infoq.com)
1 points by lojack 15y ago|0 comments
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by lojack 15y ago
Out of curiosity, were you allowing it to check? If you denied permissions I could see it asking every 30 minutes since it failed the previous attempt.
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by lojack 15y ago
> You don't need Monte Carlo to understand that boarding first rows is less efficient, or to come up with a much more efficient procedure. Such as boarding from both the front cabin door and the rear cabin door?
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by lojack 15y ago
If my expected value after the trade is higher than $680,000 plus some markup for my time, then yes, I would be willing to risk it.
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by lojack 15y ago
I believe the point is that google can now produce closed source motorola specific software, and not that android is no longer open source software.
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by lojack 15y ago
The author is arguing potential revenue and not relative revenue. From that point of view a 30% or 40% market share for apple would indeed be more revenue than a 19% market share. If these other companies are growing much faster than Apple,
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by lojack 15y ago
An accurate count is a documented non-feature of Google.
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by lojack 15y ago
I always thought the Hacker News ones were low contrast by design. Bad comments progressively get more difficult to read by design.
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by lojack 15y ago
Check out Bit Twiddling Hacks if you'd like to see more: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
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by lojack 15y ago
I was once tasked with upgrading a Drupal instance and while I surely don't have the experience you do I have opposing feelings about this. Some of Drupal's more popular plugins are certainly well maintained, but for this case (and I imagin
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by lojack 15y ago
This is of no surprise to me, and I think we can all agree that its because of the technology oriented crowd. I'd actually be willing to bet the tech crowd is early adopters for most new software/services. The only reason we're hearing abou
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by lojack 15y ago
Do people really consider OAuth2 difficult to implement? Also, not trying to knock BrowserID or say that it'll never work, but due to browser compatibility this is still probably 5 years off before I'd begin using it. From what I can gather
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by lojack 15y ago
I have a "Shitlist" circle that I post demotivational quotes to on a regular basis. The rest of the time I post publicly. Just so no one gets the wrong idea, most of the people on my shitlist requested to be there.
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by lojack 15y ago
> How would you show it on a graph? A relative frequency density histogram
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by lojack 15y ago
I think that's why he suggests digging deeper until they are making eye contact.
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by lojack 15y ago
I believe they are still using Flash for older browsers that don't support HTML5 audio.
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by lojack 15y ago
I've seen multiple variations of similar requests. It seems that there's two separate problems that need to be addressed. There's the broadcasters problem where people want to broadcast information only to select groups of people. Facebook
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by lojack 15y ago
so is this why my $10 only has $8 of buying power?
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The true story of the history of the colon in python(python-history.blogspot.com)
3 points by lojack 15y ago|0 comments
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by lojack 15y ago
That doesn't allow you to target the demographic (undergrad students).
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by lojack 15y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if more users were on devices that ran linux than devices that ran windows nowadays.
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by lojack 15y ago
This all seems so familiar... In a completely unrelated note, apparently Myspace sold last week for around $35 million.
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by lojack 15y ago
Translation: I have a lot of friends who run startups in Silicon Valley and am very important because of that.
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by lojack 15y ago
That overhead you're speaking of is present with bringing anyone onto a project, not just interns. I actually went to a school that required every student in my program to do a minimum of 1 year of paid internships (split into 3 and 6 month
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by lojack 15y ago
I recently switched from the iPhone to Android, and every point he made I agree with -- except in reverse. On android I have three different contact lists all with different UI and features. For example: in the phone app my features are "Se

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