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by loumf 16y ago
If this article is indicative of the content of his speeches (purposely misunderstanding tax policy and misleading with math), then I'm relieved that he intends not to speak publicly.
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by loumf 16y ago
Obama cannot do anything about tax rates -- the 2001 congress passed a temporary tax cut which Bush signed. Whatever you think about the tax-rates going up was decided 10 years ago to dodge CBO projections of cost by Bush and that congress
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by loumf 16y ago
Great programmers tend to have built up a network of people that would like to hire them or will recommend them.
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by loumf 16y ago
This old Joel Spolsky article gives an argument to why that is: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper... If you believe that good programmers are more likely to be offered a job than bad ones, it pretty much flows f
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by loumf 16y ago
The GoF book is one pattern language among many. They were concerned with OO design that is used in a class of programs they had experience with -- basically GUI programs with runtime extension, and with a bias towards programs that create
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by loumf 16y ago
I ask OO design questions. Experience with design patterns is fairly evident in answers to these questions, and sometimes that's good and sometimes it's bad.
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by loumf 16y ago
I saw some new Xbox thing at Gamestop this weekend that looked cool: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/kinect -- uses cameras for gameplay in a wii-like way.
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by loumf 16y ago
Uncaught TypeError: Object #<an Object> has no method 'cleditor' application.js: line 2 is all I get -- no JS error when clicking, but only get it if I click the blue button.
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by loumf 16y ago
The button becomes giant when I click it. Works if you don't click the button (just click the image). I volunteer on a lot of small campaigns (state level) -- we can buy voter list in MA, but that only has name, address -- no phone number.
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by loumf 16y ago
Live Demo link not working on Chrome on Mac. Quickly just wanted to see how the data (and phone numbers get in). Down ballot races can buy voter lists, but not easily obtain phone-numbers. Do you do lookup?
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by loumf 16y ago
The best player that stays knows that they won't get severance in they are fired, so there is no incentive to stay if it seems like layoffs are coming again (or if they just get an offer).
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by loumf 16y ago
The photo wouldn't have led to the arrest if she hadn't matched it against the ones in MySpace one that was attached to the e-mail, names, and other people.
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by loumf 16y ago
Right, but they match words against words more or less. This matches even if the video is degraded, cropped, etc. They have figured out how to apply stemming concepts to video and audio.
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by loumf 16y ago
Use the kill-flash extension for Chrome. It takes off flash elements and replaces them with a zone to click on if you want to bring it back. It has a whitelist that you can use for sites that you want flash on by default.
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by loumf 16y ago
Cisco is currently using something like "redefining LOL" in their ads -- they definitely target B2B, so if it's not too edgy for Cisco, then I can't see it alienating "ordinary" customers. In fact, it's evidence that it's not edgy enough t
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by loumf 16y ago
Duck Duck Go has a lot of perl in it, and it's a somewhat trendy discussion topic on HN. I think most of the reason we don't care is because DDG's strengths have nothing to do with Perl -- except for maybe how easy it is to deploy/keep runn
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by loumf 16y ago
I updated the title to reflect the year. I posted it because it's related to the Bill Gates e-mail about Windows Usability. It's from a similar perspective -- power user/programmer who has a lot of sway on the platform trying to just use i
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Eric Raymond on CUPS usability [2006](catb.org)
3 points by loumf 16y ago|6 comments
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by loumf 16y ago
Here's Eric Raymond on Cups for a Unix perspective. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
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by loumf 16y ago
Objective-C is pretty dynamic and has support for querying and altering classes at runtime. http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/R...
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by loumf 16y ago
Other video sites besides YouTube aren't fully there yet. I randomly run into embedded videos on blogs that are using Flash to embed -- it's not always easy to find the HTML5 version. It's been getting better.
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by loumf 16y ago
Crunchbase isn't only startups (my employer is there, and we're not a startup) and not all startups raise money (we were once a startup, but were bootstrapped). I would characterize the companies in Crunchbase as just tech companies.
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by loumf 16y ago
If they have some experience managing technical projects, it could work -- there are certainly people that do that. It depends on how much the technology is going to differentiate the product. If it's a straightforward implementation, it'
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by loumf 16y ago
Presuming you are a architect of buildings, not software and want ideas for getting into software. Given skills you already have, you could probably do QA, documentation or support at a company that makes architecture software. Once there y
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by loumf 16y ago
But it's very difficult to argue against reasoning if you don't believe the facts they are derived from. If you don't have time to do the research yourself, you tend to trust past behavior. She's been caught manipulating facts to support
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by loumf 16y ago
There are many, but this one is lengthy http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/01/22... and another http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2010/07/25/megan-mcardle-is-jus... It's not her reasoning -- usually it's her "facts".
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by loumf 16y ago
Sorry. If you've never heard of NYC, you're not going to make it :)
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by loumf 16y ago
If you need incentive to come to NYC, you aren't going to make it.
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by loumf 16y ago
It spams feeds. So you end up with a lot of checkins inside of Twitter, FB, etc. Depending on how linked the person's accounts are.
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by loumf 16y ago
He misspelled "Simple" and "Traversal" in prewritten text (when defining STUN and TURN). I find a good indication that someone who doesn't understand something is they spend a lot of time defining acronyms.

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