lsiebert

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by lsiebert 11y ago
What you should do is pick one stack to work with, and become good at it. It's okay to not like the stack you picked, as long as it's popular. But learning is hard, so stick with whatever you picked to the point where you have a m
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Also, to the extent that this article exists and people hear about working at Amazon being punishing and stressful or horrible warehouse jobs, if things have really changed, Amazon has a marketing/PR problem.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Maybe the engineering culture is less like what was described then the marketing and executive cultures? I'd also appreciate a female Amazon employee's perspective on gender, since they are more likely to notice issues that Nick w
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Software that will be used for a long period of time. For example medical devices, or vehicle parts.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Actually, if you signed a contract and provided a rate, and they accepted it and they didn't pay you, they have (I am not a lawyer so in my opinion and this isn't legal advice) violated the contract. That may mean the NDA is not
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Well we know that a controversy and dispute makes for a good article, but this could easily be about the shared benefits of WordPress, and how different people use WordPress to make money in different ways.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I think you can control for socioeconomic class of the areas. Though I would argue that an area where black people are more likely to be unable to afford proper maintenance for their vehicles, are more likely to be poor in general, may be
818.
by lsiebert 11y ago
Race and class are tightly bound in America. But there are some things in the study that are at least suggestive that it's a racial difference. First they attempted to assess names race, and got rid of names that were insufficiently s
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by lsiebert 11y ago
In the U.S. it has repeatedly been shown to be covered by the First Amendment. See http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/telling-the-police-to-f-...
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Indeed. Blatant honest racism is just one sort, but there is racism that is built into the system (like how white killers are mentally ill in the media, while black killers are called thugs), or unconsciously part of how you think (see ht
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Sure, but minor offenses are often a pretense for racial profiling, where the thing that attracted the cop's attention is driving while black. It's why young African Americans are more likely to be arrested for minor drug offenses
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Get your degree. Seriously, the lack of a CS degree will screw you over. Maybe not with this job, but you don't expect to work at this place for your whole career, right?
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I think this is one of those things where you want to talk to the end user, a sight impaired person with a screen reader, and see what they want.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Capitalism breaks down when wealth is allowed to substitute for merit or the ability to produce, and where a lack of wealth impedes the ability of individuals to succeed on merit. It also breaks down on public goods. The idea of capitalism
825.
by lsiebert 11y ago
I think this works best if you pass a pointer to an error structure in the parameters. I've found people often use signed integer types with arrays so they can return a -1 to signal that something went wrong.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Git is pretty easy to contribute to, fwiw. Thought it does require you to create patches and send them to the mailing list like the linux kernel does.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Sweet, will it be added to CPAN?
828.
by lsiebert 11y ago
This sounds like something to ask on the official mailing list, where you have domain experts.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I put my github on my resume, and my projects and open source contributions are at the top. But then, my bachelor's isn't in CS.
830.
by lsiebert 11y ago
When they are interested in good people who can code, not experience with their exact stack. That said, if I have experience with their stack, mentioning it may get me interested. Not requiring a CS degree. Mentioning being able to contribu
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by lsiebert 11y ago
That's why, in part I'm spending some of my time in between job hunting working on contributing to an OS project, not because I'm going to be learning the latest django or javascript idiom so I can hit the ground running, or
832.
by lsiebert 11y ago
Which assumes that you majored in CS for your bachelor's degree. And could afford to go to college.
833.
by lsiebert 11y ago
Samsung Galaxy s3, rooted and running cyanogenmod.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Interestingly git used bit fields in it's code.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I want to know if the code will be available for auditing. Also, if these devices can be blocked by spam blocklists, then there should be some way to use a vpn to handle this.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Dreaming in Code is work a read.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Umm... you know there is a standard for that. VRML was the original, but X3D is it's successor.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I suppose you could sell custom binaries, but if you distribute them, you likely have to publish the code. That said, you could maybe run them in the cloud yourself and sell access.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
Added a pull request to use git ls-tree for filenames so you only check stuff in the repo, instead of find. Hopefully it will end up on an open source license of some sort.
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by lsiebert 11y ago
I'm not at all sure what point you are trying to make. I would say working to increase diversity is a lot like firefox, or the linux kernel, or another open source project, where you keep working and making things better, but you never

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