meatpeople

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by meatpeople 14y ago
I have no problem subscribing to Pages without Liking them. (Little drop down to the right of Like and Message buttons on a page; click on Add to Interest Lists...) As per the grandparent post of this thread, I don't "Like" anything on twit
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by meatpeople 15y ago
Gobekli Tepe is indeed fascinating. There's a good article on it in the latest National Geographic: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/gobekli-tepe/mann-...
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by meatpeople 16y ago
Having only recently read Peopleware 2nd Ed., I've been mulling over the audition concept in the "Hiring A Juggler" chapter - effectively having a developer present on a project they worked on, what they contributed and learned and so forth
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by meatpeople 16y ago
Great idea, and well stated. I'll add a plus-one for filtering based on shipping territories. It ties in with other peoples' comments regarding personal shoppers, but once you get past the initial mvp stage, I think there's an opening for a
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by meatpeople 18y ago
Likewise, but I'm using one of the newer ones (Natural Ergonomic 4000) and I like it. Been meaning to mod it ala tlb ( http://tlb.org/keyboardchop.html ) to get the mouse closer but I've never gotten around to it. Would love to have a track
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Neo-Victorian Computing(markbernstein.org)
5 points by meatpeople 19y ago|0 comments
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by meatpeople 19y ago
I'd agree about the insularity of the press and community around the MS ecosystem. I got a job programming blub in VB.Net straight out of college and am writing C# at the moment. I don't have anything to back it up but I have always found a
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by meatpeople 19y ago
There's a lot of good food for thought here. I can empathise; I had similar thoughts in college that I wouldn't stick it. I love programming, sometimes even the Blub code I work on day to day, however I don't like sitting at a desk all day,
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by meatpeople 19y ago
I can't speak for m0nty but I'd agree that I don't recognise the Europe of the FP article. I'm in Ireland, historically a very left leaning state until drastic measures were taken in the 1980s leading to our recent growth and prosperity. We
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by meatpeople 19y ago
About a month ago, I was talking to a man that sells hardware and support to small businesses (almost exclusively non-technical ones at that) for a living. He said his company spends a surprising amount of time downgrading Vista machines to