mike_herrera

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by mike_herrera 13y ago
What is the fee? I couldn't find any reference on the site, easily.
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
On one-hand it's funny. On the other-hand, it's horribly sad considering that national debt (and taxes, generally) is a constitutionally-mandated crowdfunding scheme. Having this presented as an April fool's gag rustles my jimmies in an od
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
It's a control issue under the guise of a cost-saving effort. Contractors and vendors are easier to hire and fire compared to employees. Generous advances in worker productivity mean that the same permanent internal workforce is no longer
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
I'm suspiciously seeing, "2,643 people +1'd this." While I would be excited to see such enthusiasm relating to a government property, this doesn't smell kosher.
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
I've really been pleased with PaperKarma. https://www.paperkarma.com/ Especially as I move often, I really enjoy having the ability to stop promotional mail from the previous tenants.
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
> Code and software quality are serious issues. Unmanaged complexity costs companies millions of dollars. This is a direct result of the low average competence of software engineers... If the executives aren't aware of these facts, then
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
> More autonomy for programmers means more high-quality work is done, which generates higher returns already but also means that programmers improve. I disagree. The self-motivated path may be "more productive" for that one person, but
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
Autonomy within an organization sounds novel for morale, but it's a major shift from today's business culture. Strategy would also be incredibly difficult to execute. Organizational leaders need to be able to align their people down a com
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
Gauge the impact the diversion will have to your core competency. If the actual benefits and time estimates are overwhelmingly positive, do it. If it's anything less, or is just to address a nearly non-existant bullshit edge-case, make no
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
> It's been seven busy days for us since MEGA went live. As millions of users were hitting 50,000 freshly written and barely tested lines of code and dozens of newly installed servers, teething troubles were inevitable. -- Mega blog en
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
It heavily depends on management's alignment.
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
> ...haml isn't threadsafe. Could you elaborate on this, please?
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
If we're just wanting to know what phase of the day it is, at a particular location, a sun projection is a good enough approximation. e.g. http://www.die.net/earth/
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
The Masters is cited with a dead link. The title of the citation also has "honorary" in the title... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain#cite_note-purdue-8
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by mike_herrera 14y ago
Certainly. Prior professions may help define a candidate's initial campaign platform and narrative, but they rarely explain political activity once in office. Politics is a game with very few reliable rules but where even minor actions ha