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by mqsiuser 12y ago
> In general the scientific community is not filled with the highest quality programmers Some will think different. Peer groups tend to think they are the greatest (academia, doing a phd... I know of some with very good self-esteem)
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Linus Torvalds knew that "the GPL would turn as many people away as it would attract" and exactly of that (it attracted a lot) he considers his decision for the GPL "to be the best decision he ever made" (though he
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Thanks for scrolling down :) and answering. Yes assumptions have to be made. I have just been curious, since I have done sth similar recently ( http://www.use-the-tree.com ). The assumptions I make there are "that these are r
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
When you convert CSV to and from JSON(/XML) then the interesting part IMHO is how to convert the hierarchy (of JSON/XML) to CSV and how to encode it (e.g. in a header-line). Do you account for that?
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
When you start you tend to take a (reasonable) free domain name. Later (when successful & have money) tend to get/buy a better one It is portrayed wrongly in the movie "The Social Network": "drop the "the&quot
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8002445
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
I applied with http://www.use-the-tree.com . It's okay with me to not have been interviewed via Skype and not receive funding. Also the eMail from Greg (on June 5th) was nice and well written: Hey, Thanks a lot for apply
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
I met COBOL/zOS people that talk about retirement "next year". They are ~60 to 70 That shows something: Every generation has it's path (must have :D "push/squeeze")
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
In 2000 I was sitting in the XML proseminar and I asked why? Why validation? Why xPointer? I wrote my thesis (2005) about Semantic Web (RDF&OWL). In 2012 the company of my professor ("Ontoprise") went bankrupt I started workin
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Your blog post shows that doing software/IT is "not just another job". It can be very demanding and make you question things. People will say "but (every job has it's caveats)..." and NO. My dream is to sell en
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
dan_bk: You have been downvoted because your comment is too off topic mantraxB... is just ironic and making fun (rescuing the situation) I had to smile (thank you & upvoted)
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
"The inmates are running the asylum" - 8 hours a day 5 days a week A colleague (from the PM office) comes in in the morning and says to my hard working co-worker (working since 7 everyday, 10 hours a day, wanting to make a career)
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
I really don't like when people say "but everyone has problems, you know. Now go back to programming and I'll do my thing". There are differences and the article and others point out the specific problems of our busine
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
I think the actual problem was that someone typed "hostname " (that is "hostname" and 2 blanks), which did set the hostname to " " (a blank). Yeah sure changing it back may work (it didn't for the colleag
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
The similarity of "rm -rf *" and "rm -rf /" makes me nervous any time I "cd" somewhere and then issue the first. There is no trash can in my Unix, deleted is gone forever. A move (mv) or copy (cp) just ove
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
There are some bad things that can happen in the UNIX shell. Ofc. unset (empty) variables "rm -rf ${variable}/" ... I guess paths are given without a slash at the end (also for that reason). But also other commands: "h
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
But what do we do about that... ... things turn out to be not well balanced (a fact... for whatever reason) You can make millions in a guys only world in SV (doesn't the lack of private life suck? The lack of a balanced ;) peer group?)
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
YES, how can we spend so much time on the 10 things a programming LANGUAGE consists of? Vendors: Get things right (so you won't trap yourself). I am not interested in your switch statement syntax NOW & I'll just pick it up and
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
You are overgeneralizing
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
As someone who implemented an open source quicksort ( http://www.mqseries.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=273722 ) which is used by many in production: Now this is very interesting, but could also be prevented with a random n
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
E.g. Ryan Dahl uses Linux and has objections towards OSX. I trust him (and others) and I use Ubuntu on a MBPR (Linus likes 13inch screens with high res & low weight... he actually has a Mac Book Air). Now Ubuntu is maybe okay but for a
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
I wrote and contributed important code in an area (Computer Systems Integration) after seeing it lacking for years ( https://github.com/mqsiuser/Generic-ESQL-Utilities ). I just saw that I could do it and I figured out h
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
A happy world article
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
During my project I was once at the point where I actually implemented my own (interpreted) scripting language. I have never thought that I'd be one of the guys who creates something like this, but once you are so fed up with something
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
I live in Germany and I can't move to the valley easily (will investigate on "work visa" and I will take part in the green card lottery over the next couple of years :) But even if I make it to SV, nothing ever relieves you f
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Yeah, thanks the keyboard layout. Problems because it's a German MBPR: "Keyboard" -> "Text Entry" -> ... @: alt + Q {[]}: alt + 7890 Great nice :)
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
There are typical kinds of people. He seems to be very idealistic. And it's awesome and free advertisement for him as a person/hacker, where he (and his github projects) now can profit. He is in high dept towards google now :)
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
Okay, I start: 1. Using the build tool ant for installing software 2. Using the stylesheet language xslt for message transformation 3. Using SQL for message transformation 4. Defining the Web for machines (w3c)
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"Technology abuse" – Rant opportunity here
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by mqsiuser 12y ago
So, just as a reference: "Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer": http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ There are quite a couple of possible views in IT, which makes it hard for us

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