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by mrcsparker 10y ago
Same here. I have never heard heckling at a conference. If anything, people get too nervous to say anything at all.
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by mrcsparker 10y ago
Honestly, it would have been fine if it was just guys in the room that knew eachother. That is a strange conversation to have around women that you don't know. A lot of this stuff is basic understanding of what is appropriate for the
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by mrcsparker 10y ago
With tabs, everyone gets to use their own indent. It is a lot more portable from programmer to programmer.
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by mrcsparker 10y ago
It seems like you want to live in another city. Part of what many people like about Houston is the lack of zoning. People tend to live close to where they work. The city doesn't really need a business area and a commercial area and a
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by mrcsparker 10y ago
Keep greeting them - they will come around. I am from the US South and not saying hello (or waving when they pass by) is considered bad manners. I have done this all my life and people have told me that they like it when someone says &quot
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by mrcsparker 10y ago
Those Google commercials made me cry too. I also felt manipulated each time they were on.
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by mrcsparker 10y ago
Education
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by mrcsparker 10y ago
Houston is a lot closer to what everyone seems to claim that they want: it is pretty easy to live close to work with small local businesses that service the local community. The heat keeps the city from being walkable. People from other ci
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by mrcsparker 10y ago
Depends on the steel grade. I can't find any articles on this, but I only started looking. Back when Japan and Russia were doing this in the 90s it was vanilla hot rolled coils, which is the bread and butter of the steel industry. Ru
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
Wonderful graphs at the bottom. I hope that this passes. It was too bad that an article like this had to be written.
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
Thanks for posting that. Cuba Gooding Jr. was miscast. He is great but looks nothing like O.J., and a lot of what made O.J. so appealing was his looks. I saw O.J. on a plane once and he is striking. He is an enormous man with a chiseled
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
Fantastic talk. Great speaker. Thanks so much for posting this
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
Yes, please. To be fair, a lot of people do publish their working code with the paper. It helps people like me understand how to do the work. Bad code is fine, good code is better, great code is great. Stick to fine and I can do my job an
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
That was a great read. Thanks
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
I know that I'm not the only one crying. Bowie's music meant a lot to me. He was a weirdo that made it cool to be a weirdo. His music was always on while I was coding, running, having a drink, taking to my daughter. Everyone in
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
This looks really nice. Thanks for the link.
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
I just read the Tao Manifesto and - while I was skeptical at first - I have to agree that it is much easier. Note that this is just my opinion, but I have kids and this gives me an alternative viewpoint when they have questions. I wonder w
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
This seems wonderful. Please be wonderful and spread all over the world.
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
Apparently I might not be human.
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
If you want to attract a buyer like my wife (she isn't here at the moment, so I am guessing) have a US-based version of the site in US dollars. She buys a lot of clothing online, and this looks like the type of clothing that she likes
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
This is amazing. Silverlight ported to Javascript. Why haven't I heard more about this?
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
I just watched the TempleOS vs Linux video. Fantastic stuff. I had missed that one. His OS looks fun. I started listing the things that I liked, and I was just repeating the points in the video.
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
If this is anything like the last set of layoffs and sell offs the the early 2000s, there will be a lot of smaller companies starting up that will handle the business that HP will start to lose. I worked at a large company that used HP hard
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
I agree with you. I also like the idea of a remote file system as a standard protocol. There are a lot of complaints here that it is too complex or that it should be json rather than xml. How many people are developing their own WebDAV li
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
It is a lot like Spring XD. They both use a data flow model: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming I have been playing with both, and I prefer Spring XD's DSL. It looks a lot like Unix pipes, whic
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
It isn't about the money, it is all about attitude. I have bags, it is too far to walk, and I just need to get to the hotel. I don't want to feel like an ass for asking for help getting there. Being in a car where the driver does
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
I love them too. Lots of brilliant people have trouble solving problems while a group of strangers are staring at them. Part of the interview process is trying to find out what type of person you are dealing with.
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
I always try to find out if the candidate could - with enough information - solve the puzzle. Can you, given time, figure out a good solution to the problem I am asking? How would you go about solving the problem? What is your methodology
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by mrcsparker 11y ago
Maybe in West Texas. Hickory and oak are more traditional for central Texas. Pecan and apple are good too. Mesquite is too bitter for me, but I grew up cooking with oak.
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by mrcsparker 12y ago
This is because you are looking at startups. These are products that no one is sure will work, and the company is trying to get a product to market as quickly and cheaply as possible. The codebase doesn't have to look great and the pr

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