mstevens

9 ms·

31.
by mstevens 16y ago
Indeed, that's why I don't expect to get anything.
32.
by mstevens 16y ago
I applied, but from a UK address. So I'm not expecting to get anything.
33.
by mstevens 16y ago
Interestingly spencerfry.com seems to be blocked by OpenDNS as "Proxy/anonymizer". I've experimentally flagged it for review.
34.
by mstevens 16y ago
There's no career path to get good at development. As soon as you get good at development, you start getting promoted into roles where you increasingly do things that aren't development. Is it any surprise that developers aren't good when c
35.
by mstevens 16y ago
It's a lot more complicated than that. For example, if I ask a small question today, I'll get an answer and get with the task quickly. But I'll only have a small bit of information, so I'll be back tomorrow, the day after, and so on. Wherea
36.
by mstevens 16y ago
Doesn't work for me - crashes every time I try to start a video call. Problem reported to google, will see what happens.
37.
OpenSolaris is dead(blogs.everycity.co.uk)
129 points by mstevens 16y ago|107 comments
38.
by mstevens 16y ago
Important related question I don't see in the article: what percentage of men who apply for VC get it?
39.
by mstevens 16y ago
Function::Parameters looks like more or less what I was looking for, although I continue to think the perl6 option is a little cleaner.
40.
by mstevens 16y ago
I certainly have problems myself. pg clearly does too. I get the feeling it's widespread beyond that.
41.
by mstevens 16y ago
Filtered internet connections. Buy DSL from us, get a connection with only productive, work related content, or no porn, or defeat the tvtropes addiction...
42.
by mstevens 16y ago
Downloaded it for a quick experiment. Points I've noticed so far: * It needs perl5 to build. * Hello World still works. * Perl can now compete with Java for slow startup. * One of my pet perl hates, the inability to write "sub foo($a, $b, $
43.
by mstevens 16y ago
I've had positive results with the pcengines alix boards for routers: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm . I suspect they'd work well for other server use.
44.
by mstevens 16y ago
I've long felt the key is to get the interviewee to do some real work for a day. Pair programming seems like it might work well. You'd have to come up with some suitable toy problems that you could make significant progress on in a day.
45.
by mstevens 16y ago
The thing that always interests me in these discussions is: Apparently believing you can achieve through hard work increases your achievement over believing you're born good or bad. What I'm curious about is how much this is actually true,
46.
by mstevens 16y ago
I've been vaguely speculating to myself lately that two good niches might be: * email * good customer service for a price
47.
by mstevens 16y ago
Just to note, I've had very good results with tarsnap, thanks cperciva! I'm hoping that the results are made public they'll be anonymised at least somewhat.
48.
by mstevens 16y ago
"I think this indicates some serious shortcomings in current technology, and a severe gap between technologists and non-technologists -- one which is incredibly difficult to communicate to technologists." Personally I'm very aware of this g
49.
by mstevens 16y ago
Apache, I don't really like it, but it's convenient. I retain a lingering fondness for dan bernstein's publicfile http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html but don't actually use it.
50.
by mstevens 16y ago
My experience (google docs API problem), was that I could provide sample code that looked like it ought to work, but actually triggered an internal server error from google, was on a paid support contract, and it wasn't resolved for about 9
51.
by mstevens 16y ago
Every time I read an article like this I plan to spend less time online, but never seem to actually manage it. Tools like leechblock do provide some help in blocking access to the biggest distractions. I'm working on the meditation thing a
52.
by mstevens 16y ago
It's true. I've managed to use Lotus Notes, too, that doesn't mean I think it was a good idea.
53.
by mstevens 16y ago
I'm still in the "all unvisited hyperlinks should be blue and all visited ones should be purple." camp. It's simple and everyone knows what to expect!
54.
by mstevens 16y ago
How do you find running snapshots? I always figured just from the name you could expect them to have problems.
55.
by mstevens 16y ago
I'm using an alix 2d3 as well, very impressed with it so far.
56.
by mstevens 16y ago
I've got a home router running on OpenBSD, for a mix of practical and educational purposes. I've found pf to be particularly nice - it's much easier to work with than iptables for me. Like all the BSDs, it has man pages for everything , wh
57.
by mstevens 16y ago
I found the question about "school" ambiguous. Depending on your location, this may or may not include university.
58.
by mstevens 16y ago
We're still waiting for someone to do a nice replicate-my-existing-server offering.
59.
by mstevens 16y ago
Ideally, the 1/3 that goes towards education would be spent on training the people who buy lottery tickets to understand statistics.
60.
by mstevens 16y ago
One feature I've pondered is some kind of location based phone thing. IE you tell it things like "I like to go down the pub with this group of people", and it'll automatically suggest that as an activity to you all if you're in a suitably s

More ›