mstevens

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by mstevens 17y ago
I looked at this a couple of years ago - the big handicap for me is that it looks difficult to guarantee vegetarian food. From what I could find you had a good chance of getting away with it, but nobody who'd guarantee "yes, we will feed ve
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by mstevens 17y ago
Apart from an excellent holiday, this sounds like a great way to get some coding done. Take a laptop, a few books on your favourite languages, come back with a product!
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by mstevens 17y ago
My Apple MP3 player does have a FM radio built-in. It's a less good example now they've added one to the nano.
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by mstevens 17y ago
I've been playing one of the zygna games myself. To the level I've got, plenty of things would be easier if I was willing to spend money, but I haven't found anything I can't do for free.
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by mstevens 17y ago
Is this loading for other people? For me there's no response.
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by mstevens 17y ago
One thing that annoys me about sales people sometimes is that they always talk about "know your audience", but they'll almost never go "this is a technical audience, we need to talk in terms that technical people will respond to".
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by mstevens 17y ago
From the user side, two things that particularly annoyed me were: * The search was unusuably bad. One of the worst searches I've ever used. * The document versioning may, if you're a programmer, lead you to believe it works like source cont
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by mstevens 17y ago
I'm sceptical about the claims that the version control is completely transparent. Certainly when I was using it I found it an utter pain and persistently had problems with documents being in the wrong state. I don't have access to a sharep
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by mstevens 17y ago
I also have been very happy with gandi.
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by mstevens 17y ago
The queue jumping sounds like Kate Fox, she talks about it in _Watching the English_ but I wouldn't be surprised to see it written up elsewhere too. http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2004/5/3/53732.html is the best link I could find qu
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by mstevens 17y ago
He seems to distort Linux a little by focusing on Redhat derived distributions. eg Debian/Ubuntu doesn't use RPMs, there's one central place to get packages, it's realistic to upgrade the system a long way without reinstalling, etc.
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by mstevens 17y ago
My CS experience was that it was something that everyone studied, but only in a fairly abstract context, and I don't remember coming away with the notion that you'd ever actually use it for except parsing.
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by mstevens 17y ago
I'm sure I've seen this somewhere before.
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by mstevens 17y ago
If anyone has worked out what his point is, please let us know.
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The Death of Richard Dawkins: A short story by Steve Yegge(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
59 points by mstevens 17y ago|20 comments
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by mstevens 17y ago
Maybe check posts using http://stupidfilter.org/main/
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by mstevens 18y ago
I'd be interested to read more about how much of the Special Forces difference they're born with and how much you can train.
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by mstevens 18y ago
I use http://clustered.net/ for a VPS. Pretty good, but not quite as automated as providers like slicehost. They're in the UK.
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by mstevens 18y ago
Brian's point seems to be key to me - you need both network value, and what he calls "personal value" for that first user.
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by mstevens 18y ago
I can't stand them myself. But other people I work with use them more regularly than me and seem to love them. No proof of anything, but possibly more useful data.
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by mstevens 18y ago
I found OS X applications generally seem to have slightly fewer keyboard shortcuts than Linux/Windows. They're there, but for example I think menus are easier to access on Windows (still possible on both though!).
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by mstevens 18y ago
I started with Linux and some windows, went to Mac, and have gone back to Linux (with windows for gaming). For you I'd recommend it. Everything is just that little bit easier and more consistent. You do seem to spend more money but I think
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by mstevens 18y ago
This also seems like a pretty good strategy. I really need to take that OCaml book off the shelf.
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by mstevens 18y ago
But you have to actively decide to ignore it. Whereas when you're dealing with return codes, the default is to ignore.
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by mstevens 18y ago
Well there's an obvious exception for "If they like that sort of thing". But otherwise...
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by mstevens 18y ago
I think smacking women once is pretty dodgy, let alone twice.
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by mstevens 18y ago
Some explanation would be nice...
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by mstevens 18y ago
why?
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by mstevens 19y ago
On a 386.
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by mstevens 19y ago
Much as I like the idea, and feel it should be introduced, in 10 years I've never encountered a tester who could code, let alone one who does.

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