mtrimpe

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811.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I used to be a hired gun that would be called in occasionally to, like you, code circles around bigger teams when deadlines were tight. Last few years however I decided to stick around with one of my clients for a while and I realized that
812.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
Do you have actual experience with developers of similar skill levels building a similar app in Spring and Rails? While undoubtedly less expressive I think most of the bad rep Spring gets is because it's used in "Enterprise", which means pr
813.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I'd still call and ask though. As we say in Dutch: never shot is always missed ;)
814.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
It's perfectly possible to POST to a URL with GET query parameters. For Google though I'm not sure you'd want POST requests at all; unless it's to set cookies and do a redirect on POST.
815.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
Excessive hoarding is obviously dangerous to a currency though. Imagine a fixed supply of 1.000.000 coins and suppose 99 people managed to nab 10.000 coins initially and are just sitting on them. The bitcoin economy will then run as though
816.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
Looks pretty cool. You probably want to at least show me what I will receive in my email before making me actually verify my email address though. What I would really want though is a twitter client that will condense all the missed tweets
817.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
And don't forget including your culture's belief of how steep the power law curve of rewards is supposed to be.
818.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I wasn't aware of the feminist's support for these men's rights issues, which is admirable and good to know. As far as your last comment is concerned; my support for women's rights comes out of having been gay and now being somewhere on the
819.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I'm an ardent supporter of women's rights, but I'm also a supporter of the men's rights movement. The (valid part of the) men's right movement is mostly concerned with men who: * have been raped or faced domestic abuse, but are met with r
820.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
Indeed. I find it quite enlightening that even the medium of the message is raising concerns.
821.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I for one absolutely love this initiative. If I wasn't bootstrapping my company I would fly over this weekend just to be there. Issues of gender are generally really hard to capture in words and lend themselves much more to being relayed
822.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I don't know if it exists everywhere in the world, but this was basically an organization that would run campaigns for specific charities. One week you'd try to get people to donate to a child cancer charity and the next to WWF and the sale
823.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
While trying to learn how to sell I once tried to sell charity on the street for a single day. Already in that first day one of the less attractive, but probably more skilled, co-workers told me that in most cases you're actually selling 'h
824.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
It essentially seems like a drawn out piece of performance art and for an art piece I must say it seems to doing quite well.
825.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I'm still curious what would happen if we: a) have a pill for every disease b) give placebos if we don't have anything better c) A/B-test viable new alternative drugs (or maybe multi armed bandit's minimum regret is appropriate here ;) That
826.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I'm also curious. He might be referring to the new PepperFlash bug that makes Flash not give microphone feedback when doing the usual attach to a null NetConnection. We've had to disable our automatic microphone detection for VideoView.com
827.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
Chrome's introduction of PepperFlash was just horrible. They opened with a massive bug that crashed every webcam recording service on the internet. When they fixed that they crashed for every service that displayed sound volume for multiple
828.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
You could of course include a weasel-phrase like "videos over 5 minutes long count as one additional video for every additional 5 minutes."
829.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
You probably had line-in or something else selected.
830.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
The problem is that you'd need a fully locked-down chain, all the way from server to monitor, to be able to pull that off. Every single one of the devices in that chain has to be reduced to a black box which we're not allowed to tamper with
831.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I'm not American but don't you have the same problem with rich kids whose parents donate buildings to get their kids through school? If so, do you also discount the trappings of success of every person that looks like he could have rich par
832.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I think unwanted sexualization is a recurring theme in feminism and in Adria's perception this was an instance of that. Most people wouldn't and hence it's reserved for more radical feminists, but it's definitely done under the banner of fe
833.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I read Amanda's piece and until raganwald's it was indeed the best piece I had read so far. Amanda however vilifies Aria because she considers her too easily offended and finds her feminist agenda obnoxious. I don't, because I believe she h
834.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
It's quite radical old-school feminism, a style I myself consider no longer deem called for that often, but it is feminism and I therefore would consider it a women's right issue.
835.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
If you consider the willingness of a large group of people to engage in mildly illegal behaviour and the means to orchestrate such an attack on short notice a 'resource' then they indeed probably don't.
836.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
Re-read it. It's dripping with sarcasm.
837.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
At least she'd be certain that her future employers care about womens rights as much as she does.
838.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
I'm just disappointed that this is the top thread, since it's basically little more than a cheap ad-hominem attack and doesn't contribute anything to resolving or working towards a better understanding of the underlying issues that have cau
839.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
Do you know Adria personally? Saying that "We got an unstable, hypocritical, oversensitive jaded person out of our way. I think this was a win." without knowing her personally would be ... well ... not exactly OK.
840.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
Also known as the good old ad-hominem attack.

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