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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I wonder how many people are employed by Spolsky's company, and how long they've been employed? I wonder how many houses those salaries have bought, dry cleaning orders made and paid for, restaurant meals consumed, youth sports supported, a
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Are you supposed to just disappear? I think it's polite to your readers to mention it. How you write the mention is entirely up to you and your style.
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"I am curious as to why you think you can't ask for a reference simply because the company is small?" Because he's in stealth search mode?
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Facebook and Twitter don't scale in the same way that adding servers doesn't scale because part of the additional processing power is consumed by networking and other infrastructure. (Is that a litote?)
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"If you’re a brick-layer who employs other brick layers and also employs a sales person, driver, accountant and all the other business components so that your business runs while you’re not there, you CAN scale." So yes, Chili's scales. The
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Somewhat OT, but it's better if you do vote. In such a scenario I generally vote Libertarian or Green as something of a protest/none-of-the-above vote. If you can't vote "either way," and you don't vote, then you're effective voting for (or
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"When any sincere individual or group of people asks for my assistance in pursuit of their [...] dream, I will strive to help them in any way that I can, be it small or large." I'm not familiar with Rajeev, but it's a good rule. I think it'
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Exactly. I'm in conflict here. I'm against exploitive child labour, but I can easily imagine the scenario you describe.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Regardless of what the term should mean, if the law says it's illegal to employ a fifteen year old, and fifteen year olds are employed, then the law was broken. Routinely broken age labour laws, where records are purposely falsified, crea
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I think I have the phone number of some of them. Let me check my email ...
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I upvoted because the post intrigues me, and I want to give the post a chance to be seen and discussed before it slides off the bottom of the front page.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
simpler, just # do this # do this # do this. On slice. May do something like StackScripts later.
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"6) Mailing lists. I did this 3 years after starting my business. Knowing what I know now makes me sad I waited that long. MailChimp is an easy snap-in." I remember the other day you stressed how much you don't spam your customers. So I'm a
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I'm working on initialization scripts for my VPS: automatically taking it from newborn to installed infrastructure and security settings. And a glass of bourbon.
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Of course. Standards, of all things, should be written in a standard way. And the standard way in which they're written should also be expressed in a standard way.
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"there's a suggestion that the pilots were simply incompetent and lost without the computer enhanced controls." You fight how you train. They were probably trained to do what they did.
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<I am not a pilot />The article briefly touches on this: when the flight computers on an Airbus are out, handling the plane is sufficiently strange to the pilots that it's dangerous. They are used to the computers being pretty much
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I read it that the writer was implying that Scientology in general practices strange activity, so strange activity at a particular venue is not surprising.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Microsoft Corp. today withdrew its demand that Cryptome.org yank the 'Microsoft Global Criminal Spy Guide' document from its site and said it had never intended for the whistleblower's domain to be knocked off the Web. ... 'We are requesti
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I think those are ohmmeters, actually. I forget what they call them, but the one they used on me to show me that I need help was an ohmmeter. I declined the help; I was only there because a smokin' hot blonde woman at Balboa Park invited
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, July 1945. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think "As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Wow, what extreme reactions on the negative side. It sounds a lot like smokers being angry at no smoking laws for bars. There are two issues: 1) Whether a business has the right to limit what goes on in that business (and a worthy debate th
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"I understand they want to provide some sort of malware protection service for which they need to periodically log in to your vps with your password." This is so unusual, and so unexpected that it should have been in the TOS, at the top. Th
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And hence the motivation for my "pretty please."
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Please, punish me for putting tape on my laptop at home. Please. Pretty please.
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Damn.
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“The immediate effect of these audits is to force individual programmers ... to abandon their dreams of getting rich off their high-technology skills,” reported an article in The Times on Section 1706 more than a decade ago. “But the broade
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Wave your flippant flag high. :)
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Coincidentally, the post and article in this current post may give you some insight: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1139146 Summary: will power is a limited resource, like muscle power, than can be both exhausted and developed.
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I agree with the goal, but I think a page in this flippant style does not effectively promote that goal. It's also at odds with the visual and verbal tone of the rest of the site. Something like the following, intended to briefly summarize

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