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by owyn 16y ago
Actually the article says "experiencing the threat of a meltdown", which is a very different thing.
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by owyn 16y ago
It's never too late, but there is some age bias in hiring. You probably aren't going to work for a hot startup but there are plenty of interesting jobs, especially if you have some kind of domain specific knowledge that you can apply. My
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by owyn 16y ago
Fine, jeez. I should have found a better quote, maybe. I spent 10 seconds grabbing a quote from an article written two weeks ago about this subject, because I think it's related. And it's NOT the concrete number of articles, it's about e
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by owyn 16y ago
You have won the internets today sir. It's true, my attitude has been truly eclipsed today, and my quote crushed. Let me present the spoils of battle to the victor... I will immediately start writing a program that will recursively search
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by owyn 16y ago
Looks like I really ran into a buzzsaw here. Sorry for not presenting a magical unicorn for you on demand. Sure, maybe in 10 years after they grow up and develop some interests besides Star Wars, that person might have something more usefu
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by owyn 16y ago
Oh wow, I definitely wasn't trying to start some kind of a "nerd purge" meme! I was just trying to say that there are other wikis besides wikipedia on all kinds of nerdy subjects. Where there aren't any delete wars and contributions are e
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by owyn 16y ago
I realize deleting one thing does not create a different thing. I agree it was more of a tangential quote and not a direct counter, but I was trying to point out that some of this "deletionism" is probably due to a recognition that not ever
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by owyn 16y ago
Oh yeah, that's a great point!
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by owyn 16y ago
Hm? It was just a counterpoint to your quote. I'm just saying, wikipedia most likely can't and probably shouldn't contain an article about everything. It's just not possible, nor desirable, although it makes a good quote. It seems like de
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by owyn 16y ago
Yep, nail+head. Sounds like this is going to be a big institutional focus for the next couple of years as well... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/8292978/Wiki... Somethingawful even made a game out of it, the results of w
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by owyn 16y ago
It's just an encyclopedia, not a replacement for the internet. That's all I'm trying to say. I've never heard of nemerle, and I'm not a wikipedia editor, so I have no opinion about it's notoriety. In general, the categorization of knowle
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by owyn 16y ago
The focus is changing, 2011: “It’s about diversifying the community. At the moment we’re really male, geek orientated, which is great, but there are lots of editors that we don’t get who are geeks, but not tech geeks. So they may be real ex
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by owyn 16y ago
It's not harmful, just silly. There are N articles about star wars and M articles about africa. When N > M to a ridiculous level, I'm okay with pruning stuff. I've never made a single edit to wikipedia though. Looks like I'm encount
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by owyn 16y ago
You could always create an esoteric languages wiki of your own if you were all fired up about it (I work at wikia, and that's the service we provide, we have 170,000 wikis on various subjects, using the same software! Founded by the same g
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by owyn 16y ago
tldr; this is just a link to a pdf of the classic (1999) Dunning paper about self assessment. novices don't know enough to rate themselves in skill, and experts tend to rate themselves low. blah blah blah. we all know this by now, don't w
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by owyn 16y ago
From the article: "The company has encountered numerous difficulties in bringing the plane to market due to a new engineering strategy that uses composite materials and integrates production from several international sites." Various parts
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by owyn 16y ago
My dad dropped out of Caltech in the 60's... he ended up getting a PhD and becoming a professor of asian history. :)
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by owyn 16y ago
I think you're right, it's Arial. The angled t. And whenever I think "why fake it?" I realize why I'm not working hollywood. :)
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by owyn 16y ago
Pretty cool. Originally published in Feb 1996 for those who are curious (like I was).
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by owyn 16y ago
I get plenty of work done at work. It's my job.
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by owyn 16y ago
I kind of like the idea of using C++ for web apps. I even wrote a web app that was pure C++ in 1995/1996 before anyone really knew what web apps were. :) But this sort of thing: out << "<h1>" << tr("hello, world") &
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by owyn 16y ago
I propose that the sociologist programs API's... all they need is GAE or twitter or twilio or facebook. Mashups. Slice and dice. Mix and match. No need to understand the low level algorithm stuff because it's all taken care of in the fram
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by owyn 16y ago
I just thought of a feature. Instead of posting a link to a previous discussion, you should be able to "merge" a new thread with an old one. Perhaps the new url and post could be added to the previous post, but the discussion itself would
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by owyn 16y ago
No offense, but it's not a demographic worth catering to. It's not a malware site, it's mapquest. Anyone who accidentally stumbles onto the site will have javascript turned on.
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by owyn 16y ago
I'm asking the original speaker for a new link. :)
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by owyn 16y ago
The original post explains why... http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html The VAX C compiler compiles the loop into 2 instructions (a movw and a sobleq, I think.) As it turns out, this loop was the bottleneck in a real-time animati
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by owyn 16y ago
I am not here to defend php (Okay, I guess I am...) but the form <?= htmlentities($name) ?> is a lot better... We have to have an i18n layer anyway for all output so it ends up being a lot of <?= Msg('message-name') ?> calls
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by owyn 16y ago
My company has a large development and sysop team in Poznan, Poland. In our case, one of the founding engineers was based there, and it grew organically from that. We now have almost 20 people there, including project managers. For the f
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by owyn 16y ago
Looks cool, but I'm in the same situation. Windows is not a deal breaker, but we're a PHP shop. :) Any intention of adding more languages?
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by owyn 16y ago
Interesting, but who wrote this? Is it a design doc for redis cluster?

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