pacaro

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1321.
by pacaro 15y ago
I love the example that this provides with respect to the conflation of "Storage" with "FileSystem", while data may indeed be stored on a filesystem somewhere, the habitual thinking that appends " to file" to the phrase "I need to save thes
1322.
by pacaro 15y ago
39,000 I use more of the words on page 2 that I should, I'm probably unbearably obnoxious to be around...
1323.
by pacaro 15y ago
There are a lot of messes that need to be resolved, but notice that mortgages barely figure in the chart, the housing foreclosure mess is 'merely' shit rolling downhill in this picture
1324.
by pacaro 15y ago
FWIW there are some similarities with getting a bad review in a large bureaucratic company (I know for HN readers this either doesn't apply, or they wish it didn't!), one common thread that I would emphasize is that even if the headline rea
1325.
by pacaro 15y ago
"Litigation that attacks open-source products limits consumer choice, hurts the economy, and discourages innovation." I find this interesting, in a world where software patents exist this seems tantamount to saying "software patents ought n
1326.
by pacaro 15y ago
And potentially malware can watch the clipboard and "paste" things to L.Ron Hubbard knows where, it's not only your roomies that might be looking over your shoulder...
1327.
by pacaro 15y ago
Worth re-reading every year, the good stuff is at http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/index.html (but don't read number 25 because it will get you riled up (their advice doesn't go anywhere near far enough))
1328.
by pacaro 15y ago
This was my first thought also (although 7 hours later!), it may be interesting to look at skew as well as variance (kurtosis is probably going too far), the difference between diffuse normally distribution and split peaks... It may even be
1329.
by pacaro 15y ago
I agree entirely, and I like your spectrum, however... "A haberdasher is a person who sells small articles for sewing, such as buttons, ribbons, zips, and other notions" [1] A hatmaker is a "milliner". I know that these two ancient and nobl
1330.
by pacaro 15y ago
It is true that it would change the game dynamics, this is also true for Scrabble and Chess, which are normally played with a clock (however formally or informally applied) That can improve the game though, while I'm not necessarily that in
1331.
by pacaro 15y ago
Or who might need this to work for languages with characters outside the A-Z range...
1332.
by pacaro 15y ago
You're already on the right path, merely by caring you give your project the chance to have good design, it rarely (never?) happens by accident. A common problem developers can fall into is failing to allocate enough time for design. You de
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by pacaro 16y ago
I think that there needs to be, both for the developer and the designer, an understanding that rules are made to be broken. Knowing or learning when and how to break them might be beyond the scope of any number of tweet sized aphorisms List
1334.
by pacaro 16y ago
If this link gets upvoted enough it will be on the best of list, and then we won't forget about it...
1335.
by pacaro 16y ago
Many of these apply to developers, all of them are worth thinking about if you get the opportunity to work with designers
1336.
by pacaro 16y ago
I think that I'd just work on other (potentially/hopefully) revenue generating things in the remaining 36-96 working hours, so it's hard to see how it applies...
1337.
by pacaro 16y ago
One thing that the Central/South American and Indian diets add to this baseline set of ingredients is Spices! These add little difference nutritionally, but make the world of difference in whether this diet seems bland or repetitive; with c
1338.
by pacaro 16y ago
I've used the same handle for most things for 16 years, but have others that have also evolved over the same time period, like nicknames, these are often less under our control than we think...
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by pacaro 16y ago
Sadly this falls under the category of "Intellectual honesty, lack of". Apparently found in both the cathedral and the bazaar.
1340.
by pacaro 16y ago
I read "Anecdote" as "HNecdote", not sure what that says about anything.
1341.
by pacaro 16y ago
"My headphones, they saved my life" I work at a larger company, on a team with ~30 devs, my role is less about how much code I produce personally, and more about how I help the entire team produce code. However, there are still days when wh
1342.
by pacaro 16y ago
The quoted stall speed is 70 kmh (~43 mph), water feels a lot like concrete if you hit it at that speed
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by pacaro 16y ago
My understanding (disclaimer: I'm often wrong) is that the Arduino toolchain all goes through gcc, at which point getting "lispduino" working as a first demo/prototype isn't out of the realms of possibility - http://www.sparkfun.com/produc