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by pgroves 15y ago
So with all the how to hire threads lately, may I make a suggestion: Focus on how good your company is on running an engineering department. Especially if you're a startup. Do you have a VP of engineering who knows what the hell they're doi
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Automated Design: "Evolution is Cleverer than You"(designbyrobots.com)
7 points by pgroves 15y ago|0 comments
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by pgroves 15y ago
I don't know of a good alternative. Thus my grumpiness.
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by pgroves 15y ago
The goal of Java was always to be able to "write large programs quickly." In some ways that sounds terrible by itself, but I think it turns out to be legitimate. I've been on python projects that need to grow but struggle b/c all the things
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by pgroves 15y ago
I wish there was some way to vote for that abomination in the poll. Personally, writing Java/Html hybrid templates that are served as html documents and then further manipulated by dynamically altering the DOM in javascript on the client i
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by pgroves 15y ago
Getting a call from a headhunter doesn't really mean that much. They are just trying to get someone with a decent resume into the interview pipeline where they will actually be evaluated. I get contacted somewhat frequently by people lookin
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by pgroves 15y ago
If this will be one of the most powerful encryption-cracking facility in the world, can we just set our key strength based on it's computing power? So if they end up being able to crack 1024 bit keys, can we just set our keys to 2048 and be
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by pgroves 15y ago
Just don't try rebranding Linux b/c you'll end up trying to sell something called Penux.
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by pgroves 15y ago
I spend more than $7/month on Highrise (from 37signals) to pretty much do what this does. Highrise doesn't directly support a sales 'pipeline' metaphor so I use tags on customers for each stage ("WarmLead", "ColdLead", "FirstContact"...etc)
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by pgroves 15y ago
In case the people running this are reading: My first reaction (feel free to ignore it) is that advertising the number of hours you are willing to donate to a project or an example of how complex of an application you're willing to make wou
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by pgroves 15y ago
I'd actually be more concerned about trying to define "junk science" than having a bunch of psychics running experiments. What is the harm in someone putting their own money into a pseudo-science experiment? It will fail if it's an incorrec
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by pgroves 15y ago
Without typing anything in the search box, hit down arrow to get a list of suggested searches. My personalization was extremely spot on given that I haven't used Lycos in 10 years.
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by pgroves 15y ago
I resisted posting my pet peeve because it's not really the point of the OP, but now I can't help it. Let me explain... http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22let+me+e... The fact that there is more text in a comment let's th
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by pgroves 15y ago
I suppose this (and the other responses) is about what I would expect: it's possible in Git if you know what you're doing. Based on my very limited Git experience, I would have expected it to take more flags to accomplish :) (It probably is
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by pgroves 15y ago
I'm doing a project using Python on AppEngine. AppEngine forces you to use a bunch of single threads doing what is really message passing, but implemented in Python so it's slower than Ocaml. I think this is going to turn out to be a killer
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by pgroves 15y ago
I agree this is the underlying issue but I disagree with your solution. One of the last big problems none of the popular SCM's has really fixed is separating commits that are "checkpoints" for the developer from those that should be used as
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by pgroves 15y ago
Kubuntu is not Ubuntu. It is a complete distro with KDE as the default desktop. In the future, KDE support will still be in Ubuntu, as much as it is in Opensuse. Opensuse allows you to pick which desktop to use [1]. OpenSuse is not a "KDE d
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by pgroves 15y ago
I've had interesting conversations with recruiters where they make the point that people who write code are always in demand but demand for engineering management can come and go. I remember one distinctly saying that people my age (early
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by pgroves 15y ago
I have 10 yrs experience with Java, Ocaml and Ruby. This Jan 1 I started work on a contract with a company that uses Python. Having to learn Python as I went kinda slowed me down that first week.
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by pgroves 15y ago
That number for AWS is based on running the benchmark in May 2010 [1]. [1] http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/05/what-is-ecu-cpu-benchma...
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The Massive Body Count of the MS Antitrust Case(econlog.econlib.org)
4 points by pgroves 15y ago|0 comments
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by pgroves 15y ago
wufoo is a dedicated company that does this. i've used them an it's very good but kinda expensive for what it does. google docs now supports forms where any time a form is filled out the answers end up in a spreadsheet, and it's free.
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by pgroves 15y ago
I signed up for probabilistic graph networks and haven't heard anything. I thought it was supposed to start at the end of Jan.
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by pgroves 15y ago
I don't get it. What does this tool accomplish that isn't accomplished by putting the collected color definitions in a second style sheet and "cascading" it with the standard bootstrap.css? (I'm really asking not being sarcastic.)
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by pgroves 15y ago
Facebook now acknowledges what we said for a long time and they didnt acknowledge, that every single photograph uploaded to Facebook is put through facial recognition software they call PhotoDNA which is used to find people for whom any la
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Brutal Charts of Mexico's Homicide Rate(r-bloggers.com)
1 points by pgroves 15y ago|0 comments
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by pgroves 15y ago
"GNU ed is an 8-bit clean, more or less POSIX-compliant implementation of the standard Unix line editor." If the main implementation of ed isn't even POSIX compliant these days, I'd say POSIX is officially pointless.
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by pgroves 15y ago
My advice would be to use this app as your 'portfolio' for building other people's ideas on a contract basis. ODesk or Guru.com are decent places to start, although here in Chicago Craigslist has a suprising number of iOS contracts. You wil
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One Last Party for Drew's Eatery after Disastrous Discount Deals(chicagoist.com)
51 points by pgroves 15y ago|18 comments
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by pgroves 15y ago
As a Linux user who keeps a Windows desktop around just for Netflix and Steam, I find this deeply (and devilishly) satisfying. Telling people they're platform isn't supported because it's just not an important enough market is something I'v

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