phatmanace

3 ms·

1.
by phatmanace 10y ago
Does anyone have one of these? - I've been thinking about getting one as a slightly "occasional" larger laptop for longer trips - I have an 11' air that I take to work every day thus I don't really want to shell out
2.
by phatmanace 11y ago
+1 to this... on the effects existing on a continuum. There was a great cartoon that the farnam street brain food blog sent out which illustrates this quite well. http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-p
3.
by phatmanace 11y ago
>> Education is irrelevant I partially agree.. I think that one of the challenges is that lots of blue chip firms use a degree as a gating process to get an interview. Faced with tens/hundreds of thousands of CV's, there pro
4.
by phatmanace 11y ago
as a reasonably seasoned non-scala programmer who was fairly new to scala, I think that it's a combination of 3 things combined together. Implicits combined with non-alphabetic dsls (somewhat combined with the removing the dots from th
5.
by phatmanace 12y ago
agreed - but I guess they tended to choose industries with a higher proportion of casual staff (hotels, catering and cleaning trades), where I guess it's more plausable that not all the staff know who the CEO is.
6.
by phatmanace 12y ago
its' kind of like the undercover boss program that they showed in the UK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_Boss Not tech orientated, but lots of CEOs doing 'front line' work (e.g CEO of hotel cha
7.
Ask HN: how do Microsoft do Continuous integration for windows OS?
2 points by phatmanace 14y ago|0 comments