phillmv

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by phillmv 14y ago
Actually, between trademark law and libel laws that's not strictly true.
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by phillmv 14y ago
What makes it uncomfortable for you? I love this kind of quirkiness. I kind of miss having handles we all took seriously that didn't resolve directly into real names, said Phill to Rhett.
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by phillmv 14y ago
To be fair, the "self plagiarizing" thing got way out of hand. It's a little bit not cool to not tell your audience that you've recycled some of your own columns. But… at the time I really didn't see any grounds for all the cries of lèse ma
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by phillmv 14y ago
>honestly unless you're a owner it's not your place to critique the management style of the ceo. Of course it is. It's not like he's some ubermensch beyond flaws or with an infinite capacity for reasoning. You can micromanage 0-20 peopl
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by phillmv 14y ago
*shrug Welcome to every social interaction ever. You come up with an argument and you get people to agree with it. Re: "socially correct", do you agree with anti-miscegenation laws? If not, why? The argument for gay people is virtually iden
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by phillmv 14y ago
>At the same time there are other libertarians who don't support a boycott because they believe that people are entitled to hold opinions that differ from their own. Whereas I, a progressive libertarian (free-market progressive?) believ
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by phillmv 14y ago
>how was I supposed to determine this before you came along to tell me? You hear other people's opinions and you make up your mind. It's painfully obvious that there isn't an objective repository for this sort of thing; the whole notio
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by phillmv 14y ago
>Market pressure to get rid of incorrect social views is the only alternative to legislative action to force such change. Thank you. This is why it infuriates me when you see lolbertarians going about how you shouldn't care. Of all peop
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by phillmv 14y ago
Awesome dude. I've been using oauth-plugin which just makes me shake with violent rage. Definitely gonna check this out.
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by phillmv 14y ago
>No one invests hoping for a mere 3x return. As in, in the VC sense where you expect most people to fail, etc, right? 'Cos any day of the week I'd like to have some access to 300% returns. Especially 300% in 6 months.
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by phillmv 14y ago
1. I think the most interesting thing about that blog post is that it illustrates how the incentives in standards building get warped. I like to describe this sort of thing as "the effect of economics on programming" - not because there is
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by phillmv 14y ago
+1 That was just my immediate reaction. You sound like you're alright.
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by phillmv 14y ago
Dude, I have no doubt your service IS way more useful than craiglist. I look forward to using it when I next move. Just… don't dance around your motivations here. You want to build a better service, and you need CL's data for that. CL doesn
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by phillmv 14y ago
>I’ve been wrestling with whether to bring back Craigslist listings in the search results. I’ve found a way to include them that I’m told is legally kosher since it doesn’t touch their servers at all, but it still seems somewhat dickish
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by phillmv 14y ago
As a strict atheist, I have to disagree with that. There's nothing fundamentally incompatible with believing in the Judeo-Christian god and also believing in a systematic pursuit of knowledge. Indeed, many scientists over time have explic
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by phillmv 14y ago
I was confused by the switching of the pronouns regarding the eunuch, but wiki says that's Totally a Thing That Totally Happens - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)
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by phillmv 14y ago
Well… Javascript does suck. No one in their right mind defends the language .
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by phillmv 14y ago
Well, interest rates and inflation. Inflation is being purposefully kept low (see: ECB, the US Fed).
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by phillmv 14y ago
Despite being a small book you can ignore a good third of it, and I think his constructor pattern is out of date? but - it does do a good job of explaining the actually idiosyncratic thing about js - the whole prototype chain thing, and the
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by phillmv 14y ago
You realize that writing an ironic page like that is very "hipster", right?
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by phillmv 14y ago
My understanding is, not at the scale they operate at. You're not saving any database lookups, and their bandwidth is probably cheaper. Plus the lifetime of their uploads is extremely limited - an hour or two?
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by phillmv 14y ago
META QUESTION, How hard has it been for you to hire? Curious developer seeks more anecdotes to complement pet theories regarding current labour market.
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by phillmv 14y ago
For starters, you have a very weird definition of 'untrained' when it comes to food production. Secondly, the food IS cooked by people who specialize in cooking food. I surely can't compete with a sous-chef. Washing dishes and bussing them
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by phillmv 14y ago
What's the deal with the % measuring? I know going below three nines is seen as "bad service", but three hours of outage in a month gives you 99.5%, not 99.97%
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by phillmv 14y ago
You've reversed your economics. In Miami there is merely a surplus of unskilled labour desperate to work under the table. They don't pay more because they don't have to.
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by phillmv 14y ago
>And yet the gap between tangible proof of that being the case in real world use and the gossip of it supposedly being true, couldn't be wider. Just because something is shitty to use doesn't mean you can't do productive work in it. We'
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by phillmv 14y ago
A good 90% of the people I know have linked in profiles. You look at their titles. See who is a friend of the top cheese on facebook, sort by universities. Github is self explanatory, I hope.
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by phillmv 14y ago
Everything you mention I kind of consider par for the course. How would you even know if your recruiter wasn't doing that? To expect otherwise, I think, is a little naive. The economics of the recruiting business, as you pointed out, reward
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by phillmv 14y ago
In retrospect, I was being a little hyperbolic. I too know plenty of developers without an online presence. Anyhow, my point was, who your best employees are is not privileged information.
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by phillmv 14y ago
> you are giving them privileged information (who your best people are) Between linked in, google, your company's about page, github and twitter accounts, you can already figure this out in ten minutes flat. You don't even need to know

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