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by phillmv 15y ago
Not really, the same with any organization - if the people who made the decisions lose face, they will double down before sunk costs. The comparison in this case might have the prosecutor go after some lesser charge just to stick anything
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by phillmv 15y ago
Yeah… if only anyone actually used qr codes.
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by phillmv 15y ago
>I'm not a fan of loudmouth hipster programmers either. I throwing hipster around is a waste of time, especially considering these are extremely successful hipster programmers. Create product everyone loves, create environment everyone
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by phillmv 15y ago
Oh, I'm really, really open to that interpretation. I'm currently unemployed by choice and what they describe is basically a dream job, imho.
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by phillmv 15y ago
GH is a special case. They're darlings of the tech community, and they throw a ton of events. Even if they were crappy to work for they would probably have an easy time hiring. THAT SAID, "finishing the internal CRM system" is a problem t
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by phillmv 15y ago
1) It's a slide deck for a talk. What were you expecting, a detailed tutorial? I also don't think you got the most important bit: focus on employees. 2) Scaling is also… really custom. I'm extremely unlikely to have to find a way to shard g
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by phillmv 15y ago
Well. Obviously. The syntax is much, much more complicated. But if you were to adopt a ruby syntax subset, enough of the semantics are similar enough to not pose a significant problem. How easy is lisp to implement in a language without fir
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by phillmv 15y ago
Frankly, that's about it, really. It's really straightforward imho.
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by phillmv 15y ago
The icky feeling comes from the hypothetical transitivity of such an agreement. It seems like a great way to bootstrap a pseudo-feudal obligation system. What if everything you made with the OS was similarly hindered? Launch an auto update
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by phillmv 15y ago
> All I see with this worldwide Occupy movement is people complaining, "Where's mine?" It seems like it's all about "me", not "us". A lot of the anger stems from being denied opportunities that were afforded to the boomers. The American
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by phillmv 15y ago
There is an actually valid concern that instead of guaranteeing credit default swaps in a handful of institutions, you could've spent the same amount of money propping up some of these underwater mortgages. Same outcome - a bunch of public
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by phillmv 15y ago
Actually, I think it's a really optimistic saying. Think of it more as, "Until we rule out incompetence, we shouldn't assume malice – and incompetence is far more common than malice".
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by phillmv 15y ago
That's a little hyperbolic. Also, what about the AOL-TimeWarner people?
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by phillmv 15y ago
Say, $200/hr times 6 hrs a day times a month. Not impossible but not easy, exactly. If you take a year to plan it out I think you could set that aside, working in tech, but it's obviously not for everyone.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Uhm. Why is this annoying, other than the fact that it shows up in your git commits?
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by phillmv 15y ago
You know what, taking all of that man's money away and putting him on probation for the rest of his life is probably just as effective as a deterrent. Being forced to work at Walmart to make bills pay, that sort of thing. Probation is actua
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by phillmv 15y ago
Is there an equivalent app that doesn't send my call to server? I'd love to record my phone calls all the time.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Iunno, defunding ACORN, anyone?
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by phillmv 15y ago
It seems like it would be easier to rewrite the site in a newer version of Rails rather than switching platforms entirely, so it sounds like someone's skillset is more Python based. Oh! Does the Python world have something like Rack?
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Why not just take it from general taxes across the board? Politics. Most people don't see or hear about payroll taxes, but they would notice if you added 5% to their income taxes. Plus, in a lot of cases it's administratively easier to
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by phillmv 15y ago
I think it depends on what you're hiring for. For 90% of engineering tasks, you're just plugging together different technologies other people put together. Oh hey yeah, Unix + HTTP + Rails + Javascript + Some Dude's API. The amount of SHEER
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by phillmv 15y ago
Yeah, like, I don't know, 1-click shopping and multitasking on your smartphone ;)?
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by phillmv 15y ago
> Instead, VCs throw money at them like it's going out of style, and we lavish the founders with platitudes like they invented electricity or cured cancer. YOU KNOW WHAT'S COOL? A BILLION DOLLARS > Last I heard, they had a valuation
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Surely all (or most) of the label placement, typography etc. ideas he uses could be captured in a set of criteria that could improve the state of the art in computer-mapmaking Yeah. The following quote really annoyed me: >He used a
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by phillmv 15y ago
Sigh. It makes me sad to read all of these posts because, without any exaggeration, I find bread to be one of the best pleasures in life, and living off sandwiches means it constitutes a fair amount of my diet. If only living healthily didn
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by phillmv 15y ago
Yeah, I found the following quote, >Many free customers flagged the email as spam! So let me get this straight, you just used my service to make something for your kid for free and then you nail me with a spam complaint? To be astonishi
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by phillmv 15y ago
What's the performance penalty like? That's pretty much the only thing holding me back.
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by phillmv 15y ago
1. It's extremely hateful to see how much information Facebook shares, and by default. I am fairly certain I never saw a permissions dialog to a lot of these sites. I also really hate how you can't allow or deny any given permission; 99%
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by phillmv 15y ago
Uhm, he's a dictator. So yes, by definition - this is just controlling the media.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Well, I proposed three dimensions! Check out that podcast I linked. Short of running as or supporting your own candidate, it's kind of how politicians are swayed in any democracy. If you walked up to a representative and say, "I have these

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