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by pjackson 13y ago
My straightedge tattoo is on the back of my left hand. Like many, I gave it up later in life. No shame in that, so long as you can avoid assaulting subordinates or killing people with your car. In all seriousness, there were SO MANY bad dec
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by pjackson 15y ago
Nice work, Brendan. Glad to see you changed the name. Good luck!
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by pjackson 16y ago
I agree. I'm pretty sure the diaspora team wasn't expecting such a huge response and priced their rewards accordingly. "What is someone donates 1/5th of what we need? Let's send em a computer!"
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by pjackson 16y ago
It's an interesting, if severely opinionated, analysis. The author makes a sound argument, but I think he's wrong. The landscape has changed a lot in the two years since Appleseed was abandoned. Also, it used to be that facebook was only us
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by pjackson 18y ago
Nice product. Now, stop smoking and go off the Red Bull binge so you can get your thinking cap on for the next step. Good work. I think it'll gain some traction.
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David Anderson on Future Directions for Agile(infoq.com)
1 points by pjackson 18y ago|0 comments
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by pjackson 18y ago
I pay for GitHub and AWS. Total cost: under $10/mo
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by pjackson 18y ago
Oh, I dunno. I think you can get more done with a small group of super-smart guys the you could with a big group of mediocre ones (isn't that already an axiom?) I think the client in this story tried to staff up the way a big waterfall or j
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by pjackson 18y ago
15 years ago, my CS202 professor was asked: Q: "Dr. Anasastio, can you recommend a different editor from emacs? It's so hard to work with. Can we use pico or jot?" A: "No. Emacs is THE editor. If you plan to work in computer science, you ha
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by pjackson 18y ago
I found this list a little contrived. These tools are not ALL essential, are they? No mention of source control, either. Yikes.
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by pjackson 18y ago
I used to be an Enterprise architect for a Fortune 500 company. We did many of the things you are asking about. Here are my answers: 1. Yes, you can. However, there will be tradeoffs. One important piece of sharing business logic involves
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by pjackson 18y ago
The slant of this article seems to be mostly steering people away from outsourcing. I understand the motivation, but I disagree in some cases. Outsourcing is always a touchy topic with hackers and techies like me. Nobody likes to consider s
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by pjackson 18y ago
So I have an idea that I could develop myself but I do IT consulting fulltime. I'm not sure how Ycombinator views it, but I think you should get some skin in the game. I know it can be tough to jump ship and work on your startup full or e
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by pjackson 18y ago
Randy's mother was my English teacher in High School. Small world. Bummer to lose a brilliant professor, but he certainly has left his mark on the world.
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by pjackson 18y ago
When I see ads that advertise for RockStar Developers(!!!!!) I think about companies that describe themselves as "cool". If you have to say you're cool....you're probably not.
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by pjackson 18y ago
Nice idea. Nice presentation. Awhile back, YC listed some ideas they wanted to fund. Simplified browsing was one of them. Seems like your technology could be applicable to simplifying the online experience for people who want that. It doesn
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by pjackson 18y ago
The whiteboard and pseudocode questions work for me, but personally I like to put a laptop in front of them with an IDE and a coding problem. I allow outside help (google, etc) because in their work environment, they are permitted to use an
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by pjackson 18y ago
Really useful. Thank you. I echo the sentiment that most Linux tip sites offer only rudimentary tips aimed at beginners. These are excellent.
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by pjackson 18y ago
Touchy topics, to be sure. I think they all can and should be asked. Whether each is really worth of much debate is a different question. Most are worth debating, some aren't: depending on your audience. I think most people think these are
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by pjackson 18y ago
It should not be too hard to find prior art on this idea and invalidate the patent. But don't go it alone. And I agree: stop talking in public about it right away.
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by pjackson 18y ago
I always liked this implementation: http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2005/05/lazy-streams-fo...
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by pjackson 18y ago
I am most creative when I sleep. I wake up with ideas. But I'm not productive in the morning. If I can get to the office before it gets too busy or distracting, I find I can jell a lot of ideas in the morning. I am productive late at night,
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by pjackson 18y ago
This is a particularly interesting topic for Agile teams. Letting a team self-organize sometimes leads to a team wanting to "self-organize someone off the team". I've had my Scrum masters come to me twice in the past two years and ask to ha
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by pjackson 18y ago
I find it curious that "economizing measures" are touted as very high priority, while "cloud computing" is last on every CIOs list. I calculated the savings for my company: moving out of a hosted datacenter solution with leased equipment an
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by pjackson 18y ago
I use Apple Mail. It shows individual feeds as if they were a mailbox, all grouped under and RSS container. Unfortunately, this keeps me addicted to HN throughout the day rather than just once or twice a day.
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by pjackson 18y ago
I second gojomo. It's certainly sobering, but it's sloppily done. There are some facts in there, but the synthesis and analysis aren't intelligent. It seems more like wishful thinking.
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Voting Begins For The 2008 Open Source CMS Award(informationweek.com)
2 points by pjackson 18y ago|0 comments
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by pjackson 18y ago
When I'm in the zone, I have two browser tabs and dozens of editor tabs. When I'm shaving yaks, I have one editor tab and 10 browser tabs.
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by pjackson 18y ago
Can the intern work remotely? If not, where are you located? Does the programmer have to be "young" and a guy? IMO, the best place to find an intern like you're describing is the Computer Science department at your local University. I cold
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by pjackson 18y ago
Aha. My guess was close.

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