pjungwir

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by pjungwir 12y ago
I left my programming job in 2004 and spend the next 5-6 years studying, first a year of theology and then rest on Greek and Latin. It was probably not the best move career-wise, but it's something I had always wanted to try. I learned
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by pjungwir 12y ago
I was surprised to read so much concern about children learning what their parents make or what their home is worth, as well as concern they might share that with outsiders. I have three kids, aged 1, 3, and 5, and I don't worry about
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by pjungwir 12y ago
What a great tool! I think one challenge putting this into production will be all the "extra" stuff people put into spreadsheets: - one or more titles on top ("Patient Database", "current as of Jan 5, 2014", et
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by pjungwir 12y ago
I saw it on T.V. in elementary school. My teacher was something like a semi-finalist to be aboard. We'd been doing class projects all year as part of the competition.
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by pjungwir 12y ago
I'm a senior developer (but in web more than mobile). I freelance but often fall into a lead role when I'm part of a team. My thoughts: 1. When I read "competitive salary" or "market rate" in a job description
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by pjungwir 12y ago
In the first couple weeks of my first job I was helping a client build a custom integration with our product. I thought through the general way I wanted to do it, although I could imagine a couple alternatives. I started presenting my ideas
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by pjungwir 12y ago
Finished: a collection of Kafka short stories Reading: Dover's abstract algebra paperback Planning: Cambridge's Demosthenes Selected Private Speeches
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by pjungwir 12y ago
I thought this was actually quite well written: honest but not hyperbolic, and not glamorizing the hard work like you see in many ads ("must be passionate about widgets!"). No ping-pong tables or free lunches, and even a bit sheep
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by pjungwir 12y ago
I don't consider it pedantry. I know where you're coming from, though. If I hear that a developer position offers a "six-figure salary" I figure that means $105k. But that's not what a "six-figure salary"
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by pjungwir 12y ago
I didn't downvote, but your formulas don't make any sense. What is y? What is k? Why are they multiplied together (or subtracted?)? Isn't x - x + yk simply yk? Also more substantively, if you are already making $x, why would
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by pjungwir 12y ago
I'm curious if anyone really expected Perl 6 to arrive like the article describes ("The problem wasn't apparent in 2000."). I was just a junior programmer, and I loved 5.6, but from the beginning 6 sounded to me like it
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by pjungwir 12y ago
Well there is good confidence and bad confidence. :-) If you are like me you are rational and skeptical, willing to be proven wrong, but stubborn in holding opinions you believe in. If you are slow to form opinions, you may not seem very co
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by pjungwir 12y ago
I was very disappointed not to see prison sentences for executives and other fiduciaries in the 2008 financial scandals. Weren't those used in the 80s S&L crisis? I understand that large corporate penalties can hurt society or inno
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by pjungwir 12y ago
Yes, I completely agree. It's not like I'd take action on my doubts. I'm sorry if my original comment sounded critical---that wasn't my point. But it is crude, isn't it? I believe even doctors concede that these e
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by pjungwir 12y ago
Having been to three ultrasounds for my children, I'm amazed how casually they use a 2D length to estimate the baby's age, and therefore delivery date, and therefore when it is overdue and calls for a cesarean, etc. Your results s
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by pjungwir 12y ago
That's the first book I thought of. My other was reading the Odyssey in Greek. Sort of fitting I guess! :-) My third is Gödel's Proof by Nagel & Newman.
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by pjungwir 12y ago
These days if you have low traffic you can run everything on one box, but separating them is more "best practice," so if you've already done that, congratulations! The database should not be on a public network or have a publ
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by pjungwir 12y ago
These days if you have low traffic you can run everything on one box, but separating them is more "best practice," so if you've already done that, congratulations! The database should not be on a public network or have a publ
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by pjungwir 12y ago
These days if you have low traffic you can run everything on one box, but separating them is more "best practice," so if you've already done that, congratulations! The database should not be on a public network or have a publ
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by pjungwir 12y ago
These days if you have low traffic you can run everything on one box, but separating them is more "best practice," so if you've already done that, congratulations! The database should not be on a public network or have a publ
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by pjungwir 12y ago
These days if you have low traffic you can run everything on one box, but separating them is more "best practice," so if you've already done that, congratulations! The database should not be on a public network or have a publ
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by pjungwir 12y ago
These days if you have low traffic you can run everything on one box, but separating them is more "best practice," so if you've already done that, congratulations! The database should not be on a public network or have a publ
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by pjungwir 12y ago
These days if you have low traffic you can run everything on one box, but separating them is more "best practice," so if you've already done that, congratulations! The database should not be on a public network or have a publ
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by pjungwir 12y ago
These days if you have low traffic you can run everything on one box, but separating them is more "best practice," so if you've already done that, congratulations! The database should not be on a public network or have a publ
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by pjungwir 12y ago
These days if you have low traffic you can run everything on one box, but separating them is more "best practice," so if you've already done that, congratulations! The database should not be on a public network or have a publ
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by pjungwir 12y ago
These days if you have low traffic you can run everything on one box, but separating them is more "best practice," so if you've already done that, congratulations! The database should not be on a public network or have a publ
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by pjungwir 12y ago
These days if you have low traffic you can run everything on one box, but separating them is more "best practice," so if you've already done that, congratulations! The database should not be on a public network or have a publ
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by pjungwir 12y ago
> fear of famine . . . often led me to take on too much work to have a side project. A model I really like is one "big" engagement at 20 hrs/wk and a few smaller ones to fill in the rest of the hours. This gave me a lot of
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by pjungwir 12y ago
Like in coding, complexity in a business partnership might be a warning. The book Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Meister has a lot of lessons for anyone running a traditional parter/associates firm, and the last part t
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by pjungwir 12y ago
> Once arrived, they could instead make more humans, from parts. Maybe their manufacturing process is named "evolution"? :-) In that case they could just bring along some primitive life form. Who cares if it takes a few million

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