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by randrews 18y ago
Being a subordinate doesn't mean you shouldn't be treated with respect.
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by randrews 18y ago
My favorite part was about how "millennials" will move into entrepreneurship instead of working for people who don't respect them. Hope so!
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by randrews 18y ago
What an obnoxious attitude. "They want to be treated like colleagues rather than subordinates" "They would renege on a job-acceptance commitment if a better offer came along." "Millennials also expect ... time for their family and personal
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by randrews 18y ago
Exactly. Some content, like status updates, is perfect for Twitter or Facebook, but this article seems to assume that that's all anyone uses blogs for. Please god say it ain't so. I would like to think that people who keep blogs (at least t
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by randrews 18y ago
A dissenting opinion: Writing a blog helps you organize your thoughts, improves your writing skills, and teaches you to make good arguments (and recognize bad ones). None of that requires having an audience. At least an audience larger than
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by randrews 18y ago
It is so sad that this is still what people worry about for code style. Anything here could be done in an automatic code formatter written in a weekend. Why not an article on, say, Ruby API design? Use blocks, overload these (but not these)
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by randrews 18y ago
The part I found most interesting is that Mac Pros emit some odor. I've had one for over a year and I haven't noticed anything.
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by randrews 18y ago
Seems to work fine in Chrome too.
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by randrews 18y ago
My understanding was that Zed Shaw is worried that suits will infiltrate and make the whole thing about business, instead of it being about the fun of putting things together. My understanding is also that Zed Shaw should pay more attention
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by randrews 18y ago
No, but they can stop you from talking about hacking with other hackers, if everyone around you is a suit. The FU is meant to gather hackers, and only them, together to talk about it. The tryouts serve to keep everyone else out.
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by randrews 18y ago
I realize this is off-topic, but I hate that joke, and it bugs me every time I see it. Sharpening a pencil is inadvisable in microgravity. Little wood shavings go everywhere, they get inhaled, must be vacuumed up, et cetera. And mechanical
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Ruby framework for writing Jabber bots(rbandrews.livejournal.com)
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by randrews 18y ago
"In addition, there are very few things that actually need to be written in C. Operating systems and compilers are the two big areas where use of C is nearly always required. Both are territory that I am not interested in venturing into at
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by randrews 18y ago
Hmm. For the pen example, isn't it true that the pen manufacturer has a limit on their income? If they have a small shop that makes pens by hand, and you order a million of them, how are they going to fulfill the order? For CDs, same deal w
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by randrews 19y ago
I second the Boyd suggestion. One of the best books I've ever read.
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by randrews 19y ago
Enterprise IT departments, regardless of what they use (especially if they use neither!). By asking people on Blackberry-specific forums, he's targeting people who have already made an investment in some Blackberries.
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by randrews 19y ago
He asked people on Blackberry forums whether they'd trade their Blackberries for iPhones. I'm sure that gave him a representative sample.
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by randrews 19y ago
Okay, so what about projecting on to a new moon instead? You'd need a lot less brightness; aside from not having to be brighter than the sun, it's naturally darker at night with a new moon...
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by randrews 19y ago
You're not spending 50 karma, you're investing it. If your poll gets 51 upvotes, it was worth it.
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by randrews 19y ago
I almost didn't read this because of the domain it's on, but your comment convinced me to. Thank you. :)
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by randrews 19y ago
I recommend learning Scheme first. I found "Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days" to be very readable: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html
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by randrews 19y ago
I don't see how what DHH said translates to "OSX/Rails is the best platform ever!". It seems to me that he's just saying you should care about your tools, and pick the one you think is the best (and be prepared to justify it, if you apply t
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by randrews 19y ago
"Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." Is that really true? Couldn't it be the other way around? If I am designing a module that doesn
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by randrews 19y ago
We have a pretty good crowd here now. I think that most of our friends would also be a good crowd, and most of the annoying 14-year-olds wouldn't be our friends. And this didn't cripple the growth of Livejournal at all. You only get one inv
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by randrews 19y ago
"Programming is not complicated because computers are complicated—it’s complicated because your requirements are complicated (even if you don’t know it yet)." --Chris Ashton
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by randrews 19y ago
I just experimented a bit with Rhino ( http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/ ) and I got nothin'. I had thought it might be that it coerces the right hand side to match the left's type, but it doesn't since: null==0 || 0==null -> false It's w
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by randrews 19y ago
== needs two arguments of the same type. If they're both strings, it's a string compare. If they're objects, it does whatever it does for objects (identity, I think). If they're numbers, then it's a numeric comparison. If it's given two obj
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by randrews 19y ago
So I guess the confusing bit is that null==0 is Boolean, rather than numeric, context.
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by randrews 19y ago
JSLint ( http://www.jslint.com ) won't catch this, either. It will complain about using == or !=, but it doesn't say anything about other comparisons.
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by randrews 19y ago
You could make the site invitation-only. In order to join, you have to be invited by a member. Each member gets one invite a year. This is how Livejournal used to work, and it resulted in everyone knowing at least one other person, which wa

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