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by randrews 17y ago
Well, he's obviously capable of producing online content, he made this site after all. Even if he can't produce code to show off, he can produce something. If I were going to hire someone in whatever field he's in, I'd be looking for the un
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by randrews 17y ago
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this. Looking at this site, I don't see much about this person. No resume, no examples of work, the contact form is broken. How do I know if I want to hire him? Even if I did know, how would I do it?
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by randrews 17y ago
When I was eight years old, my father taught me to play Go. My father is terrible at Go, probably the worst player I've ever played. So, I entered college thinking I was fairly good. I got completely, embarrassingly, destroyed in my first g
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by randrews 17y ago
I haven't tried it, no. It does look cool though.
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by randrews 17y ago
I've found Rubycocoa to be really easy to use, and it's supported by Apple. It might go the way of the Java bridge in the future, though.
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by randrews 17y ago
Carbon Emacs works fine. Ruby works fine, although some gems that have native extensions needed reinstalling. X11 seems to be totally broken though. The Gimp and Crossover both don't work at all.
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by randrews 17y ago
I was thinking about this earlier, actually, when I posted the copy of Potion I had laying around. On the one hand, he released the code open source (MIT license, in the case of Potion), so we completely have the right to do this. Says so r
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by randrews 17y ago
Just pulled it and updated mine. Thanks! If nothing else, this is an excellent test of Git's distributed-self-healing goodness. I really hope he comes back though.
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by randrews 17y ago
I had a copy of Potion cloned on my machine, so I stuck it on Github. If someone has a newer one, please post it, or let me pull from you or something: http://github.com/randrews/potion _why had a lot of projects, we can probably preserve
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by randrews 17y ago
I worked my way through college at Johnson Space Center. Most people there are paid significantly less than if they were working in the private sector. Most people there have no secretaries or admin assistants, the really important people h
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by randrews 17y ago
When you think about it, this is actually totally useless. It is much easier to just generate a puzzle on the fly and not require the user to have a paper copy of it. But I bought it anyway, because the point isn't to solve Sudoku puzzles,
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by randrews 17y ago
I think this is the best description of free-beer versus free-speech I've ever read. Thank you.
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by randrews 17y ago
If you're having trouble loading the all-Flash site, as I was, the actual Twitter feeds are: ap11_capcom ap11_spacecraft ap11_eagle
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by randrews 17y ago
If I ran Github, I'd put a link to this and a summary on the front page. I haven't heard a better argument for distributed source control. The guy who uploaded the stolen code is a moron, but the other people using the site don't deserve th
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by randrews 17y ago
For the book titles example, I'd find this much clearer: book_titles=books.map &:name
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by randrews 17y ago
That must make driving directions interesting. We can say "go south down Guadalupe St., turn left on 7th Ave." What's the equivalent where the streets have no names? "Go south down the street between blocks 5 and 8 in district 3, turn left
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by randrews 17y ago
newe.st boxed.in Open to selling them or trading them: randrews@geekfu.org
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by randrews 17y ago
I had this same problem, and I solved it thusly: (defun duplicate-line () "Duplicate the line the point is on, moving the point to the duplicate" (interactive) (save-excursion (kill-new (buffer-substring (line-beginnin
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by randrews 17y ago
When I was laid off a little over a month ago, I was looking for things to get rid of. Even though I have a cellphone, I kept the landline: I knew I was going to be doing a lot of interviews over the phone, and I knew that my cellphone drop
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by randrews 18y ago
This guy has written several articles in recent memory complaining about nobody teaching/using Ada any more. He runs a company that sells Ada dev tools, so I would take what he says with a grain of salt.
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by randrews 18y ago
I really like the idea of measuring writing in laptop batteries. Start writing, unplug the laptop, when it's about to die, wrap things up.
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by randrews 18y ago
A friend of mine used to ship things to his office for much the same reason, it was cheaper to ship a large load to a business address (something to do with rates for freight). Once he ordered ten huge CRT monitors, and then sold nine of th
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by randrews 18y ago
I found the last bullet really interesting. At first I thought "wait, UPS isn't a tech company" but when you think about it, any time you buy something on the internet, you're giving money to UPS (or a competitor).
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Data Mining Moves to Human Resources(businessweek.com)
9 points by randrews 18y ago|1 comments
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by randrews 18y ago
I thought your comment was good up until the last sentence. Just because there's (arguably) a better way to do it doesn't mean the article is bullshit.
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by randrews 18y ago
I didn't downvote him because I disagreed with him, I downvoted him because of the unbelievable lack of tact in using this post to express that opinion.
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How to Go About Creating a Program (1965)(rbandrews.livejournal.com)
5 points by randrews 18y ago|0 comments
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by randrews 18y ago
Odd. I've had one Mac fail on me (dual-USB iBook, the one with the motherboard problem). They replaced the motherboard, but then I sold it anyway a few months later. Every other Mac I've ever had since then is still running. Another iBook,
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by randrews 18y ago
Yeah, really the only part of your comment I was replying to was "why would anyone want web-based Photoshop?" Sorry if I flamed you.
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by randrews 18y ago
> I have given you fairly detailed technical advantages of native software and offered an explanation why we have (temporarily, I hope) moved back to the stone age I don't think you really understand why we moved back to the "stone age"

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