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by reeses 13y ago
Where is this "use" part of which you speak? Aggressive JIT languages are historically slow at startup. The typical tradeoff (similar to the server/client Java VM flags) is to amortize the optimizations over the length of th
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by reeses 13y ago
I got a very strange text message purporting to be from Yahoo!. I ignored it, thinking that, at the very least, it was an attempt to grab logins during some DNS poisoning attack.
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by reeses 13y ago
One thing that human marketers did for us was to establish a plan for tradeshows, publications, advertisements, and ultimately launches. My cofounder and I had tension related to whether we should continue to polish or whether we should sho
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by reeses 13y ago
We decided to view it from the opposite direction. 'Bench' time means lab bench, which works well as most of our actual employees[1] are grad students and postdocs. We support their research and have a publication policy that put
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by reeses 13y ago
"Conventional" boolean operators work as well. Again, I suspect that it depends on whether a developer has mapped something ToExpression can consume, either via forms, boxes, or unlocking the function itself. (This would be consi
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by reeses 13y ago
We have a challenge in that so many of our web applications are built in a way that prevents us from performing analysis across technologies. For example, a modern rails app will possibly include haml, sass, coffeescript, and ruby along wit
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by reeses 13y ago
After "you have no job," all they want to hear is dates, severance, and benefits. Anything else is just wasting everyone's time, because they are in their own heads and not listening.
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by reeses 13y ago
You don't want to live half your life as an over-60 geriatric, with daily pains, vocational ostracisation, inadequate income, and decreasing social relevance? Mind you, some would bin that in with the douchey "I wouldn't want
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by reeses 13y ago
Every conformant non-toy Common Lisp implementation?
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by reeses 13y ago
This is another of those "people did it 100 years ago and now we have to reinvent it" things. The Mark I would never have had this problem.
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by reeses 13y ago
I'm about to tar up their folder on Dropbox, so you might want to avoid that for a bit as well. :-)
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by reeses 13y ago
I terminated a relationship with a consulting client right before the outage and thought,"How the hell did they manage that?" Then I realized I probably broke Google by dragging their folder from clients to clients/retired.
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by reeses 13y ago
Interestingly, many of the 'alternative' layouts don't have the same advantages on the phone.[1] For example, any of the layouts that emphasize home row locality, such as the * aks, don't really help when you're ty
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by reeses 13y ago
Hah, I was caught out repeating myself. :) I remember kvetching on that c2 page early this century.
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by reeses 13y ago
In general, macros, templates, and patterns are an "almost" discovery that a user needs a language (task, whatever) to have another level of abstraction or factorization for the activity at hand. For example, the visitor pattern i
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by reeses 13y ago
"Automatic MDI/MDI-X Conﬁguration is intended to eliminate the need for crossover cables between simi-lar devices. Implementation of an automatic MDI/MDI-X conﬁguration is optional for 1000BASE-T devices. The assignment of pi
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by reeses 13y ago
They all do now, but it's still an optional element of the standard.
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by reeses 13y ago
Anyone who has maintained Makefiles will have a strong opinion on semantic whitespace. Maybe not opinion , but reaction . Generally involving visceral fear or anger. It's not that it's always bad, every hour of every day. It&#
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by reeses 13y ago
Actually, the author is rather well informed on the history and construction of stringed instruments. He simplified his loosely related analogy so he wouldn't have to write huge footnotes of apologia and exceptions in his mapping betwe
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by reeses 13y ago
Your cofounder should be like your life partner in this situation. You should not have let it get to this point without knowing what was going on. Fix it now by leveraging your friendship to see how you can balance things out. If nothing el
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by reeses 13y ago
If you're paying H1s less than locals you're violating immigration law. The idea behind the H1 program is to help you when you cannot find local expertise in your specialty and need to recruit globally. It's a very sensitiv
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by reeses 13y ago
Depending on your service provider (hosting, msp, mttos, whatever), the up-front msa can be truly painful if you want "real" service. I.e., redundant power and multi-provider network connectivity with multiple connectivity points
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by reeses 13y ago
This is the worst idea ever but it explains a lot . I had not heard this before, and it's enough to make me hedge my bets and start trying to export notes into mmd files in nested directories (which one cannot do at present with stac
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by reeses 13y ago
Sometimes you'll get hosed because of the attachment upload limit, which does not degrade gracefully. Originally, it just logged that you couldn't sync. When they did add a notification, it was something along the line of "
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by reeses 13y ago
Unfortunately, you're not paying enough for your complaints to matter. Evernote has made it fairly clear that they believe the software is adequate at this point and have been seeking growth through partnerships with other 'organ
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by reeses 13y ago
That's not helpful. I'll summarize that page. From: How to Plan your Wedding...without going insane 1. Sign up for WorkFlowy 2. Create a project list and 'zoom in.' 3. Create sections for the major components of your pr
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by reeses 13y ago
They have anointed evangelists who do more to drive people away from the forum than offer any real help.
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by reeses 13y ago
Every company is stack ranking and every good manager (and many bad ones) have their teams ranked in the event that they need to cut or have the opportunity to improve the team through training, promotion, etc. ("What would you do if
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by reeses 13y ago
This is pretty common in the growth phase of a company, especially one with easily scalable demand such as a software company. As others have pointed out, a lot of projects have been built from 'scratch' due to Twitter's need
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by reeses 13y ago
"ensuring 100% uptime" without an asterisk pointing to a 300-page list of exceptions is obviously hiding it deep in the T&Cs when signing up. The amusing part is that this sort of assurance has exactly the value you mentioned.

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