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by rickmb 16y ago
There's also another side to this story: headhunters benefit from "selling" developers at a high price, and usually they are way better negotiators than the average developer. Most of the time, that money saved doesn't go towards a signing
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by rickmb 16y ago
Not yet, since my MacBook is still relatively new. But the last few MacBooks I bought where already deliberately on the low end, so yeah, my next main machine is likely to be an Air. It kind of depends on my working environment at any given
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by rickmb 16y ago
The issue with "hard to obtain" in most cases in that it is deliberate . It's easy to make available, in many cases you're even being taunted by publicly displaying its availability, and then telling you you can't have it. As far as I'm co
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by rickmb 16y ago
The thing is, agree with most of this post (when it comes to interviewing and assessing ability)... except I don't buy that that explains it. Take this part for example: 'Somehow though I don't reckon there are 99 working programmers sittin
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by rickmb 16y ago
You've just excluded about 6 billion people from your definition of "poor". Given the fact that the US needs a huge part of the resources of the rest of the world (labor, oil, etc.) in order to be "rich" by whatever definition, it's kind of
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by rickmb 16y ago
Oh, come on. WordPress could have started providing a decent API eons ago. They don't care. Or they fundamentally don't see there's anything wrong with spaghetti code and inconsistent API's. The only reason they are abandoning PHP4 because
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by rickmb 16y ago
You know what one of the core values of Agile is? People over process. For fuck sake, the reason the Agile Manifesto came into being in the first place because the people writing it, the people who created various methodologies now known as
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by rickmb 16y ago
Small addition: you can't kill him because of this: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-insurance... But anything that damages the man that can not be directly traced back to the source will do fine. In that case, the obvio
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by rickmb 16y ago
On what do you base this first claim? Because a little Google search on the subject of Swedish police and corruption turns up quite a number of (recent) hits. Not to mention the legally dubious raids by the Swedish police on the hosters of
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by rickmb 16y ago
Regardless of how you feel about Schmidt, or to what extent his comments have been taken out of context, the guy consistently draws the wrong kind of media attention to himself and Google. "Creep Executive Officer" describes exactly the kin
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by rickmb 16y ago
I find it interesting to see how so many people try to sound "reasonable" and find value in "compromise". Which is a good thing, 99% of the time. Except when the issue falls into "you can't be a little bit pregnant" category. IMHO, that is
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by rickmb 16y ago
> Since they were run by engineers, they made their ads text. As much a I like to think "us engineers" are smarter, that's still a pure business decision. Just a better one. Neither short-sightedness nor vision are the exclusive domain
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by rickmb 16y ago
Getting very tired of the "Apple is a monopoly" meme. Just because people keep repeating it doesn't make it even remotely true. Being a control freak in your own home doesn't make you a dictator for the rest of the world.
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by rickmb 16y ago
"only positive results" is simply not true, and a dangerous assertion if you want legalization in the US to not just happen, but to stick. In the Netherlands, we're still struggling with tons of unforeseen side-effects of partial legalizati
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by rickmb 16y ago
It surprises me how the meaning of the word "compromise" is being devalued. No net neutrality on wireless networks isn't a compromise. Net neutrality with some exceptions would be a compromise. Net neutrality with a ton of exceptions would
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by rickmb 16y ago
Except, this isn't just "any infraction". This is the Big One(TM). This is Google turning against the open internet. I challenge you to find an example of any company making such a major, fundamental u-turn.
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by rickmb 18y ago
In the 20-plus years I've been coding, I never really gave a crap about what keyboard I worked on. Currently mostly happen to use the new Apple keyboard that came with the iMac. Expected to want to replace it when I first saw it, but it's s
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by rickmb 18y ago
Oh come on, this so takes the fun out of hacking regexs.
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by rickmb 18y ago
Maybe you should reverse the question. Why has software development always been about productivity? What is it that makes people really happy, being productive or having a rich social life? (Depending on your needs 'rich' may be just that o
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by rickmb 18y ago
PHP is without a doubt the worst structured language I've ever coded in. Probably the crappiest language after VBscript. But I use it for anything web-based because it gives me guaranteed results, anytime, anywhere, on whatever scale on wha
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by rickmb 18y ago
Laziest straw-man argument I've read in a long time. Web 2.0 and/or cloud computing is not about the old "thin client" idea, in fact, it's more like the opposite (with "fat" clients being part of the cloud). The writer is just trying to re-
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by rickmb 19y ago
As with any social app, banning sites/users/apps that aren't deliberately damaging (like spam, trolls, whatever) is basically saying your system isn't working, and you can't be bothered to change it. It's like 'fixing' a bug in software by