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by russell 15y ago
There has never been copyright for design. Copyright for source code and for binaries works quite well for protecting software from wholesale copying, piracy notwithstanding. Software ideas are a dime a dozen. The real protection comes
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by russell 15y ago
I am rather fond of the jQuery style of chaining method calls, which doesnt work if methods return status codes. OTOH I dont like checked exceptions at all. Mainly because development teams go overboard with an exception for every type of
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by russell 15y ago
The article is a summary of this: http://blog.monitis.com/index.php/2011/05/22/picking-the-rig... The review of Cassandra: http://blog.monitis.com/index.php/2011/05/24/nosql-databases...
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by russell 15y ago
Rejoice Calendar Geeks. There are fewer of us even than those who really understand Haskell monads. It's obvious that the Java/Calendar classes were implemented by people who were not calendar geeks. (I once implemented a date package tha
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by russell 15y ago
I think a development team needs to ask itself if the api is stable and has a stable team behind it. Example Java libraries. If so, use it. If it has a company like Google or a small open source team, then protect your self by isolating
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by russell 15y ago
Back in the days I did a lot of assembly programming for the CDC 6400/6600 computers. The instruction set was simple, but processor flow wasnt. IIRC there were 3 or so integer units and 1 floating point unit. If a result wasnt ready when
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by russell 15y ago
>> 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down... I had one of those, a Plymouth Voyager. Going from our house in the mountains there was an intersection with a sharp down hill right
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by russell 15y ago
The company where I work gives "surprise" four day weekends by giving Friday off for several of the three day weekends, a nice bonus. The article is really about the 4 day workweek: 4 10-hour days, which makes a lot of sense for most people
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The World’s First Printed Building(blueprintmagazine.co.uk)
58 points by russell 15y ago|5 comments
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by russell 15y ago
I got xanthippe = ill-tempered woman. Do you suppose she was the real reason that Socrates took the hemlock?
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by russell 15y ago
Ah the merits of off-the-books weekend work. I had a badly rutted moderately long driveway with drainage problems. One Saturday a Caltrans operator brought his grader over and for $1200, including a couple of truck loads of crushed rock,
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by russell 15y ago
SQL should be in every programmer's bag of tricks. True, it's not Turing complete, but what it does, it does well. I classify it as one of those mind stretching languages. It forces you to think in sets, and complex queries have very muc
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by russell 15y ago
Web type jobs are in SF. The Peninsula has web jobs and non-web jobs but still cutting edge. The East Bay much less so. I would NOT recommend commuting from Berkeley to Palo Alto. I've lived in all 3 places and much prefer the Palo Alto
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by russell 15y ago
Ah, General Magic. I was there just before the final death throes, long after all the names had left. We were down to one significant customer, General Motors OnStar, selling minutes to people who wanted to get their baseball scores and s
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by russell 15y ago
There's a whole lot of empty between the west coast and the great plains.
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by russell 15y ago
It has an interactive map showing the steady westward march of the center of population along with a map of the states in the union. Another way to waste a few minutes.
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by russell 15y ago
I am amused at how wrong SF authors often get the details of every,day future things. In Stranger in a Strange Land, set around 2000(?), one of the characters mentions a mobile phone the size of a brief case. Or in recent David Weber nove
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by russell 15y ago
Since I am a long ways past 30, I hope you guys get it done a lot sooner than that.
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by russell 15y ago
The article succumbs to the fallacy of predicting the future from current trends. To give you an example, here are some things that didnt exist 50 years ago that were life and culture changing. Personal computers, the internet, cell phone
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by russell 15y ago
I believe that it is actually illegal under federal law to require education/skill levels that exceed those necessary for the job. This is civil rights era legislation, because excessively high requirement were routinely used to exclude bl
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by russell 15y ago
Well, it sure sucks to be a high-school dropout. But the situation is much worse than the statistics show. They dont count people who are too discouraged to look for work, those who would take a job if one were realistically available. Al
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by russell 15y ago
A decade ago I worked for a VP who had been a captain in the Israeli army. She was smart, technically competent, no bs, and looked out for her people.
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by russell 16y ago
My GF,is a mathematician. She is beautiful, intelligent, fun, and an incredible artist. We have been together for 10 years. Why havent we married? Between us we have 3 exes and 5 grown children. We have each other and dont need theocrat
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by russell 16y ago
I worked for more than 10 years from home in the mountains above SV with a client in Chicago. I had a wife and 3 school age kids. We had rules and a discipline: when I was in my office, I was not available for chatting, discipline, or oth
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by russell 16y ago
The original source: http://www.freedomhouse.org/images/File/FotN/FOTN2011_Handou... 45 pages, too long to read this early in the morning. It is scary though that the US is second best in the world when the Feds are seizing domains with
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Internet Freedom Threatened By New Restrictions (huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by russell 16y ago|1 comments
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It would be good if they have examiners in SV. Maybe the culture would rub off on them and sanity would rule...or not.
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by russell 16y ago
Shouldn't this be flagged for using "rockstar", just on general principles? :-)
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by russell 16y ago
This could be an Ask HN. I, for one, would fin the answers interesting.
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by russell 16y ago
If it takes 5 minutes or less, do it immediately, because scheduling it takes more time. This is the one piece of advise I follow religiously. The dividends are amazing. Less clutter, a feeling of accomplishment, appearance of responsiven

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