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by russell 16y ago
I concur. If you are doing web or app development, all you need are some non-tech reviewers to keep from making stupid mistakes. If you are looking at the enterprise space strlen's advice is sound. What you really need is an adviser with
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by russell 16y ago
A couple of decades ago, I first ran into the professional incompetent, someone who can have 8-10 years of good experience without having accomplished anything. She (sex means nothing, just tweak the adjectives) was attractive, intelligent
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by russell 16y ago
Count this as a downvote. :) If I see an apparently braindamaged comment from patio11 or RiderofGiraffes, I at least reconsider whose brain is damaged, mine or theirs?
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by russell 16y ago
Patrick, I have the same reactions. The points are good for parsing, but they are also good discipline in posting comments. Something that ultimately gets 1 point was probably was not worth posting anyway. Something that was downvoted wa
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by russell 16y ago
Make the display of points optional. I find them useful in finding comments to look at on long discussions. I use upvotes to signal interesting comments, but I rarely do it on comments that have large upvotes. Now I am inclined not to up
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by russell 16y ago
The Feds (of some color) are investigating private schools that screw students, but I suspect that the best outcome we will get is a slap on the wrist with no relief to those who were swindled. It is probably true that all for-profit schoo
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by russell 16y ago
Good call. One of commenters is Tony Wasserman at CMU who is one of the fathers of Software Engineering who tells why he worked to separate SW from CS.
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by russell 16y ago
I've done recent contract work in both SV and LA. I would say SV/SF pays 10-15% higher. In addition the work in SV is much more interesting to me and probably other HN types than the work in LA. Within the Bay Area the arc from Berkeley,
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by russell 16y ago
Now I know where to send the invoices.
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by russell 16y ago
I agree with you Peter. I came to C after a decade using Pascal (assembly, "systems" languages before that). It was like going from programming in a straitjacket to running shorts and a T shirt. The freedom was wonderful. And programmin
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by russell 16y ago
I guess I could ask a HiPPO and then validate the answer with A/B testing. OTOH, if I am the highest paid person present, do I just guess, or do I guess and validate it with A/B testing?
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by russell 16y ago
Nearly every gig has been over $50K with the most being $250k for 12 months. Most of my work has been in Silicon Valley with a couple of telecommuting stints in LA and Chicago (which lasted for a decade). Most gigs have been with companies
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by russell 16y ago
His blog has 47 views. Even being on HN isnt getting him any traction.
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by russell 16y ago
1049 people found it helpful. :-)
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by russell 16y ago
I've found that small companies,100 or so people, with shipping profitable product are a good fit. They are small enough that an individual developer has an impact, but they dont have the stifling bureaucracy of larger, especially public,
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by russell 16y ago
USGS says the probability of a 6.7M or greater in the next 30 years is 63%. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/ucerf/ The ripest is the Hayward fault which last erupted 143 years ago. The historical interval over the last 1900 year
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by russell 16y ago
Not such a good thing, if it forces you to upgrade to Vist. It didnt and I didnt. To paraphrase Apple, "XP forever."
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Fukushima and the Banana Equivalent Dose(shanegreenup.com)
2 points by russell 16y ago|0 comments
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by russell 16y ago
You do have a problem. He may come back later and claim half the company. He can claim verbal promises and will probably win. Best to have a lawyer draft a release and have the guy sign it. A friend of mine hired a contractor without a w
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by russell 16y ago
If you live in the valley long enough, you get involve in some wierd shit. In the pre-Internet days, I worked on a search engine that we believed was used in Echelon. Mind you my info is about fourth hand because the tiny company I worked
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by russell 16y ago
San Fransisco? Not really. The largest San Andreas earthquake is probably 8.0 plus or minus, probably an order of magnitude smaller than Japan's. The damage will be comparable because because the fault runs through an urban area. The mos
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by russell 16y ago
I detect a judgmental tone in your post, even if you didnt mean it. People dont like their core beliefs judged, even by friends. Perhaps you were thinking ethical principals and your friend was thinking spiritual maybe even contradictory
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by russell 16y ago
I have used yacc and its offspring like bison for a long time. Writing the grammars is really simple, but debugging them is really arcane. The problem is that the place where the parser generator discovers the error can be some distance f
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by russell 16y ago
I have loosened up mightily as the years have gone by, but these days it seems to be more grandmothers than sweet young things.
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by russell 16y ago
I can see you have never done any Cobol programming. Add x to y giving z. Or somesuch. C is quite verbose, because you have to write your interfaces as .h files. The library support is rather thin, so you have to keep reimplementing commo
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by russell 16y ago
As an American I dont think a handshake = touching. A handshake is such a common ritual that I barely notice it. If someone touches me on the elbow or wrist, I am instantly aware.
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by russell 16y ago
Had I been aware of this in my youth, I would have cultivated a French accent and kissed every female within range, little girls, grandmothers, even pretty girls. I am sure I would have been happier.
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by russell 16y ago
There are only a few places on earth where you can get a 9 earthquake. Seattle is one, but CA is not., probably an 8ish is about the worst. The internet infrastructure is relatively immune to earthquakes, by weight mostly cables and UPS's
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by russell 16y ago
And why did I post this thing. dated today? Well it is a mildly interesting as a discussion of the suppression of free speech in England. Of more interest is Charlie's goal: if Godwin is going to suppres the fact that he is a banker, Char
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Wanker(antipope.org)
2 points by russell 16y ago|1 comments

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