russell

91 ms·

931.
by russell 17y ago
The original story is at http://dsc.discovery.com/space/slideshows/warpship/ with a couple more pictures an a bit more explanation.
932.
by russell 17y ago
People you know. People you know who know. Fellow alumni. Local meetings: Python, Java, Ruby, entrepreneurial groups. If none, start one. Craigslist? I find clients there. I dont know how good it works the other way. Talk to other entre
933.
by russell 17y ago
I remember a post that CPython 2.6 was still in development when they started Jython 2.5. They were making the leap from 2.1 or 2.2 so they didnt want to add an undefined release to the pot.
934.
by russell 17y ago
I like the look of Less. I've taken cursory looks at other CSS generation tools have been less than enthralled by the ugly syntax and over-complications. Less is lean and looks like something that might be a future CSS extension. I'm def
935.
by russell 17y ago
Technically this is nothing revolutionary. I worked on a project that included a jetty server and SQLite database as part of the download. For the user it was a single button click and updates were automatic. The purpose of the server wa
936.
by russell 17y ago
An maybe not. My SO has too keen a sense of smell for that to work around our house.
937.
by russell 17y ago
If you get in the position where one customer dominates your revenue, it can dictate your development plans and may lead you down a path that you dont want to go. If 20% of your customers bring in 40% of your revenue, I would call that bal
938.
by russell 17y ago
Python. It's easy to learn and there are real world jobs, if you get bitten really badly. MIT switched to Python as their introductory language,
939.
by russell 17y ago
EDIT: I found a howto page that answers some of my questions and shows hw it works, http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/continuous-deployment-5-eas...
940.
by russell 17y ago
Continuous Deployment is a very intriguing idea. I haven't tried it, but in the the limit it makes sense. A few years ago I worked for a company that did large batch releases, scheduled every 3 months. The first month was spent negotiatin
941.
by russell 17y ago
You made an important point. I am interested in the enterprise space. The old way of making a sale is to send a salesman out and have him convince some executive committee to purchase your product. The sales cycle is 6 months or more and
942.
Fifteen Clasic PC Design Mistakes(technologizer.com)
4 points by russell 17y ago|2 comments
943.
by russell 17y ago
The article posits that certain parts of our societal ecosystem are getting so complex that failure has catastrophic consequences and gives two examples: power grid failures and failure of the financial system. It goes on to propose that i
944.
by russell 17y ago
It didn't work so well at Long-Term Capital Management where they were among the resident geniuses.
945.
by russell 17y ago
Yes we should. Vermeulen says the idea of Darwinian economic competition is wrong. Even Darwin wouldnt buy it. He gives examples of why the flu doesnt kill everyone and why ISO9000 in the long run saps the vitality out of a company. Hey
946.
by russell 17y ago
Seth is right on. Textbooks should be gone within ten years, especially the college introductory and public school pablum. I expect there will be some resistance. Textbooks probably count for a lot in the publish or perish race and they
947.
by russell 17y ago
Male BRAS? Japan has always struck me as very strange, at turns brutally rigid, bullying, and at the same time very faddish. The article paints this behavior as a reaction to the salaryman excesses of the post war environment, where the pe
948.
by russell 17y ago
It started off pretty well, but then didnt go anywhere. I dont think any of our languages are hundred year languages, although COBOL and FORTRAN are in their early fifties. Mostly they wont survive because they arent concise enough to expr
949.
by russell 17y ago
Fun read. All human nature is sexual, so not all suicide bombers are Muslim, but nearly all Muslim suicide bombers are male, and that is so because of the shortage of women. Rich men have more wives, mistresses, concubines, because a woman
950.
by russell 17y ago
Misko says that the productivity hit of pair programming in minimal because most programmers program only 10-25% of the time; the rest is spent reading email, going to meetings, and the like. Huh? I thought we flattened the management hie
951.
by russell 17y ago
The Peace Corps of my youth taught the volunteers to speak the new language by 3 months of total immersion, then threw them into the wild. My friends who had gone through the process said that they could get by, but it took a year to become
952.
by russell 17y ago
I think the article has the right idea. No one thinks that if the single version is the Ultimate, it will cost $500. That's silly. It would be priced somewhere near the bottom of the current range. Starter should not exist. It's just a
953.
by russell 17y ago
I've been working for a client on a huge (400K lines) sales/inventory/workflow enterprise management system which was orphaned when the original developer walked away. The origin intent when I started was to spin it off as a separate softw
954.
by russell 17y ago
The problem is that not much is being posted over there and even less discussion. Edit: I would be all for a more active site. And good discussions of technical issues a step above, "how do I fix this problem?"
955.
by russell 17y ago
> Note that the eye can be arbitrarily large or small and the magnitude of the wind surrounding it is irrelevant. Given that the eye can be arbitrarily small, I would accept the statement that the earth would always have at least one ci
956.
by russell 17y ago
There is no place for this kind of offensive behavior in a public forum. There is also the responsibility of the organizers to pull the plug on the display, the microphone, and the speaker. The members of the audience have a responsibilit
957.
by russell 17y ago
I recently spent a year at HP labs. It was a very interesting place, operating more like an academic department than a software development organization. The staff members worked more or less on what interested them. They would vie for s
958.
by russell 17y ago
When I bought my laptop a couple of years ago one of the primary considerations was disk drive speed. 7200rpm is zippy, 5400 is molasses, flash should be even better. I bought a Dell and have been happy with it. My adult kids all have Ma
959.
by russell 17y ago
It's a very cute video that shows the growth in the national in miles per hour along a map across the US. I still think Bush and Reagan were nut cases and Obama is cool.
960.
by russell 17y ago
I did a port of a word processor to QNX 25 years ago, so that makes it old as the hills and the system calls must have been Unix compliant. Other than that I dont remember much. Plan 9 is of similar vintage. Even Linux is newer.

More ›