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by sabat 16y ago
It's not binary. I'm speaking of a matter of degree, and about US culture specifically. Meaning: we're becoming a polarized nation, two Americas (America and 'mer'ca). Of course the human race has always had tribes. But tribalism (tribaliti
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by sabat 16y ago
"Tribalism": a great term for what's wrong with the world today in general. I'd been fishing for a word, calling it "the team sports mentality" for lack of something more insightful and concise.
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The use of Grok in English is embiggening.
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I'm hand-waving at it because this industry has had 40-50 years of high technology at its beck and call and has done little or nothing with it. This is an engineering problem, and making excuses for them ("Failing open is of course a bit
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by sabat 16y ago
Problem, yes. Engineering problem to solve. The real issue is that these companies don't feel they need to innovate much, and so we're still stuck with technologies invented in the 19th century.
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I meant after weeks of sending out resumes to companies you wanted to work, and hearing nothing back. That would be most people's experience.
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You're right. The author may have been better to argue that Huxley is scoring higher than Orwell, but not by much. Our problem is that both of them are scoring as high as they are. Apparently, there are powerful people in the world who have
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by sabat 16y ago
And if they turned you down? Then what? Eventually, after scores of weeks of silence, you'd start blanketing too.
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by sabat 16y ago
You haven't been out on the market lately, I suspect. People don't read resumes anymore, so there's no real chance to impress anyone. They scan keywords. If you try to represent yourself well, chances are you won't be keyword-rich enough to
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Take this as an opportunity to know yourself and how to hack yourself. You're at the front door right now; your agitation says that. I suffer from a lot of the same problems -- ultimately, that feeling that you're phoning it in, and that yo
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by sabat 16y ago
It seems crazy to me that someone would build a gem that expects the user to already have Rails installed. =:-o
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I sure have my doubts. I have a friend at Google who works closely with that team; I'll ask him about it. He spends most of his day writing Java (not Javascript).
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SF is a unique and amazing town. Keep in mind one thing that's little-understood outside of California: San Francisco is not the same thing as the Bay Area. And when you say "San Francisco" you probably really mean the Bay Area. "The valley
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by sabat 16y ago
In the 1980s, we used to get articles about how we'd all better start learning Japanese. Now it's the Chinese. I'll believe it when I see it actually happen.
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by sabat 16y ago
* Perl has one of the most featureful object systems in existence * That's an overstatement. Perl is in no way actually object-oriented. It's a feature that's tacked on, but it doesn't help you write better code. If you think Perl's object
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[Ruby and Python are not] equipped with better libraries I disagree strongly here; Perl has a lot of little utility libraries (LWP, etc) but lacks the mature and amazing frameworks like Rails and Django -- and since you can use the datab
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I'd already done that, but I'm impatient. :-)
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I've had this exact thought and may even try to implement it. What I'm planning is closer to a MOO than an MMORPG or other game type, but we're on the same wavelength.
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Anyone have invites to give out?
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Your headline is ingenious: "We may be late to the party, but we brought a keg."
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Actually, I did try it, thinking that I may have misunderstood it for all this time. But no shell for me (Centos 5.5, bash).
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Er, yeah, -T will work, but of course you don't get an interactive shell. Works for one-off cmds or for running a shell script or something.
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by sabat 16y ago
He left off the use of proxytunnel, which lets you tunnel SSH through an HTTP/S proxy, even if it requires authentication: http://proxytunnel.sourceforge.net/usage.php Also, as others have mentioned, -D is pretty useful (SOCKS proxy).
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I believe they prefer to be called Swashbuckling Americans.
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Figure out why people use Facebook, and then do a better job at it than Facebook is. Presumptions: Facebook does not actually understand its own audience and why people use the site. Also, I presume you will figure out what "better" really
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I want to retire in only one sense: I don't want to worry about money, and I want to be free to go do stuff. Anything.
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It's related to a critical mass of people believing someone or their works to be notable. Agreed. Maybe we differ on what size makes a critical mass. I'm not sure that the world has ever been as connected as it is right at this moment.
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This is a somewhat distressing post if you actually need VC.
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It's more complex than you're making it. One man's notable figure is another man's regular Joe. If one allows articles that have little interest To whom? The "general public"? I'm not sure anything has interest to the general public anymo
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I don't know what it's called, but many Wikipedia editors clearly have it. Here's a great example - apparently there are schools of thought amongst these guys, the most popular being "Deletionist". That's right: people who believe Wikipedia

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