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by samd 16y ago
Like System76. I've yet to have a problem with drivers on Ubuntu, in fact it's better than Windows. Windows seems to have separate drivers for each USB port. I have to plug my peripherals into the same port they were installed on or it does
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by samd 16y ago
How to Win Friends and Influence People , because you're going to have to sell yourself better than the people with degrees.
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by samd 16y ago
Apparently, just like real people, programmers just want shit to work when said shit is tangential to their project. Ubuntu does a mostly good job at that, at least for me.
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by samd 16y ago
Sorry Josh, it's them not you.
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by samd 16y ago
It doesn't sound like you lived in a place all that bad. The problem with the sprawl that I've lived in is that there is no chance for the community to develop. For a community to form there has to be some place where members of the communi
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by samd 16y ago
I don't think were talking about startups on the weeks to months scale. That's the time period where it's a couple people in an apartment. Yeah, you probably don't have time to train people at that stage. You jump from that stage to Google
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by samd 16y ago
It wouldn't need to actually measure your weight. Bathroom scales are just there to collect dust in the corner and make people feel bad whenever they look at them.
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by samd 16y ago
I meant you couldn't hire all senior engineers, or at least enough to fill every position you'd want.
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by samd 16y ago
Well, because you can't, as all these posts whining about how hard it is to find people allude to. Since there aren't enough senior engineers to go around the next best thing is to hire some talented novices and turn them into senior engine
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by samd 16y ago
Perhaps the problem was a poor balance between experienced and novice developers. I wouldn't expect a company with hardly any experienced people to succeed.
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by samd 16y ago
For all the people claiming that this is likely to end in a lawsuit where is your evidence? Do you have any actual cases where a company was sued because they gave legitimate feedback? How much money did the company lose because of this sui
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by samd 16y ago
Can anyone translate the jargon into English? I tried to figure out what they were talking about, but their jargon is so impenetrable even Google struggles to provide meaning. It seemed to be something about how a Bayesian agent will inevit
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by samd 16y ago
So scope abuse is when you sell each component of a project separately and tell the client that they might not need some components even though every component is required for a complete project? I can see why it's unethical to deceive the
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by samd 16y ago
What's scope abuse? Sounds like when you add features to the project and charge more without approval from your clients. My language was vague, but I didn't mean to imply that you charge current clients more, just charge new clients more. I
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by samd 16y ago
The switch to the new norm may be surprisingly fast, because the startups that can retain control tend to be the best ones. They're the ones that set the trends, both for other startups and for VCs. Are they the best ones because they can
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by samd 16y ago
Do you think you're producing quality software that meets your client's needs now? Do you think your clients will pay more than they currently are for quality software that meets their needs? If so, just start charging more. Make up whateve
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by samd 16y ago
My layman's conclusion of HIPAA and cloud hosting was that the language of the law was vague and technologically out of date, and that depending on how you interpreted its requirements you'd be either OK or OMGWTF noncompliant. It's too bad
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by samd 16y ago
This is similar to John Nunemaker's fantastic talk/blog-post called I Have No Talent. Here's his post: http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2010/01/12/i-have-no-tale... and slides: http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2010/04/18/i-have-no-
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by samd 16y ago
The fear, according to people close to Google, is that as Facebook users index the web through their Likes and shares, Google’s algorithmic indexing of the web will become less relevant. “Search is a business that will be pretty profoundly
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by samd 16y ago
-------------- NO TESTS ---------------- You must work at a startup. Brilliant. Hype.la is also pretty slick. Maybe it will become the blogroll of open-source projects.
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by samd 16y ago
You are characterizing the relationship between employers and employees as zero-sum. Does that need to be the case? Should that be the case?
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by samd 16y ago
I get tired of misogynists who are too dense to realize their being misogynist. As long as sexism exists women should be complaining about it. And as you have unwittingly proven, sexism does still exist.
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by samd 16y ago
The main problem I see is that filling in information sucks, and you have to fill in a lot of information to get an answer. The other problem is that people who bother to keep track of all that information probably already use something lik
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by samd 16y ago
Don't most Lispers argue that just knowing Lisp makes you a better programmer whether you use it or not? Perhaps a better measure of how great Lisp is would be to examine the proportion of programmers who know Lisp and submitted a top ranki
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by samd 16y ago
I love that a company as famous as Fog Creek still took the time to tell applicants about themselves and about all the benefits of working there.
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by samd 16y ago
I had to work out a sample game the long way to understand the strategy for a 3-sequence game, maybe others will find it helpful: Suppose some games where the players choose a sequence of 3 and the game goes up to 4 tosses max. For any sequ
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by samd 16y ago
Also, related to the third point, try spending less time talking about what you want from an applicant and spend more time talking about what they want from you. In general this will attract more (and more good) applicants, but it's especia
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by samd 16y ago
So what you're saying is: if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear? I've heard that before...
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by samd 16y ago
I wasn't arguing that CS fundamentals wouldn't make you a better developer. I was just asking for better evidence than a mere assertion, which you provided by citing specific examples. So, thanks, that's informative.
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by samd 16y ago
The fact that people with a CS education are better coders does not imply that the CS education made them better coders. Without more evidence it's just as likely that people who are, or will become, good coders anyways tend to get CS educa

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