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by slurgfest 14y ago
They don't necessarily know what they need. Perhaps all they need is a bookmark for your site, exposed as a big button choice. You'd have to follow up with some testing to find out what this really meant.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Thank you for this post, because it made me curious enough to look up Dijkstra's views on LISP. (It seems he credited it for some innovations but had a lot of complaints about its early design and docs, and favored ALGOL family design decis
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Right, if a failed company (even one which failed because of piracy) had a letter like this, you wouldn't be reading it.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Piracy is not the same as "open technologies" in any way. In fact, the latter prevents the former (if I settle on GIMP instead of pirating Photoshop...)
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by slurgfest 14y ago
It's amazing, and frankly stupid, how quickly you slid from piracy to OSS. OSS has nothing to do with piracy. If I licensed my project MIT, sharing it is not piracy. OSS platforms do not have thriving piracy ecosystems because there is plen
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by slurgfest 14y ago
When one of the sides is British, the BBC presents one side, or presents the other side in a completely jaundiced way that omits relevant but inconvenient facts.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Even if I could create sentient beings, this wouldn't imply the power to declare what is good or true by fiat. 2 + 2 = 4, massive objects attract each other gravitationally, and it's morally problematic to put children in ovens for being J
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by slurgfest 14y ago
This isn't just about today's politics, it is also about a long-standing sense of national inferiority and a strong desire to prove that Iran is as good as other big countries
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Consider physical security against terrorist attacks. You can spend unlimited resources trying to prevent these. But this is subject to diminishing returns, and has other costs.In software projects, too, there IS a point at which it is mor
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Much as I prefer Python, I don't think that switching to it just for more security is going to be very satisfying or have a huge return. I submit that security is typically more a function of your project than JUST the language it is writte
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Without disagreeing with you substantively, Python eggs have not been the main way Python packages are distributed for years now. This is not to say that PyPI couldn't use some attention to issues like signing!
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Do you find that this is a big deal in practice, or does it just feel messy to you?
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by slurgfest 14y ago
The process only has to look objective and quantifiable. Everyone doesn't get the same treatment, but it's not actionable if the differences are all deniable and have rationalizations like 'culture fit'. People can and do still hire who th
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by slurgfest 14y ago
If you hire someone who is boring and has no obvious problem but isn't very productive, you have your ass covered. His lack of productivity is his fault. If you hire someone exceptionally useful with some notable problem, or even just some
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Hiring practices of Google and Amazon are very unrepresentative of smaller companies and more heavily emphasize general intelligence, prestigious background and background in computer science. As you say, it's about the process of working
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by slurgfest 14y ago
I don't see the purpose and don't have the time to have a long, detailed argument about this, particularly when you have begun by putting the words "during his time" in my mouth. The supremacy of Leonardo is contentious and shouldn't be tak
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by slurgfest 14y ago
If you are in charge of widget production, you should absolutely understand the basics of widget production. Don't blame the widget-specialists you have hired to produce widgets if you are not putting forth any significant effort into under
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by slurgfest 14y ago
From the server's standpoint, running n players has optimistically the same cost whether those players are client-side bots or not (although, bots can be more abusive). In the MUD days (20+ years ago) this was called "multiplaying" and was
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by slurgfest 14y ago
There were better artists, and better engineers, but he certainly had a fertile imagination, and who knows, maybe freedom of schedule was part of that.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
That's a thing, it's technically true in itself, and it's bad enough to sound plausible. I think you are a smart person and it's a good self-preserving tactic. We all have to eat. But this answer is unlikely to be the worst thing about you.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
If you want to gauge ability to communicate then you should probably find some way to get relevant work samples, like explaining the kind of thing which will have to explained in the job (e.g.: docs or brief presentation on something), rath
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by slurgfest 14y ago
You say something that's not an issue, therefore it is not really the worst thing about you. (Unless there is nothing bad about you. Lucky you.)
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by slurgfest 14y ago
It's a pressure question, a kind of interrogation. If you are honest, you will realize that you have a ton of things wrong with you and it isn't all that meaningful to pick the "worst" one. People have been asking this for so long that it
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Being asked to rule yourself out of a job that you are interviewing for (or else deflect the question with some bullshit humblebrag) is far from an ideal gauge of self-awareness.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
When you can hardly get a new bike for $600 any more, and it's not considered abnormal to spend well over $1000, I would say it is a bit of a status symbol
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Apple computers used to run Apple DOS
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Why doesn't Apple make it possible to use its development environment (required for developing products to run on its hardware) in a VM? This seems like a user-unfriendly decision.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Individual credit card debt is NOT what precipitated the global debt crisis.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Rather than just making baseless assertions about people who favor vim or emacs, please mention an IDE with the same maturity, community, cross-platform support, cross-language support, and customizability as either vim or emacs. To pick ju
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by slurgfest 14y ago
You can use vim and gvim locally. Sharpening your tools is an investment where you trade time now for power later. Vim is very much an instance of that trade-off. It's a ridiculously flexible power tool. If you are a machine at driving nail

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