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by smokinn 17y ago
"Always reward those that perform and get rid of those that don’t." I have a feeling that's very under-rated advice. I've rarely seen startup advocates say that you should fire the people that aren't cutting it. Maybe most people consider i
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by smokinn 17y ago
That's actually the exact opposite of what I usually do. If the article looks interesting, I read it. If I can see why the article could be interesting but I'm not personally interested I ignore it. If, however, the article looks pointles
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by smokinn 17y ago
I'm not sure if this is intentional or a browser bug (I'm using Chrome so anything Webkit/Safari should be the same) but at the bottom of the menu panel on the left I see a resize button (bottom right of left panel). If I resize the panel,
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by smokinn 17y ago
I see a few sites like threadless that, to me at least, don't even come close to fitting any sort of definition of "app". Is this meant to be an open index of web apps/services? While useful now, like minalecs pointed out, I see it quickly
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by smokinn 17y ago
In Quebec at least, these are official titles. Software Engineer, unlike in the US and most of the rest of the world, is a protected title. You can't go around calling yourself a Software Engineer unless you have a degree in Software Engine
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by smokinn 17y ago
Yeah, this is getting just plain ridiculous. It's gotten to the point where I wonder if the defense didn't actually want to lose the case just to point out how thoroughly the justice system has been infiltrated by big media interests.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Personally, it doesn't bother me (I'm 25) when people do this to me (though I don't usually do it myself mostly due to not owning an iphone or ipod or any portable gadgets other than a basic cell phone) but I'm really interested in why it b
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by smokinn 17y ago
Thanks!
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by smokinn 17y ago
Does anyone know of an appliance where you can just plug it into the wall and plug anything into the appliance? Basically it would act as a pass-through that could keep track of how much the thing plugged into the wall is costing. It would
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by smokinn 17y ago
People seem to be confused about what IBM's System S actually is. For a more technical look at their new offering I suggest these two posts: http://www.dbms2.com/2009/05/13/ibm-system-s-infosphere-stre... http://www.dbms2.com/2009/05/18/
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by smokinn 17y ago
Not necessarily. If they did do something like that it would be a pain to TrueSwitch but hardly the end of the line. All they'd have to do is embed a hidden a hidden iframe and parse with javascript. Then the webmail provider would have to
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by smokinn 17y ago
I was wondering about this too. I've been looking it up and have come to the same conclusion. Personally, I liked seeing conversation fragments. If the reply looked interesting I could easily enough click on the other person's username to l
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by smokinn 17y ago
Tokyo Cabinet (TC) is what I was going to recommend as well. It's crazy fast and quite reliable. It also does zlib compression so your dataset will be smaller than with most other key/value stores. Be careful picking an open source key/valu
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by smokinn 18y ago
Percona recently released benchmark results comparing innodb to TokuDB: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/04/28/detailed-revi... The take-away is that TokuDB has a lot of promise but on CPU bound workloads a lot of work still needs
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by smokinn 18y ago
The caps on all residential videotron offerings are all ridiculously low though.
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by smokinn 18y ago
The features Facebook has any programmer could add to their blog, sure. However if you were coding the same feature for twitter I'd be surprised if you kept even 5% of the original code. Coding at the scale facebook is at is a completely di
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by smokinn 18y ago
Ace any interview? You certainly wouldn't be off to a good start with me if you tried to use a powerpoint presentation. For a programming job at least (and probably most technical positions) it seems that all those suggestions would actua
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by smokinn 18y ago
While I will definitely concede that there are porn companies that are "ghetto", (the AdultFriendFinder/Penthouse discrimination debacle comes to mind: http://gawker.com/373445/fired-employee-plots-discrimination... ) most large mainstrea
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by smokinn 18y ago
Technically, no, it wouldn't. Not as you stated it. College being uniquely suitable for learning a subject does not ensure that someone will learn it if they go to college. You can say that to learn x you must go to college. If you went to
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by smokinn 18y ago
It's happened more than once that I've seen (and had to explain) why putting while loops inside while loops (once saw a one code snippet with 4 nested whiles!) is going to run fine on your dev box with 5 rows in the database but is going to
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by smokinn 18y ago
We're constantly reminded of the people who are productive coders without a college degree so the counter-example is well established. I don't think you'll get anyone to go along with "lack of college study of CS will CAUSE, inevitably, lac
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by smokinn 18y ago
That's hardly a fair comparison. You're comparing the valuations of software startups with the entire operating budget of the military? You first need to discount salary, equipment, maintenance, etc, all costs not relating directly to softw
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by smokinn 18y ago
The real problem with push is that you have to deal with a massive number of open connections. Most web servers just aren't designed to handle that. Polling isn't much of a problem with proper caching. Push is for cases where data is truly
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by smokinn 18y ago
You need to sell the product not the company. You need a bigger image of the product itself. Get rid of all the stuff at the bottom and put that in an "about us" link in the footer like already mentioned. Use the extra space to expand the i
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by smokinn 18y ago
Another counter-example: okcupid.com Apparently their site is ~200k lines of C++ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OkCupid#Technical
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by smokinn 18y ago
You're thinking of a normal company. Joel has previously said no one at Fog Creek does overtime.
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Seduced by the drama?(peripateticaxiom.blogspot.com)
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by smokinn 18y ago
Yeah, now it's time to start investing in marketing/sales talent!
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by smokinn 18y ago
Facebook bet heavily on engineering talent and it's paying off. Myspace has had very few updates to its site and narrowly focused on the niches it dominated. It's now paying the price as Facebook continues to grow while Myspace stagnates. T
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by smokinn 18y ago
SVN is for version control of files. Dropbox is simply for sharing/syncing files where you don't need a full history. I use it on my laptop/home/work computers. If I have a file I need on another computer rather than vpn into work and send

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