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by sshumaker 17y ago
...Not to mention that Giulani bought bus and train tickets for huge numbers of homeless in NYC and sent them out West....
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by sshumaker 17y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this statement. There's definitely not an equal distribution of intelligence across all disciplines. In the 50's and 60's, when aerospace was the rage, all of the best and brightest wanted to work for NASA and be
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by sshumaker 17y ago
This reminds me of a time I interviewed a well-known blogger for a programming position - and his resume was filled with tons of mentions to citations his blog had received - and very little work experience. The interview, as you might exp
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by sshumaker 17y ago
I agree that great programmers tend to be focused on programming, to the exclusion of most other productive intellectual activities. It's ironic - I feel exactly the opposite of the above poster. I just find it too easy to slip back into p
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by sshumaker 17y ago
Joel isn't outright dishonest, but when he presents his views he usually does it with the intent of improving his business, or rationalization for his business decisions - so there's a strong slant to his talks. You can see this in a lot o
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by sshumaker 17y ago
It depends on whether you want to play music for fun, or want to make it a career. My fiance is learning to program, through the excellent Learning To Program ( http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ ). She's taking at a comfortable pace so she do
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by sshumaker 17y ago
There's one additional flaw in his reasoning - there's certain psychological thresholds with regards to pricing - especially at the 'free' mark. I can be convinced to buy a TV that is twice as expensive if I think it provides the same value
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by sshumaker 17y ago
C++ is pretty awful to develop in, especially compared to many other languages. Some of these issues have to do with poorly designed features in the core language (templates), static variable instantiation, no good way for declaring comple