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Postal Service may default on $5.5B trust fund payment(cnn.com)
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by steve8918 15y ago
Hmmmm, thanks for that tip! I'll try it out!
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by steve8918 15y ago
Yes, I use it at work (I use Office 2003 at home). I've grown up on 20 years of Microsoft Word (since Word 2.0 on DOS) so I'm very familiar with the menu system, and I know the features that I need. So Ribbon is annoying for me. I'm sure
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by steve8918 15y ago
I think this only works if you know which file you are looking for. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but when I start up Finder, there's no way for me to start from the root directory. So already, I'm not sure exactly where I am. Then whe
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by steve8918 15y ago
I don't think it's malicious, I think it's self-preservation. It's a fact that their innovation has been strangled because of their strategy to circle the wagons around Windows. Look at what happened once they gave their engineers some br
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by steve8918 15y ago
I recently started using a Mac about 6 months ago, and I'm surprised at how terrible some of the user experiences are. The Base OS is nice, but there's a lot to be desired by many of their applications. Finder is probably my #1 biggest com
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by steve8918 15y ago
I think the main problem with Microsoft is that their strategies have been more focused on doing things that reinforce their Windows monopoly. I can understand why, since it's what keeps them alive, but it also forces unnatural behavior, l
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by steve8918 15y ago
Make hay while the sun shines. In this economy, you need to earn as much as you can and save up all your money and don't turn down any job offers. If you want to go to school, go part-time. If you have a sustained career without a college
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by steve8918 15y ago
Were you laid off, or were you terminated with cause? If you were just laid off, then the number one thing I would do is ensure that your performance reviews are all good and that nothing has been changed, or that he didn't add something i
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by steve8918 15y ago
I've heard the same thing for 15+ years now. "There's not enough time, I have to check it in." "I'll clean it up before we ship." The time difference between writing clean code and crappy code is negligible. The main difference I saw was
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by steve8918 15y ago
First and foremost, write your code so that it can be understood easily by someone that knows nothing about it. As you get older, you'll realize that this person is you! Anything written over 2 weeks ago is often like looking at new code,
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by steve8918 15y ago
This is terrible. If I were Dave, I would post on a website "Please forgive my brother Anthony. He is mentally ill and unfortunately given the current laws, there is nothing I can do to help him."
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by steve8918 15y ago
I'm not sure if you've been through interviews recently, but from the experience of myself and my friends who have been interviewing, this is what it seems to be. Based on my experience 1.5 years ago, I quit interviewing until I got enough
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by steve8918 15y ago
Actually, it probably scales better, if structured a bit differently. 1) Phone screen (1 hr) 2) Give them a project to work on over a weekend(0 hrs) 3) Have someone go through the code (1 hr) 4) Bring them in for lunch, and then a demo sess
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by steve8918 15y ago
This is exactly the approach that I would take if I needed to hire someone. We need to realize that the 20-year old process designed by MSFT of hiring has been gamed and is no longer useful. Interviewing these days in the Valley seems more
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by steve8918 15y ago
This is also an example of someone with creative vision. It's akin to Led Zeppelin sitting around jamming for 10 hrs straight and coming up with "Good Times, Bad Times" or "Kashmir". It's a work of art and also a blessing when you know wh
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by steve8918 15y ago
Does anyone have any opinions on web.py? I played around with this and it seemed pretty easy to use.
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by steve8918 15y ago
Once you start making revenues from your code, a complete rewriting is probably the worst thing you can do for your company. Sometimes it might be warranted, but customers care about solving problems, not about technology. Chances are if y