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by stevoski 11y ago
My cousin in Perth was earning AUD$100K+ driving a bus. But...you guessed it...as a fly-in, fly-out employee of the mining industry in Western Australia. I've come to think of that as a typical wage for an uneducated person in Australi
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by stevoski 11y ago
I have, unfortunately, too much inside experience personally or via close friends of working inside NATO, UNICEF, and the ECB. All of the are dysfunctional, soul-destroying places where talented, highly educated people pass years without ac
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by stevoski 11y ago
How do you explain the roughly 500 million vegetarians in India?
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by stevoski 11y ago
I'd guess (and hope) that the Guantanamo results were not based on scientifically rigorous research.
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by stevoski 11y ago
Excellent stuff. Good to know that last year's security problem has lead to some improvements in process. I hope the Open SSL team now do regular code reviews of every change, of every line of code as part of their development process.
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by stevoski 11y ago
Making a website you with functioning log-in and log-off. This was the 90's. It was surprisingly hard to implement this in a workable, reliable, secure way, and no one in our company of 50 programmers had ever done such a thing before!
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by stevoski 11y ago
I coded the same thing (actually an online magazine with comments on articles, a forum, and a form for signing up for email updates), around the same time. I used classic ASP. I shudder to think of all the security holes I must have had.
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by stevoski 11y ago
I was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia a few months ago. I wanted to see a film. I searched in Google for films showing in Kuala Lumpur. I found myself on a web page that, while accurately listing movies and schedules currently showing, looked lik
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by stevoski 11y ago
For programming (or other work that involves intense logical thinking), nothing beats silence for my productivity. Complete silence is, unfortunately, unachievable. But music of any genre, the buzz of people talking, a droning TV - all seem
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by stevoski 11y ago
I'm dubious as to whether this change will occur. It's been tried before, and given up due to complexity. I think it is an excellent idea, but in practice too awkward to implement seamlessly.
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by stevoski 11y ago
I've been programming in Java since Java 1.1.8 and I hazily recall several regression problems under Sun's stewardship. My gut feeling is that the rate of regressions in Java updates has remained steady. If the rate has increased
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by stevoski 11y ago
I recently started to write an article describing how java.lang.String was one of the classes that the Java creators got mostly right in Java 1.0. This contrasts to other Java 1.0 classes such as java.util.Date, which, as the usage of Java
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by stevoski 11y ago
If I worked as a developer inside such an organisation, I'd quit. A sad side-effect of rigorous IT security is the lack of productivity and day-to-day frustrations experienced by the staff. I've experienced this myself inside a ma
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by stevoski 11y ago
IIRC, Joel once wrote that he started coding FogBugz to learn some VBScript. Once you start a project in a language, there is a mighty amount of inertia to overcome to move to a different language...
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by stevoski 11y ago
Why I'd never develop a Wasabi in my company: When I learn a new, perhaps hyped-up computer language, I soon run into difficulties, no matter what the merits of the language. The difficulties are lack of tooling. eg, no debugger - or o
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by stevoski 11y ago
I like this breakfast example. BTW: Pick a random moment from a 24-hour period, and there is a better than 50% chance that my next meal is breakfast.
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by stevoski 12y ago
My friend lived until recently in Washington DC. She said she loved using Uber in Washington because taxis often didn't stop for her. Uber drivers don't seem to decline to pick her up, due to her skin tone. Or perhaps are not abl
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by stevoski 12y ago
Online businesses don't need to aim to the local market. It is easy to aim at another market (or the whole world) while living in Spain.
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by stevoski 12y ago
Yes, I think you missed the point. The subheading starts with "Companies must be punished when they do wrong..." The point is that companies being encouraged to pay secret settlements make it hard for others to learn from preceden
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by stevoski 12y ago
> "when authors don't need to have a byline." Actually in general writers at The Economist are not _allowed_ to have a byline.
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by stevoski 12y ago
http://pokerzebra.com/
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by stevoski 12y ago
I have an app in the Mac App Store. It is a simple app, I do no work on it, receive no support emails, it has been there for three years, and I get around 50 Euros per month.
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by stevoski 12y ago
A female developer I once employed was from Singapore. She told me that in Singapore there is no noticeable gender discrepancy in IT. How accurate was she? I don't know. If she was correct, then it suggests that the enormous over-repre
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by stevoski 12y ago
Does it handle quoted CSV fields that spans multiple lines?
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by stevoski 12y ago
I was hoping for some conclusions of what made for good emails...but instead the article just told me that MailChimp offers A/B testing.
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Better Software via Quality Control: a one-person company perspective(pokercopilot.com)
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by stevoski 12y ago
Or...you could simply use the World Bank's website and free API that already offers much public data to download in various formats: http://data.worldbank.org/ A similar data repository is available from the European C
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by stevoski 12y ago
Not quite. eg: public final Date date; date.setTime(1); That's not immutable.
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by stevoski 13y ago
These types of articles should quote error ranges. "Optimizely's homepage redesign that yielded a 46% '+/- x%' increase in new accounts" They never seem to do so. If you have small traffic, forget about perform
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by stevoski 13y ago
A few years ago I wrote a Java decompiler. Not to actually decompile code but to learn how to use my weapon of choice (Java) at a deeper level. I never finished. The only code I ever bothered decompiling was code I had written to test the d

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