stewiecat

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by stewiecat 16y ago
Philadelphia, PA Around 10 years experience, mainly with java but also flex/actionscript, ruby, Objective-C. Unix experience as an admin at a few companies when I was in college/recent grad. Experience with both commercial and F/OSS tools
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by stewiecat 16y ago
Another MS mouse mac user! I absolutely love MS mice and have two identical models at home and work. Their OS and office software may suck but the mice are awesome.
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by stewiecat 16y ago
It's popular in the financial sector because of the speed of it's mathematical functions. Back 10 years ago Sybase was the default at the bank I worked at.
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by stewiecat 16y ago
There are some good engineering schools in the NYC area that could supply the talent they need (Cooper Union, Stevens Tech, Rutgers, RPI, etc.). The problem is most grads don't know about the startups. I went to Stevens ('02) and at the s
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by stewiecat 16y ago
The last place I was at had an extremely low turnover for precisely this reason. The devs had all been there for 8+ years and didn't really have to do anything. The bar was set so low there was no motivation to leave. Managed to stick it
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by stewiecat 16y ago
There's one on my bookshelf, unread of course.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
I have a lot of experience with this. Did three Ironman tri's (with 12 half-IM's thrown in for training) during my late 20's. While training for the first Ironman, I changed jobs to one that required a commute and a fixed "out the door" ti
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by stewiecat 17y ago
"Why is having a consistent load factor an enabler for Southwest to fly checked bags for free? Why does it matter that the bags are being moved between the same types of aircraft?" Having the same airframe means no surprises when loading ba
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by stewiecat 17y ago
In the US it's two days before they must charge or release. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_suspects
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by stewiecat 17y ago
1. Taxes 2. Retirement savings. Max out your IRA, Roth, etc to take advantage of your (I'm assuming) youth and the magic of compound returns.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
and you can see them by the thousands on US-1/9 in Newark just south of the Pulaski Skyway. They started piling up there when I was an undergrad in the area 10 years ago, and the pile just gets larger.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
I'm like that with Verizon. I had their wireless service for years before I switched to ATT for the iPhone. I have their FiOS service now and LOVE it. Of course, I've never had to deal with customer service, so YMMV.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
If I'd known the video was going to get this kind of coverage I'd have rescheduled the meeting that confliected with this. Oh well...
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Really good headphones. Not necessarily noise-canceling but the more environmental noise they block the better.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Lowering the price might also make those "lower budget" movies more appealing to those that choose what movies they see based on price. For instance, we only go to movies if it's "25 bucks good" because that's how much two tickets cost. W
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by stewiecat 17y ago
RedLaser from Occipital (a techstars company, I think) is in the iphone app store.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
I heard him interviewed on talk radio a while ago and he certainly plays his image up a lot while being very savvy and smart on the back end. Wouldn't be surprised if he turns himself into a mogul-type figure like Jay-Z in the coming year.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
If I can dump Entourage the $29 will be more than worth it.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
This is where a slow cooker is HUGE. Every Sunday I throw a bag of lentils, some veggies, and spices into a crock pot for 9 hours. Total prep is 20 minutes and I have a week's worth of lunches. The most expensive ingredient is the olive
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Search this site, someone posted an anti-atwood greasemonkey script that removes the semi-random bolding.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Some hospitals are run off of web apps. They're internally hosted and cost $20M/install, but they still run in IE.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
1:14 swim (5 minutes faster than first) 6:13:55 bike (way faster than the first, like over an hour and change) 4:43 run (about 45-50 minutes faster than the first) First was Wisconsin, second was Lake Placid.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Document the trip on Everlater (everlater.com). They're a TechStars '09 company. I'm sure they'd love the PR a trip like this could generate.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Took 2.5 hours of my Ironman triathlon time. Went from a 15 hour race to a 12.5 hour race, which I managed to repeat last year.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Students get pretty hefty discounts from Apple (hundreds off). All you need is to prove that you're a current student. Apple refurbs are also great, just got a new(er) mac book pro for 1350 (650 off).
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Clojure, the REPL and test-driven development(s-expressions.com)
40 points by stewiecat 17y ago|14 comments
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by stewiecat 17y ago
The book "To the moon" goes into quite a bit of detail around the planning and scheduling of the Apollo missions. They took a very iterative approach to getting there, never doing more than they planned but being prepared to do it all.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
When I saw that on CNN's front page this afternoon they lost any remaining shred of journalistic integrity that I had for them. Stuff like that puts them on par with Weekly World News.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
I think intensedebate and mybloglog also do similar things if the blogs are part of their network.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Why bother with macports? I installed XCode and just download the source and do the ./configure;make;sudo make install dance.

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