stewiecat

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by stewiecat 17y ago
I do exactly this. Make lentil soup in the crock pot on Sunday's for lunch all week. I got the prep time down to <30 minutes (before coffee).
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Having grown up in the NYC media market, it's a lot better now than it was in the late 80's/early 90's when there were a few murders per day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City In 1990 there were 2245 homicides, 4x more t
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Same here. My Rev. A core duo MBP gets about the same, 1.5 hours. Problem is that once the battery hits 20% capacity it will shutdown the machine at any moment.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Or a UNIX-only version of serverfault
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by stewiecat 17y ago
I went to Lowes and picked up two pieces of melamine whiteboard (3'x4') for $9/each, some mirror hangers (another $2), and drywall anchors ($1). My home office now has a rather huge, expandable whiteboard for under $25. I then 'persist' th
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by stewiecat 17y ago
that's kind of what I do: since I work at about 25% capacity most of the time I'm learning the inner guts and glory of ruby for projects outside of work.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
We're limited to what we can do/use by the technical depth/breadth of the 'architects' (mid-level devs at best) that we have. Pretty much limits us to java 1.4 and earlier and libs that have been open source for at least a decade. I'd writ
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by stewiecat 17y ago
hiring duds also leads to hiring more duds once work ramps up and the current set of duds can't handle it. Rinse, lather, repeat...
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Running the entire suite of unit tests even though all I'm committing is a trivial bug fix.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
legal issues. The company owns the idea and the product if I thought of it/worked on it on their time/equipment. I do play around with new languages/libs/tools/etc. though.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
same here. Instead I read HN and try to not work on side projects while being bored at work.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
He's got a newborn son now so he probably want to limit travel for the time being. Just a guess though.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
+1 And try to surround yourself with other developers who share that passion and drive. Nothing kills motivation than working with folks who view software development as an easy paycheck.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
>Terrorism is certainly no reason to fuck up our entire domestic energy policy. Nor is terrorism a reason to fuck up the Constitution, but the prior Administration had no qualms doing that.
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Another Stevens Tech alum here too (Computer Science, '02).
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by stewiecat 17y ago
This should be required reading for those entering CS programs and, more importantly, for those that want to be developers that have a non-CS degree. There are way too many 'I got a B.A. in Art History but now I need to eat, so I'll progra
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by stewiecat 17y ago
Not very. My paid job is typical enterprisey CRUD apps in java. Most of the work comes from fixing others mistakes and battling with poor decisions around what tools we use (ClearCase?!?!, a good 1+ hours/day wasted there). I'm more prod
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by stewiecat 18y ago
I dream of such places, thanks for letting my know that, unlike unicorns, they exist.
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by stewiecat 18y ago
Everytime I hear about a 60 year old losing their 401(k) because of the stock market crash I refuse to feel for them. Why were they so equity-heavy at that age when having cash/fixed income assets would be safer? They either didn't know o
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by stewiecat 18y ago
Already been done: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Furlong 2430m/1.509 mile confirmed kill by Canadian sniper in Afghanistan. This new tech will make it easier, but there are already some really incredible shots out there.
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by stewiecat 18y ago
Kind of hard given that their one-kid rule is 30 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
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by stewiecat 18y ago
Along these lines is educating couples that having a family isn't a necessity in order to be considered 'normal'. My girlfriend (pseudo-wife at this point) and I get shocked looks from people when we tell them that we aren't having children
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by stewiecat 18y ago
I see your point, but also that of the parent post. Is losing salesrank of a novel over the weekend (a holiday weekend no less), really a boom-or-bust kind of thing? If he'd been more malicious with this then this would be a crime with ac
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by stewiecat 18y ago
As a three-time ironman finisher (Wisconsin '04, Lake Placid '06/'08) this is spot on. The key is long, slow, boring training, keeping your eyes glued to your HRM to stay <zone 4. It's also why a lot of first time ironman racers don't
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by stewiecat 18y ago
Let me know how that goes. I've been trying to explain that to the "architects" here, and they don't get it, let alone the other devs.
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by stewiecat 18y ago
It's the shiny new toy every new ruby dev wants to play with. Once they get bit in the butt by some really obscure bug that requires the correct combination of 10 gems to reproduce they'll realize that maybe monkeypatching isn't such a hot
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by stewiecat 18y ago
I'm there. Taking vacation and paying out of pocket to go as they only send our "architects" here, not us lowly developers ;). I'll be the guy with the black glasses and the macbook pro, should be easy to find...
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by stewiecat 18y ago
Student loans can be deferred or stretched out for decades, plus the interest is deductible (for some folks). I wouldn't worry about them unless they're huge (100K+).
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by stewiecat 18y ago
Thank you for saying this. I correct folks all the time on this and while they agree steep == easy && shallow == hard is correct, it's 'counter-intuitive' (their words, not mine). vi is easy, you only need to know ~5 commands to
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by stewiecat 18y ago
Great point. I've seen that developers that really understand OO tend towards smaller, more encapsulated classes/methods w/o side-effects whereas developers with a procedural background tend towards longer 'void' methods that lump side-eff

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