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by stray 13y ago
a blank page
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by stray 13y ago
The base rate is not directly related to effort. It is instead based on value. Sometimes this makes for easy money. Usually it does not. Almost every programming project turns out to be far more complicated than originally thought.
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by stray 13y ago
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission ea
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by stray 13y ago
My reaction? I suppose my reaction would be to answer the question.
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by stray 13y ago
The way I rate another programmer is by how hard I have to think while reading his/her code. If it is clear and easy to follow, with few surprises, then I'll rate that programmer highly. If I find things that are more complicated than they
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by stray 13y ago
Common Lisp
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by stray 13y ago
Because it has been my experience that programming against a difficult api takes about 2.5 times the effort as programming against an easy one. And without the benefit of seeing the API spec, I have to provide the entire range.
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by stray 13y ago
If you're comfortable with that, then who am I to blow against the wind?
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by stray 13y ago
Firefly season 2
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by stray 13y ago
Semi-delusional. Some people have become fantastically rich building products with no idea how they were going to make money. Way way way more people have gone broke doing it. For every Zuckerberg there are a thousand homeless guys mumblin
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by stray 13y ago
More importantly, why do you have all those services (including ftp and mysql) open to the world?
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by stray 13y ago
Depending on the quality of your API, $4,000-$10,000.
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by stray 13y ago
Dealing with recruiters is maddening. They are, in my experience, not only incompetent -- but harmful as well.
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by stray 13y ago
PAIP, Clean Code.
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by stray 14y ago
I wouldn't use it for anything that can't break.
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by stray 14y ago
The only real difference between bitcoin and dollars is that there's nobody with guns saying we must accept bitcoin.
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by stray 14y ago
The only thing wrong with this aquarium is that it's metal instead of glass. So I can't see out. No big deal, really. I can still swim around. It does seem to be a little hot though. I mean really, really uncomfortably hot. Hey, wait...
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by stray 14y ago
Is it legal to work long hours? I guess. I live in the US, where what is or is not legal plays second fiddle to what is or is not good for shareholders.
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by stray 14y ago
Definitely looks like the same guy. But then again, I used to think Paul Newman and Steve McQueen were the same guy.
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by stray 14y ago
Nah - just saw a mention of a death-march that so closely matched my most horrendous war story that I thought it must have been made by someone who had been in the trenches with me.
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by stray 14y ago
Who said there wasn't substantial skin in the game? And actually I remember it as 110 hour weeks (though it's possible that I was the slacker of the bunch). Yeah, we had something like 3 months of working 15 to 18 hours per day, 7 days per
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by stray 14y ago
120-hour week for a few months? Shipped at the end of it? Is that a real project you worked on? If so, and if it happened a couple years ago in Colorado -- I was one of your coworkers. And I left just a couple weeks after the rest of you g
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by stray 14y ago
By "Tin Foil Hat Movement" I assume you mean to be funny, while stopping any possibility of a meaningful conversation regarding some topics he's interested in. If he's so smart, perhaps he's smart enough to understand things you don't. For
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by stray 14y ago
Write programs.
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by stray 14y ago
Bill Stickers is innocent.
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by stray 14y ago
Of course! Common Lisp's debugger, accessed via slime is the best thing since running water. Also a big fan of WingIDE's debugger for python.
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by stray 14y ago
How does a traditional art gallery work? I'm only guessing because I don't know diddly about art, or art galleries. But here's how I suspect it works: - Artists primarily enjoy creating art, but they'd also really like other people to b
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by stray 14y ago
HN does allow downvotes. But you don't have the option until you've accumulated enough magic internet points.
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by stray 14y ago
Young dog: "old dogs can't learn new tricks" Old dog: "only puppies think those tricks are new"
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by stray 14y ago
You won't truly understand the importance of it for another couple decades. Maybe more. It's not like there are important facts they know that you don't (well, maybe). Rather, they will have refined their understanding of almost everything

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