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by tdavis 18y ago
Sure, maybe if you've never done it before because it's a learning experience, but it's a patently horrible idea otherwise.
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by tdavis 18y ago
He could double them again if he stopped asking for superfluous and lengthy information such as an address just to receive a quote...
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by tdavis 18y ago
I think it's a sort of "I'm happy you're happy" thing. Whenever I congratulate someone on having a child, I'm not literally congratulating them on having sex and spawning another human. That would be silly. Although, there are many couples
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by tdavis 18y ago
We will miss you crazy kids sniff Oh well, more excuse to come visit all our friends in SF soon!
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by tdavis 18y ago
Yes, it truly was fascinating. I had forgotten I'd watched it until you mentioned it... perhaps I'll have to watch again!
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by tdavis 18y ago
I think you're being a little harsh. There are, like, 10 books worth reading on that list.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Abstract concepts like happiness, comfort and love aren't really problems. By creating some sort of device which provides these things you are essentially eliminating their meaning in the process. How could you truly appreciate them if they
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by tdavis 18y ago
I would argue that someone destined to be a good programmer would have the ingenuity and drive to install a freakin' compiler and IDE. It isn't exactly rocket science.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I don't think we've ever gotten a piece of "personal attack" criticism that I took seriously. The way I figure it, I know myself way better than anybody else and am more than capable of issuing personal criticism. I'd have felt a lot worse
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by tdavis 18y ago
My workflow involves a master branch for the dot-com site and two others for some content-specific subdomains. Because of this, I find cherry-pick absolutely wonderful. Some good info in the article, though I think these comments have some
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by tdavis 18y ago
Oh, I gotcha. Yeah, we do a number of things to keep costs low in lieu of saving time. This mostly applies to doing certain grunt work that we could pay to have done. If you think of it like "TicketStumbler is for frugal people" and "Ticket
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by tdavis 18y ago
Well of course if everybody spent all that time to find the lowest prices and developed knowledge of pricing we'd stop making money. But they're not going to do that, just like everybody isn't going to randomly decide to learn the way air t
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by tdavis 18y ago
You can eat a bag of shit. A big bag of shit.
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by tdavis 18y ago
IRC? AIM? Gtalk? Chatterous? Campfire? iChat (it has video!!1)? I recently invented a cylindrical device which may be moved by being pushed or rotated via a center axis. It's not a true cylinder; I added some bumps to it so as to make it le
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by tdavis 18y ago
Yeah, the last thing I worked on like that was a networking engine and I could really see where tests would have helped me a lot (all existing code was covered, but not the new stuff I was writing). Hopefully I will get to work on that so
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by tdavis 18y ago
My dirty little programmer secret is that I've never written a unit test. Thanks for making me feel bad :( I watched the video and, indeed, it did not absolve me of my sins.
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by tdavis 18y ago
:colorscheme desert
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by tdavis 18y ago
Yeah, but how many books about Jesus have animals on the cover? Rails has a lot of animals. Django has no animals, except a bee or something. Rationally, I guess I shouldn't have picked Django.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Self-aware, actually.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Thank you for that very thorough critique. I have internally summarized it as "do not post comments after a night of heavy drinking." I trust this is in keeping with the spirit and overall theme of your follow-up.
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by tdavis 18y ago
"Everything it's worth" being the sum total of office supply costs for Fox last fiscal year.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I didn't bother reading this, based on the title which assumes I think PHP won something, I guess. I used PHP for a few years, then found something better. I never thought PHP won anything, other than a momentary lapse of my reason. Next ti
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by tdavis 18y ago
I should have clarified: I think online backups are a great idea (provided they're encrypted archives). The author of the article says, quote, I don’t want to mess around with personal storage. Personal storage on-device is like buying y
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by tdavis 18y ago
I like ZumoDrive, but I can't understand why anybody in their right mind would want all of their stuff in "the cloud". I'm still not comfortable with anything in the cloud, though I cautiously make an exception with Zumo because I want al
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by tdavis 18y ago
Playing with ZumoDrive and already like it. I think this is going to be HUGE, provided two things happen: 1. The clients become less buggy. They have a very alpha/beta feel to them; Mac client random crashes, can't remove dock icon, etc. 2.
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by tdavis 18y ago
If I had a 150MM users, I'd start worrying more about how to monetize them than I would about getting more. Facebook has been around 5 years, has taken over 500MM in funding and still requires a yearly influx of investor capital to keep run
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by tdavis 18y ago
Besides Beacon, he seems to interview pretty poorly, Facebook is still hemorrhaging money so he hasn't managed the whole "profitability" thing, and there's the whole ConnectU fiasco to name a few. Considering the fact that he's 24 and runni
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by tdavis 18y ago
They're pretty much all faulty assumptions since they're predicated on the notion that an animal outside of the food chain can do something to avoid affecting it. From farming wildlife to completely eliminating countless species on a daily
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by tdavis 18y ago
Zuckerberg winning that award was a partial contribution to the incredibly laughable nature of that entire production.
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by tdavis 18y ago
It doesn't take 30 seconds to notice that nobody else is using "txt speech". The grammar Nazi in me had to do it.

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