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by techdmn 15y ago
At the least they could put G-meters in the helmets, to aid concussion detection, or trigger more serious sideline testing.
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by techdmn 15y ago
I like to rephrase that: "When you are powerless you think, There's a conspiracy. When you are powerful, you realize that people are getting what they want." With these ideas neither group has to accept any personal responsibility.
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by techdmn 15y ago
"1 terabyte is 1000000000000bytes, or 1 trillion (short scale) bytes, or 1000 gigabytes" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte
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by techdmn 15y ago
As someone who has interviewed many programmers (and hired a few) over the passed two years, I find a surprisingly low correlation between education level and competency. An M.S. in C.S. does not impress me the way it used too. :) Also, in
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by techdmn 15y ago
I don't know about energy savings, but I know DST has cost plenty in developer time, including mine. :)
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by techdmn 15y ago
Maybe there isn't much progression after you learn how to drive a car for normal people. :) Perhaps similar to lack of progression after learning how to email or browse the web for most users. Sure, you can only move the wheels, pedals a
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by techdmn 15y ago
Hard to evaluate this fully without knowing the requirements. Granted there are some terrible things happening, but it's really only part of the story.
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by techdmn 15y ago
Hooray! That's a big step toward becoming a better programer. (I've worked with programmers with years of experience that still just slap code together.) Your comment also painted the article in a new light for me. Perhaps doing this le
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by techdmn 15y ago
It makes me think less of him, the guy screwed his best friend. In the same way there's a story about Gates refusing to pay the secretaries overtime when Microsoft was getting started.[1] Somehow that bothers me more than all the anti-tru
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Enternal Flame(xkcd.com)
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by techdmn 15y ago
Well, if somebody walked out on me I guess that would end the interview. :) I have candidates write code on a white board, but not terribly difficult problems, and I always issue this disclaimer: "My brain doesn't work as well when writin
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by techdmn 15y ago
I wouldn't say that a turbocharger allows fuel to burn more completely, if that's what you meant. A turbocharger uses energy in the exhaust to spin a turbine, which is connected to an impeller, compressing air going into the engine. More
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by techdmn 15y ago
I came here to see if anyone had anything to say about this. Hadn't heard rumblings about sunsetting GWT, but the conspiracy portion of my brain wondered if Google not trying too hard to keep the plugin up to date was a subtle push for GWT
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by techdmn 15y ago
Just to share my personal experience: My wife and I have been Netflix customers for years. Streaming is pretty convenient for us, but two major problems: 1) lack of content and 2) lack of subtitles / closed captions. Captions are importan
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by techdmn 15y ago
I don't swear in comments or commit messages, but I do often catch myself quietly muttering a string of obscenities while coding. At least I hope it's quiet.
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by techdmn 15y ago
Might be nice if the link title mentioned it, so save the rest of us the time.
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by techdmn 15y ago
Nothing wrong with having patience and helping new programmers, but my compassion ends there. :) I didn't know what I was doing when I started, but I learned it's worth the effort to understand _why_ something works once it does. Not to
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by techdmn 15y ago
I think this is a very good point, one I had not considered before. The executive team may think everyone below them is slacking if we don't hit 60 hours, without realizing that we also have to cook, clean, and be our own accountants. On
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by techdmn 15y ago
My thoughts are that when you have plenty of money, you don't worry about getting rid of things. If I find later that I really did need that thing, I can easily get another one. On the other hand, if money is tight, it's hard to get rid o
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by techdmn 15y ago
I was hoping this would have moved faster. Still kinda neat.
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by techdmn 15y ago
I continue to be confused be what I interpret as "version number envy". Are people really that impressed by version 14 vs version 7? If FF7 is awesome, Chrome 14 must be x2 awesome! Is Firefox development "behind" because of version numb
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by techdmn 15y ago
Obligatory Abrash quote: "In the long run, programs will be bigger and slower yet, but computers will be so fast and will have so much memory that no one will care." [1] I don't agree 100%, but he has a point. I'll say that resources are
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by techdmn 15y ago
I enjoy automobiles. I love to drive, and work at it: toe heel, left foot brake, etc. I moved and started walking to work last year, and was worried I would miss driving every day. Not at all, not even a little. My commute was not quali
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by techdmn 15y ago
I have an issue with att where a complex generated password was accepted as a new password, is rejected on the initial log-in page, then accepted on a subsequent "bad username / password" page. Fun and games.
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by techdmn 15y ago
Arg, I hate that phrase. It may cost you something to protect your freedom from those who would take it, but the freedom itself does not have any inherent cost. Secondly, I hear that phrase being used to justify all sorts of things that I
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by techdmn 15y ago
Only provided that it's more profitable to provide consumers with clear information than to sell dangerous drugs.
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by techdmn 15y ago
Good thing they didn't ask this when I was in school: What I did today? -> Went to school. What I want to do tomorrow? -> Stay home and play nintendo. The second question is not quite honest, more accurately "What BS can I feed my t
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by techdmn 15y ago
My first thought on reading this was that you don't use version control, but then I see you mentioned commits. Seems there are several IDEs and VCS that play nice together, SVN support seems relatively common. Maybe not automatically show
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by techdmn 15y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this. Granted good design takes some extra work. But for the most part, in my experience, coders who write bad code also do it slowly (perhaps because they don't understand it), while those who write cleaning cod
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by techdmn 16y ago
Me either, but I don't think it's a fad. I think it's the way a lot of people relate to the internet and computers in general. Queue stories about grandma who's on facebook but doesn't know how to use the address bar in her browser, etc,

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