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by thoman23 10y ago
That sounds shockingly like a bug I remember one of our best developers finding when I worked at Homestead in the late 90's (and I remember being in awe then of his ability to deduce the pattern out of the seeming randomness).
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by thoman23 10y ago
I don't think it's that straightforward. It's hard to vote for something that doesn't come up for a vote. And it doesn't come up for a vote if the right people don't want it to come up for a vote.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Not to mention they are no longer "cool". I hear younger developers talk about Jira like I might talk about Internet Explorer. Without Jira, the Confluence Wiki loses some luster. HipChat of course has been overrun by Slack...e
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by thoman23 11y ago
Whether that's exactly his reasoning or not, there's no doubt that it's exactly the vibe that he gives off, and exactly why he is so beloved. People are attracted to the sense of existential authenticity that he exudes.
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by thoman23 11y ago
> "Just like a salesperson would ideally like an open bar, programmers would ideally like an open budget for snacks/toys." I'm a programmer, but according to this my true calling is in sales.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Yahoo Sports was a quality product,until the redesign that I understand Mayer micromanaged. Now I find it unusable and I find myself going to nfl.com, mlb.com, or ESPN instead.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Sorry, I can appreciate some devil's advocacy, but I'm just not buying it here. Assuming the Tesla employee was unarmed (which I think is a safe assumption), then there's nothing potentially dangerous enough to justify runni
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by thoman23 11y ago
But what part of standing behind a vehicle in order to write down the license plate is "pursuing a vehicle? What action is left that would be acceptable in your manual...duck and cover?
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by thoman23 11y ago
"Autosteering (Beta)" That must be the single most frightening use of the Beta label in history.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Their job is really the least of their worries now.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Dude, the Tesla employees just asked them to wait for the sheriff to arrive. It's not like they jumped on the hood of the car. Writing down the license plate number should not get you run over.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Wow indeed. Not once, but twice, intentionally ramming their Jeep into some poor employee. That's sociopathic.
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by thoman23 11y ago
You seem to have accidentally (I assume) submitted a link to http://www.vexflow.com/tests/ .
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by thoman23 11y ago
Next up...treadmill desks.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Perfect! RIP Yogi Berra.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Completely agree. I don't see any hovering going on. Of course, I'm still on the losing side of the battle against the "sharing economy" phrasing, so I might as well accept this one too.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Yeah, I was reading a little about it and it's fascinating. It's a case of the full product development capabilities moving into the actual factory, so no outside company needs to design or own the product. The actual factory st
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by thoman23 11y ago
Honestly? I'd say don't reinvent the wheel. Underlined links with the changing cursor and/or clickable buttons are what the user expects, so give it to them.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Eh, not really. A lifestyle business is your main source of income. It's not a side project. It's just not a startup because there is no massive growth expectation.
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by thoman23 11y ago
So the government should not arbitrarily seize property from its own citizenry? I'm sure they will take that under advisement.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Turns out I was mistaking Angel Hernandez for Phil Cuzzi...so to speak. It was Channel Intelligence not IV that I was thinking of. http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/17/channel-intelligence-sues-j... https:&#x2F
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by thoman23 11y ago
Ha ha, exactly. Just like there are a few baseball umpires who are so bad you learn their names (Angel Hernandez, Phil Cuzzi, Joe West), Intellectual Ventures is one of the "companies" that most developers know of for all the wro
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by thoman23 11y ago
One of the comments on the original article nails it. The real problem is conflating "estimates" with "deadlines" or "commitments". You see it with the casual replacement of "story estimating" with
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by thoman23 11y ago
You might be overthinking how hard it is to allow remote work.
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by thoman23 11y ago
Man, no kidding. Why would anyone want to sign up for that? 45-50 hours codified face time in your open office cattle farm. Get permission from a founder at least a day in advance if god forbid you need to be out of the office for someth
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by thoman23 11y ago
Does this mean if I wait long enough, I won't ever need to figure out what exactly Docker is?
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by thoman23 11y ago
I'm going to dumb it down a bit, and say that I like to think of two movies with different visions of a technologically advanced future: WALL-E and Elysium (aka that Matt Damon movie where all the rich people live on the space station
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by thoman23 11y ago
Why on earth is it so hard to find video of the keynote? Here we have a genuinely exciting product announcement with a brilliant "one more thing" hook, and I can't find the video. Microsoft should have it plastered over eve
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by thoman23 11y ago
Are you feeling okay? Did you just get back from Colorado or something?
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by thoman23 11y ago
Well said! I did think about the programmer or programmers when this story first broke. I am not shocked that some executive would come up with the idea...but I am shocked that someone would actually code it. You have to wonder how many

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