thomaslangston

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by thomaslangston 13y ago
I'm a gamer, that means I play games. I try not to be a jerk, but some people who play games do act like jerks. I am not going to give up my hobby or my identity because some people who have the share either act like jerks. There is a
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
Could you go into more detail about why you would do A) var func = function func() { /* blah */ }; Instead of B) function func() { /* blah */ };
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
I could imagine a few advantages: 1) Watering. The design appears to only have one water feed tube, which waters all the plants. 2) Weight. Pots are heavy. Making the pots part of the desk should be good for reducing that. 3) Stability. Wit
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
Offer a Contract-to-Recruit service?
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
This isn't strictly true if multiple employees are paid exactly the market median. Median(1,2,3,3,3,4,5) = 3
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
For those pining over the experience of Elite you can also get similar gameplay in: Medieval flavor: Mount and Blade series (I suggest the "Mount and Blade : Warband" game). Sci-Fi MMORPG: EVE Online
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
I see basic income being implemented by giving tax refunds divided over two week payments instead of as a single annual lump sum. Then we set an amount where you may get a larger refund than you actually paid in taxes.
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
In the real world, the penalty for being wrong is dependant on the risks involved, and sometimes you can manage the risks. Guessing is a good skill. Managing risk is a good skill. Learning how to situationally value guessing vs. knowing is
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
How do you keep knowledge fresh? First question the assumption that it must be fresh. Optimizing documentation to make rediscovering knowledge easier may be more beneficial. If knowledge must be fresh, then either apply the knowledge or sha
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
> Hunger in America exists for over 50 million people. That is 1 in 6 of the U.S. population – including more than 1 in 5 children. http://feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america.aspx
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
I see. You wrote: "That equates to a maximum of 655363 packets in order to obtain and detect a single successful opening." They wrote: "That equates to a maximum of 65536 ^ 3 packets in order to obtain and detect a single suc
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
To quote the old adage, "Quality, Speed, Cost: Pick any two." Quality is possible without cost, but the speed at which you will acquire those developers is low. You will need to hunt from the bargain bin of inexperienced and/
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
Could you clarify your maximum packets math? You may have left out a word or two.
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
Not that they were excluded, but explicitly consider browser based applications as part of those cross-platform applications. I own a copy of MS Office, but rarely use it since Google Docs solves every problem I usually have.
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
Echoing what others here have said, I found professional ADD or ADHD diagnosis and treatment to be helpful. As far as a repeating reminder/logging system, I glued together a Google calendar with multiple daily repeating events separate
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
I think you answered your own question. If you're saving babies or firing a moonshot, yes work is number one. Otherwise work is a priority, but not the only priority and maybe not the top priority. I love building things my customers l
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
Every repo can be cloned down as normal. ~~I'm not certain about the issue tracking.~~ Edit: according to a quick Google search issues can be exported in JSON format.
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
I expect with a few custom front end UIs, even the poor fits could at least use github as a backing store. This could give other company tools one data layer to inspect.
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
Loan default rates were also mentioned.
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
I can see how a developer outside of the Microsoft development stack could see it that way, but it is misinformed. Windows will die, to make way for Azure and Windows Phone. The Microsoft development ecosystem is strong (C# in top 10 of TIO
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
You may want to take a look at http://www.cloudfoundry.com/ for that extra layer of abstraction.
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
I have. The correlation to the novel is limited however in our example. We're not talking about industrial complexes full of employees with vastly different market rates; we're discussing a 5 person team. To abusively stretch a de
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
I'm not sure it was intended to solve a problem, but I think it does provide benefits of increased employee autonomy and mental investment. That may move the needle on employee hiring, retention, or performance. Or it may just make the
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
That's an interesting comparison. I think you could extend the analogy as well. There are strategies a company, or country, should abandon when survival is in jeopardy, but there are also values which are core to your identity. Abandon
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
One option is to be small and have a tight grouping of potential. Another option is to reward those employees with non-cash rewards. Finally if their contribution is easily measurable, a bonus or commission system tied to those metrics coul
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
Like most democratic systems, checks and balances are probably useful. I would expect the CEO (or relevant manager) to veto a salary that was unhealthy for the company. It was implied as much when the author indicated that he checked the co
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
Thanks for your comment. I think you make good points about how a larger company has more leverage to take advantage of small gains in efficiency. I think you omitted one valid priority for many startups, being a great place to work. I thin
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
You mentioned games in a previous post as being bad for Kickstarter, but I think this post proves you wrong. An angry mob will post horrible screeds on the Internet about you if you don't execute perfectly on a game regardless if you
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
Not a software company.
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by thomaslangston 13y ago
I've watched one documentary which claimed the Egyptians were paid, in beer.

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