thothamon

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by thothamon 10y ago
Is it just me, or do custom clouds make people nervous? Why can't it be on Dropbox or some other cloud that acts like regular files? I don't trust third-party clouds for many reasons; for one, what's to stop them from holding
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by thothamon 10y ago
Well, of course you're limiting yourself to lisps (except Scala, about which I share your dislikes). How about F#, which is a very practical functional language with good tooling on all platforms? Or Ocaml, or Haskell?
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by thothamon 10y ago
I think I'm gonna stick with calling it OS X, marketers be d *ed.
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by thothamon 10y ago
Just one more reason for me to avoid Windows whenever possible, for myself and for my companies. I grant Microsoft today is a much better corporate citizen than it was 15 years ago, and I appreciate that. But a move like this feels very muc
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by thothamon 11y ago
This sort of thing is said all the time, but we do see significant policy changes based on voting, such as the switch to Barack Obama from George W. Bush. It's not clear to me that the corporations drove that in a major way. Another
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by thothamon 11y ago
I agree with all the ideas in the article, but at a bare minimum, Apple should configure devices so that no firmware update can be installed unless the user enters their PIN first. This would be an easy move that would make this whole deba
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by thothamon 11y ago
So the FBI is asking Apple to build a tool that will unlock security measures of an existing iPhone, like the one in the San Bernadino shooting, and allow it to be read. The problem with this is that no such tool should be possible to build
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by thothamon 11y ago
Does this article actually have a specific message? I read the whole thing and it sounds something like "businesses will exploit you." (True, but duh.) Or maybe "startups are trying to be acquired." (Sometimes true,
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by thothamon 11y ago
So it's really a zero exceptions, except for the ones you deliberately choose to ignore policy. But that's pretty much what we do now, except I'm not aware of a good method for muting certain exceptions. (There may be one!
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by thothamon 11y ago
To me, the article doesn't really sell Java the language. The big benefits are in the JVM and libraries, which support many languages far superior to Java. The only virtue of Java the language might be the programmers who know it, an
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by thothamon 11y ago
Brilliant. The idea of being the dumbest person in the room is especially good. Another good way to manifest this is never be afraid to be first to speak up with the dumb question. If you're wondering about something, odds are someone
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by thothamon 11y ago
Good point. I hate that word "resource" as applied to people, but I say it all the time, because everyone else does -- not a conscious choice, just a bad habit.
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by thothamon 11y ago
Software is very hard to do well, and you're right that many in-sourced projects fail or suffer extensive problems. But when you outsource, you keep all the normal, natural problems of software development and add many more enormous b
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by thothamon 11y ago
Even if that is true (which it may well be), it's yet another landmine for companies who seek solutions via outsourcing. I'd agree with OP on this. I've never seen a distributed, outsourced approach work. The product has al
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by thothamon 11y ago
The real value of an engineer is 10 or 20 percent in what frameworks they know, but 80 or 90 percent in what they can learn. That's especially true in today's embarrassment of riches world in which no one could possibly learn eve
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by thothamon 11y ago
I don't know. It feels like she's about as interested in suffering publicly for the cameras as she is in fixing the problem. If she really just wants her Facebook profile closed (as she says), that can probably be done with back
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by thothamon 11y ago
I'm an exempt employee, but my time certainly does not all belong to my employer. I realize there are some who do, but I do not check email at midnight. My phone has a do-not-disturb setting that goes from 10 pm to 6 am. If I was as
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by thothamon 11y ago
I wait until I have an offer, then I ask to see the company's non-compete. Then, if the document says I can't contribute to other projects, I tell them I contribute to a number of open-source and other projects, and I need anythi
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by thothamon 11y ago
Which illustrates the original point: that scenario -- generous severances when the company is going out of business -- is incredibly rare. A much more likely scenario is your options become worthless and you're laid off. If you can
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by thothamon 11y ago
A close friend of mine was recently -- as in a week or two ago -- recruited by Amazon. The process did not get as far as an offer, because the hiring manager told my friend that the expected hours would be around 80 per week on average. T
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by thothamon 11y ago
I'd rather buy some Greek products that I know will make it back to Greece and help their businesses. I think that would help them more, and help me too. But, I'm not really sure how to do that.
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by thothamon 11y ago
The article probably does violate that section of the DMCA. But it is also a research/scientific piece subject to the protection of the First Amendment. I could be mistaken, but I suspect if one or the other had to go -- the First Am
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by thothamon 11y ago
Hmm. I don't think you have to be phony to be kind. In fact, I think it's easier to be kind, not more exhausting. If you think a little bit about how the other person might feel, you save an enormous amount of time dealing with
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by thothamon 11y ago
Same here. I am always the first guy in a group to ask the stupid question. Almost never do I get a snide response. If I did get a snide response to a clarifying question in an interview, it would be an almost certain signal that I should
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by thothamon 11y ago
Well, I haven't started my web app yet. Right now I'm finishing up a Haskell app that plays Connect Four: maybe that could be the backend for a web app. It looks like you're using Yesod. What resources did you use to learn
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by thothamon 11y ago
As a Haskell programmer who has also come from Rails -- I'm a Rails developer now -- and who is also interested in writing a web app in Haskell, I'm very interested in your experiences. Are you on any forums or online communities
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by thothamon 11y ago
Sources for that? Wikipedia doesn't mention a divorce with his second wife, Dorothy Vanderpool.
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by thothamon 11y ago
I usually ask more senior people why they say that, and keep asking why until I get it. If this process seems to be going on too long, I ask if there's a book or reference I should be reading to understand the subject better. Honestl
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by thothamon 11y ago
I think you have to take each individual differently. Most folks react well to the criticism sandwich. Someone like you might prefer a more direct approach, as long as it is not phrased in a mean way. At some point in my career, I stopped
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by thothamon 12y ago
The main thing you need to do is convince HR and then a hiring manager that you have the skills to do the work. The best way you can do that is to have projects on Github that demonstrate your skill, and if you can get a little paid work u

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