thothamon

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by thothamon 12y ago
I don't think egolessness means not participating or taking the lead. See the point about not being the programmer who only comes out of the office for soda. If you take the lead and deliver good results, you can definitely be promot
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by thothamon 12y ago
I follow this advice because I've found from experience that often there is a good reason, or at least _a_ reason, that I don't see. Maybe the loop does somehow terminate, through an obscure mechanism. Or maybe it's not sup
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by thothamon 12y ago
Of course it's very much a subject for debate, but I personally don't know a web development platform that is as fast to get off the ground and as complete as Rails. Some people are certainly trying, but I don't think anyone
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by thothamon 12y ago
Lots of good advice, but I suggest having the whole team review each others' code 100% of the time. In other words, each commit gets a random or rotating selection of two people who review the code. Reviewing other people's code
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by thothamon 12y ago
I agree with your point about the time scale, but OS 9 and OS X are entirely different OSes with basically nothing in common but the name "Mac OS". It's more like releasing an entirely new OS, not shifting an OS by 180 degre
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by thothamon 12y ago
Rather than just agreeing to disagree, you could defend your beliefs with the best arguments and examples you have. You're opposed to expressiveness, flexibility and power? That's a somewhat surprising view. I'm interested
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by thothamon 12y ago
I work at a great company now and the hours are very reasonable. But in the past six years, most of the companies I worked for pressured me in various ways to work (unpaid) overtime. Direct management pressure is only one kind of pressure
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by thothamon 12y ago
Google is like a corporate supermodel. Their brand is legendary, like Apple or Facebook. They have so many guys to choose from, and they can afford to be very picky. Fortunately for those of us who do not work for corporate supermodels, b
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by thothamon 12y ago
Great news. $110,000 from Russia to find and (although they did not intend it) patch Tor bugs. Thanks, Putin!
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by thothamon 12y ago
While clever, the items in the article merely accelerate the DRM arms race; they do not deliver a war-winning weapon to any side. All the tricks here can be defeated with technology, even the interlace idea. This whole line of thinking is
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by thothamon 12y ago
You founded the company. So take control. Set 6 pm as the going-home time for EVERYBODY. If something is late because of this, that means the company should not have made commitments it can't keep (and you should take a strong intere
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by thothamon 12y ago
I'm happy to leave the dev alone. I don't really care about the dev one way or the other. What I don't like is to have some piece of infrastructure I've come to depend on yanked out suddenly, being mislead about the rea
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by thothamon 12y ago
I'd have to agree that randomly finding something on the Internet proves little. However, for a definition of a term like "non-fiction," you're not necessarily looking for an authority, but rather just something that ma
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by thothamon 12y ago
Seems like he's given up on listening. No wonder it seems so hard to do. He's got his way and he's sticking with it. Oddly, even whilst plugging his ears and ignoring others, he says he thinks we too should be like him. S
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by thothamon 12y ago
I'd say if you feel you can be happy in typical or standard career path, then by all means save yourself a lot of trouble and do that. Some people really are happier that way. If you're one of those who can't be happy in th
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by thothamon 12y ago
I also fit your criteria. I learned a lot, however I would say I didn't really "get" functional programming until after reading some more books and taking a different course that emphasized functional programming. In this c
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by thothamon 12y ago
It's not clear to me how it's good for me as a consumer to have one company providing me everything. That seems to go wrong more often than it goes well. As an investor, I can see how a monopolistic behemoth might be good, assumi
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by thothamon 12y ago
It's always good to have a wide base of knowledge, and it's always good to avoid ivory-tower silos. But at the same time, it's economically inefficient to use a specialized developer to do tasks that could be done a lot chea
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by thothamon 13y ago
People always doubt this, and then new languages always come along that improve developer efficiency. It was a lot easier to write a program in C than assembler, Perl than C, and Python than Perl, at least for me. I've seen some amaz
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by thothamon 13y ago
There aren't very many people who can do complex CS jobs. Or rather, there are a lot of people who claim they can do it because they read a "Teach Yourself X in 24 Hours" book, but who actually can only do the job poorly or
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by thothamon 13y ago
I don't see the point of providing a life-support system for these old, insecure, outdated web browsers. It's not really analogous to, say, driving old, restored cars. These browsers are rootkit magnets. The people who use this
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by thothamon 13y ago
I appreciate the author's intentions, but I think the best outcomes happen when you hire brilliant men (and women) and manage them well. In the case of the sales executive, it sounds like the author allowed his team to basically say &q
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by thothamon 13y ago
As a former hiring manager, and a middle-aged guy myself, I see hiring as (basically) a two phase process. The first step is to get noticed, and the second step is to close the deal (get hired). You get noticed by appealing to what your pr
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by thothamon 13y ago
It's old-fashioned, but give this a try. The hack is simply to write down (typing is OK) five things you're grateful about. For example, related to your job, you may work with technology that is fun or hot in the market, or bette
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by thothamon 13y ago
Are you suggesting that it's OK for a private company to collect any data they wish? Do you feel this collection must be disclosed to be proper, or is it OK to just do it? Would "OK" data collection include keyboard logging
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by thothamon 13y ago
jQuery provides a uniform API that is guaranteed to work on supported browsers. The jQuery team does all the work to back that guarantee. If I rely on raw JS, then I'm one glitchy browser implementation away from being broken. Even w
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by thothamon 13y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. All managers are paid to ensure better outcomes, where "better" is defined by the company (not by the engineers, except insofar as this enables the company's goals). Some managers are more e
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by thothamon 13y ago
Never had a boss you did not completely trust? NEVER? I'd say you're beyond pretty lucky and into extraordinarily fortunate, and congratulations to you. I've only had two bosses I completely trusted, and one of them is mys
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by thothamon 13y ago
Hmm, "Death of the Internet Predicted"? Seriously, are there one or two succinct points to this article? Is it saying: - The author thinks Bitcoin users are either irrelevant crackpots (anarchists/libertarians) or criminals?
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by thothamon 13y ago
Or if you don't like the dev's approach here, fork the code and turn on issues. I bet if you're more responsive, people will use your fork rather than the original dev's.

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