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2581.
by thwarted 18y ago
Because inevitably someone wants a breakdown report of shipments by state, and no matter how many times you try to explain to them that international shipping doesn't have a concept of "states", they refuse to listen, so the company eventua
2582.
by thwarted 18y ago
Or obviously better in retrospect. I'm with you on the keyboard. It's substantially easier to process large amounts of data with a UNIX pipeline or an SQL query than it is with many GUI tools. Many people don't realize that.
2583.
by thwarted 18y ago
Agreed, this makes little sense. As time goes on, someone's ability to maintain a system (assuming it is something that only he could do well when he was there) quickly approaches zero the longer that person is not involved with it. What'
2584.
by thwarted 18y ago
"Consider that Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse in 1964. It was obvious to many people that it was a better way to control a computer, yet it took two decades even to begin reaching a mass audience. Or consider the hyperlink, invented i
2585.
by thwarted 18y ago
Come on. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
2586.
by thwarted 18y ago
"Programmers do not respect authority, only ability." A minor mischaracterization. Programmers respect authority that is derived from ability and historic record of ability to execute/produce. Authority is something you earn and must main
2587.
by thwarted 18y ago
Also, I try to write my resume with a focus on technical readers, not necessarily HR. Part of the goal is to get past the resume screeners, but if you want the job, having something to talk about, prompted by the contents of the resume, du
2588.
by thwarted 18y ago
I think employment agencies say this because they are in the habit of retyping and reformatting resumes and longer resumes take more time to manage. I started to have better responses when I started ignoring the advice to keep the resume to
2589.
by thwarted 18y ago
Yes.
2590.
by thwarted 18y ago
I do this, and provide a subset of REAL input data and perhaps a sample of the expected output. This ends up showing capabilities for more than just minor singleton operations, and shows that someone can use the atomic units of programming
2591.
by thwarted 18y ago
I remember when I first "discovered" RLE, 8 or 9 years old, sitting in the backseat of my parent's car in this parking lot: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.764966,-87.724457&spn=...
2592.
by thwarted 18y ago
I can see it now: "every time I tilt my iPhone to avoid the glare/reflection on the non-matte screen, I end up looking at something different."
2593.
by thwarted 18y ago
Which topics qualify as controversial is itself something that there can be disagreement on. Race and intelligence is one of them. The parent who purposely imparts to their child a race preference does not believe that racism is a controv
2594.
by thwarted 18y ago
I'm sure the pirates will listen to "reason". Ultima Ratio Regum and all that.
2595.
by thwarted 19y ago
RSS needs to be integrated into email clients, not web browsers. RSS's "notification" use cases are closer to email, even in the terminology ("subscribe"). If there was better support in email clients, RSS would see more use for things li
2596.
by thwarted 19y ago
Doesn't a (non-software) patent require something resembling a semi-working prototype (at least back when Tesla was getting patents)? I say "semi-working" because there are a lot of patents for things like free-energy devices that never wo
2597.
by thwarted 19y ago
I just had a conversation with someone today about adding editorial content to a site. There is no content to post yet, but it's time to get cracking on writing the code to display it! As if writing the code is the hardest part of this.
2598.
by thwarted 19y ago
You could also argue that launchd, specifically, is a divorce from the UNIX way of doing things. init starts processes based on system events, xinetd starts processes based on network requests and cron starts processes based on time. laun