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Real Genius
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Buckaroo Banzai
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Donnie Darko
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Yeah, I read his list of cons mostly thinking "gee, this sounds like an environment I'd enjoy". What look like cons when you're younger often end up being pros once you've been around the programming block a few times and inherited code th
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> PC + Windows + Office + McAffee + a large desktop support organization, you just have ChromeOS devices and Google Apps I think if you put a Chromebook/Chromebox in front of most business users, the organization has to be using Citrix.
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"Coding standards and reviews prevented bad low-level decisions, but not bad high-level ones" This is true for coding standards and reviews everywhere. That's what design standards are for -- i.e. some kind of process around specifying a
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That certainly marked the end of something for them. But they continued to be a very powerful company for another 10-15 years. They leveraged their long distance business to buy everything in sight in the 90s (cable, mobile, even NCR). B
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Wow. Making money is anything but commoditized. What is commoditized is often the business itself. That's the problem for these guys who don't make any money. Twitter has taken $1B in investment. Google makes three times that in pro
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And because Clustrix is only available via an appliance.
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> Your advice leans toward the "fungible cogs" school, where the capital crime is to expect others to learn something they don't already know. Not following what you mean. Do you mean that I do expect people to learn stuff, or that I
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> I think you are doing students and young programmers a disservice by implying that there is one "best" solution here, and that you know it. I read their requirements in the blog post. They need fast access to SVN and Git internals to
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> It might not impress their programmer friends, but it'll impress their accountant If impressing accountants is the goal of what we do, then the whole thing should have been outsourced overseas.
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Lines of code is the new form of premature optimization. A C solution is better in performance and compatibility, but you've prematurely optimized on lines of code as your deciding factor (based on you mentioning it in the article, and aga
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> I’ve been looking for an excuse to use Clojure in a production environment for a while Except in wanting to mess around with Clojure, you didn't use the best tool for the job. The Clojure solution now uses parallel implementations of
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> From what I've gathered Amazon SES is a reliable alternative since they apparently jump through the hoops for you. That might be where I'm turning to for a solution. Yes, definitely... at least for commercial sending. SendGrid, SES,
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> There have been so many times where I'd send an email and have it never even reach its destination This is easily explained if you were hosting your own Postfix or something. There are a significant number of hoops that legitimate
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> You bring up education a few times. Given the length of his work history, is it even important at this point? Why are you so interested in it? Education is (we hope) the rigorous, dedicated, examined and measured study of some subject
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Hi, I've spent my career looking at thousands of resumes so I hope you'll take my opinion seriously on this. I appreciate the idea of trying to break out of the fold. People will use new fonts, new structure, diagrams, etc. I understand w
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> I'm not talking about COBRA Public service announcement: you can't COBRA on companies that go bankrupt. COBRA allows you to keep your group plan from your former employer. If that plan goes away, since the company goes away, you wil
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> There are a lot of older coders who can't code My experience is that there are a lot of "coders" of all ages who can't code.
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I just signed up for Ranker to figure out the email situation for Maddox. - They send through mailgun.net. - Mailgun.net doesn't include list-unsubscribe header, which means that spam reports from Google apps/gmail won't back to the sender.
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Not stating an opinion either way, but describing what the lawsuit is actually about here. Morgan Stanley's analyst, Scott Devitt, adjusted their estimates and they then gave that information to high-end MS customers, but not to the publ
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> There are plenty of other cost-effective places on the west side of SF that can go for less than half the price of SOMA Exactly! Look at where Muni and BART end up and then look at places to rent in those locations. West Portal, Gle
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> I believe that nowadays we live in even more cruel and lethal world than 50 years ago Good news! You'd be wrong. The world is safer and more peaceful than it's ever been. This book presents the facts on it: http://www.amazon.com
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I think everyone here would be super interested to see more pics/description of the Eastern bloc during that era. Post something cool!
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I never understand this complaint. It's a US-based news source (The Atlantic) posted to a US-based news aggregator (HN). Why would you expect, or demand, it to not be US centric? You're more than welcome to post collections like this fr
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That was the picture that struck me most as well. Reminded me of this "Iran in the 70s" collection http://www.pagef30.com/2009/04/iran-in-1970s-before-islamic-...
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MySQL At Facebook(facebook.com)
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> Sun was a reliable partner for open source community but doesn't Oracle make you afraid while you develop anything java or jvm-related? The suit is regarding an implementation of Java that did not pay for a license (Oracle's claim, no
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Wouldn't Maven suffice?

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