tristan_juricek

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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
One thing to keep in mind when doing these sorts of comparisons as well are the small lifestyle changes that kick in when you live in a really urban place. Before, I usually bought about a weeks worth of groceries - go to the market, load u
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
Uh, using language like "bottom-feeder RDBMS" and saying that an engineering team is using it "horribly incorrectly on clearly comically deficient hardware" makes this article highly biased, and trollish. It's pretty clear that this guy thi
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
Some of the compiler errors are one of these jarring things that I hope get smoothed out in future versions of Scala. Having come from a C++ background in the past, I was pretty accustomed to figuring things out; other coworkers, however, w
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Fun and Frustration with Scala(advogato.org)
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
Ah, one assumption I never like in this discussion: code will always be read via an editor. I've been flirting around with a literate programming environment, and it's been far easier to use spaces with a traditional line measure - around 8
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
From another perspective, I left my last company because I felt the tension to become the hero. What's interesting is that there was another person who was also kind of playing the hero role - but didn't quite have the development talent to
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
I've had similar thoughts, where small businesses in a local region could pool resources to help each other. For example, a music school could offer notifications that contained links to regional performances in locations. A veterinary offi
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
See Phillip's response for a bit more explanation in the mail thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125309001007725&w... At my (soon-to-be-last) company, emarsys, Linbit maintained our production clusters. We had a couple of
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
Yes; I'm a lot weaker in my statistical understanding, but it seems like it would be a fantastic way of slicing up the testing pie. Unit tests are kind of handy if you've got some sort of "fencepost" style error where you need to figure out
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
Software is so unbelievably cheap to mass produce. So, "custom-made" anything in software is just dumb business. And, as your fixed costs (hardware, hosting, etc.) gets cheaper over time, but the people remain just as expensive, why do so m
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
I just don't really understand this "hire and fire" mentality. I took over running a group, and one of the first things I did was fire someone - he was really, really not productive, nobody respected him, etc. But it was a terrible experien
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
His heart is in the right place, but I'm not so sure he needed to say "Stop. Sending. Email". Perhaps "Stop Automatically Checking Your Email" would be a better choice, since that's basically the recommendation at the end of the article. At
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
Does anybody know the kind of timeframes Twitter is looking at before they are expected to make some money? By my estimate (based on absolutely no knowledge or skill) it would seem that they're looking to do something in 3-5 years or so.
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
The same feeling hit me when reading this: the spirit of the oringal "Duct Tape" blog was right, but the specifics kind of overgeneralized. What I took away: most programmers don't have a sense of perspective on the products they're buildin
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by tristan_juricek 17y ago
The article title seems to confuse everybody, especially if you read the comments. * Apple has 91% of _revenue_ when > $1000 is being spent * They only have 7% of the market The way I read this: there's a ton of cheap machines out the
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by tristan_juricek 18y ago
Are there any numbers that do comparisons with on price (i.e., above and below $1000)? Unit numbers are not so interesting. It's like trying to compare sales at Wal-Mart and Nordstrom.