tristmegistus

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by tristmegistus 17y ago
I suggest that playing in person would be a better introduction to D&D than any computer game. The publisher, wizards of the coast, organizes D&D game days at local game stores around the country. They are free and very newby fri
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
My goals would guide whether I spent a retainer or not on a publicist. If I needed a reactive, damage-control publicist, then a retainer would make sense to have them at the ready. But if I were planning a product roll-out and wanted medi
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
Other US gov't agencies use open source. NOAA runs a private sourcforge instance. They also run linux on some of their data processing systems.
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Lessons from 1960s on how newspapers can survive today(thedailybeast.com)
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
My job's web proxy also just started blocking news.ycombinator.com. My guess is the "hacker" news got added to the filter software we use. I plan to appeal the block with IT. The blocking page tells me who to call to do this. I develop
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
To carry your movie analogy a bit further, video games can be categorized as commerical art as are movies. For games, like motion pictures, the ratio of art to commerce varies for each game. Some are designed to sell tickets/game tokens,
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
Good advice. The key step if you want to write is to actually do the writing part. For in-depth, and practical screenwriting advice I really like Terry Rossios's columns on Wordplayer: http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/welcome.html .
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
I found several effective techniques to get myself working in 'The Now Habit" by Neal Fiore. It focuses more on the psychology and why we procrastinate and provides some useful tools to deal with it. An example is to schedule time for fun,
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
I read it a few years ago when I was a rookie programmer. It gave me a more accurate picture of the job than I had held previously.
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
I developed C++ software for a launch vehicle. It flew fine. The toughest thing was convincing the old timers to change. They were much more comfortable with assembly a lot more time in their schedules.
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
I read it. I refer to it occasionally as a field guide to decode the behavior of management, politicians, and other people with power. A few years ago I found some clues in it on how to deal with an evil boss.
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
The problem of unqualified people responsible for making decision is not limited to software companies. A misconception that can cause this is the belief that people are interchangeable. Sure, smart people can learn to play almost any role
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
Eacy day it publishes the Wall St. Journal has three page one articles that to a large extent provide in-depth reporting. They spend the time and money to fully report and edit these stories. Reporters I know are jealous of the time WSJ r
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
The article didn't say how I one can tell narcisists on facebook, but I guess the actual report does. Maybe I can write a facebook app that tells you if a user is a narcisist... What other personality disorders could we screen for?
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
For the very interested the course website is http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute... . It has the videos, lecture notes, problems sets and solutions. I missed the link on Peteris' review.
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
I've sold software from a small start up to automotive companies. Enterprise sales have longer sales cycles. Plan for 6 mo. to a year to navigate the purchasing system and users at the companies. We used a prototype to get in the door and
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by tristmegistus 18y ago
It includes SciPy along with many other modules useful to scientific programmers.
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Book Review: Creative Capital, Georges Doriot and the birth of Venture Capital(ft.com)
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