tutufan

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by tutufan 10y ago
After several temporary deactivations over the years, I finally deleted my account as well in February. My reasons were similar. The constant flow of outrage seemed to be decreasing my quality of life, and indeed, I feel happier without i
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by tutufan 10y ago
Reminds me of Seinfeld's quip about dating being a "whole lot of seeming fascinated"...
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by tutufan 10y ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by tutufan 10y ago
It is maybe a bit awkward, but I never begrudge anyone that does this with me. And over the years I've done it one or twice with people I haven't spoken to in many years.
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by tutufan 10y ago
A phone with volume buttons that actually and intuitively worked--in practice, not just in theory--would be innovative. A phone that incorporated debouncing on its touch screen would be innovative. A phone that didn't require high manu
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by tutufan 10y ago
I lived this out a few years ago when I had (great) offers in hand from TechCo in the Bay Area and FinCo in NYC. Running the numbers, the former was simply impossible without a four-hour daily commute, whereas the latter worked pretty well
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by tutufan 10y ago
As far as I can tell, whiteboard/quiz interviews are no better than coin-flipping. The best technical interviews I've been involved with seem to be mostly conversation about what the candidate has done and likes to do, and what th
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by tutufan 10y ago
That's correct. As a society, we ought to either accept this, and the resultant (probably large) increase in wine prices, or create a legal program for transient low-wage workers. But by trying to have our cake and eat it too, we&#x27
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by tutufan 10y ago
A nice bout of alimony will take your mind right off of government waste...
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by tutufan 10y ago
??? Is that what those lines mean?
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by tutufan 10y ago
This is great advice for interviewing anyone. What it's like to work with/for/around the person will dwarf all other concerns in the long run. (And since the other interviewers will almost certainly overspend their interview
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by tutufan 10y ago
With due respect, if the community was fully behind Python 3, it wouldn't still be controversial. Clearly it still is. That said, my personal feeling is that with awesome new toys like curio, Python 3 is finally starting to be worth t
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by tutufan 10y ago
Very nice. May I suggest not mapping "Remote" jobs to the town of Remote, Oregon? :-)
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by tutufan 10y ago
But that 1-based array indexing. It's like the 60s never ended...
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by tutufan 10y ago
There's certainly plenty of abuse posted in response to comments here.
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by tutufan 11y ago
No. Perforce is basically the combined worst of Subversion and Visual Source Safe, and something you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. Because it is so limited, it happens that you can store huge BLOBs in it, which is something that&
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Best place to post writings so they'll survive in perpetuity?
1 points by tutufan 11y ago|2 comments
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by tutufan 11y ago
The horrible truth is that regularly writing crap code that bursts into flames and then making flashy, heroic efforts to put those fires out is the fast track to the top. Taking the time to produce quality artifacts feels really good, but
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by tutufan 12y ago
Wow, that's cold. Republican much? The same argument could be made against providing any sort of universal emergency medical services as well, but I sure wouldn't want to live in that society.
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by tutufan 12y ago
No remote, but see if you can guess where we're located... :-)
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by tutufan 12y ago
Essentially, that's where I'm at, as a practical matter. But it feels wrong to be typecast that way, since I regard my C/C++ capabilities as being quite sharp as well. And it seems like knowing when to write 100 lines of Py
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by tutufan 12y ago
I've noticed over the course of my career a fairly severe corollary, which is that making the best technical choices for my employer can often be bad for me in the long run. As an example, for about the last 10-15 years, I've
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by tutufan 12y ago
Maybe. (I say maybe because I could see it turning into pair-programming-like chaos.) But mostly, git solves a different problem. I find it incredibly useful on my own one-person projects, because it lets me explore forward in numerous di
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by tutufan 12y ago
Watched a couple, in their 30s, doing this on the subway the other day. She was sitting in his lap, going at his face, for the length of my ride (10-15 minutes). Guess I should be happy for them... :-/
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by tutufan 12y ago
Well, dealing with the UI feels like work. :-)
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by tutufan 12y ago
It depends. I enjoy it as long as it's moving the ball forward. But if the people producing the stream of bugs won't take obvious steps to squelch the flow (or at least not stop me from doing so), it can be a maddening and Sisyp
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by tutufan 12y ago
Not particularly a PG fan, but I think that ("trite/useless") might be a bit harsh. If trite means obvious, well, that sort of thing wasn't obvious to me early in my career, and even now after decades, it's hard to
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by tutufan 12y ago
I would say truly _revolutionary_. A spectacularly useful tool. And yet, there is something to Devops Borat's quip that in 1990 entire Internet fits in head, but in 2012, just git no longer fits in head. (paraphrased)
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by tutufan 12y ago
This principle may be vacuously true, but it's utterly useless. Kind of like noting that drivers should "reduce their relative velocity with respect to nearby massive objects" in order to reduce our country's (ridiculou
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by tutufan 12y ago
Rust. It's been many years since I ran across a programming language whose innovations I'd call exciting. It's still early days, but it might be the language that finally overtakes C++.

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