tutufan

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by tutufan 12y ago
This. Doing a startup is way harder once you get older, unless you've already made your nut and no longer need a salary.
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by tutufan 12y ago
I try hard to "learn the future and not the past" and to choose projects that will teach me useful new things. So I do tend to reject projects that use languages that seem to be in decline, or that would teach me bad habits (or j
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by tutufan 12y ago
attached job description?
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by tutufan 13y ago
Must be nice. For over eight months, we had no response of any kind, nor any indication that they had any interest in looking into possible technical issues on their network. In their final denial letter to us, they stated that based on t
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by tutufan 13y ago
I was a loyal T-Mobile customer for years, but now I'm their number one enemy. In short, I moved to a new state and my house appears to lie between three misconfigured towers. Multiple phones, multiple models repeatedly dropping calls
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by tutufan 13y ago
By height, of course. ;-) Seriously, though, although I think OP overstates it a bit, the point is a good one. When we are paid to code, part of the deal is that we can be required to produce code that is arbitrarily bad, as judged by
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by tutufan 13y ago
So?
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by tutufan 13y ago
"Make your lines however long you like, but not too long." Thanks for the advice, Style Guide!
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by tutufan 13y ago
With due apologies to Mencken, this sounds like market Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone somewhere might be making money. In truth, whenever read closely, the "problems" these proposals aim to solve invariably turn out t
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by tutufan 13y ago
Actually, an unspeakably crappy simulation may be indistinguishable from the real thing if it doesn't "fight fair". Just have the simulation delete any thoughts by the participant(s) that they have convincingly observed anyt
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by tutufan 13y ago
On the contrary, the idea that HFT increases liquidity is pretty much obvious if you think about it. It's the assertion of the opposite that needs extraordinary proof, and since the author doesn't provide anything at all, he soun
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by tutufan 13y ago
Bagpipes.
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by tutufan 13y ago
Right--the problem here is actually unions and not whatever we were thinking.
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by tutufan 13y ago
*affordable rent not included
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by tutufan 13y ago
Position is in Zimbabwe, BTW.
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by tutufan 13y ago
There is something faintly amusing about living in our modern, instant-on, always-on, high-frequency everything world, but having to wait until the monthly batch job runs so that we can see the current list of (awesome) job openings. :-) (
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by tutufan 13y ago
Not odd. OP Is noting that this seems to confuse "make" with "make install". This leads to problems.
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by tutufan 13y ago
?
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by tutufan 13y ago
Thanks. Not really germane, but definitely a good laugh. Frustrating that this information isn't really available--I wonder if it'd be a business opportunity for someone.
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What are the most technically hip companies in NYC?
2 points by tutufan 13y ago|2 comments
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by tutufan 13y ago
I had an offer from an extremely famous Silicon Valley company, did the numbers very carefully, and realized that I simply could not afford to live there on what they were offering. (I have kids and a non-working spouse.) I don't think of
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by tutufan 13y ago
Wasted potential?? Compared to who? Gosling, Jobs, Gates all pretty much look like posers by comparison. Everyone's entitled to their opinions and objections, and no individual can withstand comparison to some theoretical saint, but RMS
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by tutufan 13y ago
No advice as to whether you should do it, but if you do, stuff like this will be useful to cast your adventure as "legit" if you want to return to the standard world later. I'd definitely work on leaving a trail/portfolio of your work as y
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by tutufan 13y ago
I'm at mid-200s (NYC), but was at mid-100s (midwest) a year ago. For the last decade, I've been opting for jobs with stable income, and these jobs will exist for at least a decade. As it's happened my recent jobs have been in either scient
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by tutufan 14y ago
If you have a family and are thinking of living in a house, you are in for a world of hurt. Houses are for people who have already gone through an IPO and gotten lucky. I recently had an offer from a well-known SV company. It seemed reall
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by tutufan 14y ago
'This individual should be a "lifer". If you're pursuing an exciting and lucrative career in the field of Information Technology, don't contact us.' What is this "lifer" that you're seeking? Not sure I'm following this...
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by tutufan 14y ago
Good one!
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by tutufan 14y ago
Yup. Yourdon (or somebody like that) noted the example of an apparently useless team member that had the notable property that whenever he/she joined a team, the project became a success. I've subsequently looked for such examples, and ha
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by tutufan 14y ago
I like it. I would probably go to five times as many events if there was an easy way to sync with friends that were also interested. (I suppose they'd have to solve the awkward "I'm going, but don't really want to go with you, esp if it's
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by tutufan 14y ago
Recently spotted a "no parking" sign in a lot that mentioned it was patrolled by "Lightspeed Towing". Pretty funny...

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