typicalrunt

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by typicalrunt 13y ago
I loved iBatis the moment I used it (some 8 years ago or so). And yet I always felt like a black sheep because I liked working in SQL and also liked my "ORM" to be a simple translation engine for results into a data structure that
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
With these types of companies popping up, I'm left wondering how carpenters feel when someone watches a few episodes of HGTV and decides they can build their own house. There is so much more to programming and building a product than
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
I don't think you could pay me enough to go back or, as I am wont to say, back up the dump truck filled with money and then we'll start talking. It has to be worth it (however you measure what "worth" and "it&quo
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
This. And we also do it to ourselves when looking for work, exacerbating the problem and pushing onto future IT personnel. Just look at the job descriptions for most IT jobs out there and you'll see that IT personnel are expected to
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
Hopefully the author is reading this. And please spare the downvotes, I'm trying to help without laying any judgement. Please fix the spelling in the sidebar. Recieve a digest of my best content every month about software, startups,
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
Mine has had 100% uptime during this outage. The issues are probably spotty.
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
I applaud Jeff's (DarkTangent) stance on this. I've been to 7 Defcons now and the Feds have always been treated fairly. Even the media has been treated with respect, so long as they are transparent and honest about being media [
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
Why do you feel that it is okay to dismiss someone's opinion outright? He's not suggesting that home ownership is a right, but merely that it would be nice to be able to have the possibility to own a home. Those are two very dif
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
I feel exactly the same way except that I'm in another city, Vancouver BC. There is an odd assortment of people in Vancouver consisting of the obscenely rich, wannabe rich, obscenely poor, and singles/couples with no children. O
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
Is soylent vegan available yet? Not yet. This first run will be the regular vegetarian soylent, but it is lactose free, kosher, halal, and absent of all known allergens I believe soy is an allergy to some people. What does "absent of a
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
I've never seen the fairness of after hours trading. The majority of people don't have access to it (that I've spoken to), yet that is when you see some major moves (up or down) in a stock. Congrats to Tesla for turning their first profit!
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
It is sitting at 18% right now. The after hours trading stat is in small print under the current stock price.
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
From the article: The Iron Ring is worn on the little finger ("pinky") of the working (dominant) hand
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
Asking about what happens at a low level when entering a URL however is a good question. Or perhaps asking how to do cross domain JSON requests etc... The former is a question about fundamentals, whereas the latter is a question about spe
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
true, it is not about programming, but how much programming does a programmer do? this is over a phone interview and I hate asking actual "type this code" in phone interviews. The way I view this question is the way I view, say, a carpent
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
Heh. Yeah I do ask it in that way and I've had a couple interviewees be cheeky and go right down to electrical signals. That's when I can see they have a bit of a sense of humour and aren't nervous. It also breaks the ice. However, I ty
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
I could have written this piece. It hit that close to home. I'm 15 years into my IT career and I can honestly say it's not getting easier. I don't believe it's an ageism thing, but just a symtom of something I still cannot put my finge
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
I'm curious about what you mean by 'most amount of people you have had on your site at one time'. This can mean a few different things... 1) For monitoring applications like Chartbeat, IIRC they count a user as concurrent if they are on th
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Funny that these numbers are touted as being bad. In Vancouver the median price of a home is around $900k, we have high taxes, high fees for everything (cellphones etc.), rents are around $900-$1000 per bedroom. And the kicker of it all is
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
This. Times 1000. I would even go as far as to fire the CTO because if the data is your bread and butter, the you protect the data. Protecting the data is called a disaster recovery (DR) plan in those big outdated companies that people li
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
A random tweet possibly made by a person working at Microsoft? Or maybe the tweet doesn't actually exist. I've seen companies (gaming companies, mostly) that display tweets as endorsements for a game and then, when I try to find the tweet
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
I agree that it's not easily learned, but once learned, it can be simple. Until then, it looks complex. I certainly wouldn't give this to my grandmother as a solution. However, for anyone with the ability to learn a technical command line
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
What you've defined is "core hours". This is the range of time in the day when meetings happen and productivity tends to slow down to a crawl. It sounds like your company's core hours are 9-4. It's fairly standard (some places have core
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
This. The medium of communication really depends on the type of content and it's priority. High priority: call me or use some other synchronous communications protocol. Everything else: email, ticket please. Async is better. I'm used to w
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Every office is different with regard to the hours worked as well as when those hours are worked. I find the latter is more important than the former. At my office most people get in around 9:30am to 10:00am, and leave around 8 hours later
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Doesn't this get into the issue of whether XML dependency injection is a good idea? All of the wiring and some logic is built up in some files that are outside of the build/compilation process. Doing "proper dependency injection" (quotes
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
This. It's free (or cheap), easy, and is good for your health (and not just because you are taking a break). I've been doing this for over 10 years, starting from when I realized that I was getting sicker and more unhealthy just sitting at
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
I love it. Very succinct and to the point. I don't agree with some comments saying that it is naïve because it is not beating around the bush. If I am a recruiter or any potential employer, I can now instantly see what this applicant want
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Plus, if they've got the balls to break in the house, what's to prevent them from coming over here? Huh?!? I'm always amazed at the ease of fear-mongering that some people come to. The squatter didn't break into an occupied home (assumi
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Lots of people don't know of % works. Just as a lot of C / Java / C# programmers do not know the difference between "if a() & b()" and "if a() && b()" Funny you say that. And incredibly sad too. I have participated in intervi

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