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by umjames 15y ago
This is why I hate the term "the cloud" -- because it is too nebulous and non-descriptive. Actually, nebulous means cloud-like. Would you prefer the older term "the grid"? They're all just items for buzzword bingo.
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by umjames 15y ago
I'm not saying the Sonic games are great, but that it's proof that Nintendo could still keep their brand characters (Mario and friends, Link, Samus, etc) without a console. Proof that Sega still knows how to make great games: http://www.yo
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by umjames 15y ago
Isn't Sega a Japanese company that dropped their consoles and went software-only? They're still in business and doing well. If you've been to Japan and have seen or played Border Break (an arcade-only game), you know they've still got it.
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by umjames 15y ago
Agreed. Are there people who really want to work at all hours? Maybe eager students right out of college. Personally, I'm at the point where if I'm going to be working at all hours, I'd better be one of the primary beneficiaries of that wo
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by umjames 15y ago
Agreed, and the close proximity of their deaths makes me think that that's it for a set of 3.
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by umjames 15y ago
Isn't there something about deaths happening in 3s? 1. Steve Jobs 2. Dennis Ritchie 3. John McCarthy
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by umjames 15y ago
I think it highly depends on each person's work situation. It would be nice if we could all have employers who would agree to that kind of arrangement, but unfortunately, that's not always the case. I figure, if you're bootstrapping a busi
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by umjames 15y ago
I've often had the thought that you can split the day into thirds of 8 hours each, 1/3 is work, 1/3 is personal time, 1/3 is sleep. The usual pattern is work -> personal time -> sleep. Why not reverse personal time and sleep? So w
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by umjames 15y ago
Were these recruiters that your company hired, or were they actual HR employees from your company? I would have gone just to see the looks on their faces.
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by umjames 15y ago
Who says the performant code has to be written in Java? It could be another JVM language (Twitter is using Scala for this), or it could be some other non-JVM language if that language better fits the situation's needs. Cringely's post is p
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by umjames 15y ago
Agreed. Eyesight doesn't get better as you get older, it only gets worse. Why strain your eyes trying not to "look old"? Your eyes should be relaxed when you read.
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by umjames 15y ago
Shouldn't productivity be measured in number of things done where each "thing" is multiplied by a number that represents the difficulty of the task divided by the time taken to do it? If hours are the chief measurement, then you can stretch
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by umjames 15y ago
Will they be full closures and remember the state of objects in scope?
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by umjames 15y ago
What about scheduling some time (daily or weekly) for doing the things that you would normally consider your procrastination activity? Has anyone here tried that? How did it work out? The more details you can provide, the better.
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by umjames 15y ago
Reminds me of the Chris Rock skit. The money is in the medicine, not the cure. I'm generalizing, but It seems as if institutions who have made a living researching treatments to major diseases don't seem that interested in cures. That could
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by umjames 15y ago
I don't know, but I'm sure it has. If your primary interface to MySQL is a GUI tool where you just click the "create table" button, type in a name and accept the other defaults, you could be using MyISAM tables without knowing anything abo
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by umjames 15y ago
Agreed. It's refreshing to be able to see knowledgable people arrive at better solutions. I love the fact that they come up with the best solution that solves the problem based on their skill set at that time; and when either their skill s
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by umjames 15y ago
Where do you work, if you don't mind me asking? It sounds like a really great place.
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by umjames 15y ago
I think their goal was to make GitHub (and by extension git itself) more accessible to people who code, but are not familiar/comfortable enough with command line Unix or SSH to generate SSH keypairs. There are a lot of these people. Althou
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by umjames 15y ago
He's not writing a blog post to "do better." He's just conveying his thoughts about doing better vs. feeling better. Nothing wrong with that.
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by umjames 15y ago
You are correct in my case. We use Oracle, MS SQL Server, and Sybase because that's what the vendorware we use requires. We do have some open-source software that uses MySQL for administrative purposes.
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by umjames 15y ago
Meanwhile, the employer keeps a bunch of "dumb and stupid" employees that they refuse to make better. Those employees that are self-starters will make themselves better and, if they want to, will leave anyway. Seems kind of silly to me. I
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by umjames 15y ago
My concerns are that Heroku's prices are rather high. I understand paying for what you use, but you get charged for as long as something is on, even if it's not in use. Add to this that there's no built-in shutting down of inactive dynos
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by umjames 15y ago
I quick check of the Ruby documentation ( http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/ ) suggests that raise and fail are the same method. Is there an actual difference between these methods?
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by umjames 15y ago
I wonder if they could make rechargeable PSN gift cards. You could put money on it via PayPal, and the only thing Sony stores is how much money is on the card instead of actual credit card info.
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by umjames 15y ago
Tried to access this site from work and it's blocked by the corporate firewall. When I saw it at home last night, there didn't seem to be anything inappropriate about the site. Maybe I'm missing something? I guess that means my current jo
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Ask HN: What do the green usernames signify?
5 points by umjames 15y ago|6 comments
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by umjames 15y ago
The biggest benefit of a co-working space is that you are in more control of when you want to be around other people. You can always go home when you need pure isolation. At your employer's workplace, you don't have that control. You can
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by umjames 16y ago
Exactly, a tool (technology-based or otherwise) is just a multiplier for the person wielding it. It's the people wielding the tool that make the difference. Management is not excluded from this either. They have to: 1. know, in depth, the
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by umjames 16y ago
Can't you have both? Take option A for a few years. Save most of that money, then quit. Take option B for a lot longer than you could have if you didn't take option A first. But seriously, I understand that option A almost never pays tha

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