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901.
by veyron 15y ago
I think a lot of people in the "I hate crappy code" camp tend to spend too much time trying to fix seemingly crappy code, time that arguably would better be spent fixing other, more important bugs.
902.
by veyron 15y ago
Can you identify a few places you interviewed with? Also, are you using a recruiter? I'm going to try to limit my response: I don't consider (1) to be "fake" in the sense that thought-provoking questions aren't meant to be fake. I like as
903.
by veyron 15y ago
ordinary dividends are taxed like income. the only difference is that you don't have to pay FICA (social security and medicare) on that money. This year, self-employment social security is 4.2% + 6.2% = 10.4% up to wage base of 106800 and
904.
by veyron 15y ago
Note: If it's a C corp you don't have to take salary (iirc only S corps have to declare at least one person taking salary) and you can keep money in the firm (LLCs and LPs aren't structured to do this well), so you don't need to take any mo
905.
by veyron 15y ago
Cheap way to expand screen real estate. I find myself diffing 3 files a lot. And these files are 80 characters fixed-width. So to have the three window diff in vim means I would need at least 3 * 80 + 2 = 242 character width, and that doe
906.
by veyron 15y ago
To my knowledge, the original phrase was intended to make the new king throned immediately after the discovery of the death of the previous king. Unfortunately there's no real atomicity in spoken language ... As far as the idiom is concern
907.
by veyron 15y ago
in some languages and cultures (especially yiddish), certain expressions are understood to be sarcastic. I think 'I could care less' was originally used in this sarcastic tone (akin to 'Tell me about it' in US circles)
908.
by veyron 15y ago
with regards to the issue of charging for xcode: xcode 3 is still free :) The business decision that should scare you the most was the killing of the xserve line. Don't try to run a business production platform on a mac.
909.
by veyron 15y ago
What was the fred wilson quote about not being _____'s bitch?
910.
by veyron 15y ago
I'm surprised no one pointed out Growl. There's GNotify for linux but it's nowhere near as polished. And in the growl package, there's an extra called growlnotify, which lets you pipe data from processes and show the output in growl form.
911.
by veyron 15y ago
Yeah, and we probably should take this discussion to email. What's your address?
912.
by veyron 15y ago
Support. With a paid product, I know that I paid money and expect a level of support commensurate with that. I know that, if something goes wrong, I can pick up a phone and contact someone. The quality may not be great, but at least it ex
913.
by veyron 15y ago
Power through sedgewick's Algorithms in C++: http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-C-Robert-Sedgewick/dp/02015... Although, tbh, the code coverage is kinda weak, so I would supplement it with a C or C++ discussion (K&R is tough to understa
914.
by veyron 15y ago
At the end of the day, if you have a strong understanding of fundamentals (basic calculus, number theory, C), the rest is just creative applications (eg algorithms, where the motivations for most of the introductory algorithms are easily de
915.
by veyron 15y ago
To the person who downvoted this and the grand-parent reply: why?
916.
by veyron 15y ago
You need to make sure everything is processed in the correct order. For example, I just used vanilla apache/php from osx 10.6.4: $ cat /etc/apache2/httpd.conf ... LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so ..
917.
by veyron 15y ago
"Also, what if I don't want 2nd or 3rd degree connections to know my extended profile information. Is there anyway to tell LinkedIn to not provide this data to 3rd parties?" Not everyone uses linkedin because they want to do business develo
918.
by veyron 15y ago
What is the standard framework for abstracting most of the browser-specific behaviors (like those IEx hacks) away? I'm not even talking about dynamic behaviors; just simple standard HTML / CSS jazz. In 2011 I would hope there would be a si
919.
by veyron 15y ago
I am sympathetic to your desires, but the man page clearly states the implemented behavior: $ tail --version | head -n 1 tail (GNU coreutils) 8.5 $ man tail | grep -A 2 bytes=K -c, --bytes=K output the las
920.
by veyron 15y ago
Is there a way to control lego motors and sensors using an ipod instead of the mindstorms control bricks? Also, have you tried posting on lego forums (lego.com has a message board)?
921.
by veyron 15y ago
How many lines would the equivalent python program take?
922.
by veyron 15y ago
Does anyone have statistics regarding browser usage in the wild?
923.
by veyron 15y ago
I resent the use of the word "baby" -- I have seen entire quantitative trading platforms built in awk
924.
by veyron 15y ago
Is there a way to link this with a project management tool like basecamp?
925.
by veyron 15y ago
This question is an "eye of the beholder" one -- it's not only subjective, but oftentimes an equal number of people could argue that a startup does not improve or actually detracts from peoples lives. Take facebook as an example. A lot of
926.
by veyron 15y ago
There were 2 computer architecture books by hennessy and patterson. Though they focused on mips, its a very theoretical discussion. If you want something a bit more practical, Understanding the Linux Kernel tries to be a bit more x86 speci
927.
by veyron 15y ago
read the manpages. Seriously. That, and do stuff that requires you to use the linux terminal. For example, instead of clicking and using the GUI to extract tar files, try using `wget` and `tar`. then when you are more comfortable, try to
928.
by veyron 15y ago
Does this honor noprocrast?
929.
by veyron 15y ago
The analysts say this AFTER the company goes public.
930.
by veyron 15y ago
"making more money than I've ever made." <-- may I ask how much are you making now? At the end of the day, if you are making a ton of money and have a very realistic shot of making enough to retire in the next two to four years, then it

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