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by vpeters25 11y ago
I find very interesting how the author describes some of the shortcomings of IMAP. The article seems like a nice starting point for requirements to create a new email protocol. Like the author, for years i've been bothered by email, bu
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by vpeters25 11y ago
Before prohibition, big brewers owned most of the bars and you could only buy their brand. Ken Burn's "prohibition" documentary explains how a single brand of beer owned all the bars for several blocks in a city. State legisl
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by vpeters25 11y ago
Unlike the House, which represents the people, the Senate represents the states. That's why each state has 2 senators regardless of its size and population: I think the idea was to prevent oppression by large states.
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by vpeters25 11y ago
Well, they're there but really hard to find unless you are lucky enough to live in a market with an independent, listener supported radio station such as KXT here in Dallas. Indy recordings are not all good, sometimes they play some ki
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by vpeters25 11y ago
The Monkees' music was recorded by "the wrecking crew", a gang of session musicians who were involved in most of the 60's hits. There is a very nice documentary about them on netflix named "The Wrecking Crew" I
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by vpeters25 11y ago
Correct, although I usually suggest inexperienced agile teams to start by sticking to the "rules" for a few iterations before "hacking" the process. There are way too many teams out there rolling their own "flavor&q
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by vpeters25 11y ago
This works fine until you have to build a project with a 3rd party commercial library requiring licenses (.licx files). I just spent a week trying to put together a vagrant vm to build such a project finally giving up and adding visual stud
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by vpeters25 11y ago
For years I've been considering coding a tamper proof logger, something where each entry has a hash that depends on the entry's log and the hash of the previous entry. This could help detect potential system compromise. I haven&#x
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by vpeters25 11y ago
I think that stat is for people who use the car for their daily commute recharging the batteries overnight.
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by vpeters25 11y ago
You must be doing something seriously wrong if you are a dev in Dallas and haven't found anything after a couple weeks. I live in Fort Worth, I was in the market last month and I got flooded with offers for interviews from the North Da
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by vpeters25 11y ago
I actually think a plea bargain should cap future sentences: if you take the 6 months deal any future case with same charges cannot carry a sentence higher than 6 months.
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by vpeters25 11y ago
I think Bloomberg's article just got the DA side of the story which of course will try to put Abacus in the worst light possible. It could have been intentional or maybe Abacus lawyers chose not to discuss the ongoing case with the pre
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by vpeters25 11y ago
> I learn about openings early on, and can often find the hiring company by taking the text of the spam and searching the various job boards. This would be great if it could be automated somehow: paste email to a macro job board and get
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by vpeters25 11y ago
It was an one-two punch because either one by itself unlikely would have produced the disaster: the earthquake not only produced the tsunami, it also sunk the coastline about 4 feet rendering tsunami barriers useless. I read somewhere their
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by vpeters25 11y ago
> A senior developer is intimately familiar with their own failure... and is obsessed with simplicity. There are many paragraphs in that post that I agree with, but this one struck me particularly as my motto of the last 5 years or so ha
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by vpeters25 11y ago
This answer is going to be rather unortodox and might get downvoted but this is how I do it: I just skim throught all the sources, then somehow I am able to point approximate file and line of code where a specific question might be answered
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by vpeters25 11y ago
According to wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidad_de_Fomento ), Chile's UF was created in 1968. I think the Pinochet dictatorship expanded the UF to be used in financial transactions like mortgages. Larg
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by vpeters25 11y ago
I took a contract at this great place with highly experienced team members which had been acquired by Verizon a year before. I was assured Verizon would not mess with the great thing they had going but slowly, almost all of them got fed up
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by vpeters25 11y ago
Before prohibition breweries owned the bars to the point sometimes you could only buy a single brand of beer for blocks to no end. That squeezed small breweries out of the market. When lifting prohibition, Congress created the tier system t
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by vpeters25 11y ago
I think the article's author got lost in translation: the word "colegio" stands for school, not college. From what I understand by reading the official government bullet points about this law ( http://reformaeducaci
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by vpeters25 11y ago
Private universities in Chile devised tactics inspired on Hollywood accounting to extract profits: for example they don't own the buildings and pay hefty rents to landlords who are shell corporations of the owners.
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by vpeters25 11y ago
That's pretty much my story too, although I didn't dig too deep because I got bored. Programming was so "trivial" for me I skipped on a Computer Science major and went with Electrical Engineering so I could learn somethi
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by vpeters25 11y ago
> The truth is that programming isn't a passion or a talent, it is just a bunch of skills that can be learned I think people who makes these statements are usually misguided by their lack of perspective: talented people have a hard
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by vpeters25 11y ago
I disagree with this. I think natural talent is what allows you to pass the "filters" from better tutors, people which just wont train you unless "you've got it"
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by vpeters25 11y ago
I've been there: I've lied about my rate, I've used the NDA excuse. It doesn't work. I'm a bad lier so I don't lie anymore: I simply apologize and tell them you are not willing to disclose that information. Alw
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by vpeters25 11y ago
My point of view is you should ask for the value you provide your employer, not just your financial needs. In my case the value I provide is 3+ times my financial needs so that's what I ask and they happily pay based on the quality of
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by vpeters25 11y ago
> I said that I reviewed other salaries for my level, and I felt that I deserved a raise to $85,000. At the last moment I panicked and lowered my ask from the planned $90k. I suggest my friends to figure out how much they want and ask f
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by vpeters25 11y ago
As a completely anecdotal fact with zero scientific value, I think i am among the people that can taste aspartame. It also gives me headaches, to the point the rare occasions I drink soda, I rather have HFCS than aspartame.
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by vpeters25 12y ago
I actually like to run standups as "all business": everybody says their piece and goes back to work as quickly as possible. One of the main goals of Agile processes is to remove overhead from the developer so they can focus on add
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by vpeters25 12y ago
What you describe here is what usually happens when a manager thinks he "knows Scrum" but really doesn't. It just takes one higher up MBA who thinks he can do Scrum/Agile better to try take over and screw the whole thing

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