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by warcher 12y ago
In my opinion (opinions vary on this).... a bachelor's degree in CS is about as useful as a bachelor's in Psychology, in terms of your actual ability to do the job. In other words, you're not. Probably even more so in CS th
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by warcher 12y ago
Man, I love the audacity of creating a content business that creates no content, just repackages other people's research and tacks a new headline on it. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's hilariously criminal and emblematic of
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by warcher 12y ago
I would be absolutely riveted at an examination of which forms of 'elite' status are the most durable across generations. You could put maybe "son of a famous reality tv star" on one end of the spectrum and "daughte
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by warcher 12y ago
I do audio programming, among other things. This sadly requires a familiarity with low level mobile development that many find.... distasteful. I would advise anybody listening to stay well away from NDK programming. Here there be dragons
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by warcher 12y ago
I would be extremely interested in how you approach that-- specifically with respect to the debugger. I'm using the canonical eclilpse/cdt/gdb stack and it is nothing short of torture compared to any modern IDE. I mean, ecli
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by warcher 12y ago
Well, the question is how they're more a tech company than Gillette, I suppose. I mean, Gillette has disrupted shaving several times over its history. I'm not precisely sure what Harry's is bringing to the table here (lower
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by warcher 12y ago
Well, I think I mostly agree. The only distinction I would draw is "good enough for its context" is synonymous in my mind for "as good as I'm willing to pay for." Everybody wants to pay for hamburger and eat cavia
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by warcher 12y ago
I've got two overarching points on dealing with toxic people (not limited to any particular flavor). 1) Try really hard not to be one. This is by far the most important point. You can't please all the people all the time, but re
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by warcher 12y ago
Given the costs involved in making for real high reliability software (think planes, pacemakers, Mars rovers), profits don't factor into it at all-- we're looking at 10x the costs at a minimum. Nobody pays for that level of relia
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by warcher 12y ago
Addendum: The other real serious mischaracterization here is likening software to a physical product, even one as complicated as a skyscraper. Software is a factory that makes products, whether they're html pages, or graphics on a scre
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by warcher 12y ago
It's not like we can't design very elegant, robust, reliable software, you know. We just can't find anybody to pay for us to retool the whole stack (and I do mean the whole stack, since we're only as strong as our we
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by warcher 12y ago
You're missing my point. Put plainly: You're not a billionaire. Acting like one is a poor strategy. We plebians are well served by being nice if we want to move up the bracket. By all means, when you are rich and powerful, act li
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by warcher 12y ago
Well, ok, don't mind if I do. "I'm self employed now, so take the following with a grain sf salt - it worked for me though. When I was dealing with HR, I made sure to growl a lot while talking, and stand in front of the only
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by warcher 12y ago
I think you make an excellent point, but all these cases are examples of guys who got a seat on a rocket and were pretty ruthless about who else got to ride. Which is to say, they're lottery ticket winners. And that's super, but
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by warcher 12y ago
Pump the brakes, man. If you reach the point where physical violence is your only resort, let me promise you that, in a business environment, punching somebody is only making your personal situation much, much worse. I have been in enough
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by warcher 12y ago
You know, having worked for a union in my youth, I was gobsmacked by the... I guess you'd call it indifference to the quality of your work. Your production has nothing to do with your job. Then sampling the cutthroat nature of capital
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by warcher 12y ago
There are some very reasonable and very scary tumor possibilities associated with stem cell research. Trading paraplegia for spinal cancer is not a good trade. Caution is a very, very good idea. That said, this result should, in a just wo
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by warcher 12y ago
You know, I understand the urge, once one has really gotten deep and mastered their first language, to try to apply it everywhere. But I really must strongly encourage the kids on the come-up to continue mastering new tools. It's not
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by warcher 12y ago
It's always surprising how often interviewers fall back on "API Jeopardy" when trying to make hiring decisions. Maybe it's just because my career hasn't really allowed the luxury of getting deep on any technical st
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by warcher 12y ago
I really am a fan of the idea of all these crowd-sourced equity ideas that are getting hatched. As a boots on the ground business guy, however, the potential for fraud and abuse is staggering. I have seen things go down with 'accredit
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by warcher 13y ago
Every company has their faults. Apple is so much worse than Microsoft, business practices wise, in nearly every way. But they're a minority, and they compensate for their rapaciousness with a level of quality and attention to detail th
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by warcher 13y ago
I wish he mentioned the massive dumping of antibiotics into our food supply via feedlots, et cetera. You think the fact that all the meat we eat is swimming in antibiotics for its entire life has something to do with this antibiotic resista
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by warcher 13y ago
True. Many days its much, much less. Four hours is a really good day when I was focused and cranking. Most problems that I can just crank out some code to solve (without any real thought behind it) I've automated out of existence.
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by warcher 13y ago
Prepare the ax, then. I've been tracking my day to day for several years now, and four hours of hands on the keyboard coding is a damn good day. Don't take my word for it--rescue time is free and very enlightening.
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by warcher 13y ago
Absurd how?
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by warcher 13y ago
I could make an equally compelling argument for being both an ultra 10x super ass kicker and a total loser. It depends on the day, really. I'm probably having an ass kicker week this week. It's difficult to be certain, as keeping
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by warcher 13y ago
I don't do too good with 'motivation' or willpower. I do good with habit. For me, motivation dies and willpower fails. Most of the shit that worked out well for me is stuff that I just kept with. We had a real good day at
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by warcher 13y ago
Do you have a mailing list or something so I can get development news? Cause I'm interested in hearing how this develops, the website is a little sparse still, and I absolutely will not remember to come back in a month, haha.
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by warcher 13y ago
Formal verification of software and hardware systems relies heavily on mathematics, as well as an obvious core of computer science. (Not 'number' math, per se, but logic math.) Static analysis of programs, proofs of correctness,
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by warcher 13y ago
The dev with technical chops and 'soft' people skills, e.g. communication with the business side of the shop , management, etc. is a valuable commodity. I think you are bringing more to the table than you give yourself credit for

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