workaholic

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   by workaholic 13y ago

   Agreed. After reading this piece I can safely say the writer is somebody I would never want to work for. I can only hope this level of antagonism never flies in tech.
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   by workaholic 13y ago

   a+++++++++++ would read again very disrutpive
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   by workaholic 13y ago

   These are almost all true for most people in tech, male or female.
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   by workaholic 13y ago

   More specifically they think all programmers are Jay Leno.
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   by workaholic 13y ago

   Agreed. This sounds like an early existential crisis.
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   by workaholic 13y ago

   Trying to take as objective a view here as possible... The present hacker zeitgeist disagrees with your viewpoint. Your post came at a particularly bad time, as this post is fresh on the collective's mind: http://sethbannon
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   by workaholic 13y ago

   "...nearly no one agrees with you on" But at least you have Giorgio Tsoukalos.
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   by workaholic 13y ago

   Would that I could offer you a job, but I'm curious, how did you "fail?" Did you just have trouble finding another job in London to keep you afloat?
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   by workaholic 13y ago

   I went to jQuery after HTML/CSS. It's been extremely useful, and it was pretty simple to pick up.
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    by workaholic 13y ago

    Was it "Lockhart's Lament" ? http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsL...
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    by workaholic 13y ago

    I liked the original idea for this better (when the GiantBomb podcast pitched the idea of doing this for Facebook friends) but I'm just glad to see somebody implemented some form of this.