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by xirium 19y ago
From the book Eat That Frog! - 21 Great Ways To Stop Procrastinating And Get More Done in Less Time: Doing something is better than doing nothing. Make a list of five tasks. Order the tasks by strict priority. Work your way through the list
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by xirium 19y ago
No, no, no. That's distinctly different. You use both hands :)
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by xirium 19y ago
Well spotted, folks. Thankfully the <a rel="nofollow"> handles that problem.
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by xirium 19y ago
The Aeron mesh is like sitting on a tennis racket. If you're an overweight executive then you'll definitely avoid moist seat syndrome. However, if you're an underweight geek then its not so good.
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by xirium 19y ago
Congratulations to Intel, you're only 15 months behind Sun ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1 ).
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by xirium 19y ago
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. -- Jerome K. Jerome Whenever I get someone watching me performing a task, I quote this. They stop watching shortly after they get the meaning.
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by xirium 19y ago
The requirements specification can pass from the customer/user (CU), to the customer's manager (CM), to a customer advocate (CA), to a business analyst (BA), to a project manager (PM), to a development team (DM) to the Developers. Well, a m
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by xirium 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=112421
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "All we have to do is get 1% of the market." There's two fallacies in this argument. The first is that getting 1% is sufficient. The second that getting 1% is possible. I've seen the first technique working but it isn't su
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by xirium 19y ago
This is definitely on-topic. We've had JavaScript gotchas before ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115914 ).
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by xirium 19y ago
No idea. However, it specifically affected B-trees in memory. A search revealed US Patent 5283894: Lockless concurrent B-tree index meta access method for cached nodes ( http://www.patentmonkey.com/PM/PatentID/5283894.aspx ) which may or
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by xirium 19y ago
"Pen-ta-ho" - and that's direct from a Pentaho employee.
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by xirium 19y ago
A friend tried cyberbegging about 10 years ago. It appears to be more successful nowadays.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "It's plenty obvious that free commerce is not a zero-sum game. I go to the liquor store to buy beer. I buy five bottles of Staropolskie Zlote for about ten bucks. I value the beer more than I value the ten bucks -- else I
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "just the cost of changing to lead-free solder stands right now at $280 BILLION and climbing. That cost is borne by all of us." Suddenly, getting 20, end of line, lead solder, crystal oscillators for 4.5 pence each doesn't
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by xirium 19y ago
Pentaho's Mondrian datacube solution is quite nice, especially so if you like Java and XML. Unfortunately, it may have a limited market because, in many cases, a bespoke solution requires equal or less effort and gives more control.
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by xirium 19y ago
In the book Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, he described his hobby of cracking combination safes.
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by xirium 19y ago
I'm (slowly) reading Kurt Goedel's incompleteness theorem. In 1931, he developed his own notation and used it to concatenate strings of symbols, merely as a building block in a larger proof. This was at least 10 years before programmers wou
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by xirium 19y ago
If you aggregate jobs from other sources then be prepared for absolutely awful data quality. Firstly, recruiters don't understand their specialism ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=112521 ). I've lost count of adverts for "open sauce"
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by xirium 19y ago
That would explain the following quote: From the article: "I put in two, maybe three hours a day on the site, and the checks pour in," he says. "What's not to like?" My first reaction was that if you spend three hours per day and earn a hug
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by xirium 19y ago
Dogbert recommends golf because it is on the intersection of people with too much time, too much money and no taste. I'm sure that they'd click on your ads.
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by xirium 19y ago
There's a coastal bay town in the UK called Brighton where furniture moving is very profitable. This may be because distance travelled is very small and this allows a greater number of tasks to be completed without diminishing value.
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by xirium 19y ago
Some people keep using FaceBook because it doesn't easily let you delete your account and your peers have an expectation that your account should be current. In the long term this may work against FaceBook. The popularity of a social networ
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by xirium 19y ago
No, but in my last job, I ran an internal FaceBook Haters mailing list. Predictably, the people who worked the hardest didn't have time to create a FaceBook account. So, every other member of the mailing list was a member of FaceBook and di
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by xirium 19y ago
This would be circumstancial evidence for school being a popularity contest ( http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html ).
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by xirium 19y ago
$15 billion / 50 million users = $300 per user. That's a bargain compared to GeoCities, which, I believe was purchased by Yahoo for $1100 per user.
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by xirium 19y ago
Surely, it is more like Cobol. Regardless, assembley and Cobol are quite primative.
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by xirium 19y ago
I'm tempted to compile other applications with jemalloc
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by xirium 19y ago
As you've considered, compulsory voting on its own doesn't solve the problem of disenfranchised voters. In Australia, I believe that they have compulsory voting and preference voting. So, people who are forced to vote will choose candidates
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by xirium 19y ago
Enthusiasm will get you very far. I've seen young, euthusiastic people without much knowledge or intelligence exceed the ability of old cynics.

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