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by zenbowman 12y ago
Don't see why it is cheap to take a deal. I'm not a coupon addict, but my wife is one. Since she discovered Groupon she refuses to buy anything not on sale. I think its pretty smart, I'd do the same but it takes too much time
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by zenbowman 12y ago
This is a great point. Open source communities are ones in which you are very unlikely to see any sexism, as most people in these communities neither see each other, nor have a very clear way of identifying gender, and generally hold egalit
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Ignoring all the drama, the best arguments I've seen for TDD come from the book, "The Practice of Programming" by Kernighan and Pike. The entirety of Chapter 6 is dedicated to testing, and is the least dogmatic and most usefu
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by zenbowman 12y ago
We have a fair number of ex-Amazonians at work and they all complain about the work culture there, so I do believe it may well be that bad.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Most of the plants and animals that I eat have been created through selective breeding (a biological process), not synthesis (a chemical process).
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by zenbowman 12y ago
It is a food, and is designed to be part of a diet. Given how poor our knowledge is of nutrition, and how it is still very much an area of active research, I'm very skeptical of any new "foods" that are produced chemically in
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Yes, but web technologies generally forbid you from doing anything remotely innovative because of the way they are designed. Most "web apps" work worse than most apps we had two decades earlier, both in terms of design and perform
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Yes, I'm always intrigued by that term. So they want a programmer who is into sex, drugs and rock and roll and shows up to work once in a while, always late and never sober?
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by zenbowman 12y ago
The number one reason is that you learn more when you experiment and try doing it on your own. Same reason Ritchie and Thompson didn't continue to try to improve MULTICS.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
That's not the point. The point is that if a non-internet taxi company did the same thing, they'd be in legal trouble. Even the playing field by lifting restrictions, or apply them evenly.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
It is shortsighted to think there is nothing we can learn from this. There are certainly things we can learn. 1) A good lawyer is worth a 1000 tweets. 2) Getting deeply romantically involved with coworkers carries serious risks, whether or
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Sequence diagrams are extremely useful. The only problem with UML is that it was used as a method of intellectual masturbation by people who love massive class hierarchies. There's a lot of good stuff in UML, the problem is that the pe
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by zenbowman 12y ago
I think its attributable to fact that we are social animals. Politics is just the art of socializing at a large scale.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Good. Lawbreakers should be prosecuted. If the law is unjust, then change the law for all - don't allow some people to get away with it just because they are "tech companies" and continue to oppress the rest with the laws.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
We invest a lot emotionally in our businesses too, but yes, at most we'd have to make those taxes conditional. But then of course, if homeowners get a break and business owners do not, most businesses will move out of cities and other
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by zenbowman 12y ago
I think this is far more reasonable.
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by zenbowman 12y ago
This is a pretty inhumane way of looking at property. It's not just about optimization of real estate, when people buy a home, they plan their lives around it. They raise their children in it. There's a huge emotional investment i
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by zenbowman 12y ago
Yeah, I was never aware of a sysadmin who couldn't code. Generally, a sysadmin has slightly different skills from a developer - they might code in a highly imperative style and always keeping the actual machine/system being target
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by zenbowman 13y ago
Why would you envy vim users? Larry Tesler would cry if he knew of this strange vim-obsession that has been creeping up all over the interwebz. I use Emacs and IntelliJ, both modeless editors, and I've never understood the obsession wi
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by zenbowman 13y ago
Looks great, looking forward to dive into this.
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by zenbowman 13y ago
In case someone is looking for Hamming's Art of Science and Engineering book: http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEn... And the entire series of lectures is on youtube: https://www
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by zenbowman 13y ago
Another case of reinventing the wheel and calling it something new. This is just a reimplementation of what used to be called the "blackboard architecture". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_system I do
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by zenbowman 13y ago
There have been billions of dollars poured into government software that runs on Windows. Billions more poured into support, verification and validation of that software. Switching would be very, very, expensive - and its not clear that it
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by zenbowman 13y ago
For those of us who were around during the 2001 web bust, we know that those "web dev" jobs will quickly disappear when the bubble bursts. That's exactly what happened to the "HTML and XML developers" around 2003, a
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by zenbowman 13y ago
In 3 years, a very intelligent person should be almost ready for an absolute entry-level position. In a year or two you should be ready to intern. A more likely timespan, if you want to produce good developers, is five years with four years
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by zenbowman 13y ago
I love this. These kinds of large, moonshot projects are exactly what university research labs need to work on to move us forward.
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by zenbowman 13y ago
I honestly haven't seen a lot of this kind of job posting of late. Ten years ago this was the norm, but I just don't see it any more.
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by zenbowman 13y ago
Or, free: http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEn... But better yet, all his lectures from which the book is derived are on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD4b-52jtos&l
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by zenbowman 13y ago
Alan Kay made an excellent point. In order not to dilute it, I quote him verbatim. "The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When
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by zenbowman 13y ago
Work hard for your boss, but learn to, and intentionally practice communicating your work to a wider audience, so you are not tied to the fate of your boss or company. Speak at meetups, conferences, take an active role in mentoring, and dev

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