ColinCera

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by ColinCera 12y ago
What is naive is to assume without evidence that the actions of a handful of companies that employ a tiny percentage of software developers had a significant impact on average salaries nationwide. In the absence of any such evidence, it mak
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by ColinCera 12y ago
What "wage-fixing" are you talking about? Are you referring to the brief period in which a handful of tech companies colluded to tamp down salaries and cross-recruiting? Because that involved only a tiny percentage of the softwa
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Every problem he mentions, except the timezone difference, is exactly the same when you're outsourcing to large IT consulting companies in the US. The only difference is the US companies charge 5x-20x more for their crappy deliverables
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I believe they're attacking the challenge from the opposite direction: Gmail search can be described as "okay" and Google works tirelessly to make the main Google.com search experience worse and worse -- eventually they will
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Is "Stuyvesant High School" the new code name for Madoff Academy? I don't believe this for a second. I considered believing it, for one second, but immediately realized it has to be bullshit.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
There's quite a lot of disability fraud going on, some of it downright shocking. Example #1: A couple of weeks ago, my brother, an orthopedist, had a 26-year-old man come in for an ankle sprain. In the course of working up the ankle --
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by ColinCera 12y ago
A few things I can recommend: (1) Switch to the Colemak keyboard layout -- it significantly reduces the work your fingers have to do. (2) Vary your mousing devices/behaviors. I love Kensington trackballs, and they're much easier o
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by ColinCera 12y ago
It's a good thing Chris Hughes likes to break things, because he's irreparably broken The New Republic. The people who read TNR (myself included) do so specifically because it's been a bastion of traditional journalism, and m
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Here's another ideas site you might find useful: http://www.ideaswatch.com/
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I'm so tired of whiny babies screaming because they can't have everything their precious little selves desire for free, free, FREE! Now the whiny babies are also developing potty-mouths, which is not an improvement. I look forward
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by ColinCera 12y ago
You can, via Google, but I wouldn't bother — it's an egregiously stupid and shallow piece of link-bait.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
The one in the middle is 24", the two on the sides are each 22". I do not limit line length intentionally, but it's quite rare that a line of code would go over 70 characters or so, and that's good enough for me.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
>But I guess if you didn't count @mentions in the limit you'd find people adding lots of people to a conversation in a spammy way. I'm not really sure how to fix that. Simple: cap the number of @mentions in a tweet at 5, o
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by ColinCera 12y ago
You're right. Now that I think about it, the majority of Twitter user probably happens on phones and tablets, where there is no out-of-feed real estate for advertising, and a smaller percentage of people on desktops use a native app in
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Yes, but my point is that ads in the empty space around the central feed would not be "overwhelming" to anyone except chronic complainers. Ad blocking is a problem for all ad-supported web sites. There are heavy-handed ways to t
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I've never understood why Twitter doesn't run way more ads than they do. When I view my Twitter timeline in a browser there's an enormous amount of unused space on both sides of the timeline and it would not bother me one l
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I'd pretty much given up on AWS for compute and moved most everything to Linode and some bare metal servers, but this service looks very compelling for discrete compute tasks. The ability to pay only for the fractions of seconds actual
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Is endvr supposed to be short for Endeavor? I pronounced it as End Over, then instantly converted it to Bend Over, which actually seems like an excellent name for a job-hunting site... From the employer/recruiter side, I'm curious
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by ColinCera 12y ago
It's worth noting that Iceland is currently in the midst of a large ongoing volcanic eruption, its largest eruption in centuries. Large numbers of people find themselves having to hide indoors to escape dangerous gases depending on whi
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I was attempting sarcasm; I may have failed.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
It's great to see Amazon using its huge profits to fund this kind of bleeding edge technology. (Maybe someday engineers will figure out how to squeeze this functionality into handheld devices.)
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by ColinCera 12y ago
“We envision a system where the programmer writes a few of lines of code, hits a button and the rest of the code appears. And not only that, the rest of the code should work seamlessly with the code that’s already been written.” I'm sk
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Rice University leads $11M effort in big data software analytics(news.rice.edu)
50 points by ColinCera 12y ago|33 comments
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by ColinCera 12y ago
It seems extremely odd to me that this author would write an article lamenting the lack of a HyperCard-like development tool without mentioning LiveCode, which is basically exactly what he's talking about — a modern, thriving successor
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I didn't think I'd find this kind of site very useful, but after playing with it for a couple minutes I quite like it. Once you've implemented a few more features (e.g., options for filtering, combining, hiding, etc.), I coul
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Those prior arguments are hardly "the exact same" and at any rate the fact that people have previously made similar arguments about other forms of technology says absolutely nothing about the merits of the present argument about a
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by ColinCera 12y ago
I wonder how much money The Simpsons producers have spent over the years responding to this type of utterly ridiculous nuisance suit. I bet it's probably greater than $50 million. Has anyone ever legitimately/successfully sued The
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by ColinCera 12y ago
Unluckily those laws are basically unenforceable and age discrimination in software development is rampant.
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by ColinCera 12y ago
If you don't want to worry about database/server administration and scaling issues, I'd recommend looking at Cloudant. It's quite inexpensive, takes virtually no administration effort, scales automatically, and is fast a
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by ColinCera 12y ago
No. Fact: the insurance industry dislikes innovation, and innovators dislike the insurance industry. Insurance seems ripe for disruption, but by its very nature it is extremely risk-averse -- and that's not something that will change

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