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by SheepSlapper 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbir_Rahman I got both the smallest Wikipedia page I've ever seen, and the one with worst "words I understand" to "words that make me go 'huh?'" ratio I
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by SheepSlapper 12y ago
He used the same title and wrote on the same topic. That's where the similarities end. Shanley says: * Get company funds diverted to the cause * Start a feminist bookclub for men * Get better management training in your company * Get w
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by SheepSlapper 12y ago
For the record, I don't like either piece (cards on the table, I don't really care for Sara's either). Jeff thinks we shouldn't drink at work functions, because men + women + booze = sexism or something, and Shanley want
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by SheepSlapper 12y ago
Which I find humorous, because I just finished reading both, and the only thing the two articles share are their titles. Shanley's article is written with an actively aggressive tone towards men, while Jeff's seems much more reaso
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by SheepSlapper 12y ago
This article is a long winded way of saying either: a) Steal a badge b) Social engineer your way into the event, or c) Social engineer a free badge
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by SheepSlapper 12y ago
Totally. There hasn't been an incentive for them to upgrade, so they haven't. As more people get into the space and do cool things on top of POS systems that play nice with developers, they might be more inclined to switch/up
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by SheepSlapper 12y ago
Probably the biggest problem is that documentation doesn't exist, is wrong, or is the crappy "GetItems returns Items" variety. POS companies will often charge you a large sum of money in order to work with their systems. I th
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by SheepSlapper 12y ago
I couldn't agree more. A few years back I wrote integrations for various Micros/Aloha POS systems, and it was painful. The industry as a whole seems to be stuck in the 90's.
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by SheepSlapper 12y ago
I've still got some of their Spooning[0] shirts from an April 1st of yesteryear. Good stuff. [0] https://bitbucket.org/spooning/
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
I kept waiting for him to get on the apps and try to book the same places himself, and when it didn't happen I was kind of disappointed. It's like you say, if he got approved then there was definitely some racism at play. If not,
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
You hit the nail on the head. It's the programmer's responsibility to stay relevant, not some company's. But the best companies will take an active role in ensuring their programmers stay up to date (since it's in the
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Any time you distinguish a group based on gender by definition it's sexist, plain and simple. Is that bad ? Arguably not (then again, some people would say it's an issue). Once you start to give one group preferential treatment b
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
They can point at a house and say "I built that" even if someone else did, and how are you going to know the difference? The same way as you verify that someone in software did the work they said: put in the due diligence. That pa
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Is anyone else tired of being assigned homework when applying for jobs? In both this and the author's previous article on hiring, he mentions giving people tasks to complete by a certain deadline as part of the hiring process. For some
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
I disagree that silence should be the default, I think that whatever the majority of people in the environment want should be the default, with the understanding that we should try to accommodate everyone. If I was the one developer out of
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Anecdotal Devil's Advocate: The most productive I've ever been in a job was when I shared an open office totaling around 500 square feet with 7 other devs. There was always something blasting on the TV in that office. There were
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
I found that out the hard way. Six months ago I got a job in SF that paid me 50% more, and moved to the East Bay where I pay almost 3x the rent (for the same square footage, in a much crappier neighborhood). I could buy a nice house where
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Seems like to do a good code review, the reviewer needs to know the scope of the code they're looking at, and where it fits in the big picture. Hell, maybe even the big picture too. If you outsource code reviews, you lose that perspe
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
I don't have an ATM card either, and it's not that bad. Yes, there's maybe a 5 minute wait to speak to a teller on occasion, but all it takes is a photo ID (and sometimes my bank issued credit card, depending on what I'm
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
I switched to credit cards a few years back for the same reason. My debit card got compromised and about $4k was missing from my account right around the time I was supposed to pay tuition. It was a giant pain in the butt, but eventually th
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Get a new bank? Only transfer money into the debit account when you're going to withdraw that amount right then? Or don't use cash if you can avoid it?
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of assholes on the internet[1]. You can either choose to let it get to you, or you can recognize it for what it is and get on with your life. [1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03&#x2F
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
As someone who's addicted to both, I can't really tell if this revelation is good, bad, or otherwise.
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
I can't agree more. Legal isn't the same as moral, and conflating the two is pretty disingenuous. My professional goal (hell, my life goal) is to work on things that make a positive difference in the world. Laws don't neces
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Maybe 2.7 or 3.1 of the ACM code? 2.7 Improve public understanding of computing and its consequences. Computing professionals have a responsibility to share technical knowledge with the public by encouraging understanding of computing, i
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Same here (2006-2011), and it was actually pretty fun to talk about the ethical issues that can arise in our profession(s).
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
IEEE Code of Ethics: http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html ACM Code of Ethics: http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics So, the standards exist but people choose to ign
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
"en English professor" Sorry buddy, gotta downvote you now. Based on that typo I can tell that this comment lacks quality and doesn't add to the discourse.
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
Good on em. I used to work for an E La Carte competitor that used iPads instead of Android devices, and it's a tough market right now. There exists a lot of resistance from the waitstaff who see tabletop devices as job killers, and cus
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by SheepSlapper 13y ago
A lot of people commenting seem to think that salary is the only form of compensation in a job, as well. I'd gladly trade a few thousand dollars a year to be excited to go to work, with people I enjoy, instead of working a corporate

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