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Cross Platform Compiler and Runtime(code.zynga.com)
2 points by blu3jack 13y ago|0 comments
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Even better: for years Barnes & Noble bought out the contract of every location that Borders tried to open in NYC, and opened a B&N there for the exact same reason -- and also to keep Borders out of NYC. In the rest of the country t
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Agreed. Totally awesome cellist. Fantastic use of looping to create 16-32 part cello pieces live, on stage, as a one woman show. And yes, she's hot, in a way that's at once kind of manly and very feminine. I don't know quite how to describe
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Which some tinpot dictator might just try to do.
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by blu3jack 14y ago
I think the interviewee made a very solid case that there is a hiring gap in the area of experienced specialists. He seemed to think that was the major chunk of the "skill gap" employers complain of. I have seen that. On the other hand, he
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Ironically, it was "rethinking digg" and "rebuilding it from scratch" that killed it in the first place.
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Infrastructure is a Relative Term(blog.overclocked.com)
1 points by blu3jack 14y ago|0 comments
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by blu3jack 14y ago
I have seen this product in operation, and I can definitively say that the way to increase your influence score is to post lolcat pictures.
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Sure, and some jobs I had more influence and others I had less. But at the end of the day, it's not your baby. You don't have to live with consequences, and you don't get to. I eventually went back to a full time day job. Yes, I miss th
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The Art of the Comment: In Search of a Better Software Documentation System(blog.overclocked.com)
2 points by blu3jack 14y ago|0 comments
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by blu3jack 14y ago
It's a big topic. To the author's point, the role of free time changes a bit once you have been able to plan your free time over a period of years rather than months. It takes on a very different rhythm. Beyond that, probably the biggest si
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Yeah, of course. I wasn't shocked that they could find my name, only that they would -- that doesn't happen in steerage.
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Zynga's games have become a short-hand for immoral game design. I understand why some people don't like the games, but I'm sad to see this go into popular culture as a truism. It's cheap, it's sloppy, and it's ignorant. The reality of any g
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by blu3jack 14y ago
I flew first class the other day. I don't usually. I found myself startled -- and not pleasantly so -- when the flight attended used my name when asking whether I might like something to drink.
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Would love to hear the follow up after a couple of years. I did freelancing for six years & the benefits and drawbacks both become a lot more starkly drawn -- & somewhat different -- over time.
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by blu3jack 14y ago
I'm less security paranoid; I would be content with universally accessable/syncable cloud storage at a reasonable price that simply worked and wasn't tied to some particular corporate entity's efforts to monopolize some market or another.
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by blu3jack 14y ago
I think there's something else interesting here in the relationship between engineering managers and project managers. The author writes: "It's been undone by a continuing erosion of responsibility accorded to managers." We have introduced
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by blu3jack 14y ago
I think the author understands the depth of this acceptance of Agile when he writes: 'Today they’re surrounded a vast army of scrum-masters and evangelists, recycling (competently, mostly) the same insights, and an even larger crowd perform
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by blu3jack 14y ago
When I've done it, I've done it as a status log at the bottom of the README, or in a separate file in the project. But I think your level of detail is just right: it doesn't look ridiculously time consuming, and yet it captures the real con
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by blu3jack 14y ago
I'm not quite sure what the point of this blog post is. I guess it's to re-start his blog, and restarting a blog often lacks a good hook, and may be heavy on the backstory. Hopefully this is a starting point, not a destination.
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Call me cynical, but I wonder (A) what is the real motivation behind this, & (B) how seriously is this campaign going to be pursued in unfriendly terrain? I suppose the Singapore test will be interesting as it is some homosexual acts ar
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by blu3jack 14y ago
I like it. I have done some things like this in the past, but not in as much detail as yours. Very inspiring!
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Seems ok. Not sure it's the "answer" to making sense of a codebase, but it's certainly addresses part of the problem. Why do you number your files, e.g. 003parse.cc?
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Thanks for the link, that's pretty interesting. Do you use a modification of this now, or have you simply codified that approach internally and commit intuitively?
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Perhaps, although most examples of literate programming that I have run into tend to be so verbose as to be equally daunting and off-putting in a completely different way. Another great topic: the art of the comment!
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by blu3jack 14y ago
And a great way to procrastinate from tackling the next leg of the project is to blog about it, post a link to that blog on hacker news, and then obsessively watch yourself bounce around the hacker news front page on a slow Saturday afterno
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by blu3jack 14y ago
Welcome to the debased state of science journalism. Anyone with half a brain should feel completely insulted by this b.s.
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by blu3jack 14y ago
It sounds too public. What if I would prefer to date without everyone in the world knowing everything about me & my dating life???
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All the Ganglia. The Nerves. On leaving a programming project unfinished.(blog.overclocked.com)
45 points by blu3jack 14y ago|15 comments
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by blu3jack 14y ago
The opposite is true: it was penny-foolish and pound-wise. As Glenn pointed out -- the door desks were an expensive and ergonomicaly unsound symbol that told a true story about frugality and the relationship between the company and the empl

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