enry_straker

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by enry_straker 9y ago
As chuck McM said, start looking for a problem, rather than an idea but i would like to add this caveat: 1) Look at the background of you 3 guys, and list out problems which were being worked around in the areas of your business development
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by enry_straker 10y ago
Read wodehouse and watched Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister to learn english in the 80's
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by enry_straker 10y ago
Age. Grow old.
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by enry_straker 11y ago
Assembly was always an option, though a painful one.
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by enry_straker 11y ago
I Second that. A Fantastic book which inspired me to go into science.
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by enry_straker 11y ago
No Asimov, the greatest writer of books on General Science for the public?
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by enry_straker 12y ago
Damn. It's always nice to see things i was working towards 15 years ago, now coming into fruition.
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by enry_straker 12y ago
A package manager is generally not part of the language per se and should not be part of the language, but rather be part of the tooling ecosystem around it. Don't get me wrong. A de facto package manager is extremely important for any
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by enry_straker 12y ago
Great. I have been streem-ing for more than 15 years now. :-)
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by enry_straker 12y ago
IronPython and IronRuby never really had corporate backing - and the few resources devoted to them had been moved away fairly quickly. Thus their fate today. The difference, this time, seems to be high-level policy and a complete change of
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by enry_straker 12y ago
They are public officials and those are public contact details.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Wow. What an inappropriate analogy. Way to go.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Sadly, we all do.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
FTFY People are good sometimes, and we don't give enough credit when that happens.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Why would you care where people learned programming from? If you know how to spot a good programmer with a real interest in programming, what does it matter where he started? Only people who don't know how to spot or attract a good pro
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Now, the courts get to decide how to run your business?
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by enry_straker 13y ago
He was probably venting. Sadly, outsourcing is here to stay and is decided upon by CxO level folks with little to no input from the tech staff.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Isn't the sample size too small for such generalizations? The so-called "senior" guy just comes across as a bully. Nothing more. Nothing less. It also indicates that the indian side did not have a good filtering system in pla
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by enry_straker 13y ago
How many organizations that outsource a) Send senior management to personally oversee the outsourced work in india ( at least initially )? b) Send detailed SRS (Software Requirement Specification) to the outsourced team? c) Personally inter
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by enry_straker 13y ago
This is awe inspiring. Programming is a hand-on activity, and the best way to learn programming is by doing it every day, in every way, till you can do it in your sleep.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
If you knew all this why ask a specific question? I am really trying hard to take you seriously and not treat you like a troll. As far as supporting code written by someone else years ago, that's just the nature of programming. If you
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Similar to what? Here's a link to the open source linux version: http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ Also check out this site for more info: http://www.open-iscsi.org/ The Windows DDK is a good source
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Passive aggressively imagining things and projecting it on others is going to get you nowhere. If you have something useful or even your own opinion to contribute, do so. I see that you have nothing to contribute except with your imaginatio
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Really. I guess you are entitled to your own imagination.
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by enry_straker 13y ago
I would have gone with object orientation myself, and a de jure standard library ( but then i am an old bloke from the days before C had a std lib :-) But i have to admit that most python programs are a joy to read ( thanks to guido's
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Right-o. Good to go with open ended questions. It's hard for candidates to memorize answers. Sadly i see lots of these kinds of idiotic strategies on their part :-) When i started my first company in 95 or thereabouts, i remember a per
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Wow. Dude, you really need to learn how to parse english. 1) When i said, "i don't buy that..." i was referring to people blaming the collage or university for their own lack of knowledge. In today's world where the inte
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by enry_straker 13y ago
No he didn't. Don't just make shit up. And, by the way, the constitution of india enjoins every indian to be treated equally. If you don't understand that concept, and only view life through casteist eyes, then you are in for
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by enry_straker 13y ago
I actually blame the people who hire such idiots. Their lack of knowledge is not the problem. Their lack of curiosity is. Their lack of self-motivation is. Even for "crank the handle, produce output" type of jobs, it's a bad
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by enry_straker 13y ago
Also blame the students themselves. It really doesn't matter what collages they attended, how poor their teacher was etc. The internet is the biggest teacher of all. With institutions like Khan Academy and MITx and Google and coursera

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