loopbit

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by loopbit 11y ago
Maybe a bit off-topic, but I have a relatively close example of what you are talking about. An older friend of mine got together with his childhood friends and built a retirement home, they essentially built a small building with small, pri
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by loopbit 11y ago
There's an article I read a few years ago that I thought was spot on on why programmers tend to be seen as such: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2527153/it-management/o... Personally, I don't b
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by loopbit 11y ago
Actually, there would be a (very) small piece of evidence. The TSA-approved locks I have to travel to the US have a small red ring. If the lock is opened with a TSA master key, the red ring appears, it has to be opened with its own key for
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by loopbit 11y ago
Years ago I read the story of a professional photographer that used that trick to carry his -very expensive- equipment without fear that the airline would loose it. Aha, not the original text I read, but same idea: https://www.sc
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by loopbit 11y ago
ORMs are written by people and sometime have bugs. Also, they don't always return the same result for all the database managers. Both this facts can bite you in the ass if you are not careful. It's great to run development tests o
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by loopbit 11y ago
Related to what you are saying, I read somewhere, many years ago, that the best thing to do in cases where you feel like being grumpy or dismissing something that was asked for was to, instead, ask 'why'. The reasoning is that som
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by loopbit 11y ago
Except that google 'banned' the use of windows internally a few years ago unless you had a really, really good reason for it. Not sure what's the status of that ban (nor I care), but will skew the numbers enough to invalidate
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by loopbit 11y ago
I don't consider myself "top talent", so I won't comment on my own experience through the interview process. But I do know that I don't want to work for google. Hell, I'm happier doing my own thing. I also kn
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by loopbit 11y ago
For basic things like model checking, I'd recommend NetFabb model checker[0] and/or uploading the file to Shapeways[1]. The first will try to do basic model checking and close any holes it finds. Shapeways uploading process will g
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by loopbit 11y ago
The problem I see with these labels is when you try and apply them globally. Looking at your 'imprints' (I like the term), you are probably a couple of years older than me, but me being born in europe, the list of imprints and exp
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by loopbit 11y ago
Most of my experience with startups, including my own, is that the technical team is usually built around 1-2 intelligent people (and I say intelligent, not geniuses), usually without a lot of experience and a lot of cheap labor (free inter
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by loopbit 11y ago
I think that the parent is actually referring to design time. I find as I grow older that I program in short bursts. I spend quite a bit of time thinking about what I want to do. I scribble a couple of diagrams on paper to make sure that th
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by loopbit 11y ago
I think you are overestimating companies... For most of my career (12 companies, 3 of them my own) it has been easier to get hired at a higher position in a different place than being promoted internally. When you are applying for a new, hi
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by loopbit 11y ago
You are right, I had assumed that it's capabilities were similar to MySql (don't ask me why). Still, I would describe most of those features as 'basic', as you really need some support for all that to use full-text searc
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by loopbit 11y ago
Most of my family (parents, uncles, grandparents...) have a glass of wine with dinner. Once in a blue moon they'll drink a glass of whiskey or something like that. My anecdotal observations actually show the opposite, most pleople drin
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by loopbit 11y ago
Sure, if you only need full text search there's no need to use Solr or ElasticSearch. I've never tried with PostgreSql, but I noticed the same drop in performance in MySql at the 1-2 million documents count, although full text sea
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by loopbit 11y ago
I typed 'earl grey language' and the first three results refer to this, the HN article is in fifth position. The same as typing '24 tv series' will mostly return relevant results.
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by loopbit 11y ago
It's not just you. I don't know how are things in the US, in Europe not many people even know they exist. 10 years ago I was doing some work with biometric identification and it turned out these guys had an open source system for
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by loopbit 11y ago
I loved the idea and got my invite also late 2014. And then I discovered that you needed a US address and an iPhone, none of which I have. I hope that, someday, they (or someone similar) will come to Europe.
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by loopbit 11y ago
A properly trained AI would have recognized Obama in that picture much faster than I did. As for the foot in the scale, I only noticed when the author mentioned it. So much for the 'quick glance'. Which brings me to another matter
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by loopbit 11y ago
Although I agree with you, I'd like to add a caveat: Pivots. The idea you end up implementing is rarely the idea you started with. Almost every startup pivots several times during its lifetime. Usually they are small pivots, small twea
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by loopbit 11y ago
I left college about 12 years ago and I use physics and linear algebra nearly every day, along with trigonometry and a bunch of other branches of math. The thing for me is that I didn't use it until 4 years ago and now I find myself go
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by loopbit 11y ago
Not only that, as you grow and the type of jobs you look for changes, so does your CV and the stuff you have to put there... Actually, thinking of it like SEO is pretty accurate. Now let's see if I can make Stephen Fry tweet my CV...
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by loopbit 11y ago
As a manager I had years ago said: "Dumb down your CV so that the HR people will understand it, but not so much the hiring manager think you are stupid"
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by loopbit 11y ago
For me, that final letter shows how little they care about their students and how all that process was about covering their asses.
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by loopbit 11y ago
> There would be probably money in translating COBOL to Java, but maybe there are solutions already? There is, Proyect NACA ( http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1915205/Automa... ). Have
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by loopbit 11y ago
As usual, the Three page is less than helpful... I don't know if it's my plan (Classic Flex - Max), I can't get to the terms and conditions and I can't check if tethering is enabled for my account All I can say is that I
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by loopbit 11y ago
I have Three in Ireland with the same deal and yes, tethering is allowed.
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by loopbit 11y ago
I might be missing something here, but I'd say that you are following exactly Linus' advice :)
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by loopbit 11y ago
I think Linus' comment is more on the lines of picking an endian-ness and sticking with it rather than having to check the specific stream and swap bytes conditionally. He specifically mentions cases where the data is stored in BE and

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