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by pudakai 13y ago
1) I really don't know. Maybe he had a stockpile? Maybe it really was color, but the room was somewhat dark/shaded, and I'm only remembering/assuming it as B&W? 2) We used to do a lot, lot, lot worse than that in th
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by pudakai 13y ago
Yeah, I thought what I titled it was clear and informative and as author of the article, the Orange Coast title was literary rather than descriptive. FWIW, I originally titled this "The Crack Of A Twig" and we were rolling w/
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by pudakai 13y ago
When you dig into it, nobody really knows how many victims there were. His cryptic tally sheet seemed to indicate 67 or so, but some investigators believe he may have killed 100 or more. For instance, when they caught him, the front passen
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by pudakai 13y ago
In retrospect, I'm pretty convinced he was going to try to get me to undress myself at his escalating suggestion w/out him ever touching me. He was extremely careful about not touching, "accidentally" brushing, etc, and
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by pudakai 13y ago
Hi Rob, hope all is well. I don't think any of us will ever forget those Adrenaline days.
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Center of the universe(orangecoast.com)
424 points by pudakai 13y ago|115 comments
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by pudakai 14y ago
I spent a year in Idaho years ago. I was really surprised at how smoggy/dirty the winter air gets in some of these Mountain west places that are prone to inversions. On top of that, woodburning in fireplaces/stoves is also really popular i
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by pudakai 14y ago
I thought the first chart, the number of commits per language, was interesting.
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by pudakai 14y ago
I don't think that 1 person in 1000 could do what i do no matter how many ruby/clojure classes they took. Sorry if that sounds cocky, but whatever. Programming is incidental to what I do, which is figure out how to use the deterministic exe
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by pudakai 14y ago
Don't leave until you close on other job. As others have noted, your value plunges in the eyes of other hiring folks even though you feel you are the same person. You also are perceived to be less in a position of strength on compensation
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by pudakai 14y ago
I turned down a job w/Microsoft in the early 90's with great options. Interestingly enough, they kept calling me back - I really got the impression it wasn't that they really wanted me, it was just that they were curious about someone turn
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Can VMware draw developers, developers, developers?(gigaom.com)
1 points by pudakai 14y ago|0 comments
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by pudakai 14y ago
Maybe he just thinks it would be fun, wants to feel the joy of that first "Hello Gotham"? He certainly wouldn't be the first person coding for avocational reasons.
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by pudakai 14y ago
We're doing the platform approach. I don't think this was part of any grand calculation of where the technology wave is, just that it is the idea we have and it meshes w/our skillset. The field does seem awfully crowded with social/mobile
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by pudakai 14y ago
May not be to everyone's taste, but it is at least worth mentioning Spring Roo. There is an integrated eclipse based IDE (STS) available as well. You can get a nominal Java CRUD app up in short time with this. I had been out of Java for a
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by pudakai 14y ago
We use wiki from earliest stage as a repository for all sorts of information. We don't go out of our way to get fancy it, though, so we don't need a lot of advanced/refined functionality. I've been through this cycle a few times, this time
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by pudakai 14y ago
Right now, our privacy policy is "won't share your PID" with anyone. How would you suggest such clients of your website rewrite their privacy policies in a manner that will allay user's privacy concerns.
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by pudakai 14y ago
I'm probably biased because of my years ago experiences w/writing compilers/vm's, but I'm a big fan of "code that writes code". Like any technique, there is a time and place for it though. One use that is highly relevant to many shops is c
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by pudakai 14y ago
This isn't so goofy - it is like the same advice they give to people losing weight, they are allowed to have a pig out day once in a while.
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by pudakai 14y ago
"Also, software projects tend to reach points where they become overly complex or unmaintainable. Developers who are 25x better prevent that from happening, keeping everything working smoothly." Actually, I think this is the heart of the is
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by pudakai 14y ago
Actually, though I can't footnote it, the meme in the early 90's being pushed by Gates & Simonyi at M'soft was 100:1 or so "orders of magnitude" iirc correctly, so actually, Jobs is a downward estimate from that.
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by pudakai 14y ago
great post. Really, age is meaningless, the more meaningful number is how much time does one have left. Of course, nobody knows this with any certainty, so just proceed every day as if it were your last or the beginning of the next 1000 d
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by pudakai 14y ago
This is actually the conclusion I came to a long time ago and have been acting on it since. Still haven't captured that value, but it has been fun trying & haven't given up yet.
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by pudakai 14y ago
This has long been known about the programmer/developer profession, that the standard deviation of performance between practitioners is extremely high compared to many other fields. The more interesting part to me is why don't wages for thi
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by pudakai 14y ago
Very clever presentation that shows by doing (how many people could resist the temptation to scroll down on that page). Thanks for posting this!
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by pudakai 14y ago
Sales guys are great fabulists for the most part, so in the absence of "blue sky" stuff for reveries w/potential customers, they will just start riffing on their own independently. This is where a huge amount of the rub between sales-market
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by pudakai 14y ago
One hallmark of the truly great sales person is that they can sell the product they have rather than the one they wish you had.
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by pudakai 14y ago
Thanks for the link, learned something today, "Contracts of Adhesion"
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by pudakai 14y ago
I was living in Hawaii when I finished my time as a navy officer. I realized that I would never get a post-Navy career going because every day, and I mean every day, you look out the window and think, "wow, it is much to pretty a day to be
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by pudakai 14y ago
If we learned more from our failures than our successes, presumably unsuccessful entrepreneurs, especially serially unsuccessful ones, would be the ones most sought after for advice on startups....

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