rtperson

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by rtperson 12y ago
If your algorithmic skills are good enough to ace the problems in that book, you can probably get a job at one of the big three software companies (Google, MS, Amazon). The vast majority of programming jobs are enterprise development work (
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by rtperson 12y ago
> He's not proscribing a solution. The word you want is "prescribe." To "proscribe" means to make forbidden or illegal. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
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by rtperson 12y ago
I liked this article, but, to use journalist lingo, he "buries the lede" a little. "It’s also tough because since breaking the news to our current set of 3 customers, I’ve received very positive feedback..." A grand tota
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by rtperson 13y ago
I'm not sure if English is your first language, but the writing in this article is actually very good. I don't have any problem believing that people are willing to pay Somers for his writing. (And $10K is, by magazine standards, a princely
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by rtperson 13y ago
> I especially find Maven unreliable in combination with eclipse. Well there's your problem right there. Use Maven with Netbeans, and the integration between the two is so slick you'll wonder why you didn't use it to begin with. My bigg
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by rtperson 14y ago
I thought the usual exit plan for models was to use their beauty and talent to attract a wealthy husband. That said, I did know one who used her modelling money to put herself through med school, but that woman was a bit of an outlier in th
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by rtperson 14y ago
I have the flip side of this story. I was good friends with two musicians in the early nineties. I went to their rehearsals, hung out with their friends, and saw most of their gigs when they played out in clubs. Videos, demo tapes, meetings
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by rtperson 14y ago
> in fact, [Good Will Hunting] seems intensely concerned with the insufficiency of Will’s education; his lack of formal education is implicated in his inability to engage in supposedly normal social and professional behavior. Um, actual
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by rtperson 15y ago
I completely agree. I was just pointing out that sexism of this nature had gone on for years without apparent protest. I was not defending the practice.
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by rtperson 15y ago
> it is not a accepted selling point of professionals. Rather, it will get you in serious trouble in many professional environments. Not to defend Sqoot at all, but... um... booth babes? Every large trade show has them. They are there s
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by rtperson 15y ago
I worked at Goldman briefly in the 90s, and I remember being pleasantly surprised at how little cynicism, and how much genuine enthusiasm for helping others I found there. It was a bank, sure, in the business of making money, but there was
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by rtperson 15y ago
> But are you really saying that these claims cover a standard linked list? That's exactly what I'm saying. For all the patent's talk of primary, tertiary, and secondary pointers, the "invention" here is a standard linked list with sent
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by rtperson 15y ago
Very clearly my ass. From the patent: > The present invention overcomes the disadvantages and limitations of the prior art by providing a system and method for traversing a list using auxiliary pointers that indicate the next item in
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by rtperson 15y ago
I apologize for doing so. I think my idea of holding your own patent was not for the ability to counter-sue, but (and I am quite obviously not a lawyer) so you have a legal basis to petition for dismissal of the patent troll's suit. If ther
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by rtperson 15y ago
Again, the error you're making is mistaking patent law with the insane way patent law is actually enforced. Listen to "When Patents Attack," and you'll understand that non-practicing entities have been very successful lately in filling thei
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by rtperson 15y ago
> In the end, I doubt owning a patent on something will have any impact on our ultimate success or failure. How I wish that were the case. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of patent trolls out there that would love to use their patents
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by rtperson 15y ago
> we know Wallace Stevens sold insurance No he did not. He was a corporate vice president of two large insurance companies. The man was no Ned Ryerson. The writer of this article needs to call the roller of big cigars, the muscular one.
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by rtperson 15y ago
Valuation doesn't work the way this guy thinks it does. If I buy a hammer and use it to build a house that I then sell for 300K dollars, it does not stand to reason ipso facto that my hammer now costs 300K dollars. Yet this is exactly the l
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by rtperson 15y ago
> We could not test the application because we were told about it on tuesday and it had to be ready on sunday. Well there's your problem right there. That is not an appropriate timeframe for a new app. The only professional response to
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by rtperson 15y ago
I have had personal involvement in one outsourcing horror story, the details of which I'm not at liberty to discuss. Suffice it to say that, while what happened at Sapphire is extreme, it's hardly unique. But let's correctly name the proble
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by rtperson 15y ago
This is such a shallow mush of generalities, that it's pretty much worthless as a critique of higher education. "these benefits cannot completely justify a system where creativity and genuine learning isn't properly rewarded." Anyone who ha
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by rtperson 15y ago
Awesome idea -- I can think of three or four people who would really benefit from this kind of book. One thing: you recommend SciTE for a Windows editor, but the real preference these days is for Notepad++ ( http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ ).
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by rtperson 15y ago
There's a term for these tendencies: the Power Distance Index. ( http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/real-reason-outso... ) The idea behind PDI is that leaders in some cultures expect, and even to an extent welcome, subordinates who
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by rtperson 15y ago
I think you're missing an important distinction here: Stallman has not, in fact, died. The writer of the article is talking about a living person. That fundamentally changes what you're allowed, in polite society, to say about him.
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by rtperson 15y ago
Haskell, I assume. Two things really make Haskell shine when it comes to problems like this: 1) higher-order list operations -- you're not iterating through indices, so there is no possibility for off-by-one errors, and 2) immutability -- y
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by rtperson 15y ago
> waterboarding, hypothermia, near-drowning, psychological torutre, etc Do yourself a favor and read Judith Herman's book "Trauma and Recovery." You'll quickly understand why your counter-intuitive observation is simply wrong. These thi
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by rtperson 15y ago
The other example is the Enclosure movement in Britain ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure_movement ), where nobles simply stepped in a seized land that had been for common use, in some cases throwing people out of their homes to do so
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by rtperson 15y ago
I'd prefer this as well. The richest competitive ecosystem is always preferable. What I was addressing was the assertion that all players "needed" to be balanced. Necessity is not equivalent to preference. I'd prefer that all players be rou
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by rtperson 15y ago
> every player needs to be balanced Correction: at least two players need to be balanced. iPhone, to my mind, provides just such a balance. Trying to boost every single also-ran product into a position of strategic equity is a waste of
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by rtperson 15y ago
"I know what to do: let's combat our competitor's overwhelming tactical advantage with faux moral outrage! It's a win-win-win for us!" -- rtperson, just now, sarcastically.

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