vesterr

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by vesterr 18y ago
It's too Clockwork Orange-y. Just develop some freaking self-control.
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by vesterr 18y ago
"Cheers, we'll just agree to disagree!" Sorry, you don't get to pre-empt all further discussion after saying what you want to say. :) "Programming has a lot to do with people" Everything people do has a lot to do with people. "and convin
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by vesterr 18y ago
"I don't see the point you're trying to make." Might want to work on your reading comprehension then. "We're talking about freedom in hacking abilities here." We're talking about jobs, quite obviously, as a given from the PG quote that st
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by vesterr 18y ago
"They hire for talent and passion" Microsoft used to say something very much like that. But at the top of the application: "State your skillset". ...You use PHP, Perl, and Java? Not by choice, right?
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by vesterr 18y ago
"and lead groups" What does that have to do with programming? A lot of programmers find the notion of management extremely distasteful. ;) "They can move from attractive job to attractive job" Then I guess they keep ending up in jobs tha
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by vesterr 18y ago
"I'd imagine that if DHH really, truly wanted to work on the Linux kernel, he'd have no trouble getting hired to do so." That's pretty silly. Just because someone is famous for a Ruby project doesn't mean they'd know they first thing about
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by vesterr 18y ago
That stuff is really easy. And you may convince them to join you after all, like YouTube and the media companies they parasite off of.
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by vesterr 18y ago
Apparently my Flash 9 is not 9 enough. Flash sucks.
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by vesterr 18y ago
Why do you even look at ads? http://adblockplus.org/
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by vesterr 18y ago
Google is large enough it can take on people with almost any expertise. But what if DHH wanted to get a job hacking the Linux kernel? Or Frankel wanted to get re-hired to AOL to work on the stuff they didn't like? And RMS doesn't even pro
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by vesterr 18y ago
You said: "Up-and-coming" != "the very best". I'm not talking about up-and-coming skill-wise , I'm referring to level of fame or notoriety. What it really boils down to is whether you have enough money to just work on what interests you v
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by vesterr 18y ago
"If you have a decent reputation there will always be somebody practically begging for you to take their money to do some work for them." That's not the same as being able to make money working on anything you want to work on. Of course
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by vesterr 18y ago
"And the very best hackers tend to be idealistic. They're not desperate for a job. They can work wherever they want." I've heard PG repeat this but I think it's fallacious. A lot of up-and-coming hackers can't pick and choose where to work
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by vesterr 18y ago
Ha, with EC2 you can get around that now. Separate your website IP from your crawling IP, and every time CL blocks an IP, switch to a new one. Eventually they'll have to block the entire AWS range, but that's okay, you can crawl over cabl
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by vesterr 18y ago
Facebook. But they haven't switched to doing good.
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by vesterr 18y ago
DHH by far and that isn't to say the others weren't good, just that his was stellar by comparison. In other years PG might have won -- nothing wrong with it, it was pretty good, just that DHH was stellar. Some of the top points for me (my
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by vesterr 18y ago
Vesting over 4 years...