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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 …

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…

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…

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 touc…

Hi Rob, hope all is well. I don't think any of us will ever forget those Adrenaline days.

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…

I thought the first chart, the number of commits per language, was interesting.

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 wha…

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 perc…

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 wante…

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.

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 skills…

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 ap…

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 functio…

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 u…

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…

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.

"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 work…

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 i…

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 a…

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.