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Fully agree. There are so many people who can't do the basic Excel work even to generate the information on the chart who are capable of starting a business. (I include in this eve…

That's not a problem with the chart. That's a problem with starting a business. You don't have to grow along a fixed axis, whether that be # of users, # of widgets, etc. You just h…

You had me at 'syntax'. The fact that we're still typing crap into windows and calling advances along this one-dimensional path 'innovation' is pain. Intentional[1] had a lot of pr…

It's that race to the bottom they mention. As they mention, they're in a relatively expensive labor market (although, as I sit here in the Bay Area, they have me thinking about a r…

This works out when discussed in the context of "competitive compensation" in your market. While your manager may not care that you want to live in a USD5,000/mo apartment, she may…

The concepts are the important part. You can get a long way with a nasty interpreter to see if your concepts play out. :-) If it's a "deep" concept, I'd pick a simple representatio…

Well timed after prime music imports your itunes library. no hairy workarounds to replace an iphone in your mac ecosystem, which is something google has not achieved. (yes, other t…

To make a comparison for anyone who hasn't programmed FPGAs (especially on the path to etching silicon), placement is extraordinarily important. Not only can (will) you make a high…

Former LVMH director here. The Chinese luxury market is insane and has been popping for the past ~10 years. It's not just LV (and child companies) but across the board, with Richem…

In general, of course, it depends. In the case I mentioned above, we left the candidate site immediately, arranged earlier flights, and flew back to Seattle. There may have been ex…

A fun one is finding loans from friends and family that involved any sort of strings, whether convertible or interest that has accrued because Aunt Bertha forgot about the $50k she…

The most commonly-heard excuse is that programmers do not like all the parens.

I would assert, rather, that we have 60 years of compiler and runtime experience, both academic and industrial. Consequently, I would propose that there is no excuse for a public r…

It's also more pronounceable and appetizing, like the chilean seabass.

Don't worry, it will turn out to be, in fact, an aardvark. Please see the "panda bear is a racoon, oops, no, he's a bear," controversy. The fundamental problem is that Wikipedia's …

Elinks, while shamefully neglected by most of us, does expose an interface for ecmascript. http://www.elinks.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/...

Write an email and ask. People are generally decent and like to explain how they did something that impressed someone.

The first thing I think with "cheap " is "superfund". I hope no one ever did any work with electroplating, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, VOCs, asbestos, explosives, PCBs, or any oth…

I suspect you already know the answer to that. A brand new dump truck would be clean, with a minimum of oil, grease, dirt, or grime. I'm sure you could construct a large enough acc…

That's the thing. If all you say is "fuck", then there's no problem, but you also have no range in your profanity. When I swear, there's no way I would want a child to hear it. The…

Which it will, in the form of transfer taxes and capital gains taxes.

"professional engineer" is more than just being paid. It is a regulated term that connotes an ethical code, qualification, and acceptance of responsibility. It can be loosely compa…

Your comment is quite pythonic. There should be only one question about the only one right way to do something in python.

And most Lisps.

This comment is a fine example of jl's points. While the tone was not rude or aggressive, commenting merely to contradict and to attempt to invalidate specific points, out of conte…