turbodog

Joined 16 years ago

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Puppet Enterprise Product Owner @puppetlabs Continuous learner and lover of Portland's favorite things: coffee, bikes + beer

http://twitter.com/#!/turbodog http://gerundinganimal.blogspot.com/

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Comment · 15 years ago
What are "womens degrees"?
Comment · 15 years ago
As I understand subsidized vs. unsubsidized, yes it is. I can buy the phone without entering into a contract. I can terminate service with VM after 30 days. I can sell the phone to someone else who can choose to buy service from VM or not.

True it isn't unlocked, but I'm not aware of anyone saying unsubsidized == unlocked.

Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
Don't be obtuse. A PhD means you've done research towards improving the ability to educate others.
Comment · 15 years ago
I disagree, at least in the startup case. In my experience, unless you know the person very well and they have demonstrated that they can deliver what they need to, you're only adding extra headache for yourself. If someone's work is drifting away from what you intend, it's a lot easier to spot that over their shoulder and change courses on the spot rather than wait for code to land in your repo and find out after a lot of time and effort has been wasted.
Comment · 15 years ago
Maybe they are expecting something more than a worker who can keep in sync with others? If the very small team is the whole company, they may be expecting someone they can brainstorm with at random times without having to get you on Skype. Why would they want to take an extra step to keep you in sync when the rest of the in-office team already is?
Comment · 15 years ago
Paragraph 3 of TFA: That story appears in Mitnick's new memoir, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker.
Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
No, a great team with a lot smarts for using mobile location data for new and creative uses scores $350k.
Comment · 15 years ago
Nice! I really appreciate the tone of Tim's post in that it acknowledges both the strengths and weaknesses of NOSQL in general and of Cloudant Search in particular in an honest manner.
Comment · 15 years ago
In Stonebraker’s opinion, “old SQL (as he calls it) is good for nothing” and needs to be “sent to the home for retired software.” After all, he explained, SQL was created decades ago before the web, mobile devices and sensors forever changed how and how often databases are accessed.

He lost me here.

Comment · 15 years ago
Just get them into the App Store quick before Apple adds them to iOS 5.x or 6.
Comment · 15 years ago
So I'm supposed to use the NYT's custom API to get articles when RSS has, for years, provided a "general" method for me to do the same thing for not only the NYT but millions of other sources?
Comment · 15 years ago
Um, no. These people were disappeared: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rettig_Report

Apparently her blog was only moved. Inconvenient, yes. Gross human rights violation, no. See also: comparing yourself to Rosa Parks.

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