uncr3ative

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Comment · 13 years ago

I must be misunderstanding, this works for me on my iphone

Comment · 13 years ago

it's also where the nih and nasa are located. I had 3 technical jobs there that had nothing to do with politics, and my 2 friends who live in the area work on technology things which have nothing to do with politics. Rent in DC is exorbitant and making demand higher by not allowing tall buildings seems silly to me.

Comment · 13 years ago

I love this! Would love it even more if it let me choose from the open tabs (the open coversations) in adium...;)

Comment · 13 years ago

also, people without cars. I lived in seattle for 2 years without a car, and ordering online becomes much more worth it if there are heavy items or light but big items.

Comment · 14 years ago

I think at an older age, when you are more likely to have health problems, 31k is probably not enough.

Comment · 14 years ago

or use the sftp package from package control

Comment · 14 years ago

It really isn't "free" entertainment. There are many companies making lots of money (zynga for instance) selling virtual goods on facebook with FB credits. FB gets 30%. I'm not trying to say it's the same amount of money that google makes, but that alone is in the millions of dollars per month of gross profit.

Comment · 14 years ago

I'm confused by the term "starting" - do they mean starting fresh out of college? or a newly hired employee starting in that company (might have 5 yrs experience)? or starting out of high school?

Comment · 14 years ago

I don't know if people should receive actual money, but it makes sense to me that they receive access to safe housing, food, healthcare and education. I don't think this can work in poorer societies, but in ones which can afford it, well, it seems most humane. If you aren't working, and can, well you won't be able to brag to your friends about having the latest ipad, but you should still have a place to sleep and food to eat. I think most people don't like sitting idly by all day long and since a lot of fun things cost money, they'd be willing to sacrifice some of their time to be able to afford those other things. I have been to Norway a few times and I liked the way they managed to balance things out there. Also, I recently watched this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html How economic inequality harms societies and I thought it was interesting.

Comment · 14 years ago

Maybe because I'm not used to java anymore I constantly find myself wanting to do things that are "bad" in Java. I want my function to return more than one variable and then accept it on the other side like x,y = getCoordinates(); Yes I can do something almost like that in java with an array or collection but it's considered "wrong." Sometimes, I want to have a module with just functions, not an a class. Writing the long list of setters and getters that just return and set themselves is really frustrating to me, knowing that in other languages I would just have properties. And working around this in java by making them all "public" is considered "wrong."

And while I agree that java has excellent tools, the one tool that doesn't work as well or as easily for me is the interactive console. Perhaps it's java's verbosity, or maybe this tool hasn't been as fleshed out as it has been in python, javascript and even php (phpsh), but I haven't found one that works as easily for me.

Comment · 14 years ago

with ipython you do get some of that auto completion for python. It'll autocomplete the module name for you, but you do have to figure out you want that module first, so you'd need to google and realize you want shutil for dealing with files. I use it a lot when I'm interacting with new APIs or even just for writing the code as I go.

  In [1]: import sh
  sha     shelve  shlex   shutil  
  In [1]: import shutil
  In [2]: shutil.
  ...
  shutil.copy  shutil.errno  shutil.move
  In [2]: help(shutil.move)

To do other more powerful automation kind of stuff, this is pretty nifty: http://sikuli.org/

Comment · 14 years ago

Amazon is split up into many different teams and each team follows it's own process. Some of these teams do what they call "agile."

Comment · 15 years ago

I want to be able to manage other config files that aren't in my home directory at all. Some of them are even owned by root: httpd-vhosts.conf, /etc/hosts, php.ini... any good solution for that? I'm willing for it to be complex if it works.

Comment · 15 years ago

but being 75% in weight amongst 1 year olds isn't necessarily indication that he should lose weight. S/he might be 98% in height.

Comment · 15 years ago

I agree that instilling confidence that they have a right to be where they are and the ability to learn and be what they want is key.

I don't think women are generally a minority - I only ever feel like one when I start working with new teams at work or classrooms in the university. But being a minority everywhere you go -ugh- that sense of isolation sounds really tough :(