josephcooney

My take on the same topic: http://jcooney.net/post/2013/08/29/Good-Developer-Good-Googl...

I'm in 100% agreement.

Sounds like "Resume Driven Development" http://imgur.com/DQcks8ul

I wrote a client library for this in C# by reverse engineering what chrome did at the time (totally not legit/unsupported by google, possibly against their TOS). I have never used it for anything serious, and am glad now there is an endorsed way to do this.

https://bitbucket.org/josephcooney/cloudspeech

Really? Rear Window always seemed like a script that would be ideally served as a play (i.e. not many scene changes) that Hitchcock had adapted well to a movie.

I think ISA server (a firewall, essentially) required SQL Server, so they tried, they really tried.

Agree. I figured the person asking the question was being amusing.

not quite the same, but http://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide

I misread this as 'lawmakers', but your sentence still seemed correct either way.

Walking barefoot without resting is clearly the cheapest option.

I like LiteIDE, I will have to give this a shake.

One of my friends was looking to 'trade up' his car, and kept getting facebook ads for his own car. I guess it was exactly the kind of car a person like him would own...

Good distinction. Reminds me of the quote "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

The NSA released their Nifi project to the Apache foundation not long ago....we live in strange times.

This is on OSX though, right?

I got terrible wrist pain as a 10-year-old playing nethack on an Amstrad 1640 8086.

But totally worth it.

Ascii art never looked so 'cosmic'

Let's not even start on ESR.

Jeff Bezos' quote "Your margin is my opportunity" might come back to haunt their AWS Business.

Also, I'm pretty sure Hitler attributed his survival in the face of the assassination attempt in 1944 to his "divine protection" (at least in the propaganda afterwards).

The upkeep on them (parts, repairs) is quite expensive compared to your average japanese auto.

I don't think it is quite that clear cut. See, for example, Postel's Law AKA the Robustness Principle.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

Bangalore garage.

I don't think this has much to do with the change of the guard at the top. Iron Python was started in 2008, and Python tools for VS was first released in 2011.

This sounds very similar to code access security (CAS) that Microsoft's CLR had from around 2000 (but at the OS level rather than the VM level).

I don't think MS buying github is such a scary thing. There are a few ex-MSFT-ies working at Github (Phil Haack, Paul Betts), and a few other people from the wider MS community there. I guess that is inevitable when Github has 250-ish staff.

I disagree. I think interfaces can be a powerful way to think about what you want to do without having to focus too much on how it will be done, compartmentalise that 'part' and then move on to something else.

Any good counter-examples of private enterprise funding long term science experiments?

I tried to compile a list of a few of them a while ago:

http://jcooney.net/post/2011/06/22/First-Check-in-Comments-f...

A while ago I tried to track down the initial check-in comments for a number of open source projects, with mixed results.

http://jcooney.net/post/2011/06/22/First-Check-in-Comments-f...

The Go one is particularly interesting.

I wish there was some kind of dongle I could plug my das keyboard into that would give me the multi-device feature without sacrificing on the actual keyboard part.

Typo? Shouldn't it be PostgreSQL not PostreSQL?