- where is your friend? just wander around. you'll find him.
Anyway so me too. Once I know I'm gonna be thought weird for asking someone, because most people just use their gadgets to find out, I don't ask, unless I'm not worried about being weird. And I'm just making it worse, of course. Oh dear.
The way I understand it, ignorant of the psychology of swearing but having had to think about it since arriving here from the UK, is that if you're swearing, you're breaking a taboo that people assume you understand, so if you break it, they guess that you've lost your ability to keep your cool, and that because of that they fear you might punch them or shoot them. Which it seems, to me, most people, rightly or wrongly, believe happens quite often here in the US.
Fabric isn't mentioned once in the README. Says "We didn't like the alternatives out there." with no details.
Having said that, it looks like the HTTP server is the USP here. Being able to have non-techies run Fabric tasks is definitely a goal that's passed me fleetingly in the night. So, add this to Fabric and we're good.
EDIT: The author, Dan Lecocq is near me in Seattle so, what with it being a small world and all, I just wrote to him (in case he's not the author of this thread) via his blog to ask him what he didn't like about Fabric, and suggested he respond here.
I do the same from my Android phone (using ConnectBot): I can run some long-running process and keep an eye on it while I'm out in the kitchen making a cup of tea. When I'm back in the office, I detach the Android session.
I use oDesk to find Python/Django work. Although most of the work hasn't paid as well as gigs away from oDesk, it's worked well for me while I build up to properly paid gigs: I've just got my first one for years, after focusing mostly on moving to the US from the UK, living in an Ecovillage and raising my now-four-year-old. It took a while to get used to the oDesk tool taking a screenshot every few minutes - I found it quite humiliating at first - but after my wife pointed out it's no worse than having people glance over your shoulder in an office, I sucked it up. I like knowing I have access to the arbitration that oDesk offers if you use this tool. The automatic time tracking helped me overcome bad habits, too. I like the detailed time logs, and I like being paid weekly.
I think 8-5 is actually 8 hours in the US: federal laws guarantee you an hour lunch break, just as in the UK. Of course, I imagine in a lot of start-ups that's ignored or perhaps doesn't even hold.
So when recruiters contact me (Python, Seattle or telecommuting), what might I ask them to find out whether it's worth my time? I guess first I'd want to know all the things recruiters are influenced by or tend to do that I don't like, and see what I can ask them that would suggest they're less likely to do those things than most.
o Do you get paid a flat-rate?
o What's the difference between Unix and Linux?
o ...
Yes, free lunches are fine, and communal eating thing much of the week would work well for me and no doubt for the team's performance. If I was told we each together a few times a week, that would be hugely important. As it was, I tend to imagine individuals scurrying to the kitchen, and taking a boxed meal from the fridge back to their desk while they're still working. I should have asked which of these actually happened.
Indeed. I'm a 41-year-old developer and have spent most of my career working in university research departments. Just a grown-up amongst grown-ups. I had an interview the other day with a start-up whose HR department and developer-interviewers insisted on talking about the "free lunches" they provide. I mean, when it came to question time for me they actually asked whether I wanted to know anything else about the lunches. By then they must have realised I couldn't give a shit. I was and still am just bemused by how this could possible attract anyone, of any age. I mean, do I look like an idiot? I'll make my own sandwiches and take the money instead please.
Employees in the US work some of the world's longest hours. And yet there these folks are in their office, playing games. Is that typical? I don't get it. Why stay in the office playing games when you could go home? I guess this is the sort of question that, as a generally-self-employed 41-year-old father of a preschooler I'm in no position to figure out. That video weirded me out.
Nice one. This will help me avoid the sort of people who use Foursquare, or who like playing with their mobile devices while in art galleries. And, I'll assume, will help ensure I have plenty of opportunity to meet others like me.
I thought that, too, after the recent interview I described in my comment on the OP. When did I ever need to think this hard? Um, when I was writing proofs in my Semantics of Programming Languages course at university, I guess. Most of my work days are spent pondering gently, with - a few times each year - a trip to the library to hunker down and really crunch some x's and y's. But it did make me wonder whether I wasn't choosing sufficiently challenging work, in the sense of the amount of raw "think, think, think" effort required.
The "Linked Lists" chapter from "Programming Interviews Exposed" begins:
"The deceptively simple linked list is the basis for a surprising number of problems regarding the handling of dynamic data. Problems about efficient list traversal, list sorting, and the insertion or removal of data from either end of a list are good tests of basic data-structure concepts... Their simplicity appeals to interviewers, who want to present at least two or three problems over the course of an hour-long interview... You can write a relatively complete implementation of a linked list in less than 10 minutes, leaving you plenty of time to solve the problem... In addition, there is little variation in the way linked lists are implemented, which means that an interviewer can simple say "linked list" and not waste time discussing and clarifying implementation details."
Remind me to make more friends in underrepresented genders, social backgrounds and levels of disability, and people I just don't get on with although I know they're great employees. That way if I'm asked to recommend friends, it'll end up being, relatively, equal opportunity.
Me too. After about 5 seconds all I could think about was whether it was gonna be a shark jumping out of the water at me, a big fat seagull coming for me, or just some random screaming crazy jumping in from the side of the screen.
That's funny. Only this morning it suddenly dawned on me that such a resource didn't seem to exist. I imagine the taxonomy could be made a little less wide, though. Great start.
Plenty more of interest at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable, which covers the first transatlantic telegraph cable. Anything to do with electrical communications that smells of rubber and seawater makes me happy.
Not about survival as such, but the "Plants for a Future" project catalogues 7000 "rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses."
I'd love to be able to understand some complicated bit of code by watching an Etherpad-style timeline, with audio commentary of the whole (test-first?) process.
I love all those special characters, too. So much easier and quicker to read (chunk) than method names and so on.
And I expect the audio track to be sampled on a forthcoming relaxation tape.