edwingustafson | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?
Try not to sound so surprised when your code works!
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edwingustafson | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which laptop for development?
Can you remote into your desktop from a lightweight laptop or a decent tablet?
edwingustafson | 9 years ago | on: Gource – A version control visualization tool
I used this once to illustrate software development work to non-technical colleagues. It succeeded in showing them how many small changes from many people come together into the final product.
edwingustafson | 9 years ago | on: Forty Percent of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today
Same is true of cars on the road -- some or all vehicles from past model years would fail to meet this year's automotive regulations.
edwingustafson | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment when interviewing?
You can ask how long team members have been with the organization, to tactfully get a sense of turnover. At a young company you might ask how team came together: was it through past working relationships and friendships? or the internet equivalent of putting an ad in the paper?
edwingustafson | 11 years ago | on: JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML
Most likely they developed this format to store JSON in DB2 or to manipulate JSON with existing XML-based tools.
edwingustafson | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your desktop wallpaper?
Michigan rocky lakeshore detail http://imgur.com/nj6f1kO
edwingustafson | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where to go for max profit? High coder salary, low cost of living
Consider Ann Arbor, home of the University of Michigan http://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/san-jose-ca/ann-arb...
edwingustafson | 13 years ago | on: Obama endorses required high school coding classes
The four R's: readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic, and R! <http://www.r-project.org/>;
edwingustafson | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is saying "I don't know during an interview" something negative?
Answer with pseudocode if you have to, it will show your mastery of the concepts.
edwingustafson | 14 years ago | on: Git is exploding
indeed.com's Job Trends shows Subversion still king, Git growing, and Mercurial holding its own.
Subversion, Git, Mercurial Job Trends http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Subversion%2C+Git%2C+Mercu...
edwingustafson | 15 years ago | on: "Maybe it’s time to move on from the Commodore 64 software"
GPL + Quartz http://www.dirkwhoffmann.de/virtualc64/
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