jason | 14 years ago | on: Poll: What database does your company use?
Other - Netezza
jason's comments
jason | 15 years ago | on: Would-Be Suicide Bomber Killed by Unexpected SMS From Mobile Carrier
Weather?
jason | 15 years ago | on: Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO
And coauthored lex.
jason | 15 years ago | on: New Intel processors to contain DRM suggested by Hollywood studios
Would this make it politically OK for Netflix to release a Linux streaming client? I read somewhere that the lack of a standard DRM lib was the blocking issue on an Android client.
jason | 15 years ago | on: Android 2.3 Platform
Barometer = Altitude.
jason | 15 years ago | on: 17% leave their job due to insufficient recognition
and 17% stay at their job due to generous recognition.
jason | 15 years ago | on: Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?
I have heard of people using hairspray to weigh it down. Turning shwag to the sticky icky.. at least enough to fool high school kids.
jason | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I ask for a salary increase?
I entered the professional workforce a little late but had always been considered good with computers. Starting low($45k) I quickly came to conclusion that people where making way more money($85k) than me and I was just as good if not better at the task at hand than they where. With my managers support I asked my employer for parity with my co-workers. I received a good bump to start(65k) and over the course of a few years I was into a six figure salary. There was some drama that helped along the way, people quiting, epic weekends of coding, and normal BS of not working at a "google/fog creek" type of place but it worked out for me.
jason | 16 years ago | on: Remember this?
Crazy! I was thinking about this site in the shower today.
jason | 16 years ago | on: Pointer-events for HTML in Firefox 3.6
That was my gut reaction as well. But then thought about it this way. The programmer can solve with problem with z-index and now the designer can add stuff without interfering with the program.
jason | 17 years ago | on: Avatars in Emails Increase Response Rate up to 20% for Rypple
I would have not gone down that path after my years spent with Clippy.
jason | 17 years ago | on: The Programmer's Paradox: The End of Coding as We Know It
Todays typesetter is the sysadmin not the programmer. As the authors improve software to lower maintenance and hardware is moved to the cloud one sysadmin will do more than the IT dept could ever do. Help desk function will also shrink as users become more savvy, workstations more secure, and recovery automation ubiquitous. But remember type setters had a good run in the west, 1450 - 1960's.
jason | 17 years ago | on: How Rent Control Drives Out Affordable Housing
The rent amount is gossip from the super. The other stuff is first hand, and probably adds a little "control" to my rent as well, but believe me not that much.
jason | 17 years ago | on: How Rent Control Drives Out Affordable Housing
I have a vagrant living in my NYC apt building that pays $75 a month in rent and eats out of the garbage. He has no electricity or running water. When he opens the door to his apt in the summer the rest of the building gags. There are two other units that pay $75 dollars; a nice old couple and a loony chain smoker with bad BO.
jason | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: IDE versus Text Editor?
I use IDE's that have vi keyboard mappings so I get the best of both worlds. Visual Studio and Eclipse both have vi plugins.
jason | 17 years ago | on: ASK HN: Who would you use to host a Dot Net Nuke site?
http://discountasp.net/sp_dotnetnuke.aspx .Net hosting tends to more expensive but discount has been good to me in the past.
jason | 17 years ago | on: Keyboard sniffers to steal data
This known vector has been around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST
jason | 19 years ago | on: Need UI developer for creating next amazing thing based on Web 2.0
If you're looking for a UI Developer on the front end. (Just graphics + layout.) Contact me at [email protected]
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