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Trimbo: January 2013
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I've moved to my own domain. Monday, January 28, 2013. I challenge all recruiters' claim that programmers are scarce. Since we announced our funding at Radius. On Wednesday, just about every recruiter and recruiting website in the Bay Area has spammed me because we're hiring engineers (yes, we are hiring. When negotiating terms with them, I'm being fairly aggressive though. I'm only offering about half of what they're getting from other firms. Why is that? The Windows 8 App store. Google, Dropbox or Twit...
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Trimbo: July 2013
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I've moved to my own domain. Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Brain Drain and Microsoft. I've been known to say silly things like "everyone must learn to code" and " STEM education. Trumps all other education". BUT, hear me out on this one. Is what empowers the companies that employ them. The counter to this is the brain drain. The thing to consider is that you cannot codify what we're talking about here. Codification does not mean innovation. Innovation requires people, always. The awesome news is that Microsoft...
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Trimbo: July 2014
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I've moved to my own domain. Sunday, July 27, 2014. Giving up on Blogger. You can find me here. From now on. It's a Tumblr blog for now. Why, you ask? Because Blogger has fallen into disrepair. Google does not care about it, so I won't tolerate it anymore. Here's what my draft of my upcoming post looked like when I opened it back up a few hours after leaving today:. This is just once instance in a long history of editorial eff-ups this software has had in the 8 or so years I've used it. Links to this post.
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Trimbo: On Scaling Code and Static Typing
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I've moved to my own domain. Sunday, May 04, 2014. On Scaling Code and Static Typing. On proggit just now:. Out of curiosity, is static typing really that large an advantage? Yeah, I get that run-time errors could be worse than compile-time, but isn't that something that oughtn't to get past testing? The answer is yes,. Static typing is a huge advantage. But I've postulated for several years now that there's some number - call it n. It's impossible to say what n. Possible to claim is that n. Is larger by...
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Trimbo: May 2014
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I've moved to my own domain. Friday, May 23, 2014. Premature optimization" doesn't mean what you think it means. Junior developers often seem want to discuss "premature optimization" with me when I bring up things such as scalability and performance. For those not familiar, here's the entire context. He was talking about gotos! People were using goto statements to improve efficiency and he felt that it was possible to get nearly same efficiency without using them too early when coding. That's simply gros...
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Trimbo: August 2013
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I've moved to my own domain. Friday, August 30, 2013. On the ubiquity of chicken rotisseries. Once upon a time, long long ago - i.e. 1995 - rotisserie chicken was a huge business. The trend was started with Boston Chicken (now Boston Market). The idea was making a healthier, classier, more expensive alternative to fast food. The original founder of Boston Chicken bought the idea and franchised it (not unlike Ray Kroc) because the owners were ringing up an average of $13.75 per bill. I happened to watch M...
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Fiction: Brandon Long
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A Fake Internet Presence,. In case you thought my last review of the Kindle was a bit harsh, I do like my Kindle quite a bit. I purchased the Kindle 2 as soon as it came out, and downloaded the Kindle App to my iPod Touch as soon as available as well. My wife is now using my old Kindle 1. Newspapers on the Kindle 2 are better, you can now skip to the next article from within the article, for instance, and you now get more images. Overall, highly recommended. Or the retards who insist on crowding onto the...
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Trimbo: Why should people get paged at night *ever*?
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I've moved to my own domain. Sunday, June 01, 2014. Why should people get paged at night *ever*? Someone over at Etsy posted a nice " Sleep Driven Development. Article and it brought to mind my personal jihad against pager alerts. Anyway, pretty much every night I got a call from Indianapolis that something broke. I had to move out of my room so as to not wake my wife. I still have PTSD when I get a call from a 317 area code. My goal at that job became to build a system that was so reliable that no one w...
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Trimbo: November 2012
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I've moved to my own domain. Thursday, November 22, 2012. What's up with Nexus? I just saw a Nexus 7 ad on TV during the football game and was reminded to post this. The ad featured all three Nexus models but focused on the 7. What the hell is going on with Nexus? The N4 is poised to be the best selling Nexus ever. The community has been raving about this phone other than the missing LTE issue. The thing sold out in something like 29 minutes and has been unavailable ever since. I'm really confused with t...
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Trimbo: "Premature optimization" doesn't mean what you think it means
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I've moved to my own domain. Friday, May 23, 2014. Premature optimization" doesn't mean what you think it means. Junior developers often seem want to discuss "premature optimization" with me when I bring up things such as scalability and performance. For those not familiar, here's the entire context. He was talking about gotos! People were using goto statements to improve efficiency and he felt that it was possible to get nearly same efficiency without using them too early when coding. That's simply gros...
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