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edwingustafson

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edwingustafson··on Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?
Try not to sound so surprised when your code works!
edwingustafson··on Ask HN: Which laptop for development?
Can you remote into your desktop from a lightweight laptop or a decent tablet?
edwingustafson··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··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··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··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··on Ask HN: What's your desktop wallpaper?
Michigan rocky lakeshore detail http://imgur.com/nj6f1kO
edwingustafson··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··on Obama endorses required high school coding classes
The four R's: readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic, and R! <http://www.r-project.org/>;
edwingustafson··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··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··on "Maybe it’s time to move on from the Commodore 64 software"
GPL + Quartz http://www.dirkwhoffmann.de/virtualc64/