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matthucke

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matthucke··on We created a fake language to root out resume liars
Sorry, this job requires 9 years experience with en passant.
matthucke··on Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
In 1995 I was an expert in setting up Trumpet Winsock, paid to consult on its installation and configuration - even though I had never once installed it myself.

That is to say, I was a tech support lackey, answering the phones and talking to dozens of dialup ISP users daily.

It was a small company, and of the three techs there, none of us were Windows users - two Linux, one Mac. Someone had helpfully printed screenshots of Winsock's various dialog boxes and taped them up around our cubicle. It was enough.

matthucke··on “Subject: Urgent Warning”
Instagram is an unfortunate necessity for pro photographers in certain fields, such as weddings, simply because that's where the potential customers begin their search. They're not photo enthusiasts, they've never heard of Flickr or 500px, they don't know what clarity and composition are... but they want someone to shoot their wedding, and in their minds Instagram equals photo sharing.
matthucke··on LSD – Line Square Dot Game
A border around the playfield would help - I keep trying to draw lines that extend slightly outside the browser window, and inadvertently do things like grabbing a bookmark from the bookmarks bar above.
matthucke··on On Secretly Terrible Engineers
No, people are too lawsuit-crazed these days. Many companies will give no facts about a past employee other than the dates they were employed. Even "would you hire this person again?" can be dangerous.

At one of my past employers, my manager (who sat next to me) told me that he wasn't allowed to say anything whatsoever about past employees - when anyone called to confirm past employment he had to give them HR's phone number, where specially trained operatives would presumably answer the one and only question allowed.

matthucke··on Well-intentioned websites get caught in Google’s algorithmic penalty box
Even just re-running it regularly (and letting site owners know that it's been re-run) would be helpful - as the issues pointed out in your article were largely fixed many months ago, the lack of any sort of movement is unfair and disheartening.
matthucke··on Animated Mean Center of Population for the United States: 1790 to 2010
If you interpolate between the 1970 and 1980 points, mid-1972 would be fairly close to Belleville, Illinois - where, in mid-1972, I was born.

...thus confirming my long-held belief that I am the center of the universe.

matthucke··on Dropbox's Condoleezza Rice advocating for warrantless NSA surveillance
Mine was "I don't do business with torturers and murderers."
matthucke··on Build complex forms in rails with FormBuilder
As a Zend Framework refugee, I agree. View stuff belongs in the view.

Additionally, for those of us who works with designers, this gets in the way. My designer-colleague is comfortable editing HAML by now; I want to give him the templates and let him move things around without having to involve me for things like where a label should be.