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vinayan3··on Adobe's 9% Flash tax
Exactly. Apple takes a 30% tax and one says anything?
vinayan3··on Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
A lot of love for C#. I would have assumed that there would be a lot of C# / .NET bashing.
vinayan3··on Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
I found it half funny that Python 3.3 reintroduced the unicode string literal for Django. The only way support will come is if user push their providers to get up to speed. It is such a pain that Python has become forked for all practical purposes.
vinayan3··on Think Hiring a Ruby Developer is Hard? Try Staffing a Nuclear Reactor Startup
I thought this was a joke... I guess not.
vinayan3··on Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from me.
That is always the problem with excluding a certain type of person you lose the ability to claim a higher morale ground.

The tech world is a meritocracy. If 'brogrammers' can live up to the standards then why shouldn't companies hire them? The question is will they make tons of sexist comments at work and make people uncomfortable? You have to hire a few and find out.

vinayan3··on The Freedom and Perils of Living Alone
The quirks they pointed in the article seem relatively extreme.

I live with 2 other roommates and I don't seem them much these days because I work at home during the day. I feel so quiet sometimes being at home all alone. It is interesting that I will never know how an introvert feels staying home alone. The opposite is true an introvert will never know how a social person feels staying at home all alone.

vinayan3··on Why are ugly websites so successful?
I think ugly websites do well is because the focus of the site is the content. The quality of the content draws people to return to the website. Craig's list is a great example of this. It doesn't look that great but it gets the job done.
vinayan3··on Garry's SF Guide to Where Your Startup Should Be
Some of the companies listed working in certain areas has changed. However, the comments on the commute and pricing is still about the same.

I would say he went over the top on describing SOMA. It is still dead.

vinayan3··on Garry's SF Guide to Where Your Startup Should Be
FiDi does have the best lunch options in the city M-F.
vinayan3··on There's no + symbol on the new tab icon in Chrome 17
This is so stupid. I can't believe people are so focused on such a minor change. Seriously this isn't the end of the world. All that time spent fussing about this button could have been put to better use elsewhere.
vinayan3··on I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist
Crazy to say I love fixing bugs! It does get tiring at some point to fix very similar bugs over and over again. I realized bug fixing is in essence binary search. Keep cutting the code size in half and write down the important values. Soon enough you'll find where the problem is.

I thin bug fixing builds a skill most people simply don't have, reading code. Reading other people's code is incredibly difficult and most people don't put the time and effort into it.

It does suck to get boxed into that kind of role. Where you are simply just reading code and changing a few characters per day. It is exciting get a clean sheet of paper and creating something new.

vinayan3··on Predicting migration between cities across the US, in D3.js
I don't believe the amount of people going in or out of the city is represented by the size of the target city.
vinayan3··on Study Finds Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies
I think they cast anyone with a MBA into the MBA category. I know of one CEO who has both an engineer degree and MBA. The CEO of Adobe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantanu_Narayen

vinayan3··on Why 6AM Works For Me
Do you feel tired waking up at 6AM? For some reason, I feel very tired waking up at that hour these days. I use to wake up at 6AM for nearly 2 years because of commuting.

What are you doing with your time in the morning? Usually no one else is up and around. When I woke up early I found that I could always workout and never have to trade exercising with other activities in the evenings.

vinayan3··on Xxxterm, a minimalist web browser
Lynx. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) This is the most minimal browser I've ever used. It doesn't even have javascript. A lot of the web isn't supported on it due to the lack of javascript support.
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