waynecolvin

Rich people always have people coming out of the woodwork. Just the same negotiating your salary when getting hired and business decisions when starting up are important!

Part of this reminded me of [1]. Most of the book is about how employees can deal with different boss personalities. [1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1564147045/ref=redir_mdp_mobil...

I think the OP is onto something. Focused attention is good if you don't get tunnel vision. In addition to finding a relevant venue you would want relevant mentors and colleagues too. Hopefully some of them are in that same venue.

A little off topic: What's a good way to convert epub (or other ebook format) into HTML? Not all in one page like pdftohtml does but as tree nodes and a table of contents and all that.

mixmax' point 3) reminds me of State the Obvious. Maybe saying something in known agreement promotes consensus (with the speaker). Also anything past the first page won't get as many eyeballs so what's there will get more upvotes still.

Oberon or Modula-2 maybe?

It was a cute sales pitch for the company's C IDE. I especially like how they use "soccer", a word that resembles "sorcery". Talking about how one (only?) gets the gist of things and is not a kernel hacker was great to speak to the less-than-competent. Yes yes few of us write kernel modules but still. Encouraging coders to be comfortable with C when they sell a product to help, brilliant!

Beggars can't be choosers perhaps but couldn't both halves of a relationship being similar get ubalanced? Maybe just a little bit more understanding, or opportunitiy, makes up for that...

According to this paper http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf the greatest hurdles are usually:

assignment and sequence recursion / iteration concurrency

So how is security and privacy dealt with in other countries? Especially the ones with a better security track record.

It kinda reminds me of how a troll can stir up conversation on a quiet channel sometimes.

Open Source became "magic pixie dust" right from the beginning of the term with the Mozilla Project. At least in The Cathedral and the Bazaar someone found reason to refute it. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral...

There have been whimsical book covers before but it does seem like a quirky Renaissance.

If dolphins became legal persons then how would you take one to court? If one ever broke into your house or something.

It's not the same as this story but I gamed Algebra II in in high school. It was last class of the day, the teacher was a track coach and most of us were in sports. Since time was short near the end of the year we all got permission to work at our own pace... As a C+ student in Algebra I quickly did the minimum on assignments in order to take more tests more often working far past in the book than we would have reached. I turned in crap of course but the total extra credit added up real good! ;) The teacher knew what I was pulling and even had to specify certain minimums, but went along with it nicely. (Other than never telling me just how high my grade finally was. Probably ~105%.)

It looks like watch is usually used on Linux. watch(8) for FreeBSD is something totally different.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/*bsd-17/linux-watch-... gnu-watch, cmdwatch, gnuwatch etc.

After reading the Wikipedia article and so forth, yes the man was smart.

For instance it says he was writing business software as a teenager. It also says that Altair BASIC was initially written on an emulator, which was itself written by him! We're already at the clever and talented point right there.

"He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT[19] and enrolled at Harvard College..." isn't a perfect indicator but suggestive also. He might have had other breaks in life but smarts would have been one of them.

By Richard Bornat who recovered copyright. http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/r_bornat/#vanitypublishi...

I've always been curious about this book after seeing it well spoken of in a bibliography/reading list somewhere.