5teev

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by 5teev 16y ago
Probably that old "publish or perish" thing.
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by 5teev 16y ago
This further complicates building video into web sites with a significant IE user base. I've already seen mushrooming complexity with fellow devs trying to get Ogg into the mix using <video> tags, wanting to "do the right thing", an
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by 5teev 16y ago
True, one of the most accomplished programmers I know merely hunts and pecks on the keyboard.
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by 5teev 16y ago
It's sometimes worthwhile to use boring, "wrong" default form elements, like when the browser will automatically translate their text labels into the user's preferred (i.e., non-English) language.
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The Best and Worst Jobs 2011(online.wsj.com)
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by 5teev 16y ago
And Apple extensively emphasizes this point: there is no substitute for testing on an actual device with your target OS installed.
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by 5teev 16y ago
I too stayed with Speakeasy for years solely because of their high quality tech support. Since switching to Comcast, all of my tech support have been pretty much like the AT&T transcript in the linked article.
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by 5teev 16y ago
"Good customer support" is a matter of perspective. As customers, we prefer highly qualified responders who understand and solve our problems. Most businesses prefer to pay as little as possible to people who are just good enough to keep yo
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by 5teev 16y ago
I absent-mindedly put a drop of cream in some green tea once, and found it an interesting variation and not bad at all!
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by 5teev 16y ago
It's worth pointing out that their website is very well done, especially the reordering process. Once you establish some favorites, it's a breeze to access previous orders and replenish the cupboard.
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by 5teev 16y ago
It was an arbitrary choice for an example. Obviously one would choose a key not being used for anything else. (This choice can also vary from session to session, depending on the task at hand.)
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by 5teev 16y ago
One thing I do all the time is making macros on the fly for repetitive edits with :map. E.g., switch the current and next line :map * ddp Then type * in command mode to execute the steps. And if you mangle your file beyond hope with out of
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by 5teev 16y ago
Not all applications embed a UIWebView, and many that do also offer opening in Safari as an option. There are also between-app communications like Twitter's "Save Draft to Birdhouse..." or sending addresses to the Maps application. Not as f
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by 5teev 16y ago
I don't mean hardcore, nuts and bolts stuff, just that they're more involved with managing how the operating system behaves. And I'm not saying this, I was inferring from Gruber, who notes how many task managers, etc., are the most popular
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by 5teev 16y ago
> Gruber's assertion that it's intrinsically better doesn't have a lot of weight to it. I didn't read it as his specifying one that's intrinsically better than the other, but as which platform will succeed in the long run because it has
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by 5teev 16y ago
I don't understand how Android allows you to pass data between applications while iOS does not. I'm under the impression that I can use copy/paste and custom protocols to pass information between applications on my iPhone. Am I missing some
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by 5teev 16y ago
In spite of all the cool features, this update suffers from the same issue that drove me away the last time I tried Textmate: single-character undo. I can understand why this would appeal to some users, but most other text editors undo in b
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by 5teev 16y ago
I know geeks who use IRC and Usenet way more than the average person. So I'll probably be re-explaining this stuff to my brother-in-law all over again in a couple of years.
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by 5teev 16y ago
Here it's just a lazy way for clueless HR people to say "highly/broadly skilled." It indicates as little thought as someone who says, "You rock!" when you performed some technical task they don't understand, whether it took ten hours or ten
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by 5teev 16y ago
For basic "looks the same" stuff this is probably true. The difficulty comes from clients who devise features that only work well on newer browsers, then insist on keeping the same functionality rather than "degrade gracefully" on IE6.
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by 5teev 16y ago
> Programming will be easy when problem solving is easy. An especially hard part is identifying where the problems actually lie. The average person "solves" a problem by addressing only the best case scenario and lacks the pessimism and
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by 5teev 16y ago
> So should you give money to bums on the street? > In short, my answer is: NO. Ignoring the tacky epithet "bums on the street" I disagree with this conclusion. Giving someone money demonstrates respect for them as a fellow human be
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by 5teev 16y ago
"Don't BE evil" isn't the same as "Don't DO evil."
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by 5teev 16y ago
There's a lot of truth to this, but you'll soon be shouted down by the very people you describe. Successful people--however they got there--only like to attribute it to their own very hard work.
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by 5teev 16y ago
I would remind people that PG's credibility as a successful "big thinker" is largely based on the cash he made winning the dot-com lottery by selling his first company to people who, as he says, had little idea of, and less interest in, wha
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by 5teev 16y ago
I saw a guy solving a cube with only one hand, thus freeing the other hand to do the same thing, more or less.
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by 5teev 16y ago
Eliminating civil rights isn't the goal; like much of the evil in the world, it will be a side-effect of people who thought they were doing the right thing.
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by 5teev 16y ago
Does this mean if I'm an undesirable customer, they'll stop showing me ads altogether?
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by 5teev 16y ago
Object while you can, before it's mandatory to surrender all civil rights in order to fly.
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by 5teev 16y ago
Yeah, no disrespect to Graham, but oatmeal-against-the-wall....

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