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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
What's interesting here is that a lot of the commenters -- myself included -- are blurring the definition of what a web app is. I wonder why that is? I don't have a point other than to ask that question, because my gut tells me it would be
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
I'm going to adopt a liberal definition of web app here. The only web app that appears to increase my productivity is Twitter. But I use a desktop client to access the service. I use it for live-searching of programming problems I need to s
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
This happened to me. What pushed me over the edge was finding out a couple of days before a huge multivariable calculus exam (the first of my finals) that my girlfriend of 3 years was cheating on me. I ended up dropping out of university al
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
I'm not sure if this is legit or just an SEO consultant's wet dream. There are roughly 100 sentences, but 44 mentions of the word "depression", and 36 mentions of the word "recession".
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
All software programmers should know, at some simplistic but fundamental level, how the high level code they write actually gets executed. That means familiarity with actual hardware, even if it is in an academic way (e.g., building J-K fli
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself. I haven't felt the need to use a CSS framework. Then again, I self-taught myself CSS layout-based design in 2003 in the dark days, and was tasked with teaching a lot of co-workers how to do it when mains
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
If you end up using it in a production system, please follow-up with your experiences. I've adopted a skeptical approach to these sort of javascript-based CSS-layout implementations, as some unforeseen problem usually gets caught during QA.
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
It didn't work out because Apple didn't have the in-house talent to pull it off. They had to rely on IBM and Motorola to do the actual chip design, while Apple focussed on creating the software for these chips. IBM and Motorola started to l
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
I'm afraid I wouldn't have much to talk about. This is just a a casual interest of mine. If I see a story in the media about this sort of thing, I'll read it. And where I live, there's the infamous Pacific Mall which often has shanzhai item
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
I suspect this is Apple's response to a phenomenon originating from China. I've been reading up about the Chinese knock-off cellphone, or "shanzhai phone", industry. It has become an incredibly lucrative business. Why? Because, it's now pos
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
I think one of the reasons that those people who prefer vinyl over digital do so, is that the recordings on vinyl are mastered with different qualities in mind than their digital counterparts. There's a YouTube video floating around called
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by 9oliYQjP 17y ago
Do you have any competition? Mac users will tolerate a Java Swing app. But once a native Cocoa (or even Carbon) equivalent app (most features/functionality being the same) comes out, they'll switch. I hate using Java Swing apps. It's an acc
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I also heard that the French, British, Americans, Chinese, and well... pretty much all the nuclear club were using that area off Somalia as a dumping ground for nuclear waste. When the tsunami hit, the locals discovered this was happening w
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
You bring up a good point, but distributing this as a database is a convenient interchange format. It means I can quickly start playing around with it to see how accurate and precise it is. I downloaded it, imported it into a test database,
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I do some custom projects for cash flow. Business is up dramatically over what I was doing in 2007 and 2008. However, the kind of business has changed. In 2007 and 2008 I kept running into potential customers, who usually had a marketing da
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Some Joe Users now associate beta with a sort of brand. I once worked with a guy (who had no clue technically what he was doing) if I could take advantage of the "beta technology". When I asked him what that meant, he said, "you know, all t
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Oh, and here's the source for my pessimism. I've been following this website for a while now. The guy that runs it is a computer hacker to boot! I'm a big fan of his analytical skills and refusal to make predictions, just provide the number
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I'm afraid you're correct. I wish people would just pick up and read a history book. The Great Depression didn't start overnight. People have this misconception that things just got really sh*tty one day after the stock market crashed. Real
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
One day I would love to hear about these disasters. In my own experience I have literally faced utter failure in the face only to somehow manage to bounce back stronger than before. I've told people that running your own business is a lot l
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I haven't used Python since 2004, and never became an expert. But isn't is possible to achieve most of what LINQ does in Python? I know in Ruby it's possible to call sort with a block ( http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2120 ). IMHO, tha
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I've spoken to him over email before. He comes across as a pretty good guy, unlike the perception I had of him from his writings. His article about understanding statistics should be required reading for any good programmer. It's a pity tha
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
The WinForms model for web development is absolutely atrocious. It has an event model that only makes sense on the desktop. To get this event model working on the web, they literally shoe-horned a size 6 stiletto onto a size 12 male foot. T
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
What worries me about this trend is that I don't think the free lunch can end without websites/services getting in bed with the ISPs. Having to deal with hundreds of subscriptions to websites/services is just not going to fly with your aver
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Fundamentally, it's heavily inspired by Rails. Although it doesn't have an ORM, there are ActiveRecord clones available for .NET anyway. The components that resemble Rails resemble it a lot. ASP.NET MVC was not meant to recreate the entire
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I agree. It's great because it's essentially Rails ported over to .NET. That's not a backhanded compliment. I think it was the right thing to do. I know there are a bunch of Rails skeptics out there, but as far as development practices go,
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Let's say you're carrying $50K of credit card debt. Do you realize how much it costs just to service that debt? If your revenue is not greater than the minimum payments (just over the cost of interest) on that debt plus your living expenses
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
My nephew is a teenager and he often plays Xbox Live! while: -his cellphone is on speakerphone to a friend he is allied with on the current game; -his instant messenger client is busily chiming away with messages sent to him, which he'll re
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
My brother writes for TV. There is quite an age difference between us; he's older. The industry still does not fully comprehend the Internet as it relates to its future. The other day we were having dinner and my brother said he wishes he c
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Oh, and one thing I forgot to add. If you're a Canadian in a salaried position but think you will jump ship and start your own business one day, by all means maximize your TFSA contributions. This is money that you can use in your small bus
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I have been putting together my thoughts on this very same topic with the intention of publishing this on a blog that I have access to that is read by influential government, finance, and business folks in my neck of the woods. The analogy

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