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CareyB
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CareyB
6y ago
I’ve tried many, many different apps, and approaches over the years. On of my peeves is doing things twice, so here are, to my mind, the important decision making factors: 1. cross-device/platform support. Once I was entirely Apple,
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6y ago
Energy generation, and storage.
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7y ago
What verytrivial said!!!! I’ve been in similar situations, but never without an immediately obvious solution. That system WILL FAIL. Even as we speak the time-to-failure is shrinking. Even if one of the solutions described below actually w
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7y ago
I’ve been in IT since the early nineties, and I see this as symptomatic of a more basic issue; putting non-IT managers in charge of IT. This used to be chronic. I’d be in board meetings trying to explain to the entire company brain trust
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7y ago
Scroll to the bottom of the page, and you’ll notice it weighs 0.50 kg, or approximately ONE POUND. Just NO! Lots and lots of ‘finger errors’, as they call them in Formula 1.
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7y ago
Wow! WordPerfect reimagined.
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7y ago
Great analogy
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7y ago
This is what happens when pretentious literati feverishly search for something novel to expound on. There is no magic spell with which to entrance your readers. Pick a method, practice, and develop your own style. If you’re really, reall
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7y ago
Not really. Wix and GoDaddy clobbered it, and now there are others. At one point I had over 30 sites requiring regular maintenance, and upgrades. Plus a few I developed, installed on other servers, and did not maintain. Now I’m down to
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8y ago
Two things: 1. We read much faster than we speak, so watching a video is massively less time-effective. If the junior is doing this on company time, they’re costing money. 2. There was an article somewhere about a dev exhibiting these ‘sym
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8y ago
Simplicity is very hard.
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8y ago
I’ve been at this since the ninteies. At the peak I was getting $2500 for a ten page Drupal site I could do over the weekend. These days you can get a ‘custom’ programmed site from a guy reselling the services of an Asian programming grou