Edmond

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Crowdfunding: PhET's HTML5 Circuit Construction Kit(phet.colorado.edu)
2 points by Edmond 13y ago|0 comments
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by Edmond 13y ago
check my profile, there is a link.
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by Edmond 13y ago
* no claim was made of where the productivity boost of autocomplete ranks against other development factors No, but it can be inferred. I agree that code completion and framework choice can be mutually exclusive; my general point is that a
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by Edmond 13y ago
I don't disagree at all that all the features you describe are nice to have. They do indeed make the programming experience more pleasant and add some utility. What I am arguing against is elevating those features over more effective p
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by Edmond 13y ago
I have to somewhat disagree, I think autocomplete is one of those IDE features that is no doubt quite useful but I think its contribution to developer productivity is greatly exaggerated... frameworks that are well designed for instance are
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by Edmond 13y ago
short term benefit vs long term value is certainly something to consider... Going back to my earlier point, the important thing is for managers to know how to recognize when a developer's effort is aligned with business interest as opp
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by Edmond 13y ago
You are right, working with someone else' code can be quite a task sometimes but it comes with the territory. It almost always happens that a programmer attempts to redo work and end up creating the same problems that the original deve
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by Edmond 13y ago
While you can't judge programming and knowledge work in general the way you judge physical labor, it would help a manager to know when programmers are likely wasting time and company money. This is especially important for resource con
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Banknotes featuring Scientists and Mathematicians(www-personal.umich.edu)
1 points by Edmond 13y ago|0 comments
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by Edmond 13y ago
No it is not...Ideas like this generally don't scale, it may work while they are still small. Flat organizational structures are nothing new, many big companies practice this to a certain extent. For instance many IT consulting compani
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by Edmond 13y ago
take the long view...it is possible to cache data in the browser..performance is a temporal issue, there is already major performance improvements happening in the browser...don't be so quick to shoot down the browser:)
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by Edmond 13y ago
Even developers may not need PCs for much longer...with the emergence of browser IDEs (my startup is working on one), especially for web development, PC becomes unnecessary...Even Microsoft has taken a baby step in bringing visual studio to
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by Edmond 13y ago
Oga thanks for Gbedu! I may have just discovered my new source for workout music...I have been using an app I built to make using youtube mega mixes easy to listen to during workout ( http://mobile.holoklip.com ) Is there a mobile
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by Edmond 13y ago
While cost+ pricing is frowned upon, it is indeed wildly used...for most small businesses it is the simplest approach, especially for commodity products and services. I do agree though that for a technology startup, cost+ pricing should not
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by Edmond 13y ago
if what you are looking for is just a simple coding app, I built one http://jasymca.holoklip.com , it is also in the play app store http://bit.ly/18xVoWX It uses the Jasymca (google it) CAS program.
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by Edmond 13y ago
That is indeed what I am saying...what good will (no pun intended:) ) it be post-deal signing?...if you read that section "Modern Meaning" you see it alludes to brand,customers and IP...in the case of zero-revenue startups that tr
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by Edmond 13y ago
From that same article, if you read the third paragraph, you'll see what I am saying.
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by Edmond 13y ago
Share Price = Present Value of Future Cashflow... That analysis is hard to do correctly if the company is not even generating revenue... Unfortunately it has now become standard practice to use what is basically goodwill (hype, or more char
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by Edmond 13y ago
If reporters understood the law of conservation of energy they'll be more skeptical of energy solution claims, regardless of which form it takes.
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by Edmond 13y ago
You are right...for some reason I had thought it was Asana...maybe it is the rhyming of their names:)
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by Edmond 13y ago
Bought by Microsoft, but you wouldn't know they are affiliated with Microsoft by just looking at their site:)
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by Edmond 13y ago
Funny, I posed this question a couple of days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6862721 )...it is a new branding trend for IT companies though food and beverage companies have been doing it longer.
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by Edmond 13y ago
You are clearly someone who has never even been mugged much less dealt with war and violence in any real sense. Your post reflects an incredible naivety about what true death and destruction means. A weapon doesn't have to be able to b
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by Edmond 13y ago
Saying controversial things while hiding behind anonymity isn't exactly what I call brave. People are People, meaning not being anonymous has a modulating influence on people's behavior and that is a good thing. If you doubt this
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by Edmond 13y ago
MBA here...I take offense!
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Modern Open Source LMS(hadron.appynotebook.com)
2 points by Edmond 13y ago|0 comments
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by Edmond 13y ago
developers aren't building sites with the aim of catering to IE anymore...I don't mean people aren't using IE.
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by Edmond 13y ago
In 2007 I launched a campaign (anonymously at the time) against IE, it went viral. I doubt it had much impact,but happened to coincide with the emergence of mobile devices (iPhone) with modern browsers and services with advances web feature
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My breif life as an anti Internet Explorer Jihadist.(web.archive.org)
2 points by Edmond 13y ago|3 comments
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by Edmond 13y ago
From your github stuff it seems you've been programming for much longer than a few months?...From novice to pro in 12 weeks...not likely.

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