HalibetLector

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by HalibetLector 15y ago
How do IDEs factor into this theory? It's easy to make pretty code these days in a variety of languages without actually writing it yourself. The other factor that comes into play is time to implement. Most startups are always in crunch mod
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I don't know about other people, but cubicles instill in me a sense of paranoia I don't get in an open office plan. It actively raises my stress level and makes it harder to focus knowing anybody can show up behind me at any time and I can'
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
"there's real harm done" Not really. Having been a low-level employee on several of these sinking ships in the past few years, the pattern is despicably predictable. Everyone who works for a startup knows the game they are playing. Many of
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
Or a false sense of moral superiority.
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
It does matter. I'd love to do my social game development in Linux (and I even tried it, for a while) but the technologies I use are Flash and Unity 3d. There is no effective way to develop with either of those technologies in Linux. So I s
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
that's simple: people lie on their resumes and can talk a good game. Until you actually ask them to write code (or they have public code available), it's impossible to tell if they used PHP for a week per employer (making up 5 years of 'exp
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I don't see how that invalidates my argument. I don't mention paid vs unpaid at all, just closed and open.
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
Everybody here assumes the smaller sized phone is the obvious choice, design wise. Why? I personally hate the small screen on the iPhone. I find it hard to read, especially on the go. I also don't have to use two hands to use it on the go (
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I appreciated the explanation of how he uses git in a workflow. Everyone does things differently and DVCS is not just "another VCS". Treating git like you would treat svn is a recipe for heartache.
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I used to think this too, until I realized something I didn't thoroughly understand until I read the OP. The reason Stallman wants a "pure" system with no closed source code is because if there's even one proprietary bit of executable code,
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
"Or that the site makes a few hundred million dollars, and can't just be rewritten on a whim?" Why not? If the site is unstable and can't stay up, you can either throw 50 programmers at it and still have it crash regularly or you can take f
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I couldn't agree more. Facebook started college only and had no competition in that space, so they did well but had the luxury to expand slowly, essentially the B&J model in the article. When it was obvious the next step was to open the
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
Social games has been doing this for 2+ years already, with JSON log files scraped into various databases and viewed using web tools for everything from A/B test impressions to virality to monetization to error logging (especially useful wh
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
Sources? beagle3 offers concrete examples, you don't. I'd love to be proven wrong here, but I've found nothing that suggests honor was ever valued in the united states and certainly not the way you say it was. Japan, certainly...
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
No, you don't. I work for one of the top social gaming companies around right now and programmers do specialize to a ridiculous degree. The programmers who write code for the actual game are rarely web developers. It's simply a different do
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I noticed that he switches between the keyboard and mouse so fast it seems like he always has one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse. How is he so fast at switching? For me, touching the mouse is the slowing thing I do in a text edit