Hominem

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by Hominem 15y ago
I haven't really been following this but there have been rumblings all week that a hacked firmware was released that allowed anyone who installed it, and twiddled with some other things, access to the PSN development and testing network. An
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by Hominem 15y ago
I am flabbergasted there isn't more going on in this space. I am sitting mere feet from a tv, I am holding an iPad, why do I have to pick up a remote. As for Kinnect there are some obvious, and probably useless gestures you could implement
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by Hominem 16y ago
Agreed, there are a boatload of moving pieces. Throw in a work queue and there are even more. A "full stack" like using ASP.NET MVC,EF and IIS will get you to a dirt simple app pretty quickly but it still feels like too much for what you ar
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by Hominem 16y ago
Thats a lot of effort to put into getting a rails developer. Just imagine if you needed two or three. I particularly like the last rule. Never hire anyone who claims to be a rails developer, hire an erlang dev and you are set!
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by Hominem 16y ago
Oh god, that is the worst. I have seen this plenty of times. Boss won't give direction because either he is intimidated or, he is the "idea man" who shouldn't have to be bothered by implementation. It's fine if you want the dev to just wing
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by Hominem 16y ago
Nice, I have been trying to sell Redis as a replacement for a very specific usage of ms SQL server. A tacit endorsement by StackOverflow has gone a long way towards legitimizing it for some of our management.
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by Hominem 16y ago
Yes, I'm pretty sure I will see the staffing firms send me back the same developers, but now they will be Ruby experts. Maybe this is less about .net/other languages and more about what makes development so terrible in large corporations. B
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by Hominem 16y ago
I had a lot of problems with that article as well. But I'd still like the give the author the benefit of the doubt. I assume he has very narrow experience with some framework like webforms or ran into some developers who did. With a lot of
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by Hominem 16y ago
I see some of the .net hate starting to seep into the corporate world as well. I work as a .net developer for a very large corporation and there is more and more talk of re-implementing production applications in Python. The perceived probl
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by Hominem 16y ago
I am asked to give estimates all the time, sometimes based on something like "A guy down the hall says it crashed, how long will it take you to fix." or "Bob wants a portal site". So I've come up with a method that works for me. Add togethe
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by Hominem 16y ago
According to the screen shot of the app, I am probably better off eating a chocolate bar than a handful of cashews. I'm no nutritionist but that doesn't seem quite right.
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by Hominem 16y ago
I am the same way. My iPad never leaves my sight. I even surf on it while I am sitting in front of computer compiling code.
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by Hominem 16y ago
You can't even guarantee people with a CS degree know any of that stuff. In my experience, many of the people I've worked with that had CS dregrees had forgotten that stuff long ago, if they ever knew it. The people answering on Quora are p
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by Hominem 16y ago
I'm not sure what to think about Google's hiring practices. The ones I've met were normal guys, but everyone makes it seem like they are running some sort of Einstien era Institute fo Advanced Study over there. I've got to say, knowing basi
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by Hominem 16y ago
Not surprising. That is a list of things 99% of working developers do not do on a daily basis. And I'm not sure most of that will help 99% of developers on a day to day basis. I once had a project to extract customer contact information fro
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by Hominem 16y ago
I truly hope this works out for them. It's great to be able to jump into something fun after hours of head down coding on something that may no be very interesing. Best code I've written were always little tools for myself or team to use pl
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by Hominem 16y ago
Right, I don't have to implement a queuing system because a guy down the hall did it. But he sunk his budget into developing it and I get to swoop in and benefit. That is not a bad thing, that is how corporations are supposed to work, it wo
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by Hominem 16y ago
I remever rumble effects like this being very popular in flash interfaces for a good long time. Now all we need is an on hover ramping tansition to a hilight color and transition back and we are set to repeat 1998!
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by Hominem 16y ago
Yes, checking availablility via Google Calendar or Exchange or similar would be very cool
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by Hominem 16y ago
So 10 super ninja rockstar pirate devs? They build out awsome ideas, sell them and move on to somthing else? Never keeping a product long enough for it to implode? I guess he was serious about what he learned at Digg.
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by Hominem 16y ago
Are you saying they should be able to go off into the wilderness, decide to run on Heroku or something and come back with an app? Companies invest huge sums of money on infrastructure and the expertise to manage it. Google has too big an in
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by Hominem 16y ago
Honestly that sounds typical of a large organization, everyone wants to put their fingerprint on a project when it's way up. Once everyone gets their hands on it, every vp packs the team with their buddies, burdens you with no-show contract
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by Hominem 16y ago
Right! If the page is good, actually what you are looking for, are you going to back out and tell google? I doubt it.
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by Hominem 16y ago
I got a few downvotes last week saying google needed exactly this to fend off Facebook constructing a search engine based on it's like button data. This goes a long way but the problem I see here is that I want to be able to +1 on the page
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by Hominem 16y ago
Yeah that "premature optimization..." trope always bugs me. It is not a license to write the most non-performant code you can think of and then spend hours and hours tuning it later. That phrase was coined back when optimization meant inlin
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by Hominem 16y ago
Don't think he is going far enough. 1) all memos through Twitter "@google plz blklst @expertsexchange" 2)no laptops on premesis, typing must be done after hours. 3) hire expensify CEO as director of HR and "chief alienation officer"
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by Hominem 16y ago
Ok I am going to defend the guy somewhat. He clealy can't be talking about C# or any other CLR languages themselves, that would be just plain dumb and I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. I guess he is talking about the various M
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by Hominem 16y ago
Google is pretty much dead and it doesn't even know it. They have produced nothing but high profile flops for some time now and all indications are that pangerank is no longer reliable, they have stemmed e tide a bit with blacklisting but I
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by Hominem 16y ago
Seems complicated
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by Hominem 16y ago
Can't stream here. Oh well I'll just go old school and watch one of the shows clogging up my DVR. Don't sweat it Netflixers

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