InvisibleCities

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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
>since EA's acquisitions chose to join EA. Not quite correct. Maxis' shareholders decided to join EA; I doubt the average programmer, or even the average project manager or tech lead had any say in the process whatsoever.
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
Microsoft is an organization made up of many of the smartest, most creative developers on Earth that has been completely hobbled by organizational bureaucracy and office politics. Microsoft stifles more good ideas in one year than most comp
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
>You want me to spend 2 hours writing tests for a feature that someone's going to tell me to rip out 15 minutes later? No thanks. If you are going to rip out the feature 15 minutes later, why even waste the two hours writing it? Also, a
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
>For the average European, there probably wasn't a directional change, but the average European left no writing. The average European went from a free citizen of Rome to a serf, laboring under conditions that bordered on slavery. I'd sa
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
Yes, but they are "cheaper", which is all that matters, unfortunately.
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
And the beauty of Visual Studio's interface is that it is completely customizable. If you want the Solution Explorer on the left side, all you have to do is click the top of the window, and drag it over to where you want it; it'll snap righ
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
> If HBO Go were available as a standalone subscription, the number of copies of Game of Thrones that are pirated would drop substantially, and HBO's overall revenue would go up, not down. If they offered a Game of Thrones only option a
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
You still get tips, which generally outweigh your hourly rate anyway.
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
If you think that Google can't crawl a paper to find the section labeled 'Abstract' and index it, you are hopelessly naive. Google Scholar sucks because of a lack of available, open access papers, not because of technological limitations.
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
Looks like somebody forgot to set up a share-point reminder.
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
>the need to ensure that the valuable contributions that the scientific publishing industry provides are not lost. Honestly, what value does the publishing industry provide? Search? Google, Microsoft Bing, and any number of other search
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
>and quite sad we won't have data for two years Not really. Currently, the LHC produces data at a rate far greater than it can be analyzed. I'm sure that backlog will keep the world's high energy physicists busy for quite some time.
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
I think you've missed the most important part of that paragraph: >"...Tesla’s experts said that pumping in a little energy would help restore the power lost overnight as a result of the cold weather, and after an hour they cleared me to
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
First of all, the author doesn't hate IoC and Containers, he hates XML registration (with good reason). I can't say anything about Java, but in C#, when you use modern IoC frameworks like StructureMap and AutoFac, all registration of compon
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
> the difficulty of financing peer-reviewed publishing if subscriptions are free. Nope. Peer reviewing is performed largely for free; in the few cases where the reviewer is paid, their fee is paltry. This is even more ridiculous when yo
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
>good developers over there (and here in Uruguay) that are earning a fraction of what an equivalent U.S. developer is making. As it turns out, people from India/Pakistan/Uruguay who are smart enough to build complex software systems are
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
But how will we keep our private prisons profitable?
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by InvisibleCities 14y ago
>...my daily commute is a 6 km (3.7 mile) round trip by foot...I'm a male in my late 30s and I generally walk at a relatively brisk 7-8 km/h (4.3-5 mph)...My walk to work takes about 20 minutes... Does not compute. A trip of 3.7 miles a