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by MortenK 14y ago
Agreed, this a measured, professional response to a childish, unrestrained rant from a community primadonna.
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Looks at Spolskys article "Hitting the high notes" which is based on Yale prof. Stanley Eistenstat's meticolously gathered data of time spent among students for programming assignments. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
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Oh come on.
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That's simple solutions, not easy ones.
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When talks fall on whether or not there is a bubble, a common argument is that we shouldn't worry until the cab drivers and waitresses start investing. I wonder if the argument in 10 years will be that we shouldn't worry about bubbles, unti
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I thought Kicksend was about sending large files rather than photosharing?
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Very sad that the moderators are closing such interesting questions, because they do not conform to their opinion of what should go on the site, even though the topic is obviously hugely popular and appealing to a lot of users.
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I think the problem is with the software you are developing rather then the IDE. If it is taking you hours to compile, there is something very wrong. I recently worked on a couple of 1 mill+ loc projects made up of more than 100 projects in
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by MortenK 14y ago
You can design and improve and test the software forever, but if it is working right now, go out and try to sell it again. A top design is not neccessary for product success, neither is a lot of features. Plenty of "boring" business product
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The insulting and derogatory remarks is stuff like: "Also, it's GitHub's fault that they use an existing secure method of transferring source code instead of writing a new protocol that's easier for you to use. Because 4 step-by-step instru
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With the (hollow) promise of riches, connections or whatever else appeals to the young programmer.
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What you are arguing for is efficiency, not simplicity. Cryptic and highly compact routines, symbols instead of telling names and memory / disk space conservation beyond the point of diminishing returns, all increase complexity, rather th
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by MortenK 14y ago
Please understand that my original comment is not about cooking. It's not about car repair either. And it's definitely not about whether cooking and car repair are valuable skills. Or even if they should be taught for 10 hours a week or 2 h
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Definitely not! In my own opinion the majority of curriculum both in public school through to many university courses, is a waste of time, but that's a different discussion.
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I don't really know what your argument is, except that you somehow think I'm revising my comment "trying to paint a new context" and even "building a strawman" to boot. Yet you offer no explanations for these very rude remarks. The parts in
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"The existence of individuals who wouldn't gain much from learning to code does not imply that no one will gain much from learning to code." In the blog post, Atwood actually writes the following: "Look, I love programming. I also believe p
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by MortenK 14y ago
I think I might have worded the second paragraph wrong, as it seems a few people have taken it literally and misunderstood my point as being that cooking is a useless skill. Cooking is of course a good skill to have. So is plumbing, car rep
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Yes of course. But do you need to teach kids cooking from first grade until they start college, on the same level as math, reading and writing?
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But should it be mandatory for everybody to learn cooking on the same level as reading and writing? Is it such a basic requirement, that we're decreasing our children's chance of success, if we don't teach them cooking (edit: Again, on the
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The thing is that these libraries are not going to grow to several hundred seats in the next 5-10 years, like the company you worked for. They will remain at their level of 5-20 seats. As such there is no need, nor will there ever be, for s
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The benefits from economies of scale and mass-ordering still apply to much lower priced hardware. The IT staff wages will still have to be paid because hardware needs support regardless of the unit price.
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Wow, put down the pitchforks guys.
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The engineer came off very combative and threatening from the start. After just 3 emails , he publishes a one sided case with the sole purpose of instigating an internet witch hunt. Based on such an aggressive attitude from the get-go, it
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"To make money" means to make a profit, not generate revenue.
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Today I was designing wireframes for a web application, using a little prototyping app called Balsamiq mockups. It is a little, very focused application, and the detail level is nothing short of amazing. Typing a few letters and hitting ent
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A sophomore at Penn university I believe. He has written a couple of interesting blog posts, which were featured here on HN.
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That link lead me to a NY times article from december 2000 with the following paragraph describing the height of the 1999 bubble: "Even the most traditional brokers and investment banks set aside the notion that a company's stock price shou
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It's because the site is made with ASP.NET webforms, which requires that top level form tag.
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That was a very interesting read, thanks.
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The definition of business development here being actions done by users in an app, showing up on facebook?

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