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481.
by Periodic 17y ago
Simply having fast app startup times doesn't not solve the problem. For example, very often I will want to quickly check my email or chat session while a page is loading, but if it stops loading that page when I switch applications I don't
482.
by Periodic 17y ago
I don't think it really has much to do with the total size of your RAM, and more to do with how it ends up getting used. Sure, we can get more RAM so everything we have fits in it, but then everything in the next generation will just use m
483.
by Periodic 17y ago
And I'm pretty sure that plenty of those youngsters who would have loved to tinker got nothing more powerful than a pocket calculator in the 80's because computers were very expensive and hard to come by. I would argue that these calculato
484.
by Periodic 17y ago
I thought most of these errors could be handled with the error construct in Bison? I suppose most errors tend to get written as "Unexpected TOKEN, expected OTHER_TOKEN." If you're willing to complicate your grammar a bit you can add produc
485.
by Periodic 17y ago
Smart phones help, but it is very regular for people to argue a point without having any citations to back themselves up. I'm guilty of this too. What it has lead to is that I will often cede the point for the time being, I will then look
486.
by Periodic 17y ago
When I was in high school I was informed (and I remember because it was relevant at the time) that our councilors were legally obligated to report sexual activity only if any participant was 15 or under or if one was a minor and another was
487.
by Periodic 17y ago
Another point you could take from the piece is that people love being able to broadcast status signals. For example, adding badges/achievements/status to a social site can boost participation (see Yelp's elite, Stack Overflow badges). It c
488.
by Periodic 17y ago
SI units: Seconds came first. Since ancient times (Egypt or Babylon) people divided the day into 24 parts and then sub-divided by 60 and by 60 again. This unit is defined in relation to the rotation of the earth (which was later found to
489.
by Periodic 17y ago
Nice. And only 0.5% off.
490.
by Periodic 17y ago
Secure yourself by using secure habits (like locking your screen when you're away) and using strong passwords and then storing them somewhere. A determined attacker with physical access to your system is basically impossible to stop. There
491.
by Periodic 17y ago
I have seen that not asking for a raise or promotion is a good way to not be considered for one. If you don't make it clear that you are striving for something more then people will assume you are happy with what you have.
492.
by Periodic 17y ago
It's also something to consider carefully if under a lot of pressure. It could scare away employers that may not be great, but would be better than nothing. The immediate response when I mentioned this to a friend was that some companies m
493.
by Periodic 17y ago
I have to admit, there have been a few times I've written comments like the following: /* Just a quick static array to get it * working. Should be enough for all the * usual tests so we can work on core * functionality
494.
by Periodic 17y ago
struct Element { // Update: apparently 16 wasn't enough. Raised to 30 to pass test #452 StyleData styles[30]; // No one uses more than 16 style parameters anyway. }
495.
by Periodic 17y ago
He lists all active mistakes, you list passive mistakes. I expect that passive mistakes are much more insidious, and they are the ones that really sap my productivity. They are also very ambiguous. For example, I should probably be config
496.
by Periodic 17y ago
What I imagine this would do is create yet more information that we have to sift through. I'm not convinced that the solution to any problem in our age is more data. I'm very interested in finding information that is relevant to me and ub
497.
by Periodic 17y ago
Various speeds of modems didn't really seem to make a huge difference for me. It wasn't until I went to a LAN party at a friend's house with cable. Since I could download music at 18kBps I could actually listen to it as it downloaded! Th
498.
by Periodic 17y ago
In fact, the particularly horrible code might not be replaced for a long time precisely because it is hard to understand but it works and changing it could cause problems elsewhere. There are plenty of enterprise systems like this.
499.
by Periodic 17y ago
I know I Google almost every day for something programming related. I know someone else (who writes credit card processing software in Java in a large team) and apparently most off their coding questions are answered in-house. She tells m
500.
by Periodic 17y ago
You can be a customer of the site without be a customer of their advertisers.
501.
by Periodic 17y ago
A huge part of making the web easy to develop for is having things fail in predictable ways. There is very little that is more frustrating than making a few changes to your website and having it suddenly break in one of the major browsers
502.
by Periodic 17y ago
It's as the author says: IE glady rides the backseat in standards, and it’s making my life terrible. In the inverse of your problem, I often have to interface with enterprise web applications and help some of our other staff with them. T
503.
by Periodic 17y ago
I believe this other article was posted about a month ago and may be very germane: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArtic... In brief: only 32% of Internet users clicked on at least one ad in a month, and 8% of users
504.
by Periodic 17y ago
If ad-blocking got popular and sites tried to get past it I believe those sites would likely lose some of the customer's respect as they would be disrespecting the customer. Which site do you want to go to:, the annoying one that forces you
505.
by Periodic 17y ago
I can't have a real conversation at any restaurant that shows sports or the like. I find my eyes wander to the bright and active pictures too often. I usually try to position myself facing away, but it doesn't always work. I blame a huge
506.
by Periodic 17y ago
Science is constantly testing ideas, but until we get contrary evidence we tend to go with the model that fits the data. Right now we still haven't figured out why galaxies are accelerating faster than they should and we are actively explo
507.
by Periodic 17y ago
Like his claim about the people he is attacking, it felt like his arguments were a little empty. He certainly had some facts about the actual movement of malaria, but most of the piece was dedicated to attacking specific climate-change pro
508.
by Periodic 17y ago
With backups being such a common thing, and something you probably could do but would rather not worry about, I don't see why you wouldn't outsource them. Simple backups are easy. Understanding when something is sufficiently backed up and
509.
by Periodic 17y ago
A good backup is one that can be restored.
510.
by Periodic 17y ago
The growth of the size of an arc is only misleading because the graph naturally draws you to compare different browsers as a percentage of the market. Since the market has grown basically linearly, the arcs may actually be in direct proport

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