Poiesis

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by Poiesis 17y ago
I completely sympathize with this viewpoint. That said, I've been on the IT support side: 1. You have to support whatever is in use. Even users who say "you won't have to support me" end up needing support. This may be due to user error,
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by Poiesis 17y ago
All this disagreement! Look, both sides can probably agree: Rule number 1: My code is crap. The worst kind of incompetence is believing you're better than you actually are. Even the best make mistakes. Have an accurate idea of where th
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by Poiesis 17y ago
I've worked on products like this. Some explanations include: * Copy-paste code reuse * Existing implementations aren't in a common library location, making them hard to find/nobody knows about them * Lack of knowledge about the relevant p
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Wait--wasn't an upvote supposed to be based on post quality, and not on agreement?
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by Poiesis 17y ago
I'm not going to look good on Stack Overflow. I like to spend my spare time actually programming, you know? It's the difference between being a spectator and playing the game. Edit: Of course, a high SO rep might mean that you spend your
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Yes, this was a big deal in the evolution from music from the Renaissance to post-Renaissance. Normally musicians were employed by the wealthy, often church and royalty. This rather limited the variety of music coming out. The French Rev
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by Poiesis 17y ago
I have waffling between waiting for this and getting a run of the mill signal booster/amplifier (which should work in my circumstance). I think I'm going for the latter because it doesn't require phones to be manually added and works regar
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Hilarious. Joel's said previously that site licenses and volume discounts are a bad idea ("Bad Idea #1: Site Licenses. "): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
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Moderation can change this.
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I do. "Don't apply if you're 'old'". Ageism much?
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by Poiesis 17y ago
This is a specific facet of a more general rule of public speaking: don't apologize . It has nothing to do with your presentation, and it's likely the audience wouldn't have noticed, anyway--so why point it out? There is an exception to t
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by Poiesis 17y ago
From an above comment: "But they said it was up to the makers of those devices to decide whether to include the application." I wonder what percentage of app store revenue is the navigation apps? They're not insignificant. They'd be losin
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by Poiesis 17y ago
I'm not trying to say you're wrong, but I get the impression that the reason Apple doesn't have something like that is that they think it will ultimately be worse for the user experience. Frequently they seem to eschew flexibility and cust
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by Poiesis 17y ago
This strikes me as the first (user-centered) thing I've seen that is hands-down better than the iPhone experience. Yes, Android has an open app distribution policy, yes, there are multiple phones and carriers. But I haven't heard anyone s
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Except it's still distressingly common for braindead email address validation scripts to not accept the plus character. So, I'll use the plus to sign up for something that may produce junk (to differentiate it), and then attempt to unsubscr
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Thanks, Patrick, for your unceasing dedication to A/B testing for web signup interfaces. Why--if you hadn't actually bothered to track how well users that don't see buttons convert, well, let's just say I don't think anyone else would have
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Android is fascinating, even without this news. It's the Microsoft Windows to MacOS race all over again (open vs. proprietary, licensed hardware vs. not). I've been trying to come up with "this is why the iPhone is winning this time" but
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Yes, this. In a corporate setup, you need a messaging system that, for lack of a better description, is like email but persists like a message board. Targeted to a particular user/users but available for the next person to join the team w
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by Poiesis 17y ago
Honestly, the psychiatrist didn't say, or I forgot it if he did. I am certainly hyperactive at times, but the inattentiveness is the major problem in my life. I am not taking anything for this (besides caffeine at the moment), I've been ra
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by Poiesis 17y ago
"Simpler" depends if you count the troubleshooting time. To rip off an old anecdote: Change one line of code: $3.00 Find which line of code to change: $3,436.88
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by Poiesis 17y ago
That's not 10BaseT, it's 10Base2 (or thinnet): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2 And--even though I've strung cables for both kinds, and of course 10Base2 takes far less cable, the maintenance issues and troubleshooting headaches of th
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by Poiesis 17y ago
It's funny--they profile Ramp Champ and Skee Ball. Apparently these are two games modeling the same real-world game, and Ramp Champ doesn't use the Skee-Ball name or iconic game representation anywhere so it doesn't do as well. At least fo
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by Poiesis 17y ago
I like Podrunner ( http://podrunner.com ). Intended for runners, but it's got a good beat. Occasional remixed lyrics can be a bit distracting, but much less so than pop (not all tracks have vocals, and they're repetitive so it's easy to t
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by Poiesis 17y ago
This. I suspect this is not an uncommon problem. I have found a solution that works pretty well, though (though it's nothing fancy): don't do that. By that I mean, when you find yourself faced by one of those waits, and are about to switch
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I agree to a point. If they end up being reasonably successful in predicting this information, and they can convince enough people of this , then someone's willing to pay for it. The latter problem is probably the tougher one. If people
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Why didn't you just resist it before taking Adderal then? For the same reason a depressed person doesn't "just cheer up". I have a prescription for Adderal and I haven't taken it yet.... I've also been struggling with the question of wh
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I commute via bicycle. From my experience, and after hearing the opinions of some coworkers, there are some other reasons more people don't do it: 1. It takes more time. There are certainly situations where bicycle commuting saves time (s
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The legal--or even common--definition of "fault" isn't at stake here. The fact of the matter is that they've got mountains of data that say that if some "random crazy fluke thing" happened to you, then you're more likely to have it happen
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What VC's want from Entrepreneurs: a company that makes lots of money.
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Adding yet another option is something that a good developer will do only after careful consideration. That said, let me say that I do like GoodReader's (an iPhone PDF reader) orientation lock. And of course the fact that it doesn't flail o

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