RyanZAG

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by RyanZAG 11y ago
You've possibly missed my point. The author made the statement that software differs from other items. It does not. Try making a 1km long truck and see if it's perfectly bug free. That doesn't mean trucks don't enjoy eco
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by RyanZAG 11y ago
Software has economies of scale in distribution. In fact the economies of scale of software are the key point of how software businesses are causing disruption. A single software program can be replicated infinitely at zero cost and allow a
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It's pretty sad, really. This is actually a company sabotaging itself. Each additional hour of work isn't "free" for the company - you can't add an extra hour of work to someone and expect the other hours worked won
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by RyanZAG 11y ago
Humans are pretty funny! Going off the usual price for apps ($2.99?), and a 'bunch' is probably about 25 apps, then replacing all your paid iOS apps with paid Fire apps would probably cost you $75. So ignoring anything else, a lot
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There's a concept called 'app wrapping'. A generic app is decompiled, and then the manifest and code is changed to add in some 'wrapper' code around the app. The app can then be resigned with the enterprises certifi
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So you're happier now because everyone else has to suffer in the same way. You still have to sit in traffic. You still have to sit in the noisy room. Nothing has changed for you. You're just happy now because you can't see ot
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> 4. I came to resent the remotes for enjoying this unequal perk, one that inflicts a cost on the rest of the team. Why don't they have to sit in traffic and then in this noisy room with the rest of us? What makes them special? S
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Ultimately, even with automated testing, someone has to do the manual testing of checking that it's actually providing the value it's meant to. When you remove the manual QA team and switch to staged rollout, you are moving the ma
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by RyanZAG 11y ago
This kind of merger seems exactly what the regulatory system was designed to prevent, right? Have any recent mergers actually been blocked? Is the regulator completely toothless now?
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Google definitely needs someone to step up as a gatekeeper and say 'No, this product is terrible, go make it better and we can think about a release'.
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Wait, what? Hang on, this should be the number 1 point of your entire blog post. Honestly, if your post was titled the obvious "Don't make mobile apps only for one region" then you'd be getting a lot of comments saying &
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I don't follow your logic. That's like saying the new manager for the department store managed to keep the roof of the store intact while losing everything under the roof.
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Isn't that kind of like arguing how serializing an HTTP reply into text for the browser crazy inefficient? At any rate, JSON is the transfer format used by RethinkDB so at some point it has to be JSON for RethinkDB to read it. You coul
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by RyanZAG 11y ago
Do you mean converting from JSON to POJO? Why do you consider that awful? There are very good libraries (jackson, gson) for handling that and they work really well - especially if you're going to be using those POJOs for HTTP REST too.
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Looks great, and the vert.x bit was also great to see. The blockingHandler a bit less so. Any plans for making a non blocking API using netty channels? That would really put RethinkDB as an amazing choice for pairing vert.x/JVM with a
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The pattern matching issue with Java or C# is interesting, since all these companies generally do want mobile. So I guess the humorous point of advice for that: replace all occurrences of Java on your CV with Android, and C# with WinPhone,
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What's the difference between the 'Two-Factor Authentication' and 'Multi-Factor Authentication' of the different price plans?
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Strange thing to think. Companies do not produce browsers - employees do. In fact, not even employees. A handful of talented programmers produce browsers. All the desire in the world from a company won't improve the ability of those ha
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As a non American, the USA justice system honestly sounds like the worst possible system for justice imaginable. I don't think I could design a worse system if I tried. Do you all just keep the system because it keeps so many people em
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I'm not sure I understand the angle you are coming from given the following: In terms of construction scores (from 1 to 10 where 10 represents a perfectly built trolley), men averaged 8.9 with instructions, 7.6 without; the women aver
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Not really the issue. As you said, this was a group of less than 200 employees. Probably most of them were doing the work as expected. She cut a hugely morale boosting policy to get rid of a few shirkers and made herself and Yahoo look terr
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Oh that makes for a funny part of the ending too then. While going about your work, you suddenly disappear along with your universe and everything in it. Someone somewhere in the world drank a cup of coffee, which means that he now has an e
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I wonder how a functional version of this would go.. You need transportation, so you define an engine and a set of wheels and a chair, and a whole universe. You define a way to have the engine, wheels and a chair work together. You try to s
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Nice extension! Feels right too, clojure does feel a lot like passing around similar clay bricks. When all the bricks line up, it's kind of like Lego? The analogy also opens up another difference. In clojure, you often end up passing a
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It's kind of like building a model with clay or with sticks. The clay model is going to look nicer with rounded curves and no wasted points. The stick model will have bits sticking out. However when you get 30 people working together t
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> .. However, we had a strong aversion to using Java itself .. Honestly, why? Seems odd given Java's great track record for exactly this problem and huge library and developer share. The code itself is forced to be static and exp
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Woah, it can't be stressed how bad this is. If this succeeds, other countries will definitely follow! If it can be shown to work, it will be demanded that this be implemented by pretty much everyone for difficult to deny political reas
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There's also a different 100 hour rule. 100 hours is enough time for someone to become dangerously competent: just competent enough to complete something, but not competent enough to complete it well.
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A 3.5 hour long meeting every day? This does not sounds like a good idea.
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Well this looks like a great breeding ground for the next big plague. If one person gets sick, it'll spread around the entire company? Also looks strangely reminiscent of the industrial revolution. http://3219a2.medialib.glo

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