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by Smudge 14y ago
If you consider the Windows Phone line to be merely the next iteration of Windows Mobile, then, yes, thus far it has been a complete failure. But I don't think that's a very holistic viewpoint. Despite how terrible Windows Mobile was, it ha
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by Smudge 14y ago
Yep. Microsoft sold the Xbox at a loss and didn't turn a profit from it until 2008 - 6 years after it first edged its way into the market. By that metric, it's way too soon to call Microsoft's mobile execution a failure.
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by Smudge 14y ago
I recall getting Blizzard's implementation working pretty well after going through a maze of help topics and finding particular ports that I needed to enable forwarding for.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Not all insults are ad hominem . For this to be ad hominem , he would have to be saying that the reason Attwood was wrong was because he "gets off on making beginners feel like they're worthless..." Here's a quick illustration: Ad Homi
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by Smudge 14y ago
The facts are one thing. What's really damning is the structure in which those facts are presented. If you compare the original appearance of TNW's article with Joshua's article, the paragraphs are almost identical, with a few words changed
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by Smudge 14y ago
> Objective-C has actually become pleasant to write IMO. Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Totally agreed. I've been working on a project that uses a similar model. You get charged a small fee for not meeting a certain requirement, and anything above what is needed to keep the site running goes to charity. (Ends up being about 95
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by Smudge 14y ago
It's as much a word as anything else in the dictionary. Whether a redundant double-negative is truly "acceptable" is debatable, but hey, that's the English language for you.
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by Smudge 14y ago
Perhaps regardless (or irrespective) of their gender, too. </pedantry>
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by Smudge 14y ago
Strange suggestion: Mods should be required to view and consider search engine traffic when locking or deleting topics. I've noticed lately that a Google search brings me to SO as the top result, but then the post itself is locked and marke
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by Smudge 14y ago
True. But just because I am capable of using HTML doesn't preclude me from being a Markdown user too. A different kind of user, but a user nonetheless.
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by Smudge 14y ago
He was just starting this book around 2008 when I attended a computer music class he taught. Really great class - opened my eyes to the power of functional programming. I'm really happy to see how far he has been able to take this, despite
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by Smudge 14y ago
Top reason for me: separation of presentation and content Which, when actually practiced, is the biggest advantage raw HTML offers over anything WYSIWYG. Except with Markdown I don't even have to write out the HTML, and that practice of o
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by Smudge 14y ago
I saw only two comments regarding "more" or "better" tests. One that seemed like a sarcastic low-blow ("I’m glad to see 37signals post from last week about their minimal approach to testing is keeping the new hires busy and up late at night
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by Smudge 14y ago
But root-cause analysis of the issues that arise is still important, right? Tracing customer-impacting issues back to the decisions that might have caused them? Perhaps not even particular bugs or parts of the product, but architectural dec
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by Smudge 14y ago
Don't be too quick to condemn 37signals for needing on-call programmers. For many startups, the process goes like this: all devs are always on-call. It seems that 37signals at least makes the requirements of the job clear. The fact is, runn
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by Smudge 15y ago
ironic... or, just coincidental? i‧ro‧ny - Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. co‧in‧ci‧dence - A sequence of events that, although accidental, seems to have been planned or arranged.
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by Smudge 15y ago
Did anyone read the last two paragraphs? Seems the article wasn't quite done being edited: > Before entering the hot aisle, a technician uses a supply trigger, typically a switch located outside the hot aisle, to activate the SmartAire
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by Smudge 15y ago
That was my reaction too. I like your brevity.
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by Smudge 15y ago
He's already received complaints and sort of laughed them away: http://dcurt.is/unkudo Personally I think it's bad UX, but what do I know; I'm not Dustin Curtis.
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by Smudge 15y ago
I'm curious though -- for a while now I've been seeing the svbtle style as synonymous with you & your brand, and I'm having trouble shaking that even though it's now open to other bloggers. Was this side-effect another one of your goals
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by Smudge 15y ago
How many other blogging platforms have boiled everything down to just that simple workflow? I'd say this is much more about execution than about the idea.
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by Smudge 15y ago
Who's vetting the bloggers invited to join the Svbtle network? Is it Dustin himself? Something about an exclusive, invite-only network for "creative, intelligent, and witty people" really turns me off. Not that I wouldn't be interested in r
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by Smudge 15y ago
It's a magical theme exclusively available to the few who Dustin Curtis personally invites onto the svbtle.com platform.
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by Smudge 15y ago
I guess the opening of accounts itself isn't that painful. The auto-login notification + refresh when I've logged into one site and switch to another is annoying, but also not that painful. All of this is just unnecessary, in my mind. It's
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by Smudge 15y ago
Going to rephrase a different comment I made earlier: All of these stack exchanges seem to be trying to solve the same kinds of noise issues that Reddit's subreddits solve, except Reddit does a much better job. No question in my mind. Thoug
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by Smudge 15y ago
There are already tags. My thought is that they seem to be trying to solve the same kind of noise issues that Reddit's subreddits solve, except Reddit does a much better job. Having to open up a separate account on each site (linked by one
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by Smudge 15y ago
It didn't break back. It just hijacked the browser's history by adding a 2nd page load in order to inject the "!#" into the address bar. Pressing back would, as a result, act like the refresh button.
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"PushState or Bust": Looking Back on the Hash-Bang(ngriffith.com)
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by Smudge 15y ago
It seems to be breaking my back button. Especially the 3rd example (after a few transitions have gone by).

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