TimGebhardt

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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
For those not aware why this guy's rant might be important, he's the author of "Working with Legacy Code". That book is pretty much a how-to (and a great one at that) on how to get your legacy code base in a testable state so you can write
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
Maybe I can respond with an anecdote relayed by my wife: She was a Biology undergrad who got into food science. Her first job was for a food co-manufacturer who made many of the frozen pizzas you probably eat (but purchase under the major
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
It wasn't the multiple cores that allowed AMD to steal market share from Intel. It was the original Athlon chips around the turn of the century. They were the first chips that ran at a lower clock speed but produced far superior benchmark
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
I actually like the .application format. It's nice because it's just an XML file that the end-customer's computer knows what to do with it. At my company we've actually created an ASP.NET MVC application that dynamically constructs and ser
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
ClickOnce doesn't require admin privileges to install software. Each program is installed on a per-user basis under the user's profile. So it doesn't need admin rights to write to C:\Program Files. I'm pretty sure this is how Chrome work
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
T Mobile doesn't work this way. They break out the subsidy of the phone and the data/voice plan as separate line items. I will pay off my brand new Galaxy S2 in 22 months, after which my phone plan will be $15 bucks cheaper a month.
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
Amen to this article. I know all to well as a former Motorola Cliq customer how badly Motoblur makes your phone feel like the neglected stepchild of the Android ecosystem. It launched with a heavily modified 1.5 version of Android (with a
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
The program that was previous scheduled to air in that timeslot was called "Can you live forever?" #toosoon ?
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
This is pretty normal. Microsoft itself even endorses this: The .NET Framework has a installation framework built into it (analogous to Java WebStart) called ClickOnce. It's a framework that doesn't require administrator access to install
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by TimGebhardt 15y ago
Even more: because you didn't click on your contact's name in your contact list? I click on my dad's name in my contacts list and it shows his home phone, cell phone, and address. Next to each is an icon allowing me to "call the phone numb