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by acg 17y ago
Here's hoping HTML 5 will deliver and this platform will be irrelevant. Zero-footprint! Silverlight looks too much like embrace and extend to me.
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by acg 17y ago
Seems like Microsoft FUD policies at work. This is not the result of any kind of study, just a measure to maintain market share. Increasing avenues of attack? I've heard that Chrome is currently has the most impressive security credentials
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by acg 17y ago
Systems that have no review of any kind are normally the ones that fail. Whether you are pairing or submitting to opensource where your code is checked, the quality goes up because things are checked. The more effective the communication t
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by acg 17y ago
Agreed, it's extending the usefulness of the platform. Saying nothing of IE7 or IE8: which are IE too.
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by acg 17y ago
So why doesn't Microsoft just announce that they will no longer be supporting IE6? They have, it's the same as XP's (8 April 2014). You answer your own question: products as widespread as IE6 cannot just be withdrawn overnight. It's quit
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by acg 17y ago
Don't dislike practices because there are people who are passionate about them. How you organize a team is up to you, but pair programming does remain a highly effective tool for some teams. It certainly beats change control boards.
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by acg 17y ago
Equally you could point to numerous systems not developed using any form of peer review and conclude the opposite. In the matter of fact there's probably more bad systems hacked together by solo programmers than there are written by communi
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by acg 17y ago
Perhaps programming isn't really for the masses, many of these points just describe traits in people that cause bad software to be written period. The best teams are those who are passionate about getting software right: they'll do whatever
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by acg 17y ago
How the kernel is organized has no meaning on how bloated it is Software organization can cause bloat if the feature can be implemented in another way. For example, there may be multiple ways to establish the same network connection. I'm
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by acg 17y ago
I agree he's got the wrong words, I think he is a programmer, but the author is probably writing this from first hand experience. I think he is saying if you're getting a developer to develop a UI for you, you better make sure they're able
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by acg 17y ago
Confusing post, your example is how there is not a zero-sum game. No doubt Shaw was talking about futures/options and his experiences with hedging rather than finance in general.
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by acg 17y ago
The C++ guide interestingly recommends not using a number of language features (exceptions for instance) and advises a more standard-like approach on Windows. I wonder what seasoned windows programmers make of it http://google-styleguide.
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by acg 17y ago
Not worth reading... since when was Europe united enough to have a single style. Some people need to get out more.
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by acg 17y ago
Most programs are written by teams these days... it is the culture that matters. Culture provides support, best practice and good staff. Some good languages will never be widely used unless they have good communities/projects associated wit
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by acg 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818492
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Burning man had opensource mobile network of 1000 handsets(openbts.blogspot.com)
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by acg 17y ago
I don't follow the reasoning that Britain's libel laws are too strong. - Singh could have apologised if he didn't mean it, it is clear that he wanted to portray chiropracty as quackery. From what I heard he also said that the evidence in co
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by acg 17y ago
This is a threat: authorities say this sort of thing to get the interested parties around that table to talk. This does not make the service out-of-touch, just it gets people to take notice. This strategy worked with the Blackberry, the com
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by acg 17y ago
I think it is all too easy to be dismissive. Powershell could just be another VBScript, but it is clear that it is Microsoft's response to the proven usefulness of a decent command-line on OS X. Being Unix is not a prerequisite for the comm
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by acg 17y ago
I remember having similar feelings when I left University. For me it some of my concerns were about the change, I'd become so used to studying that I found the idea of the working world a little daunting. There are a few things that I've f
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by acg 17y ago
I wonder whether "powershell" will go anywhere. For many I get the impression that command line means Unix. However Microsoft's ability to partner with hardware vendors could lead to a new way of seeing the command-line. Although I have my
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by acg 17y ago
I wonder whether this is other copyright holders trying to get the BBC on-board. I've read an article before HD could represent the end of unencrypted analogue output, and how companies are trying to control the recording of programs. http
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by acg 17y ago
One thing that is clear isolating China, or not doing business with the Chinese because you have different principles isn't going to change anything. What seems to have influenced China most is trade. These companies are better off in Chin
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by acg 17y ago
There is not a relationship, just because people do or don't believe in a god, many gods or what have you has little to do with their creativity. If there is a relationship it might be that some religions have an emphasis on reading and boo
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by acg 17y ago
I thought she disliked C and C++ equally, believing that direct access to memory prevented the compiler from making optimisations on the data. Really an argument against writing large systems in either. What makes you think that STL would
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by acg 17y ago
It's worth noting that -delete is more efficient than the above, and indeed safer. Efficient because additional exec's are removed, for the most part find can perform the unlink itself. Safer because a replacement version for rm cannot be i
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by acg 17y ago
Some reporters need to find another job.
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by acg 17y ago
On OS X pbcopy and pbpaste are useful for working with clipboard data. Copy data from a web-page or whatever, manipulate it on the command-line to get what you want. Putting reasonably large files in the clipboard can be useful too. For ex
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by acg 17y ago
On the Microsoft stack side, everyone knows about Visual Studio. The licensing cost for the Team Suite is $10,939. LAMP developers just love to point that kind of thing out. But folks, the fact is, that price is not measurable as the equiv
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by acg 17y ago
No not all of them. I think there can be a tenancy to think the way that one learnt to program gives the best grounding: this is a bias. For my money there are different types of programmer and depending on what sort of project you are doi

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