allannienhuis

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   by allannienhuis 11y ago

   Much of rural Haiti is like this. The stories I've heard from people who have spent time there are heartbreaking.
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   by allannienhuis 12y ago

   No, the way to end it is to build an alternative that is better in the eyes of the people willing to pay money for the devices. Spend your energy on building something rather than tearing down.
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   by allannienhuis 12y ago

   and assuming 100% utilization you can make about 172k a month billing at $1000/hr... You can plug in whatever numbers you like into any formula you like, but it doesn't help most developers earn more. The reality is that most devs
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   by allannienhuis 12y ago

   Curious why this isn't used anymore? Seems like it would have been a useful thing to flag certain files as being worth extended review. Did it not provide the expected benefit(s)? I'm interpreting 'we' as 'google&#
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   by allannienhuis 12y ago

   Where do you see that the Whirlpool washing machine will be hard coded to use <brand name> products? The system is controlled via the smartphone app. I would think you could re-assign the product/brand associated with the button
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   I’m Not a Servant – I’m a Host a New Metaphor for Leadership in Agile?(infoq.com)

   1 points by allannienhuis 12y ago|0 comments
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   by allannienhuis 12y ago

   There are a lot of code review tools that might be suitably repurposed for this sort of thing. Lots of quality/community issue I expect though.
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   by allannienhuis 12y ago

   Apple locks in IOS developers to OSX - I'm not aware of any practical way of building IOS apps and submitting them to the app store without running OSX. That doesn't mean you need to use it as your regular personal use OS, but i
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   by allannienhuis 12y ago

   http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/saharan-carpet-of-tools-i... The source I believe.
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    Rolling new D&D characters was one of the first non-trivial programs I ever wrote. It was on a VAX-VMS in basic, but hey that still counts as programming, no?
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    The videos here: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/new-amazing-metal-is-so-hydrophobi... are pretty amazing. Water bounces when it's dropped on the surfaces created this way. They mention uses such as aircraft wings (no de-ic
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    Multifunctional (superhydrophobic) surfaces produced by femtosecond laser pulses(scitation.aip.org)

    1 points by allannienhuis 12y ago|2 comments
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    Javascript: var f = function(i){return new Date(2014,i,0).getDate();}; JSON.stringify([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12].map(f)) == JSON.stringify([31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31]); :P
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    I think it's fair to include that in the 'plenty of days where he opts to not read and not play video games'. Not sure why you would criticize the omission of an unrelated topic in a great comment about sharing his passion w
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    Another alternative: https://github.com/rgarcia/dochub is a node application that can be installed locally which serves up a pile of relevant web development documentation. Online/demo version of the app here: ht
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    science is so cool.
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    Parsing the sentence to only consider the modern vs traditional cultural reference (things were better in the past) is completely ignoring the point that it is using maleness to define good or great. The phrase is just an idiom, I'm pr
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    That's exactly the attitude that keeps women away from jobs in this industry. This use of the term is _clearly_ a gender specific reference. We should be working on using more inclusive language. Language like this pushes women away
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    The phrase uses maleness as a reference to something better or great. 'real men' are used as example of 'great'. It has the same effect as 'throw like a girl'. I'll admit to being sensitive to the topic.
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    I find it hard to believe how people in our industry today can be so ignorant of the issues around the use of machismo terms like that used in the title of the post. I believe that the author was just trying to be witty and was probably no
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    I think it reinforces it rather brilliantly. As someone else mentioned - he's a very bright writer :)
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    The liberty point is a great one. I'm not 100% convinced that there are not some downsides to it - e.g. I'm for seatbelt laws that save a lot of people's lives. But it's the basis for a really rational debate that is mo
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    Most large buildings in the parts of China that I've visited (4 different regions of the country) use government supplied central heating (hot water I think). Interestingly this supply is turned on in the fall based on local policy, w
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    I kinda like this. Years ago I toyed with building a similar inversion type puzzle game based on a hexagon field. It also had the problem of devolving into more or less random clicking once the field got bigger, and so frustrating the pla
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    Shameless plug for my iPhone/ios app: http://isthatglutenfree.com The marketing website is way out of date, but the app is current, regularly updated (dedicated staff) and has the largest database of gluten-free brands and
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    by allannienhuis 12y ago

    Regarding giving up after 500ms: I don't think the issue is that people are consciously abandoning a site after a single page load that seems a bit slow. It's the cumulative burden of slightly slow pages that make the site slight
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    by allannienhuis 13y ago

    I think you may be confused - I read that as the client deleted the wordpress instance, not the contractor.
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    by allannienhuis 13y ago

    That's very nicely done. Could be an easy website support option.
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    by allannienhuis 13y ago

    get away with what, exactly?
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    by allannienhuis 13y ago

    I've successfully used a phonegap wrapper (iframe works just fine in the cases I tried) to work around the IOS auto-play and other sound restrictions. Auto play html5 audio elements 'just worked'. This might also be an alte