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by amaks 13y ago
Of course there is a curve in all companies. The question is of interpretation how review scores get assigned (stab in my back and lunches with manager's peers like in Microsoft and perhaps in Amazon), or based on a peer reviews like i
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by amaks 13y ago
My though exactly. Perhaps the anger and frustration of this integration is rooted from people being upset about being more accountable (through the real identity) and cautious, and Google is simply improving the quality of comments this wa
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by amaks 13y ago
"Now there’s one less egg in my Google basket, and I never have to pay attention to anything that has the word “Google+” in it again — just like I did with LinkedIn (stop inviting me, everyone in the world), Pinterest, and a number of
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Government shutdown cost America $2 to $6 billion(theverge.com)
2 points by amaks 13y ago|0 comments
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by amaks 13y ago
Interesting. So, perhaps, it's because IE update usually requires OS restart and Administrative privileges when Chrome for example doesn't.
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by amaks 13y ago
Hungarian notation is not helpful at all especially when descriptive name could be used, IDE with rich intellisense, or just good code organization. Does anyone use hungarian notation besides Win32 APIs and Windows user level code (FWIW the
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by amaks 13y ago
Microsoft apparently can't do that because of all those corporate customers which depend on subtle behaviors of a particular IE version they have apps developed against. This is a vicious cycle. Auto-update would work if it was the cas
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Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] Is the New IE6(paulirish.com)
22 points by amaks 13y ago|20 comments
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by amaks 13y ago
Here is another article, this time in English, reflecting on a problem with IE[x]: http://www.paulirish.com/2011/browser-market-pollution-iex-i... .
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by amaks 13y ago
IE 11 adds a pain for developers who now need to support IE 7,8,9,10,11 and quirks modes (see http://habrahabr.ru/post/201172/ , use google translate if you don't understand Russian). The basic premise is that
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by amaks 13y ago
The fact here is that IE is only available on Windows, whereas Chrome and Safari support all platforms. The common denominator for them is OpenGL. BTW, is OpenGL inherently inferior to DirectX?
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by amaks 13y ago
It really doesn't matter how many spaces or tabs, what's important is that all code and scripts are written in the same style, which greatly reduces time required to understand someone else's code. At Google, that's a no
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Microsoft narrows CEO shortlist to Ford, Nokia, Skype and Azure leaders(theverge.com)
6 points by amaks 13y ago|1 comments
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by amaks 13y ago
This is obviously a Google's version of Mechanical Turk
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by amaks 13y ago
All this is exactly why I've stopped buying PCs and use Windows. Silly inconsistencies like shell not supporting > 260 file paths (I know that some Win32 APIs and NT itself limits file paths to 32,768 or so Unicode characters), bu
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by amaks 13y ago
No way. Surface (Pro) has too small screen to be used as a laptop, too overpriced and almost unusable without that attachable keyboard which makes its footprint almost twice that of the laptop, with abysmal battery life. Also, everyone kee
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by amaks 13y ago
AFAIK Facebook is no longer running on memcache, they built their own service. Besides, Amazon and Google offer 5 nines which is much better than you can get on a conventional database, not mention the scale.
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by amaks 13y ago
yes, like Surface Phone?
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by amaks 13y ago
How true. I remember .NET Servers were everywhere circa 2002, e.g. BizTalk Server.NET. Things never change in M$ land, now it's all Azure.
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by amaks 14y ago
I like how intuitive and thoughtful animations in Firefox OS. They are also discoverable and consistent, way better than those in Windows 8 and Windows Phone.
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by amaks 14y ago
My point was that it's comparable to Surface: similar HW specs, no Retina display. iPad 3 offers more hence it's pricier. I simply don't see why anyone except Microsoft Office users (in 2013;-) would prefer Surface to iPad 3.
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by amaks 14y ago
Same here. Besides, people are buying not tablets, they are buying ecosystems. Apple has the great one. Same with Amazon. Same with Google. What mobile ecosystem does Microsoft have? Very limited at this point. And virtually no apps for Win
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by amaks 14y ago
It runs Windows RT, meaning that existing Windows apps won't run on it. You'll need to buy Metro apps from Windows app store, which are not plenty these days. Bottom line: no editing, no programming tools and only preview of Microsoft Offic
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by amaks 14y ago
Correct, it's $529: http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad/ipa...
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Congressman warns FTC: Leave Google alone(arstechnica.com)
1 points by amaks 14y ago|0 comments
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by amaks 14y ago
Oh come on, you don't have to be such a fan boy to help facebook make more money on you.
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by amaks 14y ago
Could it be an easter egg?