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by andrewf 18y ago
Sadly, I looked into the "best filesystem for an external drive" recently and arrived at NTFS. It's a no-brainer for Windows. ntfs-3g is already installed and working on any recent Ubuntu, and is trivial to install on OS X. Reliability? Ask
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by andrewf 18y ago
On-demand download of code that runs on your machine outside of web pages' usual sandbox.. I don't see how this is any better than ActiveX.
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by andrewf 18y ago
The lack of a single, cohesive, well supported set of packages on OS X is the reason I do a lot of development and experimentation inside another operating system inside VMWare Fusion.
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by andrewf 18y ago
Very nice. Couple of ideas: * It would be nice if freehand mode used some criteria to separate "changing direction" from "wobbling a bit" in order to straighten out edges, so I could use it to draw a perfect triangle. * It would be nice if
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by andrewf 18y ago
I'm not the one who modded you down, but I'll bite. You have a problem with the author's irreverence towards virus outbreaks in Africa. Regardless of whether this is "correct", it is not of interest to (some large proportion of) readers her
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by andrewf 18y ago
Type slower. How much of your time in front of the machine do you spend thinking, as opposed to typing? You may find that you can drop your typing speed significantly while having a negligible effect on your overall productivity. You didn't
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by andrewf 18y ago
I think the MacBook is worth considering. I like its form factor better than the MBP's. If I was unable to use an external screen for extended sessions at home I might favor the larger screen.
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by andrewf 18y ago
One caveat on this: I believe you can get a 30 day trial of the commercial version.
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by andrewf 18y ago
I see two almost independent objections here, and I think the press has failed to convey this adequately: - One is the Linux argument; that these laptops should be open to tinkering and closed source is inappropriate. - One is the Sugar arg
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by andrewf 18y ago
Interoperability is a mess. From the server side, no matter how long you chip away at it, there always seems to be another client library, or another version of a client library, that will bork. However, provided your server can talk to it
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by andrewf 18y ago
Once the shareholders have sold the company off to Microsoft, if Yahoo falls apart, that's Microsoft's problem. It wouldn't hurt the people who had already sold Yahoo, so it's not a scenario that Yahoo's board should be considering. (One ca
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by andrewf 18y ago
What do you think sets PHP apart from "every other language" which is actually a positive thing?
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by andrewf 18y ago
Avoiding >NCPU threads is basically doing your context switching explicitly in code, rather than letting your OS and/or VM handle it. http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/02/kill-myth-please-nio-... Seems it isn't necessarily more effi
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by andrewf 18y ago
Even worse is the good ol "4 text boxes" solution.
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by andrewf 18y ago
I'm interested in playing with the Microsoft stack a bit more, for the usual reasons people play with languages they don't work with. Can anyone recommend a sweet spot to aim at (is ASP.NET MVC really usable yet?) and maybe a book or guide?
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by andrewf 18y ago
When I read Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (an excellent book, btw), one thing jumped out at me regarding physics research centers in the first half of the 20th century. PhD students and postdoctoral research fellows may have been
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by andrewf 18y ago
Postgresql here, for all the reasons states by over commenters, with an additional proviso: we were a Postgres shop when I arrived and nobody has ever seen a reason to change. Sometimes we'll think wistfully of more OTS solutions for Oracle
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by andrewf 18y ago
" teenagers mostly want to keep up with their friends and be social." Or, as JWZ put it: "How will this software get my users laid?" http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
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by andrewf 18y ago
Regardless of viewpoint, introducing religion into an online discussion usually results in pointless, voluminous arguments that enrage a few and bore the rest.
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by andrewf 18y ago
If you (or someone you know) runs a website whose patronage would be representative of your target audience, take a look at the webstats. At an established software company, this is a very easy question to answer - you just look at the user
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by andrewf 19y ago
Josuttis' "The C++ Standard Library" is the most heavily thumbed through C++ book at work.
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by andrewf 19y ago
For Twitter: http://tweetscan.com/rss.php?s=yourcompanyname
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by andrewf 19y ago
If someone's writing a client in an IDE, WSDL gets them code completion.
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by andrewf 19y ago
I've implemented a small (in terms of number of supported calls) read-only web service which has SOAP+WSDL, REST/XML and REST/JSON frontends. From the server development point of view: SOAP is a giant pain. Randomly selected SOAP implementa
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by andrewf 19y ago
I thought the gmail announcement was pretty good - everyone's first reaction was that it was fake. Of course, actually fooling people is significantly harder than putting something absurd at the top of your blog. See also: http://news.ycom
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by andrewf 19y ago
Spoiler free sports info for people who are slightly behind. If I missed the game, give me a reliable way to find things like a replay broadcast time, or as a last resort streaming highlights video, without bumping into the result. If I'm a
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by andrewf 19y ago
RogueWave has been around since the 1980s. It may qualify as a small/medium company, but I wouldn't call it a startup. This means that you may not have the same ability to create features/policy/products/etc as you would in a tiny startup.
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by andrewf 19y ago
DeMarco & Lister (yes, the Peopleware guys) - Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects
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by andrewf 19y ago
BSc (Computer Science) from Curtin University, Western Australia
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by andrewf 19y ago
Stands like the iCurve ( http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Technology-iCurve-Laptop-Stand... ) take up almost zero space inside a suitcase.

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