anthonyrubin

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   by anthonyrubin 18y ago

   I already have an outlet for shallow conversation: IRC.
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   by anthonyrubin 18y ago

   "The common notion about entertainment is that the better the quality, the bigger the audience. There's some truth to that." I think we have drastically different definitions of quality.
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   David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think(ted.com)

   6 points by anthonyrubin 18y ago|0 comments
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   by anthonyrubin 18y ago

   OS X includes Perl, Python, Ruby and AppleScript. More tools are available when Xcode (free) is installed.
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   by anthonyrubin 18y ago

   He specifically mentions having experience with Oracle. This will make PostgreSQL easier to learn.
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   by anthonyrubin 18y ago

   Best Buy seems to be a bit of an enigma. On the one hand you have what is described in this 37signals article. Smashing The Clock (mentioned in the article) was written over two years ago. This is the first I'm hearing of Blue Shirt Nation.
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   by anthonyrubin 18y ago

   You will likely find PostgreSQL extremely easy to learn. You will probably find MySQL to be very frustrating.
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   by anthonyrubin 18y ago

   http://database-programmer.blogspot.com/2008/09/comprehensiv...
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   by anthonyrubin 18y ago

   I suggest a bit of both. Start with "Dijkstra style" and finish with "hacker style". Adjust levels of each as appropriate for the project you are working on.
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    I'm not sure I see what this has to do with the topic of the article.
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    I'd like to offer an alternative theory: no one is an expert on macroeconomics. How much agreement is there between Friedrich Hayek, Paul Krugman, Milton Friedman, John Maynard Keynes and Ludwig von Mises? Claiming that someone is "right" a
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    I think you need more photos. Some possible inspiration: http://www.amanotakashi.net/portfolio/nature_aquarium/index....
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    What is the deal with the second half of the article?
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    The Google Testing Blog can be helpful: http://googletesting.blogspot.com/
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    You seem to believe that a notification to browser makers a year ago somehow would have solved this.
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    So you believe that Google did this on purpose and it isn't a limitation of the browsers?
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    Do you honestly believe that people keep their browsers up to date? Do you know how old IE 6 is?
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    Do you honestly believe that their intent is to somehow deprive you of information? How exactly is this shady?
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    What if Incompetent + Nice never becomes Competent + Nice and they hold the same position that you do?
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    I just finished listening to the Design View podcast yesterday. Andy covers this topic in a few of the shows. Unfortunately he only did 8 shows in 2007, but they are all quite good. http://show.andyrutledge.com/
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    There are no silver bullets.
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    Nice straw man. I advocate better software, not more software. find, locate, dir /s and the horrendous file search in Windows XP (I haven't used Vista) are not solutions for most users. Under what circumstances are Spotlight, Google Desktop
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    More than likely they don't understand how to manage someone at all.
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    When will programmers stop blaming users for the deficiencies of software? Many users do not understand hierarchical filesystems. Few users care that "Computers work best with structured data." Why in the world would one argue against makin
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    Don't fret, neither does anyone else.
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn His talk at Google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwwKbM_vJc
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    As far as I'm aware Gmail is far behind even the other webmail providers.
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    Here are a few that I don't think have been mentioned yet: The Cooper Journal http://www.cooper.com/journal/ Google Testing Blog http://googletesting.blogspot.com/ Knowing and Doing http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    To impress potential investors and acquirers.
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    by anthonyrubin 18y ago

    What a bunch of senseless drama.