apotheon

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   by apotheon 17y ago

   Nah. Top Three Rules: 1. Before you start writing something, make sure it'll actually reduce workload in the future. (laziness) 2. Borrow liberally from others -- especially open source code -- because that's the quickest way to success.
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   by apotheon 17y ago

   > Large companies used Cobol and now Java because it is safe. "Socially" safe, that is. Damned dangerous in other, more neglected, senses.
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   by apotheon 17y ago

   > This will continue unabated until a better science appears . . . or until a better theory of management appears and gains widespread acceptance.
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   by apotheon 17y ago

   I don't think it's a matter of complexity so much as a matter of difficulty defining the problem.
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   by apotheon 17y ago

   Maybe that means it makes more money than it costs. You know . . . "profitable".
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   by apotheon 17y ago

   Ah -- Intertubes Best Practices. You got me there.
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   by apotheon 17y ago

   Please point out some spelling errors for me so I can see where I missed them.
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   by apotheon 17y ago

   > a behavior that's not harmful . . . until someone double-orders something that costs $600.
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   by apotheon 17y ago

   Are you kidding? Mac users don't actually use their software! It's just there to look pretty.
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    Unfortunately, double-clicking a link when submitting a form (for instance) can double-submit it, which can be especially problematic when confirming an order and ending up getting charged twice.
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    Actually, that works for speakers -- since most speakers for a computer are designed in a manner that is identical to a means of designing a microphone (just with some of the dimensions altered for quality of sound, et cetera). I'm not so
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    At least the trains always run on time.
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    My response was too long for a comment here, so I posted it elsewhere: http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=1633
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    There's a book at my local Barnes & Noble about Android development. Maybe you should cruise on over to the book store and see if there are any hints in the book about how the submission process works, if you're that curious. If not, y
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    > It will eventually be their downfall. We can only hope.
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    One thing you can't do with a GPLed application -- and something I do all the time -- is try to support copyfree licensing rather than copyleft licensing.
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    http://copyfree.org http://softwareliberationfront.org . . . and other reasons.
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    "Rad" hasn't really been in widespread use since the '80s.
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    I rather like the fact it uses the WTFPL, too. It's not really a replacement for something like tmux, though, from what I've seen.
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    I prefer tmux.
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    First, you need to be able to make any correspondence seem like it was written by someone who is conversant with the grammatical conventions of the language. For instance, this is a grammatically correct question: How do I find inves
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    Whoosh . . . ?
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    > Comment scores make group beliefs far more obvious. Common knowledge of group beliefs is a necessary condition for groupthink. True -- but obviousness is not a prerequisite of common knowledge in a knowledge-oriented community like th
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    Programming Classes (on reddit)(reddit.com)

    1 points by apotheon 17y ago|0 comments
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    Onelook.com is awesome -- and you just showed me it's even awesomer than I thought. Thanks for that.
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    I think that the dangers of majority-conformist thinking and other groupthink behaviors are very real and should be discouraged. I don't think hiding comment scores will have that effect, though it might make it more difficult to recognize
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    I'm not exactly sure I understand what you're saying. Are you saying . . . 1. You used to pay more attention to scores than to text? (i.e., "I used to skim the score to see if I wanted to read the comment, but now I skim the text.") 2. Yo
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    Yeah -- more (keys) is always better! Oh, wait . . .
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    You may not be aware of it, but the view command on (most?) Unix systems is basically a read-only way to execute vi. It has the same keybindings in general, of course, because it's actually the same program with the -R option, more useful
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    by apotheon 17y ago

    I moved in the opposite direction, from VSW (which I used heavily for a while) to Vimperator.