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by arocks 14y ago
Should the order of documentation be same as order of code? For e.g. if I would like to start with explaining the main function at the bottom of the code, can this support that? If it does not it cannot be, strictly speaking, called Literat
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by arocks 14y ago
An excellent essay loaded with very useful advice. Personally, I find Steve Jobs to be a great role model for Product Managers. The "manager" part is often misleading, it is usually a Product Visionary what the role demands.
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by arocks 14y ago
It is amazing how today's technology favours the doers who inspires us with their actions. Almost anyone in the world can see and learn from their actions, thanks to technology. Decades ago leadership meant using powerful and inspiring word
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by arocks 14y ago
This is probably another way of saying Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) works best for the enterprise. They probably already know that we should have all functionality in coarse, self-contained services. But often the plumbing required
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by arocks 14y ago
As the article mentions, there are very few tutorials on racing games on the web especially ones that use real 3D geometry calculations and not tricks like Mode 7. A big thanks to the author for the tutorial and an extremely enjoyable racin
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by arocks 14y ago
That's an oversimplification of the situation. A Q&A based site like Quora can be compared to it's predecessors like Experts Exchange or Stack Overflow because the content is simply enhanced by greater participation of experts. The earl
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by arocks 14y ago
I was about to post the exact same thing. It is the best means to ensure breaks. Plus, to counter all the ill effects of sitting, you have to stand up!
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by arocks 14y ago
Thanks for writing this. I consider myself as a fixer and builder but often wonder if this nature of mine has gotten me more trouble than otherwise. To fix or build something for someone is so rewarding that you sometimes forget to do your
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by arocks 14y ago
Dijkstra himself later clarified: "Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the go to statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conce
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by arocks 14y ago
I rarely install Java on a new machine because of their installer. It feels too maleware-ish to me. In fact, I would go out of my way to find a non-Java alternative for most software I need.
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by arocks 14y ago
> Still, you don’t see that many big Python and Ruby shops either... But we keep seeing a lot of PHP shops. Does this mean that PHP is better suited for "large scale projects?" I'd very much doubt that. The ease of learning a language a
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by arocks 14y ago
This is a very promising approach. I was blown away when they actually executed a web application and the working web page was shown inside an IFRAME. This means that I could learn programming from any device, even a tablet, without needing
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by arocks 14y ago
Needing to reboot after installing an update or being nagged to death about it, that is definitely messy.
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by arocks 14y ago
The longer a slow system exists the more unlikely you could ever make it faster, much less Googlespeed. A very interesting debate on Premature optimization versus Profile-guided Optimization could be had from this comment. Ideally, better
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by arocks 14y ago
Writing is a challenge indeed. Especially for me since the last one year. It used to be that if I had a collection of thoughts, I would try to flesh them out into a blog post of atleast 300 words with relevant links. Today, I try to _compre
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by arocks 14y ago
Mayer's approach seems to be an inside-out approach rather than playing to Wall Street. This is a very bold strategy. But I believe this is best for the long term success of Yahoo since there are some very talented engineers working there.
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by arocks 14y ago
Can we stop calling something a PC until it comes with a proper input and output device? Let's just call it a CPU, if that is a more accurate term here. Also wondering if we connect a screen, a USB keyboard and power supply, will it still "
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by arocks 14y ago
Designers as a group tend to include all sort of people into one lump. It includes an artist who can design a photoshop mockup that might be visually appealing but too heavy to load. It also includes multi-talented interface designers who c
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by arocks 14y ago
Highly misleading title. Number of patents filed and cited is an outcome of many factors including innovation and company's focus on building a patent stockpile. Correlation doesn't imply causation. Companies like Pixar have only about 165
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by arocks 14y ago
Actually they have figured out how to evaluate teachers based on statistical models based on their repeatability of success. Finding a 'great' teacher is much more than finding the top rated teacher in my opinion. What qualities makes such
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by arocks 14y ago
I find the page design and voting buttons a bit too distracting. Also considering the number of talks, some kind of tagging/categories would help.
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by arocks 14y ago
I think it would be hard to visualize using existing tools. Imagine the jump from assembly language to scripting languages. The effort required reduced by many orders of magnitude for the exact same result. We don't have such game creation
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by arocks 14y ago
I have often tried to compare Webcomics artists with say Independent game developers or app developers. They ought to be similar but yet so different. I think it boils down to the effort required in generating content. It is quite hard to r
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by arocks 14y ago
I believe Netbooks will be seen as a very important development in the evolution of computing devices. The early Netbooks focused on a small, portable form factor which also had an extremely long battery life. Hardware was mostly from the p
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by arocks 14y ago
I am a Python programmer yet Jekyll is still my preferred static blog generator. I strongly considered Pelican but did not like all the magic it came with. Pelican would consolidate all my blog posts to the same location and had various (co
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by arocks 14y ago
For me it is the single biggest feature addition. Just changing one file would require rebuilding the entire site in Jekyll. Something similar to a Makefile should be in place, which can track dependencies and rebuild only the affected file
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by arocks 14y ago
Vector art is not often the holy grail as it seems. Take fonts, for instance. Even though formats like TrueType stores the data in vector format, numerous resolution-dependent "hints" have to be added to make it more readable. Similarly vec
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by arocks 14y ago
This idea might backfire as the non-technical issues can easily mind-boggle an engineer working on a deep and complex problems. Leave the meetings and reporting to managers. Some of the best teams I have worked in have managers who buffer/c
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by arocks 14y ago
Excellent idea. Some suggestions: - Syntax highlighting, with subtle colors - A dismissable help popup in the beginning - Some means of getting a clean HTML output
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by arocks 14y ago
I belong to one of the non-US markets where Nokia smartphones and dumbphones had a majority share. To be honest, abandoning Symbian was quite a shock here because, despite being slow, it was a very familiar user interface for vast majority

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