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by arockwell 18y ago
I can't believe I never thought to do that. Awesome idea, thanks.
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by arockwell 18y ago
Because staying away from what looks like a bad client is a good way to keep your sanity.
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by arockwell 18y ago
Not to mention isn't a lot of the advantage of selling gift cards that they go unclaimed? I'm not really sure what is the real advantage of a virtual currency system. I don't want to put any substantial amount of money in virtual currency.
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by arockwell 18y ago
The power point linked to in the article implies that its from Amazon's own internal data, but unfortunately there's very little substance presented. However, I don't find it surprising that amazon found a high correlation between responsiv
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by arockwell 18y ago
Design matters because I need to be able to interpret the search engines results as quickly as possible. Google's lightweight design really shines because it loads instantly and I can usually look through the result page very quickly and fi
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by arockwell 18y ago
I think I have seen a lot less safari crashes. However, iphone apps seem to crash my phone a lot, and in particular, the app store crashes my phone about half the time I try to use it.
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by arockwell 18y ago
I always defined "rich" as being independently wealthy, and 5M is plenty to achieve that.
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by arockwell 18y ago
The awkward handling of references is exactly why I stopped using Perl. The way they worked never clicked with me and caused me to spend too much time fighting the language. I'm much happier with Python/Ruby.
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by arockwell 18y ago
According to the article its "cool". I agree that it is not a memorable name.
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by arockwell 18y ago
I think that this is an interesting approach. I like that they show more info about each result, but I also have more difficulty scanning through the results. I'm not sure if that's really a net win.
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by arockwell 18y ago
I thought the same thing... telling someone off doesn't take a lot of practice.
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by arockwell 18y ago
In my experience they're all pretty mediocre. Of the banks I use, Discover has the best website. Its not overly bloated, and they make it easy to file customer service requests online. I think that Citibank has an extremely confusing site,
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by arockwell 18y ago
The Gordon rule is not nearly that restrictive. Gordon rule courses re structured so that students will have a lot of writing assignments. No one is getting flunked for writing 5,999 words. The idea is to force students to take courses that
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by arockwell 18y ago
I'll second dive into python. I thought it was an excellent read. The book does a good job of teaching the language while showing a lot of practical examples.
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by arockwell 18y ago
If there's no financial pressure to stop doing the startup right now I say go for it. Grad school will always be there later in the future.
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by arockwell 18y ago
You can use unchecked exceptions exactly the same way with as checked exceptions. The difference is that you can ignore them and let them propagate up when it makes sense. A real-world example of your use case: The Spring framework repacka
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by arockwell 18y ago
That's pretty ugly, although I've seen a lot of that style of coding at my workplace as well. The problem is that there generally isn't anything useful to do once you catch the exception besides throw up an error page. You're probably bothe
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by arockwell 18y ago
I agree with his premise that exceptions get misused by "average" developers. Where I work I see a lot of swallowed exception, which has lead to some evil bugs. I have also encountered some code that's literally impossible to write meanin
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No VC-Backed Companies Go Public In Q2(techdirt.com)
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by arockwell 18y ago
The blog post is full of hand-waving and the mindset that "if you think this you must be stupid". I'm extremely wary of anyone promoting the next silver bullet for writing software. The Project COSA, http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/COSA.
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by arockwell 18y ago
The lack of tactile feedback does not bother me on my iphone at all. I also disable the annoying audible click the keys make by default. I think that in order to get really comfortable with the iphone keyboard you have to become dependent o
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by arockwell 18y ago
Yeah, I agree. Not to mention, wasn't vista technically considered a rewrite? A rewrite does not have to break backwards compatibility.
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by arockwell 18y ago
If the code is so simple that I can hit a button and have my IDE generate my code for me then I really question why I need to write the code in the first place. A simple example of this is generating getters/setters. Autogenerating the code
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by arockwell 18y ago
Buzzword doesn't really impress me that much. I don't see anything that really sepearates it from Google Docs. However, the ConnectNow virtual meeting site looks like it might have some real potential. The screen sharing aspect of looks inc
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by arockwell 18y ago
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with OO programming. I find that data tends to map very naturaly on to objects. However, the biggest problem I've seen with OO is that people are tempted to build over-engineered solutions to simple prob