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by baconner 13y ago
I've had this happen multiple times while interviewing. The most memorable was a fellow who brought his previous employers entire codebase and didn't seem to understand when we questioned him about his former employers IP policies
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by baconner 13y ago
I'm all for careful legislation to force companies to improve security and protect consumers but I unfortunately most legislators dont have the technology knowledge to know what is wise and what is not. The devil is in the details here
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by baconner 13y ago
For the most part imo the flattening of the ui was an improvement. Puts the code in focus and minimizes everything else. They did go a little bit too far I think especially with the icon set but overall I've found it to be cleaner and
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by baconner 13y ago
Let me guess nsa@hotmail.com?
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by baconner 13y ago
Ever see he SNL bit where Tina fey just read word for word quotes from Sarah Palin revealing their complete absurdity? Hilarious and very pointed commentary in one. Oh yeah. It could work.
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by baconner 13y ago
They haven't really hurt anybody physically this time would be a more accurate way to put it. Its hard to imagine that he and his family aren't going to be up late nights worrying about what comes next. I'm truly stunned to
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by baconner 13y ago
That's true. The same could be said of many of these software products. I think passive income is more about the goal of least ongoing direct effort to highest income than spending zero time.
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by baconner 13y ago
An amendment would be nice though I'd settle for a lesser law to resolve these issues as well. Whatever can get it done. Seems to me there are a number of legal bugs where our laws fall apart at scale. The 2nd amendment is all well and
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by baconner 13y ago
That's assuming you didn't already tell them about the limitations of the environment they're choosing and explain stuff like ie compatibility modes that can let them move forward but still use all their cruddy old ie6 only e
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by baconner 13y ago
Nailed it. Here's hoping there's a silver lining to the damage that the us tech industry will take over this - harder resistance when gov comes calling with inappropriate requests. Increasing public Opposition and lobbying from te
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by baconner 13y ago
Not entirely true. I have the first edition of this as an eBook.
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by baconner 13y ago
Speaking as an android app dev there are some challenges but your instinct is right. I've rarely run into device specific issues, android has decent support for building flexible layouts, there are official libraries for bringing some
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by baconner 13y ago
or have a relationship with someone who has a relationship with someone who has ever contacted a terrorist suspect.
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by baconner 13y ago
The White House statement on the amendment is really something to behold. "... We look forward to continuing to discuss these critical issues with the American people and the Congress. However, we oppose the current effort in the House
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by baconner 13y ago
There's also http://opencongress.org
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by baconner 13y ago
This is a very good point that I keep coming back to as the NSA scandal continues to unfold. You may think that as an engineer your concern is the engineering and going heads down on technical issues is the end of your responsibility but it
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by baconner 13y ago
McCarthy happened. So did Nixon. We will elect or appoint people like this again and we don't need to have a nightmare total collapse scenario in recent history to recognize the potential for abuse in a data archive like this.
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by baconner 13y ago
You're not wrong that it doesn't feel the same his week, but is that a bad thing? Seems to me that even from a technology business perspective this is vastly more important than any iOS revelation could possibly be as fun as it mi
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by baconner 14y ago
For those of you who want to read a bit more about the twin cities traffic metering program there's an entertaining chapter in Numbers Rule Your World that goes through the history and (very lightly) the stats behind it. http://junkcharts.
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by baconner 14y ago
Suggestion - You might look into creating some templates pre-sized to be ready to upload to the appropriate app store(s). Something like http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio but for promotional graphics.
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by baconner 14y ago
Agreed. It's a shame to think about all the interesting things that might be getting built instead. Programming a novel generator is a great example. What a fantastic challenge being overlooked. It reminds me of this great video of Vonnegut
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by baconner 14y ago
And what would you answer to the same question? "So, when you have your 4 months old kid, you will stay at home to take care of it if your wife is rich enough for that?"
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by baconner 14y ago
I have to say I'm really surprised that they've dropped the tablet specific ui tweaks. Seems to me that some especially the centered home, back, recent apps buttons are a step backwards for usability on larger devices. Given the great focus
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by baconner 14y ago
Here's a quick example. last night I docked my galaxy nexus poorly not pressing it down into the dock all the way. Over night it ran out of power and shut down leaving me with no morning alarm. My nexus one had this issue too especially aft
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by baconner 14y ago
I'm one of the Californians who voted against this proposition. Why? Because once someone has served their time and their probation the idea is that the state is saying their debt has been paid and the state no longer believes them dangerou
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by baconner 14y ago
Have you tried Google maps offline mode map downloading? Might not allow downloading such a large area but worth a shot.
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by baconner 14y ago
I've been having a lot of success with phantom.js for converting browser rendered svg to various formats. I imagine there are a ton of svg>image options but phantom is nice in that its nearly WYSIWYG output vs chrome.
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by baconner 14y ago
First there's a good set of flexible layout controls to build ui that'll position / size elements to the available screen real estate. So you can build screens that position elements fairly well on different resolutions. Second you can make
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by baconner 14y ago
Well... yeah! if you get some other core parts of scrum right then nobody should be burning out. Time boxing and point estimation are about figuring out what your team's sustainable pace is and using that to avoid burnout. Scrum isn't abo
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by baconner 14y ago
You can hack in your own screensaver images on most (no ads) kindles.

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