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by bartread 10y ago
All of these have just made me very happy.
2402.
by bartread 11y ago
I'll give you that - the selfie stick phenomenon is completely ridiculous. Actually the entire selfie thing leaves me cold, but perhaps I'm just getting old.
2403.
by bartread 11y ago
This^^^. Scheduling for some types of software is harder than others. I mean it's always a pain in the neck, but not necessarily intractable. I used to work on shrinkwrapped tools for SQL Server and .NET developers, and over time got p
2404.
by bartread 11y ago
> This is yet another judgy, post-intellectualizing Medium piece whose purpose isn't communicating any particular point but garnering clicks and attention for the author. You really think Instagram ruined your trip to Angkor? Yes: t
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by bartread 11y ago
> It's the giant lie of social media, where everyone is creating but almost no one is really consuming -- we all think we're tricking the system and cultivating our own consumers. Hmm. I can see what you're getting at, but
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by bartread 11y ago
I'm inclined to agree. I've seen a couple of instances of idea theft reasonably up close with a previous employer where a couple of companies (that I know about) stole not just the product ideas, but substantially replicated the b
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by bartread 11y ago
Possibly there's more detail in the report itself (I haven't read it) but, if not, I tend to agree.
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by bartread 11y ago
Litvinenko was poisioned with polonium, not plutonium. </pedantry>
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by bartread 11y ago
In a team you obviously need to agree on a set of languages and tools but, again, I still find people using different styles, often depending upon the functionality they're working on. To some extent it depends on what you think is imp
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by bartread 11y ago
Curiously the key fits with the track I was listening to at the time: Dusky's Stick By This. Kind of interesting listening to them together.
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by bartread 11y ago
Agreed. I'm actually getting really bored of this "X programming paradigm is bad" trope. I've written code that works in imperative, OO and functional styles, but the really important point in all cases is that the code
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by bartread 11y ago
Yep, all four of them. I (probably) exaggerate, but the problem is that your anonymity pool is now very small.
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by bartread 14y ago
<<invokes Godwin's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law>&#62 ;
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by bartread 15y ago
Seriously? YOU don't? You've obviously never experienced the Wikipedia death spiral: 30 browser tabs open all on unrelated Wikipedia pages. It was dangerously close to an addiction for me at one point and the amount of random crap I now kno