billmcneale

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by billmcneale 2y ago
That's the wrong approach. I use chat for things I don't know how to do all the time. I might not know how to do it, but I sure know how to test that what I'm being told is correct. And as long as it's not, I iterate wit
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by billmcneale 2y ago
They're great examples that just because you're good in one field doesn't mean you're good in other fields. Or even open minded.
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by billmcneale 2y ago
It was not deliberate, it was ignorance. Time and again, the Go team made comments in various forums for years showing they really knew nothing about programming language development past 2000. All they knew was C and that they wanted to cr
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by billmcneale 2y ago
Even with CFOP, there is a large amount of intuition needed in order to break below the 25 second limit, mostly because of lookahead. During that phase, you need to train your fingers to do moves while your brain anticipates the next moves.
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by billmcneale 2y ago
Yeah... no. The team was recently transferred from the US to Germany, the numbers were estimated around 10 engineers.
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by billmcneale 2y ago
These are both terrible on macOS and Windows (they look ugly and are hard to build), and very poorly integrated in other languages than C/C++. Way worse choices in my opinion.
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by billmcneale 2y ago
What library that addresses your complaints do you think they should have used instead of iced?
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by billmcneale 14y ago
It's spelled "Gmail", lowercase 'm'. Source: the Gmail blog, http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Interesting article if it wasn't for the mindless and completely out of place Google bashing at the end. Apple fanboys just can't restrain themselves, can they?
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> so we've been proactively addressing this. "Proactively" doesn't mean acting after you've been caught. Actually, it means exactly the opposite.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
You can absolutely modify the body of not only an existing method but the very method you are currently breakpointed in. When you do that, Eclipse drops the frame, which means it restarts the method from scratch. Invaluable for debugging.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
I adjusted. Going from the Nexus One to the Galaxy S II was a big jump and it felt a bit uncomfortable at first, but after a few days, I realized I had adjusted my grip to hold the phone a little bit more on the side (that was totally subco
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by billmcneale 15y ago
I can't help but cringe whenever I read Go code because the following: paths, err := filepath.Glob(dir + "/*.png") if err != nil { panic(err) } is repeated over and over again. Didn't we learn in the
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by billmcneale 15y ago
We're not discussing Lift nor his design skills. We're talking about his level of expertise in Scala, which is probably one of the highest in the community.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Considering that Android activates 500,000 phones every day, it won't be long before the number of phones running ICS dwarfs any other version.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
He's one of the few true Scala experts around (how many can claim they've been using Scala for more than five years?). The code he writes is probably as idiomatic Scala as it can get. Yet another reason why people should be wary.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
No, it's not uncommon for startups to let you buy the stock before it even vests. The company will buy it back if you leave before you vest (although you usually don't even bother since they are worth pennies). If the OP left after staying
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by billmcneale 15y ago
That's also what I thought until I read his résumé. Which tells me there's something wrong with it.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
That's an odd résumé, which doesn't look at all like a software engineer résumé. Is this intentional or is CmdrTaco not an engineer at all? Programming languages? Frameworks? Specifics about the scaling and daily operations of /.? It's also
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by billmcneale 15y ago
So Carrier IQ is still present in some iOS 5 and in all iOS prior to version 5. That's still an awful lot of places.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Just create an empty Facebook account and use it to authenticate, problem solved. Yes, it's against Facebook's TOS, which makes me feel even better whenever I authenticate with it.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Agreed. The web site also completely breaks text search since it's a mix of text and graphics. Just search for "nethack" and you will see your search miss half of the occurrences. Maybe the author's design sense could be put to good use by
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by billmcneale 15y ago
How much do you think Apple paid Android for the shade-style notifications that appeared in iOS 5? Or push notifications?
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Any rating system works great if all the ratings come from people with similar tastes as yours.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
The Samsung Galaxy S II has sold more than ten million units these past few months, the screen size doesn't seem to bother anyone. Apple gets a lot of things right, but come on, let's not imagine that every single thing they do is perfectly
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by billmcneale 15y ago
There is no need for fanaticism to counter balance apathy, well-written, factual and objective articles work fine.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Didn't realize Google had been around for such a long time.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Gruber's analysis is flawed because there is currently no competitor to the Apple products he's discussing, so necessarily, anything the competition has to offer today looks silly. But this will change, as it always has when Apple's competi
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by billmcneale 15y ago
tl;dr: This guy doesn't want to work for Google because he hosts his own email and Google wants you to store your email in Gmail.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
"I do not write tests for my code. I do not write very many comments. " and then: "I admire programmer who take risks" Denial much? By the way: this was written in 2005.

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