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by billybob 16y ago
I don't know. One does have to spend one's time doing something. There is a natural limit to how LITTLE I'd like to work, technology improvements notwithstanding. If I only "had to" work 1 day a month, I can't imagine being competent at any
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by billybob 16y ago
"IE - Not Available Outside Windows!" That's all the "native" label means, unless they can show that by making it "native," they get better performance than cross-platform browsers.
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by billybob 16y ago
"I take it as meaning that MS is going to implement IE10 with as much low level integration to the OS as possible, i.e. it can make efficiencies by not having to support multiple platforms." Then what they need to say, if they can prove i
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by billybob 16y ago
"...no customer cares if your monkeywrench is the latest version or 5 years old, or even if it works." ...aaaand, if you have a crappy monkey wrench, you won't get the pipes tight enough and something will leak. I don't want to see my plumb
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by billybob 16y ago
It's a valid point, though. "So, it's your first Rails app, eh? Do you know Ruby? No? Do you know HAML and SCSS and Coffeescript? No? OK, step 1 in this new framework that you know nothing about is to figure out how to change the defaults."
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by billybob 16y ago
I think the "surplus effect" here would also be nice. If he was willing to accept $55k and you say, "tell you what, let's make that $75k because we really like you," you're going to get a very happy employee, because he perceives that you j
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by billybob 16y ago
Unless someone has "cleverly" created a Javascript-powered reset button. :) But still, good suggestion.
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by billybob 16y ago
So, Nginx is supposedly more resource-efficient and easier to configure than Apache. But I assume Apache still has advantages or abilities that Nginx doesn't have. When would you still pick Apache? I'd love to see answers here: http://serv
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by billybob 16y ago
Problem is, you can't put the genie back in the bottle. If they cripple Hulu because its popularity is threatening traditional TV, people aren't going to forget that it existed. They like watching via the web. The question is whether the
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by billybob 16y ago
Yes, clearly those are your only two options. It's inconceivable that you would do without these shows.
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by billybob 16y ago
There are StackExchange sites for Unix & Linux: http://unix.stackexchange.com/ ... and for Ubuntu specifically: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7716/ubuntu You could search there.
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by billybob 16y ago
I thought that was called "Agile Development." What's unprofessional about it? I'd say it's a lot more professional than letting your browser stagnate for years, leaving security holes unpatched, etc. As for "how browser development should
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by billybob 16y ago
True, but MS will always try to steer people toward their own services, so it's not a complete win. But definitely better than having people on IE6 trying to use Gmail, or even search for that matter.
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by billybob 16y ago
I would have liked to see more citations and numbers, but what specifically did you think was hand-wavy?
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by billybob 16y ago
Sometimes "native" is a bad thing in browsers. Like ActiveX.
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by billybob 16y ago
Time?
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by billybob 16y ago
Wow. That's nasty on the auto makers' part.
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by billybob 16y ago
Speaking as a complete non-expert who has just listened to some economic podcasts about health care, there's not a reason they charge $6 for Tylenol. There's more like 100 intertwined reasons. Healthcare economics is a nightmare of comp
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by billybob 16y ago
On our Ubuntu server, I can create both foo.txt and Foo.txt in a folder. On my OSX machine, those are considered the same file. Three reasons that's no big deal: 1) We never create both foo.txt and Foo.txt. Why would we? (OK, that's a bit s
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by billybob 16y ago
Yes, a LinkedIn shirt would be lame, because everyone uses that service, and (in my perception) people who talk about leveraging synergy were on it before geeks were. So it's neither a cool group nor an exclusive one. Whereas a Github t-shi
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by billybob 16y ago
I generally feel the same way, but will make exceptions for things I really like. Generally the question for me is "if a conversation started about the message on my shirt, would it be a good one?" If the shirt conveys "I went to Spain" o
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by billybob 16y ago
There are way too many variables for that to imply "programmers get fatter over time." 1) Maybe t-shirts sizes themselves are not the same between 1999 and 2008 2) Maybe the average age of the attender has not changed, so there's really no
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by billybob 16y ago
"Email isn't meant to be instant." Exactly. If something isn't urgent, send an email. If it's somewhat time-sensitive, send an instant message. If it's super urgent, go talk in person. And please have the courtesy to know which is which. Wh
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by billybob 16y ago
"You can afford to spend 30 seconds every 10 minutes to deal with emails." As others have mentioned, this would destroy programmer productivity and flow. It seems the author is picturing a scenario where you can just read an email and fire
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by billybob 16y ago
We are using this. Seems to do fine. My only complaint is that trying to pronounce the name makes me choke on my own uuvula.
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by billybob 16y ago
I think maybe the point of the parent comment, or at least the point that I see, is that there is benefit to the consumer in having things like trademarks be enforced. Copyright and patents are intended to benefit the public by incentivizin
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by billybob 16y ago
Maybe because it's a misquote. It's "lovely filth." (Also, the committee only has to ratify the officer's decision with a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs.) http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mphg/mphg.htm
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by billybob 16y ago
Yes, but it physically can flap to fly, and it physically can glide. Making it do so alternately is just a matter of software. Not that I'm underestimating the difficulty of bird-control software (especially in wind), but I think the most d
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by billybob 16y ago
This subject reminds me of a quote by CS Lewis about students being afraid to read classic works, and going instead to modern, unintelligible commentaries on them. "But if [the student] only knew, the great man, just because of his greatnes
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by billybob 16y ago
Clear writing is difficult because it requires clear thought. This makes it worthwhile, even if no one reads it, because it shows the writer whether he or she understands the subject matter. Muddy writing, by contrast, is generally meant to

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