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by blago 14y ago
The world of software development is a lot bigger than HN.
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by blago 14y ago
A fun sample to the contrary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Illinois
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by blago 14y ago
Not going bankrupt is just a proxy that (in the absence of actual names and numbers) allows us to reason about their habits. It doesn't mean that they only still enough not to go bankrupt :-) And then there is scale. There is only one weste
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by blago 14y ago
Unheard of. Ever seen a western politician (or their family) go bankrupt while in office? This runs counter to odds, statistics, etc. The only difference is the methods and the scale.
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by blago 14y ago
Very interesting. Thanks!
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by blago 14y ago
At 24.26 miles above the Earth, the atmosphere is very thin and cold, only about -14 degrees Fahrenheit on average. This is way off. -14 Fahrenheit is something we get in Minnesota. Most winters :-) Any commercial flight displays temperat
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by blago 14y ago
So sad that in the US people like him host comedy shows.
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by blago 14y ago
A good spell checker is still a major feat of software engineering.
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by blago 14y ago
My personal experience is that more often than not I end up searching for the "Desktop version" link. Especially on websites I'm familiar with. It would appear that "poorly implemented" is the norm. Bottom line: I suffer.
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by blago 14y ago
"X - the Y for something" is even more annoying. Example from first page: "EasyPost - the Stripe for postage"
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by blago 14y ago
"He claims it's "ridiculous" to expect people to save responsibly" It's actually "she". And what she really claims is ridiculous: * "First, figure out when you and your spouse will be laid off or be too sick to work" * "Secon
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by blago 14y ago
Meh, I did that 4 years ago. On a single weekend.
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by blago 14y ago
"Omit optional tags", but "Always use a single space between property and value ... for consistency reasons.". I'm confused.
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by blago 14y ago
I am equally productive with web as well as native development so it makes no difference to me. Not surprisingly, Phonegap never appealed much - same work, inferior results, single (but dubious) benefit: cross platform. I was pleasantly sur
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by blago 15y ago
Only if your project is small enough that it doesn't require much more than your spare time. Hire one developer (or quit your job for that matter) and you are taking a $100,000 gamble.
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by blago 15y ago
I think the author is missing the point. The local TV station format is what it is because this is what SELLS. Our programs are subject to the same market forces. We are only free to design the internals.
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by blago 15y ago
Is this a trick question :-)
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by blago 15y ago
Let's put it this way: if every person was to buy a single phone their entire life, and they were only allowed to buy an iPhone, it would take Apple close to 70 years (at this rate) to achieve full penetration! People are so easy to impress
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███ ██ █ ████ everything ███ █████ is █████ ████ ████ fine ████.
39 points by blago 15y ago|9 comments
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by blago 15y ago
Disappointingly trivial post: 1) I don't know a single person that would seriously argue that dynamically typed languages can perform better than their statically typed cousins. 2) As we all know, programming is the art of making tradeoff.
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by blago 15y ago
The mute button in iOS has a worse problem: the ability to be repurposed to lock orientation. I say this from my own experience having developed a popular (paid) app and dealt with angry customers complaining that it doesn't have sound. Aft
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by blago 15y ago
What struck me was the premise of the article. Creating a startup company by selling your house is no walk in the park in any country. I can see a similar article written about the US. Quit whining, there are other ways. If there isn't a we
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I am so sick of job ads
33 points by blago 15y ago|12 comments
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by blago 15y ago
This is even worse: all I hear is that it is a virtue to apply "our most important traditions and values as a nation" when speaking of first-class beings (citizens of our great nation), but we are not bound by anything to extend the same co
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by blago 15y ago
I'm still stuck on the web :-(
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Google's Compact Language Detector for node.js(github.com)
1 points by blago 15y ago|0 comments
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by blago 15y ago
My school experience was almost the same with one awkward and notable exception: writing a cache emulator implementing 3 different strategies for an Operating Systems class. I still hurt when I remember the TA took points for... indirection
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by blago 15y ago
It can only take you so far... You have to generate the UI for highly dynamic parts. Intervene to resize and reposition things when actual content is inserted. Set custom fonts manually (IB is broken). Surprisingly, text is pretty much hell
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by blago 15y ago
Anything you don't know is hard. Four months ago I switched from web development to native iOS work and I couldn't stop complaining how much harder it is - "Who on their right mind thought that creating and managing UI elements in code is a
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by blago 15y ago
Welcome to the future. We'll through you a party :-)

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