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by blubb 16y ago
True, and they did it for OWA. When they realized the consequences of what they had done, they stopped IE development for several years.
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by blubb 16y ago
It's Dieter Rams, and he's been a big inspiration to a lot of designers (including Jonathan Ive). He actually said "only a few companies", and then mentioned Apple. There are other companies, but few in the computer / consumer electronics b
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by blubb 16y ago
I think this goes to show just how much thought has been put into small stuff like this. For instance, there is no need for the the sleep indicator to indicate anything when it's off - simply because you know the laptop is alive when the sc
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by blubb 16y ago
Don't worry, there's still plenty of features that most people don't care about that techies can have mile long threads about. - You can't change the battery - It doesn't support 3D glasses and 4K cinema resolution - No 20MP camera
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by blubb 16y ago
I think a slightly better comparison is if most other car makers had really lousy automatic transmissions that used 30% of the fuel, and VW waited to announce a car with an automatic transmission until they had one that worked really, reall
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by blubb 16y ago
All I can say is that I feel sorry for you in the US. In Norway, I get 16MBit DSL at my cottage (yes, half an hours walk from the nearest dirt road). We don't even have any net neutrality laws, and there are only two nationwide DSL provider
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by blubb 16y ago
Which is why Safari IS actually multitasking. You can leave it, launch another app, go back to it and be right back where you are. Sometimes Safari doesn't quit and you're back in a millisecond. Other times the OS closes the browser in the
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by blubb 17y ago
I'm not in the US so I can't recommend any particular provider. http://www.voip-info.org/ has a lot of information about both providers and equipment. - For hosting the PBX yourself without learning Asterisk or FreeSWITCH, I can recommend
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by blubb 17y ago
Yep. I think so. When you get big enough not to care, you inevitably stop caring. At some point, you become evil, and the smartest guys usually don't want to work for the evil company. That being said, I this is a good thing - other compani
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by blubb 17y ago
Exactly right. Life is in fact devoid of meaning except for the meaning you choose to apply to it yourself. This includes playing computer games, spending time on facebook, climbing mountains or a career ladder and having a wife, children a
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by blubb 17y ago
It's up to you to decide. Go climb a mountain, or go play WoW. In my view the guy's not full of it, he only wants people to be aware of, and make conscious decisions about how they spend their. Some people do, but many people don't. Includi
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by blubb 17y ago
He's actually written quite a bit about programming, but over the years he's (naturally) shifted to writing more about the business of software development and how to run a software business. He's clearly opinionated, but his opinions are s
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by blubb 17y ago
Fantastically, offensively wrong? Care to give an example? I think a lot of the "he's wrong" reactions stem from knee-jerk reactions. People often miss the point that what he's writing about comes form his own experience. It might not be un
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by blubb 17y ago
Ah, I didn't know that Proc.new != proc/lambda :) They both return Proc objects though, so I wonder if it is possible to "convert" them.
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by blubb 17y ago
>> lambda {} == proc {} => true Can you shed some light on the difference? I always thought that lambda is simply a synonym for proc - has this changed in more recent versions?
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by blubb 17y ago
There is no special block or lambda type in Ruby, AFAIK there is just proc and method. The difference is simple, a method is a proc that will be evaluated in the context of its object. I don't know why you're having a problem passing around
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by blubb 17y ago
I think you can trust that any quality problems are quickly identified long before any products leave the factory. Read up on the MicroSD failure blog post on the same blog for an interesting story.
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by blubb 17y ago
I would guess that a lot of engineers DO care about money. In fact, i would think that MOST do, because most become engineers in order to make a living, and nothing more. The problem is, I think that in engineering and other skilled work, t
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by blubb 17y ago
There's nothing about REST that requires you do use GETs for everything, quite the opposite in fact (read up on how the Rails REST API is designed for some inspiration). Then again, unless you want to make a given function/input combination