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by bmj 17y ago
Which, based on what RMS describes, is perfectly fine for his needs.
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by bmj 17y ago
I wonder with advent of search widgets in browsers (and the location bar as search box in Chrome) how many users actually go to bing.com or google.com? I certainly don't.
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by bmj 17y ago
Product management (at least where I am) also does a fair bit of marketing work. They tend to shape the overall product, but all technical decisions are made by engineering, not marketing.
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by bmj 17y ago
Perhaps something like the way Chrome handles bad URLs with "Oops! This link appears to be broken."
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by bmj 17y ago
Agreed. When we update our platform, the entire product goes through regression tests (not necessarily a full re-run of every test, though). If we change any code to accommodate the new version, those modules are completely re-tested. If
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by bmj 17y ago
I'm not buying the whole tablet PC in health care idea. Even if Apple developed it, I don't think the industry would buy it. The tablet/slate is making serious in-roads in clinical/pharmaceutical research. How do I know? My team just re
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by bmj 17y ago
Agreed. I find the critical comments interesting, too, as they are the sorts of things we programmers say when someone points out the issues in our products. "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" "The problem is clearly between the keyboard and
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by bmj 17y ago
What about when you don't have internet access? I know it is increasingly ubiquitous, but sometimes it's pretty handy to be able to function without it. That said, perhaps it just needs a Gears-like ability to work in a disconnected state.
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by bmj 17y ago
IIRC, the termination fee brings you up to the cost of the unsubsidized device.
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by bmj 17y ago
Latest Chrome on Windows, too.
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by bmj 17y ago
So does this mean AT&T will provide better cell coverage? As someone who builds data transfer tools for handheld products, there are people who cannot use GSM/GPRS solutions because they don't have coverage at their homes. Accommodati
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by bmj 17y ago
Agreed. You can go into "expert" mode and use it with the normal vim bindings, though. Used in this manner, it does provide a bit of a better introduction to vim, as you learn the various modes and keybindings, but still get a reasonable
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by bmj 17y ago
My version of Chrome on Windows (4.0.249.43) isn't rendering some of the characters at all.
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by bmj 17y ago
It strikes me that perhaps Mr. Gruber can't win here--either he's too lax as a project parent, or he rules the project with an iron fist, and gets complaints because he's not flexible enough.
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by bmj 17y ago
I agree. I've always thought the intention here was to use comments to disagree, and reserve down-voting for really poor comments that may not be constructive to the conversation. As another poster pointed out, getting down-voted does cau
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by bmj 17y ago
Agreed. I'd be curious to know, however, what those ratios look like over time.
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by bmj 17y ago
When I looked at this thread, I counted twelve programming/technology posts on the front page, and seven directly related to start-ups. Of the rest, I reckon at least half were hacker-ish, though not directly related to computers.
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by bmj 17y ago
I came from a liberal arts background (philosophy and writing), and got into programming when a friend was describing his work. He pointed me in the direction of Perl, and I went from there. I was fortunate to find a job at a startup doin
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by bmj 17y ago
Rock and Ice and Climbing have gone downhill (I've been reading them since the early 90s). Alpinist ( http://www.alpinist.com/ is a far better journal, though it is likely twice as expensive as both R&I and Climbing put together.
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by bmj 17y ago
I see this point, and can understand it. I'm not criticizing people for leaving the company, either--merely saying that I would be less concerned about _that_ particular culture change. For me, losing my ability to work remotely would be
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by bmj 17y ago
Maybe I'm just weird, but this wouldn't bother me. My employer does offer free sodas and snacks, but I don't take advantage of them (I don't drink soda, and tend not to snack on junk food). I do drink the free coffee, but in the past, I'v
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by bmj 17y ago
Agreed. And unless you are building your own framework from scratch, most of the hard problems are already solved for you. That's not to say it is necessarily trivial (though it can certainly be), but it is not, say, researching new sort
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by bmj 17y ago
I think it depends on the nature of the query. Often, I don't get SO results on the first page of a Google search.
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by bmj 17y ago
Indeed. My commute is a critical part of transitioning between home and the office.
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by bmj 17y ago
I agree. Mostly. In this economic environment, you may not have the choice. Personally, living within a bike-able distance to the office is critical. One employer moved nearly 20 miles from house. I tried doing the commute three times a
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by bmj 17y ago
This is really interesting, because I think a lot of cycling advocates in the US believe that Europe is some sort of utopia where this sort of situation just doesn't exist. The images most of us see from Copenhagen or Amsterdam are filled
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by bmj 17y ago
Agreed. Not every situation is like that, and I reckon this is the first time in my career I truly have this sort of flexibility. No one tracks my time at my desk--the only metric is the quality and timeliness of my work. I should note, t
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by bmj 17y ago
If you are in the right situation, salaried work can be much more relaxing. And as my boss likes to point out, flexibility works both ways--if I am sometimes expected to put in extra hours for a project, my employer should be willing to cu
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by bmj 17y ago
"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." Ludwig Wittgenstein
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by bmj 17y ago
It's also interesting to think about what programming and software would really look like in Smallman's world. Clearly quite a bit different than the world most of us frequent.

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