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by cbs 15y ago
Silently ignoring errors that are require user interaction and serving the user something that is a valid response to a different action is terrible for ux. Say I take too long entering a comment, I get distracted at work, then hit submit.
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by cbs 15y ago
I don't expect mysql to ever win at graph traversal when pitted against a graph database, but... However, no attempts have been made to optimize the Java VM, the SQL queries, etc. These experiments were run with both Neo4j and MySQL “out o
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by cbs 15y ago
Last time I looked through the iPhone clients, they seemed to all be overpriced, and half were abandoned and had one-star reviews saying they didn't work anymore. My experience on android has been similar. I haven't found a good one, and
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by cbs 15y ago
I've been burned enough. Doctor, it hurts when I buy products from manufacturers that muck around with android....
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by cbs 15y ago
You have a point, and experimenting is a good thing. As I've seen it, the users they aren't afraid of change and are upset by the fact they're experimenting, the objections seem to be centered around not having the option to go back when th
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by cbs 15y ago
bleh, thats even worse.
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by cbs 15y ago
So I'm reading along... getting interested... sounds promising... purchase might be on the horizon... Amazon has painted over the rough surfaces of Google’s Android operating system Now I won't even consider buying it until the cyanogenmo
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by cbs 15y ago
>I think there could be some confusion among those unfamiliar with the two games in question. Probably has nothing to do with the name; both scrolls (the objects) and Fantasy-style characters in leather and metal armor are incredibly co
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by cbs 15y ago
>I guess the pundit class needs to justify their existence somehow. You're blindly defending the one you like by refusing to see the larger picture. You're conflicting two very different issues. The changes in location of control don't
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by cbs 15y ago
>Any code changes take a non-trivial amount of time Thats a awfully cautions attitude and smells like a huge cop out for the well known fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants commit to live strategy that facebook has.
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by cbs 15y ago
>I am not propagating that anyone should be allowed to have a truck on the NYC road, >Why not look at other industries that might value from such a permit. Ah, yes, you're not propagating that anyone can block my streets. Only th
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by cbs 15y ago
>This would be much more interesting if the GTK components map to real HTML elements. This is where we're eventually headed, the mozilla project "chromeless" is an interesting experiment down the path. IIRC It gets rid of XUL for the a
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by cbs 15y ago
>but these rules were irrational Yeah, lets just let anyone who wants to set up shop in the middle of NYC roads. Won't impact traffic in the city at all.
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by cbs 15y ago
Yeah, great for him. This law is in place prevent the tragedy of the commons from killing NYC traffic because "well, its ok for ME to block traffic selling my shit".
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by cbs 15y ago
This is another area of the disclosure debate that will never get solved. The only new thing here is the staggered updates. This article takes the stance that this is a bad practice, and operates off of the assumption that malicious users
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by cbs 15y ago
>And perhaps I didn't make my points clearly enough in the article You made them more than clear. People just want to argue the headline. Good post BTW I'm subscribing to your RSS feed.
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by cbs 15y ago
>It's first and foremost a design tool. Care to expand on that? Other than forcing low coupling, I don't really see what TDD does for the design of the code, especially because it emphasizes unit testing, and those are pretty small in t
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by cbs 15y ago
>which case writing test first hinders productivity. It kills the flexibility of your code way too early on in development. At best it doubles the inertia preventing any code change. If you know the ideas of "build one to throw away" o
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by cbs 15y ago
>You don't need to do wacky things... A function call in a for loop's conditional doesn't fit your definition of wacky?
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by cbs 15y ago
How do you "Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done" when your interview process is going to drive all of the non-masochistic talent away?
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by cbs 15y ago
>Honestly, I find this article ridiculous and borderline offensive. Don't take it seriously, the *-world writers are habitually underinformed about the topics they write on. I don't read them much, but every time I see them posted to H
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by cbs 15y ago
>There are many many many more fields besides IT. If anyone: be it waitress or accountant will be required to understand IT it will not end well. I don't think thats the issue at hand. I think they're putting an upper limit on what is
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by cbs 15y ago
>You can even jailbreak them Not if Apple had their way and were able to win that arms race. >I am unclear as to what you could be referencing. You're _playing_ the fool here I hope. I put rockbox on my iPod classic, I love rockbox.
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by cbs 15y ago
They're now Tenacity Wrox, and announced cull.tv Monday.
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by cbs 15y ago
>asking your colleagues to log in to irc client everyday So I'll ask them to keep gmail open all the time instead? If only there were a single program that was unquestionably open all the time when they were using their computers that
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by cbs 15y ago
I don't get it. What does this do other than move a tool from being a 1st class gui member to relegating it to inside of gmail?
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by cbs 15y ago
>What does one person's income have to do with anyone else If I make $10/yr I could be the richest man on earth or the poorest. It kind of depends on what everybody else makes too.
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by cbs 15y ago
To rephrase the quote: Design patterns can be good in the appropriate situations, but Java's heavy use of them has soured people on them altogether. They're often used ad absurdum in Java, to the extent where even in situations you don't n
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by cbs 15y ago
>For day-to-day work, the redundancy & reliability of something Google Docs is much greater than a client computer. Of google docs, yes. Of always having a network connection to docs, no. Maybe its just the environments I've been
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by cbs 15y ago
Exactly. From the get-go the whole Open Handset Alliance was about coaxing the manufacturers/providers into a using a somewhat more-open product by creating a set of most favored nations. Its always been seen as a necessary evil from a c

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