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by chawco 14y ago
This isn't how I remember the 90s. I remember Microsoft shipping several versions of laughably bad browsers, while their operating system completely dominated the market. They finally shipped a better browser than NS with IE4, but that has
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by chawco 14y ago
I'm going to go ahead and strongly disagree on this first point -- I've seen no correlation whatsoever between education background and propensity for strong system design. In fact, my background is mathematics with very little formal CS-re
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by chawco 14y ago
> The iPad was to be a gift for her cousin who lives in Iran. I'm guessing they may have mentioned this fact, which would have made it illegal to sell to them due to the export ban.
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by chawco 14y ago
This is the future of this market. If they're not willing to move there, someone else will and eat their lunch. I like HBO, and they still have plenty of time to make the move, but if they fail to do so I won't mourn them.
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by chawco 15y ago
Build what your customers want (and will pay for), not what they say they want. These can be the same thing, but often are not.
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Responsive UX Design(blog.polarmobile.com)
3 points by chawco 15y ago|0 comments
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Style Guide for CoffeeScript(github.com)
7 points by chawco 15y ago|0 comments
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by chawco 16y ago
My issue with it is this: Had Google not created a better algorithm would those users be clicking on those links? If Google shut down today would Microsoft be able to associate those sites with the search terms? I should think the answer to
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by chawco 16y ago
This may be true today, but there is a cadre of developers who will never find out. Perl was our bread and butter 10 years ago, but we moved on when Python and Ruby came to the forefront, and have never looked back. To get people interested