citizenparker

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by citizenparker 17y ago
Can anyone clearly explain how these "laws of power" prove the author's point regarding XP? I've read this twice now, and I still don't understand the connection. It seems like French is saying that these laws explain why some people wouldn
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by citizenparker 17y ago
I don't see how the book is "mostly unoriginal" or "the way it helps isn't what you'd expect." I REALLY don't see how this correlates to "The Game" at all, other than they are both self-help books of some kind. Everything you said about The
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by citizenparker 17y ago
It's a shame the author isn't really distinguishing between Visual Studio 2010 and v4 of the Common Language Runtime / Dynamic Language Runtime. VS 2010 has some neat integration points but isn't really of interest to the HN community - an
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by citizenparker 17y ago
VS is required to develop software that will run on Windows I'm sure the user base of the delightful open source #develop making Windows apps will be sad to hear this, as will everyone using VS to develop against Mono. Which compilers are
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by citizenparker 17y ago
- As kyro said, it's a bit too wide. - The logo could stand to be a bit crisper. Maybe take a look at some of the techniques from http://psd.tutsplus.com/designing-tutorials/elements-of-grea... - I'm kinda stupid, but I didn't realize the
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by citizenparker 17y ago
Several of the female commenters have pointed out that if it were just the title, this would be less of an issue. View the slides though and then say the presenter thinks of it as genderless.
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by citizenparker 17y ago
If you sell Geocities, then you can't convert them to paying customers of Yahoo web hosting. You can't convert them to Yahoo anything at that point. If you publicly mothball GC though, then you can maybe get a fraction (5-10% at most I'd gu
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by citizenparker 17y ago
Unless I suck at reading (which is possible), I don't think he's advocating people get rid of TDD. "While there are many other valid reasons to practice TDD, as a pure bug fixing mechanism it's always seemed far too much like premature opti