city41

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by city41 17y ago
I've been curious how much position of curly braces in C derived languages affects open source popularity. Nowadays it seems like placing the opening bracket on its own line is more popular. I have found people are unusually turned off by t
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by city41 17y ago
I totally agree with everything you are saying. It's just that in practice it often doesn't work out. I can create a website that pulls its content out of a database and the web server has no clue what the dates should be for the headers. I
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by city41 17y ago
Yeah but that might not be good enough. Like if the user switches web servers, they restore from a back up, the data is dynamically served, etc, the dates might not be accurate. What I've always dreamed of is truly accurate dates on when th
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by city41 17y ago
I hate it when any page on the web doesn't have a date. I wish having created on and modified on dates was a standard somehow.
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by city41 17y ago
Dogfooding is a way of life at Microsoft. Sometimes to very painful degrees. We've been using Exchange 14 as our one and only email server solution for quite a while, and yes it has gone down a fair amount and cost a ton of productivity, bu
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by city41 17y ago
It's not working for me. I'm guessing it's much like new features for webapps, only rolled out to a select number at first and gradually expanded.
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by city41 17y ago
In a previous lifetime, I was a graphic designer working at the Field Museum in Chicago. Fresh out of college and my first task was to design a logo for a client. I was eager to please, and I came up with about 10 logo ideas. I showed them
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by city41 17y ago
You can pretty much just replace all instances of "Boston" with "Chicago" for that entire article (except the 2 hour grace period thing). When I lived in Chicago and had a truck (tiny little Chevy S10), I came to know first hand how aggrava
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by city41 17y ago
Refactoring large methods into a collection of small aptly named ones has its drawbacks too. When reading the code the reader has to keep a mental stack going maintaining what each sub function means/does. Sometimes this is worse than keepi
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by city41 17y ago
It would depend on how Math.random() is implemented. It could be "return new Random().nextDouble();" I say that because if memory serves, Integer.parseInt(string s) is just "return new Integer(s).intValue();"
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by city41 17y ago
I just uploaded a pptx created with PowerPoint 2010 beta and all I got was "This document type is not supported". You will definitely need to support pptx if you don't already, and make sure you work with Office 2010, otherwise you're losin
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by city41 17y ago
Looks nice, and a good idea. I'd consider using this if I had a need for it (and I may in the future). I did notice that tabbing order goes review body->name->email->submit, which doesn't match their visual layout.
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by city41 17y ago
I've never met a programmer who isn't a good typist. That said, we as programmers should know you shouldn't waste time optimizing things that don't matter. If I had to guess, your ability to navigate with a keyboard (shift+arrows to highlig
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by city41 17y ago
They have to protect their trademark, that's pretty much a given. But also, why take your case to Steve Jobs? He's not exactly known for being a "nice guy", his response is exactly what I would have expected from him. Sorry you guys have to
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by city41 17y ago
We are, under the name of Microsoft. Under our own name we can say anything we want, for the most part. Microsoft employees generally get divided into two camps: those who will only ever use an MS product and never consider the competition
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by city41 17y ago
How could they not? Apple created a completely opaque submission system on purpose; in order to retain full control over what goes into the store. I think not only do large companies get a much faster and simpler submission process, but I a