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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
There are two logical flaws in this essay, and I think a misperception in the essay as a whole. The first logical flaw is to point out how developers love Apple's support for developing desktop software, and then a few paragraphs later say
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
I had the same idea. I figured that VoIP made it cheap enough for a computer to call me whenever someone tried to charge my card, and I would have to enter a PIN on the phone before it authorized it. If the timeout on POS card terminals is
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
The Future Sound Of London, especially their old radio sessions
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
About building the API first: So many web apps are already built on top of an API or framework provided by a RAD tool. So if you build another API atop that then you'd lose the ability to enjoy the benefits of the RAD tool for the actual ap
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
Having a good API for everything would be almost as good as The Singularity (tm), but making a good and secure API is very hard and comes with a massive hidden cost. 1) An API can require even more planning to design than the application or
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
It took about a year before I finally started to remember that "Duck Duck Go" was a search engine. Before then I'd see the name and frown, unsure whether it was a social networking site or a web app for tracking doctor visits.
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When will then be now?(sites.google.com)
1 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
Everybody's jumping in with suggestions for a better command line. What about ways to know what you need to know when you need to know it? Maybe we could figure out a thingy that watches what you're doing and finds ways to do it better.
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
I understand your hyperbole, but the stress isn't necessary. The market will reveal where it wants quality and where it doesn't. Also, the Shuttle has always had 2 independently written systems, never five. There are five computers runnin
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
No that isn't the assumption. And when the article does discuss project deadlines it most certainly--and with cited references--talk about the trade-offs present in the real world. The article was written to discuss ways of reducing bugs in
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
You're right, I meant static and not strong typing.
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
Ouch.
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The Applied Theory of writing bug-free code(sites.google.com)
22 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|31 comments
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How to design a computer program (yacoset)(sites.google.com)
2 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
Desmopressin is available over the Internet for about $25 a bottle. As a nasal spray it can stimulate the hypothalamus and improve memory retention. It's dangerous, though, because it interferes with normal water retention.
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
"If a nasal spray can improve memory, perhaps we're on our way to giving some folks a whiff of common sense, such as accepting the realities of evolution," I think the newsworthiness of the article may be overshadowed by this neutron-bomb o
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N examples of why time estimates are always wrong(sites.google.com)
4 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
I dislike the blog format, I've tried it several times and it doesn't work for me. I found that I prefer the Wiki style where you focus on a TOC. Hopefully Google will figure out how to implement RSS for GSites one day.
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Clever ideas that failed(sites.google.com)
78 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|16 comments
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The superior use of OOP(sites.google.com)
2 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|1 comments
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
1) Fair enough, up to the designer's taste 2) Do you mean "not real good with case-sensitivity" or just "case insensitive"? If the latter database still preserves the case, then the underscore on an all-caps name is even uglier. 3) driversL
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
I rarely use it myself, but it's been useful in the few cases where I wanted a shorthand to note something about how the data should be used. And I, too, think it's counterproductive when it gets overdone to your example's extent.
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
Simonyi's intention was for the notation to encode semantics, not data-type. Some say it was Petzold who popularized what's now called "Systems Hungarian"
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
Everybody Always Has The Wrong Language (tm)
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
You're right, I think I'll put that in.
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The problem with the Dvorak keyboard and incremental usability tweaks(disenchanted.com)
1 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|0 comments
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by clawrencewenham 17y ago
This article is perpetuating a myth: that the Sholes keyboard was designed to slow-down typists. It wasn't, it was designed to make keystrokes come from alternating sides of the keyboard. THAT was what prevented the hammers from sticking, n
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Programming: Choosing the right name is everything(sites.google.com)
84 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|58 comments
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Creating an IT department means creating a new business partner(sites.google.com)
1 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|0 comments
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It's your first programming assignment, now what?(sites.google.com)
55 points by clawrencewenham 17y ago|13 comments

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