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More likely they are doing testing but aren't measuring the right things or are performing the tests improperly. I can say with high confidence that any of today's UX folks don't understand the scientific method nor statistic
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4y ago
If knowing these gets you the job and it can be crammed for, that's not an effective interview.
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4y ago
Native would be Win32 calls to draw widgets. There's a built-in Swing look-and-feel that uses this API to render widgets in Swing. Yes, you could write your own code to replicate how things look, but it would be fragile and difficult t
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4y ago
Everyone claims they hire the best. For a long time Google and others had atypical hiring practices which they have since abandoned. I suspect this is because they discovered the techniques were less effective than originally thought. So &#
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4y ago
JavaFX is not native, nor can it be made to look native like Swing can be made.
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4y ago
SpaceSniffer is a great more-recent alternative http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
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4y ago
That's interesting OP feels like everything is a personal attack. I constantly have to remind the representative that 'of course I don't mean you personally, I mean the company you represent'.
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Twenty-nine minutes to drive from Naperville to Chicago? Maybe at 4am. That's going to often take 2 hours.
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4y ago
I understand that this is mostly for agriculture, but maybe let's stop building and expanding big cities in the desert. Golf courses in Phoenix, for example, seem like an irresponsible use of water.
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Though people might know the risks, they often aren't the ones taking the risks. Much of the risk people take is externalized and the opportunity costs ignored.
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4y ago
There are a lot of alternative programming languages that those companies could have used. There's no GPS alternative for Uber.
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4y ago
> This is about as minimal as you can get short of nothing at all. With GC, you can do nothing at all. In a system with lots of garbage, you can do a GC by copying everything accessible from the GC root, then de-allocating all the gar
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It's technically not triangulation, it's multilateration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateration
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Oh my, quite the rabbit hole of corruption surrounding that plant.
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4y ago
I'd love to see some data to back up the claims made
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4y ago
People with little power and no understanding of politics, in my experience, are more likely to give helpful advice.
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4y ago
Find one that just got promoted. Someone new to the position probably has good life experience but hasn't yet been corrupted by corporate interests.
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4y ago
In the case of a used car, you'd lose the difference between the marked up price and the trade in value.
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4y ago
There's a world where the the feedback is invalid yet she feels that it is. Regardless, her manager should be able to help. If not, she needs to find a manager that can.
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Nearly all car loans for all of time have been underwater. It's a depreciating asset that drops a huge amount of value the moment of acquisition. Eventually the principal drops below the trade in value, but all car loans start out unde
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Microsoft has first-party support for .NET on linux and it's open source. Their commitment to non-windows and non-.NET platforms has only increased over time.
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4y ago
As a user of the AWS, consistent is not a term I would use to describe the console.
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Fuel recycling takes a newer (read: not ancient) kind of reactor.
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I had little issue reading it on my mobile.
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4y ago
Why is this the case? I would have thought the opposite.
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4y ago
What does downward tilting mean?
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4y ago
If anything, it would have been trademark infringement.
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This problem is entirely industry created. The tech to mitigate has been around for what seems like 30 years. There's just no industry cooperation.
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4y ago
There's already no shortage of ways to criminalize someone doing nothing illegal.
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4y ago
Just explain that it's unsustainable regardless.
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