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At 10up, we open sourced our Engineering Best Practices[1]. And we welcome issues & pull requests from the WordPress community. [1] https://10up.github.io/Engineering-Best-Practices/
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Yeah. Sucks that his health went down the tubes like that, but the show benefitted from it.
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It's built on top of Google's beacon format. Every "Physical Web" beacon transmits an Eddystone beacon with a URL. Definitely check out the video on that page (it's only 5 minutes long). Also, Scott Jenson was inter
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A lot first season scripts were recycled TOS scripts or ideas for the abandoned "Star Trek Phase II" show. The later seasons' writing was geared more for the TNG characters & actors, which helped them feel more natural.
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I make it a point to read it at least once a year, because so much of it resonates with me. Always fresh in my mind.
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> There are plenty of other places to accomplish the things that can be accomplished on Facebook. Except when there aren't. For example, my local cat shelter set up a Facebook group to coordinate volunteers. There's also a clos
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Sounds like "The Guy I Almost Was" http://electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/
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I've played with it a little. I'm curious because it's so cross-platform (I use Mac, Windows 10, iOS, and Windows Phone), yet has a really slick UI like 1Password. It seems about on par with 1Password so far, but like I said
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> The old guy hasn't kept up with the times, and is stuck in ancient (and outdated) ways of doing things - manual management of memory, FooBarFactoryFactory, etc. Interesting you brought this up, because I've noticed two differ
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And the yelling/bullying. What is it with managers at startups and yelling? I got enough of that growing up. I have zero patience for it from my boss.
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The 15-pin I/O connector for ethernet was part of the PCMCIA CardBus standard, which is why dongles could be shared between cards. After PCMCIA picked up speed, a "non-practicing entity" pulled a patent out of their portfolio
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iOS/OSX Reminders. It does what I need it to do, and it's integrated with Siri.
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My understanding of Kay's OOP model is that it's akin to each object running as a separate process. Each process can only see its own memory, but RPC enables objects to "message" each other. This message passing is more
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Yep. Started with Yosemite and iOS 8.
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Getting a 1351 mouse definitely improved the experience.
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Awesome.
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Poki is pretty great on a Surface, too. I actually prefer it over the official iOS Pocket app.
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Glad you got out of it so quickly. I spent five years in Pick at the turn of the century and it set my career back quite a bit. Just out of curiosity, how did you get out and what are you working on these days?
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> At a startup you'll have way more responsibility and be making decisions at a much higher level than at bigcorp. LOL. Seriously LOL. Literally laughing out loud and people are staring at me. We've worked for some VERY differe
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> How is it fair that the markets get put on pause if they're failing? I really don't understand. The "circuit breaker" was put in place in response to the 1987 "Black Friday" event. It was the early days of
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I had an employer chide me for only working 40 hours a week. I was told "come on, there's programmers in Silicon Valley who sleep under their desks every night!". At drinks after work, the co-founder of a startup complained a
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I wrote jwz a fan email back then because I was afraid I'd have to give up who I am to work in computers. I'm not much of a goth anymore, but it was exciting to see someone like me in such a prominent position.
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> And it is a priceless gift that it is so much easier to learn this craft when you're starting out. It truly is. I started my career in July, 1999 and even though there was an open source movement, it was nothing like there is toda
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If you're interested in doing C64 demos, here's a decent starting point: http://www.antimon.org/code/Linus/
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I know if there's a controversial post that gets a lot of visibility, the IA staff takes a snapshot. They're useful in times like this where content is edited or deleted.
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You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on it's back. The tortoise lays on it's back, it'
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> Can you specify? One thing that always gets brought up is the datatypes API. I never got to experience it first-hand (as my username suggests, I'm more of a C64 guy). But the idea is that different types of media are handled indep
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Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z8OmqY3zJI
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Lots of great book suggestions here. I'm going to throw in a video series put out by PBS in the 90s in cooperation with the Boston Computer Museum (now the Computer History Museum in California). "The Machine that Changed the Worl
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At one point, freon was a component in the external fuel tank insulation. NASA was in the process of changing the recipe to be more environmentally friendly when the Columbia accident happened. The tank on STS-107 was built with the newer f

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