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by d4nt 16y ago
Don’t answer questions that have already been answered elsewhere. Yeah, you might earn a couple of points of reputation, but... Doesn't this just suggest that the reputation points system needs tweaking.
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by d4nt 16y ago
It's interesting that the way of "gaming" Google appears to be in having thousands of people generating SEO friendly content. I think Google's problem is that it's pushed SEO to the point where the definition of Spam depends either on a sub
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by d4nt 16y ago
Now there's an idea. It would be a beautiful irony if, in a few years from now, the mechanical turk API was used as an open platform for AI applications to make money solving difficult problems.
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Is ASP.NET WebForms Loosing its Mind-Share?(vnext.posterous.com)
1 points by d4nt 16y ago|0 comments
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by d4nt 16y ago
While I love reading articles about science they are almost always simplified to the point if being frustratingly meaningless. Phrases like "as the universe expands" loose all meaning when you're talking about time being converted into spac
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Assange Case: Evidence Destroyed Over and Over Again(anonymouse.org)
4 points by d4nt 16y ago|0 comments
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by d4nt 16y ago
Many of the new reports on this contain statements/responses from the US Government, I have not seen any statements where they claim these cables are fake.
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Ireland plans 'startup nirvana' to poach global talent(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by d4nt 16y ago|2 comments
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by d4nt 16y ago
It's all speculation of course, but I suspect they could probably create a "disruption index" for every company based on sudden changes in turnover or profile activity. What I find interesting is, if they ever did try and do that, how might
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by d4nt 16y ago
You can never have too many white boards round the office. Always having a surface to draw on within reach encourages people to communicate.
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by d4nt 16y ago
The only effective change for developers is that the contributor agreement will be directed to Joyent rather than myself Does this mean Joyent now own the IP on Node.js?
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by d4nt 16y ago
I rarely watch videos like this; if I'm in a shared office environment I don't want to distract others around me. If I'm at home I'm probably browsing while my family watch TV so again, the noise of the video will be distracting. Without an
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by d4nt 16y ago
I have a 3.5 year old and another on the way. Some observations: * It was about 8 weeks before I could have an hour to myself in the evenings to watch TV. Before that I was in a constant state of rushing to get everything done. Fortunately
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by d4nt 16y ago
In the end I wrote my own todo webapp (toodat.com), that fitted in with the way I think. All the others just seemed to have too much friction. This is one area where too many features causes real problems.
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by d4nt 16y ago
I agree, but would add this. Microsoft's (development) tools have never had any underlying principles other than: enabling people with minimal knowledge to get stuff done. Thinking back through MFC, COM, VB v1-6, Access, SharePoint, WebForm
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by d4nt 16y ago
Why do Microsoft benefit from having a good browser? This article says the only reason is to protect Window's market share and that will inevitably lead to MS doing something evil with it's OS market share. Two things occur to me: 1. Window
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by d4nt 16y ago
I use KeyPassX on Dropbox. It works, kind of.
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by d4nt 16y ago
You can't sell your degree, so the price won't crash like it would after a normal bubble. But I expect we'll see an accelerating decline the number of people starting college over the next 10-20 years, during which time the price may drop o
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by d4nt 16y ago
> "Move up the ladder into management, architecture, or design" The ability to convert detailed specs into code is a fungible commodity. Management, architecture and design, on the other hand, are areas of software development where you
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by d4nt 16y ago
I'd add "Code" by Charles Petzold. It's a sublime step by step guide to building a computer.
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Pick Something to Fail At(vnext.posterous.com)
2 points by d4nt 16y ago|0 comments
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I like the idea, although I don't think it will stop this kind of thing spreading. I think most people suspected it was a fake, but still spread the story because it was a funny story. Its a bit like a modern version of "Two guys walk into
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by d4nt 16y ago
Given the distances involved, I'd say our best bet would be build self sustaining "arks" that would travel around indefinitely. Rather than aiming for another planet.
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Stephen Hawking: mankind must move to outer space within a century(telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by d4nt 16y ago|4 comments
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by d4nt 16y ago
This works the other way round too. For many companies, if something breaks they want a support contract in place with agreed SLAs. The threat that a crucial back office system might break and the only people they could call to fix it are R
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Posterous is Down(twitter.com)
9 points by d4nt 16y ago|10 comments
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by d4nt 16y ago
I work for a startup that supplies enterprise systems to some very large companies that are still on IE6. In my view, when these companies refuse to upgrade it's a way of pushing (very real and substantial) costs onto us. We're now at the
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Design Notes are not Functional Specs - vNext(vnext.posterous.com)
1 points by d4nt 16y ago|0 comments
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David Cameron & Mark Zuckerberg discuss spending initiative on Facebook(youtube.com)
20 points by d4nt 16y ago|12 comments
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by d4nt 16y ago
Having used both for a couple of years each (not at the same time) I'd have to say that TFS is the more frustrating of the two. So long as you're on a fast corporate network and in Visual Studio it's ok. The moment you try to edit a file ou

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