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by d4nt 15y ago
When you use C# and VB, you are using the full .NET framework. But they have chosen to expose a smaller subset of the API to developers to push the new vision for Windows 8. For me, this is a really interesting point that t
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by d4nt 15y ago
So long as there are businesses willing to invest in the latest Microsoft blessed framework there will be a community of people willing to learn them and sell their skills to those companies. For me, the real question is, why are business s
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Five Software Architect Antipatterns(vnext.posterous.com)
2 points by d4nt 15y ago|0 comments
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by d4nt 15y ago
I prefer startups too, but I disagree on a couple of points: 1. There are lots of politics at small companies too. There are lots of politics in any social context. But it probably isn't institutionalised in a small company. For example, in
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by d4nt 15y ago
The FT is pretty down about another UK company being sold to foreigners. Doesn't this count as an export? Haven't we just exported a $11bn asset?
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by d4nt 15y ago
They implemented it at my last employer - a professional services business with lots of documents to search. I don't think we were really using it to its full potential though.
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HP Confirms Discussions with Autonomy Corporation(hp.com)
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by d4nt 15y ago
Me too, I'm frantically googling so I can get the name of the company and add it to my "NEVER Take a Job At ..." list. EDIT: Ah, think I've found them.
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by d4nt 15y ago
For a minute there I though this was going to be a real attempt at challenging amazon's 1-click buying patent by patenting the non-1-click approach. This was funnier though.
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by d4nt 15y ago
If you're working in an in-house IT dept. then giving the staff of a cost-centre better equipment than the "people who make all the money" is a big issue. If you're working in a big company then central IT probably have a standard PC supply
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by d4nt 15y ago
I've never used GWT but there are three things that I spend a lot of time dealing with in my day job: 1. WebForms controls mess with the markup that is output, this used to be a real nightmare in v1 with tables being inserted everywhere. It
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by d4nt 15y ago
This will be interesting to watch as an experiment in intrinsic vs extrinsic motivations. Personally, I think this will become a Mechanical Turk style wasteland full of people charging < $1/hr and churning out dross.
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by d4nt 15y ago
I'd say the problem is more with OO. The author touches on this a little towards the end, but ORM fulfills the demand to put relational data into objects. The issue is with all these developers insisting that they want to think only in a li
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by d4nt 15y ago
It occurs to me that all this stuff is primarily for tablets, and tablets mostly use ARM chips. Microsoft have said Windows 8 will run on ARM, but it will take a lot of work to make the .NET CLR run on ARM. If I read anything into this its
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by d4nt 15y ago
I love it. We Brits would never go for it though. I can see the Daily Mail headlines now: "Fascists Given Seats in 'Election Lottery'".
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by d4nt 15y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if SETI did this to promote their cause and raise more private donations, but the journalist is spinning it into a "Government cuts science spending" story to suit their agenda. The story will still serve its purpose
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by d4nt 16y ago
Pure coding is easy to estimate accurately. If you asked a developer to estimate how long it would take to hand write a class for every HTTP status code in v1.1 of the standard (and gave them a copy of the standard), they could probably giv
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by d4nt 16y ago
I've often thought that Microsoft would have done much better if the justice dept had broken it up. Being everything to everyone just doesn't work as a business strategy. But separate Windows/XBox and Office/enterprise apps companies could
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by d4nt 16y ago
I notice this is using data readers. I'm not an expert but I believe they keep the connection (and therefore any database locks) until you've finished processing and closed the reader. Given that it's for hydrating strongly typed collection
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by d4nt 16y ago
What I hear when reading this is "I feel a greater sense of belonging with Compant Y". Everything else could be just rationalisation after the fact, people are amazingly good at rationalising why they believe the same thing as their frien
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by d4nt 16y ago
Apologies, I stand corrected. But people used to work 6 days a week with no paid vacation time. What about all the slaves who worked 16 hour days. All those children in factories or down mines, are all those hours being factored in?
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by d4nt 16y ago
I'd like to believe we're hitting a productivity limit, but I'm skeptical. Historically, we still work shorter hours, take more holidays and have more leasure activity than our ancestors. I guess what is different is that we've automated lo
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by d4nt 16y ago
I think if I saw a CV written by someone who's first language was not English I'd be a lot more forgiving of grammatical errors, but that is an edge case and not the point of the OP.
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by d4nt 16y ago
To quote Parkinson: When all candidates alike have to write Greek or Latin verse, it is relatively easy to decide which verse is the best. Men thus selected on their classical performance were then sent forth to govern India. Th
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by d4nt 16y ago
I doubt it, the P/E ratios of most tech companies is no way near 1999 levels. But there are some isolated examples of irrationality. I don't know anyone who seriously thinks Facebook is worth $70bn (i.e. more than Sony). I suspect the low i
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by d4nt 16y ago
Based on this, what might be interesting is a user interface that gives you very restricted options to begin with and then gradually removed those restrictions the more you used it. Having just written that, I realised that games have been
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by d4nt 16y ago
True, but I'm not using it because it's not very slick. I also think the viral nature of this extension could be huge.
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by d4nt 16y ago
This looks like a great idea, but wake me when there's an Outlook extension. Most people who would want to use this are using Outlook (or possibly Lotus Notes).
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by d4nt 16y ago
Maybe one way to overcome this would be to model the body at the molecular/atomic level and "run" someone's DNA. It's not impossible to imagine that a super computer in 30 years, starting with an model of an embryonic cell, could emulate th
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by d4nt 16y ago
I do think that site design has something to do with it though. Like the article says, there's only a "like" button on facebook, no "hate" button. I find it interesting how seemingly subtle differences between facebook's "like", HN's down v

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