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by dcw303 10y ago
Great, now please use some of that cash to hire more developers. We've been waiting for a modern .net runtime update for years!
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Nintendo Surges as Pokemon Go Downloads Top App Store Rankings(bloomberg.com)
2 points by dcw303 10y ago|0 comments
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by dcw303 10y ago
They're going about this the wrong way. The little use my Windows 7 PC gets is for games. I have zero incentive to upgrade to Windows 10 as everything still works fine. They should take their win10 advertising budget and throw it at a
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by dcw303 10y ago
I found this a very frustrating read as well. The tone of the book was over-confident and in my mind the author really goes to no attempt to explain his reasoning. I only made it as far as the probability section. I gave up after failing to
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by dcw303 10y ago
I did the same at the same age as well, except I was teaching English in Japan. After only a few months of that, I had a burning desire to be back in a coding career, and to be as far away from eikaiwas as possible. If you've never wor
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by dcw303 10y ago
"Of course my good sir, it's @uspatriot2015." Now, let's all agree to not tell them we can have more than one account! Or to be slightly more specific, I'll give them the facebook account where I dutifully like all
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by dcw303 10y ago
I was lucky enough to beta test this so I've had time to clear the trainer levels. And let me just say, wow. The tricks and turns you have to navigate to get through this are some of the best fun I've had sitting in front of a com
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by dcw303 10y ago
Thanks for posting this. I'm pretty sure I have this as well. Numbness in ring finger, sometimes waking with numbness in the middle of the night. I tick about all the boxes for symptoms as well - bench press, bad sleeping position, bad
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by dcw303 10y ago
Apple's revisions to the App Store reinforce that they consider it a rival to the World Wide Web. Google cornered Web search. Reaction: As they own the walled garden, Apple completely control search within the App Store. Adwords owns
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by dcw303 10y ago
Social media networks are like night clubs. Myspace was edgy and underground, then it got invaded by the masses and it was no longer trendy, so everyone went to Facebook. Facebook was good for a while but now your parents and family are in
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by dcw303 10y ago
I generally agree with your interpretation, but as the author wrote this later in the piece: > If I give you a challenge to take home, my expectations are even higher. If you get a week to code something with full access to Google, etc…
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by dcw303 10y ago
> Some interviewers will ask you to code an implementation of a particular algorithm. Personally, I think that’s just a giant waste of time. It’s far more important to me that you understand which algorithm to apply to which problem. You
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by dcw303 10y ago
I don't see much leftover value, but I do see benefit in increasing exposure to programming for all kids at a young age. Most will forget it, but for the interested ones it could be a gateway into further learning.
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SoftBank Opens Pepper Robot to Android in Bid to Broaden Appeal(bloomberg.com)
1 points by dcw303 10y ago|0 comments
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by dcw303 10y ago
I have a bad enough time getting Siri to understand my Aussie accent. Throw in something as inaccurate as Google Translate and you'll have... A pile of garbage really. I desperately need something to translate Japanese into my ear, and
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by dcw303 10y ago
> The company backed away from a pure-algorithm approach in 2014 after criticism that it had not included enough coverage of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, in users’ feeds. This strikes me as interesting, if only because it says something
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by dcw303 10y ago
That's a fair point. It wasn't so much that I was deliberately trying to ignore the idioms, but more that I wanted to write a translation in a current language to accompany someone who was working through the tutorials. Some may f
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Writing a Compiler in Go(squanch.org)
171 points by dcw303 10y ago|45 comments
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by dcw303 10y ago
My knowledge of US criminal law is limited to what I've grokked from watching crime tv shows, so I'm not clear on the definitions of some terms. Does a search warrant imply that the person being searched will be notified? I know t
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by dcw303 10y ago
I'll skip over discussing whether this will be effective and go straight to the implementation required: > a panic button configured to the number key 5 or 9 and all smartphones to have a feature that will engage when the on-off but
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by dcw303 10y ago
Comparing Boaty McBoatface to electing a democratic official for representation is a little disingenuous. One is a popularity contest of suggestions to a concrete answer of a question, the other is marking a preference for someone who you h
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by dcw303 10y ago
Whereas they were happy to go after DeNA and Gree with the Complete Gacha law: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/05/16/digital/japans-s...
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by dcw303 10y ago
I love deleting code, but to do this comfortably I really like to have very high* code coverage. There is nothing more enjoyable than deleting a big chunk of cruftiness and then watching all the regression tests come back green. *very high
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by dcw303 10y ago
To everyone arguing technicalities over whether they are actually winners, or some odd mental gymnastics of reverse sexism, consider the following: This article is not written for you. Not everything on the internet has to be. If this story
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by dcw303 11y ago
Yes, 3D TV was a failure, but I still hold out a little hope that someone will get VR/AR right. Saying that AR has failed in 2016 because Google Glass could be like saying MP3 players failed because Creative Nomad in early 2001. Not th
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by dcw303 11y ago
The Netflix ambition of a smorgasbord streaming product has slammed straight into the reality of the murky world of internationally licensed content. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon h
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by dcw303 11y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks. Yeah, I'm probably sleeping in a weird position. I have a history of doing that.
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by dcw303 11y ago
Do you mind me asking, at what times did you feel the pain? I've been having something similar but always during the night, so I had not made an association with RSI.
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by dcw303 11y ago
I'm still coding after almost 20 years in the job, and have no intention of stopping. I tried some other options - teacher, artist, entrepreneur. None of them give me the thrill that I get from programming. I still get locked into a fl
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by dcw303 11y ago
Yep, that's the one!

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