dmethvin

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by dmethvin 16y ago
Great organizations are wonderful when they're effective at supporting the product or service. With a startup, it's hard to know the organizational size required because you usually aren't even sure of the size of the market. Some companies
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by dmethvin 16y ago
Microsoft does have a license to customize the ARM architecture, so maybe they are planning some x86 compat layer. It's an interesting technical challenge but what business problem does it solve for Microsoft? This lets them run Windows on
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by dmethvin 16y ago
If Microsoft ported Office/SharePoint to native ARM I might be able to believe this.
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by dmethvin 16y ago
If this is true, then Windows 8 is not a true successor to Windows 7. Current desktop/server apps assume binary compatibility with x86. This sounds much more like a scaled-up version of Windows Phone.
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by dmethvin 16y ago
Going in with this attitude is not good at all. I'd say don't become obsessed with DRY, because in the beginning it often won't be clear when it's appropriate to "fork" portions of the code versus adding a branch or two to the core logic. B
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by dmethvin 16y ago
It's so rare today to find software that can deliver on its promises.
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by dmethvin 16y ago
Exactly, which makes the size of the file much less critical. It's likely to already be cached on the drive by some previous page, even from another domain. Slicing jQuery core into subset files that are dynamically loaded and other such te
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by dmethvin 16y ago
> I'd be surprised if even 10 make it through to compiling the Chrome source, and I'll be stunned if even 1 makes it through to the end Isn't that part of his goal, though? It's great to find people who are that passionate about the wor
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by dmethvin 16y ago
> If my son gets upset, I plan to tell him "this is why you're going to take trig seriously; do bad in school and you might end up with this crappy job". That is a horribly disrespectful thing to say in front of someone who is doing the
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by dmethvin 16y ago
TortoiseGit has been working fine for me, no crashes or problems. They've done a pretty good job of taking the most common scenarios and making them easy to do, even for a Windows user. (And I say that as a Windows user:)
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by dmethvin 16y ago
Do the devs already know git, or will it be a new experience for them? No matter what tool(s) you use, learning to use git effectively will be the hardest part. I use TortoiseGit integrated into Windows Explorer for most stuff, and drop dow
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by dmethvin 16y ago
Even most casual developers can afford $200 for a Windows license to run on VMWare. Contrast that with testing Mac software in VMWare with a Linux or Windows host -- we can't legally do it because it's against Apple's license.
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by dmethvin 16y ago
So sad, because that could have been the DLL's finest hour. A lot of code uses ATL. Imagine if Microsoft had been able to update a few ATL DLLs and close the hole for every app written to dynamically link to ATL. Instead, the dynalinkers
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by dmethvin 16y ago
> In that speech [Andy Grove] decried the U.S. patent system, explaining that in the early days of the transistor there was much more cross-licensing of patents and a greater spirit of companies building upon the same technologies -- ev