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We are slaves of electricity(extremetech.com)
15 points by doc4t 14y ago|18 comments
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by doc4t 14y ago
I'm currently experimenting with a 6 x 24'' setup. I used to have just 3 which fits most of my needs but I always wanted to try have it felt with even more. I does require some odd head movement once in a while though
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by doc4t 14y ago
"There was a time when building a cutting edge web app meant wasting hours setting up a Linux server, days installing MySQL and Ruby or PHP, and months slaving away writing backend server code. Web development was nasty, brutish, and long.
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by doc4t 14y ago
http://ux.stackexchange.com/
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by doc4t 14y ago
I ment the whole stack...not just a single fizzbuzz snippet. As I see it this is what is going on when your users use a webapp. The user runs some client code which you wrote. In a browser which other guys wrote. Running on an OS made by so
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by doc4t 14y ago
Since so many are complaining about the difficulty of developing/debugging in IE here is a couple of links that should make it easier for you Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1835.
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by doc4t 14y ago
Safari testing on Windows is "hard". For whatever reason Safari on Win can produce different outcomes than on Mac. Further I don't even have the option of running OS X in a vm unless I settle for a hackintosh. "First, the development tools
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by doc4t 14y ago
No I don't think it is alright to charge for a patch. It was not my intention to side track the discussion. I just don't like the simplification of comparing with cars - but the OP made it clear that I misunderstood his post.
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by doc4t 14y ago
"The answer is to build a process that catches mistakes. I don't think software engineering has really caught up with mechanical engineering in terms of process." I agree. I'm not sure it ever will. But comparing software to a car and the r
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by doc4t 14y ago
"Is it guaranteed to have true rendering/display parity with the OS X variant?" No. Last time I made a hackintosh running Safari on Win and Mac sometimes produced different outcomes in certain scenarios. Things might have changed though.
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by doc4t 14y ago
"fail to elucidate why" Ok. The possible combinations of the way your application can (theoretically) run far outnumbers the estimated number of atoms in the visible universe - even for small programs. You just need a couple of loops in loo
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by doc4t 14y ago
I never did any mechanical engineering so I trust your statement. It's still a good example when trying to convey the complexity of software to people who don't understand computers since most have an idea that space shuttles are very compl
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by doc4t 14y ago
Absolutely nothing - I just assume that the majority of web devs (myself included) would find it hard to port their software to erlang.
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by doc4t 14y ago
It's actually much more work to test on a Mac when developing on a Windows machine since Apple is so protective of OS X that they don't allow it to run in a vm. Which is sad because I like to have all kinds of users but it's really really d
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by doc4t 14y ago
Please stop comparing software with real world objects. While popular the comparison between cars and computer programs are not well chosen. Actually comparing software to any physical object is point-less. These two only have anything in c
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by doc4t 14y ago
ActiveX is (among other things) used to run JScript in the browser. JScript can be viewed as a super set of JavaScript and will allow you to interact with the file system and such.
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by doc4t 14y ago
The "shake" effect in Windows will cause everything but the active window to minimize - it's possible the action can be bound to other commands. "does anything like this exist for windows?" Not the exact same but if you start to drag then y
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Thinking outside the box [video](youtube.com)
2 points by doc4t 14y ago|0 comments
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by doc4t 14y ago
The real problem is not the lack of systems but the ridiculous complexity of tax law. Since the complexity is unlikely to go away any system would have to handle it - and this is not an easy task. Given that the OP works for an organization
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Progamming in peace - My favorite music collection when working(youtube.com)
2 points by doc4t 15y ago|0 comments
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by doc4t 15y ago
If you're an experienced programmer looking to learn Javascript, you probably can't do any better than reading Javascript: The Good Parts. It's extremely short, concise, and enjoyable to read. Highly recommended. Any experienced programme
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Nokia Thinks You've Just Been Beta Testing Smartphones(tomsguide.com)
2 points by doc4t 15y ago|1 comments
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by doc4t 15y ago
You don't need to run a web server for PHP either...can you give an example of one of these simple things?
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by doc4t 15y ago
Although I find XML to be much too cumbersome and bloated for any practical situation I can still understand the technical arguments in favor of using it. What I don't understand is why anyone would choose XSLT over a full featured scriptin
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How to cool a PC with toilet water(extremetech.com)
5 points by doc4t 15y ago|0 comments
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by doc4t 15y ago
A nice yet very naive idea. The passport you hold represents a key to the walls which surrounds your country. Without these walls international trade would flow unhindered - resulting in the devastation of the western economies and our arti
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by doc4t 15y ago
I admittedly don't know much about crypto voting. What I do know is this: When the entire process is analog I (and everyone else) can transparently verify what is going on. From I submit my vote to it is counted so many people are involved
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by doc4t 15y ago
The point is not open source code. You still have to place trust in the system and the people executing it. While this is also true for a paper based manual-counted system the later is so transparent to anyone that cheating becomes very ver
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by doc4t 15y ago
I think we can safely assume that the number of votes inaccurately counted is not statistically significant. In the cases where a tie is present a second or even third count usually takes place. I will trust this system of humans counting a
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by doc4t 15y ago
Voting by paper as described is how it's done in most western countries for years and years. In general there are very few accusations of voting fraud. This is because - among other things - that the system is transparent to everyone involv

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