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by drsim 14y ago
Apart from the potential physiological issues, the author briefly touches on the sociological impact this may have. In my mind that will be even more profound. If you haven't seen it, 'Black Mirror' on TV here in the UK has an excellent epi
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by drsim 14y ago
Google doesn't agree with you. "Many SEOs and other agencies and consultants provide useful services for website owners" http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38...
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by drsim 14y ago
My point is that each leader displays similar traits and is expected to act/react in a certain way
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by drsim 14y ago
I'm skeptical Kim Jong-Un's speech prompted this trip. There's nothing to suggest the two things are linked. But like you I'm optimistic that any change at the top could be a good thing.
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by drsim 14y ago
The 'dear leader' of DPRK has always been a man who wants to be revered and responds aggressively in public to criticism. Who really knows what these visits by high profile figures accomplishes behind closed doors? If nothing else, exposing
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by drsim 14y ago
Great reply. If the Supermechanical guys were as engaged as you I certainly have no gripes.
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by drsim 14y ago
I backed the 'wireless sensor readings to internet' device Twine ( http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/twine-li... ) so I'm going to put down a couple things about my experience. -- Production delays -- I waited almost a yea
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by drsim 14y ago
There are certainly similarities, but civil engineering when compared to software engineering methodologies is closer to waterfall. And waterfall isn't the most efficient way to turn out software.
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by drsim 14y ago
I have a B2B app too, and get email from people who are downright rude. I wouldn't bundle the OP in with this bunch: he just seemed frustrated. But as the service provider it's your responsibility to maintain a professional tone. When I get
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by drsim 14y ago
Teletext (Ceefax on Channel 4) had some games you could play 'through your TV!' :) Bamboozle was a general knowledge, multiple choice quiz. A hacker at heart I noticed the correct choice (red/green/yellow/blue) went to a different page numb
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by drsim 14y ago
I dislike the prefix from a stylistic point of view only, the arguments for and against are weak. I remember debating with our datawarehouse designer whether our tables should be singularly-named or plural. Also if the primary key should be
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by drsim 14y ago
I see it working hand-in-hand with dependency injection. So resolved mock interface implementations will be used by Instant.
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by drsim 14y ago
I've been using NCrunch for some time now, and really enjoy the instant feedback it gives on failed tests. It constantly chugs away in the background like a faithful dog. I can see things like Instant C# meaning I have to build less: a grea
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by drsim 14y ago
The same way many landing pages don't link deeper into the site to encourage registrations? News sites/blogs make a tremendous amount of effort to draw you to their other articles. I won't link them prominently because users are so easily d
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by drsim 14y ago
I was initially appalled when I first read about the Samwar clone factory. Now I agree, in cases like this they're filling a gap in the market.
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by drsim 14y ago
Great idea, well executed with a very attractive pricing model. I do wonder though how I can get my crappy, classic ASP table-layout site tweaked for a fixed price of $25 for each change.
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by drsim 14y ago
I agree. This language is too far abstracted from the standard paradigms, hell I even have trouble bending my brain to this structure. I've been programming for 12 years. When I was eight we had a turtle in our classroom, driven by Logo on
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by drsim 14y ago
Thanks. Draft here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-http-forwarded...
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by drsim 14y ago
Hmm... I've worked on software at three different orgs that rely on the X-Forwarded-For header to identify a client's IP address from in front of a firewall (I'm not a network guy, but I think it was Cisco equipment). I agree the X- prefix
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by drsim 14y ago
The world needs more people like him: in a position of power with the guts to stick it to companies who put money before humanitarianism.
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by drsim 14y ago
At Google you'd have been given at least an array of options. If the site was transparent about any commercial interest in the vendor I'd agree with you.
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by drsim 14y ago
Interesting article, but why the spam? "buy online at dedicated websites like www.[snip].co.uk, and a basic model costs just around £60" Hmm...
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by drsim 14y ago
Agreed, if the client is wise then they'll have a fixed fee or fixed percentage agreement in place. Most agents will accept this. The contractor and client negotiating the day rate directly is the best way to make sure the agent doesn't exp
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by drsim 14y ago
Exactly. There will always be lazy employers, and agents are good at giving them a kick up the ass to make sure the process gets completed in as little time as possible. (Self interest of course, as this corresponds to when they'll get thei
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by drsim 14y ago
Their job is to place a candidate with a client. They're good at it otherwise they would have died out long ago. The gripe I hear from colleagues is X, Y, Z always ending in 'and they take £££ from me a day!' My post notes the problems with
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by drsim 14y ago
Recruitment agents work particularly well for contract developers, the ethics notwithstanding. Permanent is a whole different ball game that I'm not going to touch on. TLDR: The model isn't broken, it could use some optimization. Everyone l
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by drsim 14y ago
In some time this may be the case. But I'm sceptical that the capital cost will be less than the labour cost in these countries. And is China the last post for cheap labour.
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by drsim 14y ago
Sweet: do it!
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by drsim 14y ago
As a Visual Studio developer, what I'd really like is a plugin that can reveal shortcuts as I use the app in a usual way. So pop up a message if it sees I've done something through the menus: 'hey, you've just pasted in some text: use CTRL+
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by drsim 14y ago
Kickstarter.

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