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by dws 16y ago
A co-worker built his using the GeekDesk frame and a butcher-block table top that he scavenged from somewhere. Quite nice.
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by dws 16y ago
"no... I just haven't done it. I've so far found no need to."
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by dws 17y ago
Also touched on in the sections on "Fisheye View" by Leung et al., "A Review and Taxonomy of Distortion-Oriented Presentation Techniques" in Card et al., "Readings in Information Visualization", Morgan Kaufman, 1999. A bit of googling also
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by dws 17y ago
If you want a better guarantee of having 3 pairs, go with 7 developers. Then you're covered when one is sick/on vacation/on jury duty/off getting married/stuck at the DMV, etc., and you've built in some insurance in the event that one of yo
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by dws 17y ago
Thanks.
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by dws 17y ago
After re-reading this article, I'm still not clear on how these snapshots ended up in _his_ EBS account. Can someone explain (in terms that a non-EBS user will understand)?
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by dws 17y ago
"Compare and Contrast." They're on the chart to show what your options are when you select CA from CAP, and to provide a basis for comparison with the other options.
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by dws 17y ago
I'm mixed on this. But it does explain a weird "Google for X, it's on the first page," "No, it's not!" incident at work that resulted in a 5 minute team Googlefest.
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by dws 17y ago
Your choice might depend on your eyes. If you're subject to presbyopia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia ), either due to age or a bad draw in the gene pool, having two 24" monitors lets you angle them to minimize the need to refocu
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by dws 17y ago
Using jQuery in the (optional) admin tool doesn't commit the framework to jQuery. The view and template mechanisms remain blissfully JavaScript toolkit agnostic. I happen to use jQuery with Django, but appreciate the neutrality.
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by dws 17y ago
As he mentions, if you only ever look at the code through an IDE that does code folding, the long list of imports is a non-issue.
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by dws 17y ago
Beware of sample bias: People who have netbooks may be universally happy with them, but you're not hearing from the population who found the keyboards too small to type on comfortably (even for short-haul typing such as emails) and opted fo
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by dws 17y ago
This advise carries over to software development. To give yourself focus the next morning, leave yourself with a breaking test.
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by dws 17y ago
I'm wondering whether some of the Rock Star Games management got their start at EA.
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by dws 17y ago
There's a lot of space left over from the dot-com run-up, and it's built for a profile of VC-funded startup that's been on the decline since the bubble burst. A lot of the empty space I see in the south bay is of the old 'big open space in
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by dws 17y ago
Peter Norvig points out elsewhere that some apparent "declines" can be explained away by a growing population of non-technical web searchers.
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by dws 17y ago
There's no snow to shovel in Silicon Valley. Does that matter? Hell, yeah.
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by dws 17y ago
"The Age of Persuasion" is excellent. You can ferret MP3s out of the CBC pages with a bit of work.
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by dws 17y ago
Meanwhile Coffee shops with wifi are full.
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by dws 17y ago
Diseases. Catastrophes.
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by dws 17y ago
How does tornado on twisted perform relative to tornado?
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by dws 17y ago
Citation? Evan is from near Lincoln, a significantly smaller city.
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by dws 17y ago
If you're working near florescents, try moving or turning them off. If you made an unlucky draw in the gene pool lottery, the fast flicker from florescents can interfere with your eyes' ability to focus, which can lead to eye strain. Taking
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by dws 17y ago
"The best programmers are the ones who write the most legacy software. The best programmers are the ones who learned the most from their projects and go on to be better and better." The second bit is true. The first bit is almost certainly
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by dws 17y ago
Yup, Peopleware. That's what I get for ignoring the "time for sleep" clue.
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by dws 17y ago
Tom DeMarco was part of the paradigm shift toward thinking about software development as an Engineering discipline. He was very influential in his day, and "The Mythical Man Month", with he co-authored with Tim Lister, continues to influenc
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by dws 17y ago
The article is vague on when MySQL was dissed, but the closer you get to 2002, the more common MySQL 4 was.
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by dws 17y ago
Which the City of Bozeman has since backed off on.
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by dws 17y ago
Decent overview. Skips over middleware.
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by dws 17y ago
I remember a time when webpagesthatsuck.com didn't suck. Now it's full of ads.

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