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by efsavage 14y ago
Maybe I just think about things backwards, but why do none of these packages support task dependencies (not subtasks). It seems that the logical precursor to "what is important" is "what is available". Instead we have daily scrums and bi-
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by efsavage 14y ago
You don't need to be a lawyer to have a valid "legal" opinion. And yes, there are centuries of jurisprudence, but it is always changing, evolving, and sometimes even reversing to meet the needs of the present.
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by efsavage 14y ago
Just because you can't prove it doesn't mean it's not true. I use a serif font on my Kindle. I recently bought a book that was somehow locked to only use sans-serif. I got a few pages in, and had to stop, it was terrible. I wrote the aut
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by efsavage 14y ago
I think our ability to resist marketing decreases marginally with each marginal increase in quality. At a certain point it does become useful, and we don't want to resist. Telling me about a product I really do want and/or need and can a
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by efsavage 14y ago
Sounds like you need to pick better bosses!
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by efsavage 14y ago
I agree, although as with many other things, our distinctions are not always obvious to people whose expertise lies elsewhere. I think it's goofy that my 401k plan is a "product" to financial guys, who have a dozen other names for money as
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by efsavage 14y ago
I think I got the point, what I'm saying is that the kindle is not a book, and should not try to be. It should be a kindle/e-reader. Bringing in a book designer would likely make it more like a book, which it would fail at, and a great de
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by efsavage 14y ago
I don't see the value in a "100% replacement for all books" for the same reason I don't see any value in "100% replacement for all cooking utensils" or most other things. I can do a lot of things with my favorite knife, but that doesn't me
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by efsavage 14y ago
Apparently Gruber never had to suffer through an offline/static designer struggling to make sense of designing something interactive (i.e. the 90s and early 2000s). And the better they are the former, the more difficulty they seem to have
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by efsavage 14y ago
That's funny, because I won't use IE10 unless your site is on a whitelist.
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by efsavage 14y ago
Another handy trick is to drop vowels, which only costs 6 characters (with y), and greatly reduces the chance that your url will include a noticeable profanity or other undesirable word.
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by efsavage 14y ago
"pseudodiagnostic personality test" What else do you think an interview is?
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by efsavage 14y ago
An important thing to keep in mind is that it's not that you are innately incapable of answering the question, you just may not be able to do so presently, which is why it's a great question. People who are in a rut, or carrying a lot of ba
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by efsavage 14y ago
Patent trolls have had open season on engineers because the lawmakers and moneymen don't listen to us. Going after marketers, however, will be their undoing.
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by efsavage 14y ago
I'd like to see a system where your vote is simply part of an estimate as the ultimate quality of a comment. If things Bob votes on tend to also gather other votes, Bob's vote should be seen as an indicator that other people will be voting
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by efsavage 14y ago
At least until the latest DirectX is W8 only...
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by efsavage 14y ago
Twitter isn't very big in my circles, but of those that use it, none of them use the website.
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by efsavage 14y ago
We're pretty ruthless about adding/dropping HBO/showtime as series are on/off the air, and usually only if there is more than one interesting series running concurrently. There's really no value to these networks other than the series, I c
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by efsavage 14y ago
I watched most of game of thrones on PC (in a VM no less) and it was flawless. My only peeve with the UI is that there isn't a "next episode" button when watching a series.
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by efsavage 14y ago
It makes the guy who got scammed look stupid. He's left holding a "fake" and there's nothing he can do about it.
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by efsavage 14y ago
They also dropped the Windows port. This seems like a bad move to me, as it makes it more difficult/expensive/impossible for 80+% of developers to test pages on the default Mac browser, which means there will be less testing. Luckily Chrom
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by efsavage 14y ago
My guess would be that the 12 is already near the limit. The two "free" stars feel like a little personal gift, especially if they actually punch them out when they give them to you, with a sly wink or something. If it was 900/1000, it wo
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by efsavage 14y ago
"Quit sending so many emails!" means he was sending too many emails to people who didn't want them. If every message had value to everyone receiving them, nobody would complain. An unattainable standard. without erring on the side of not
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by efsavage 14y ago
Unless this person is amazing, I'd say quit your job and be the CEO, and pay yourself what you need. You're dev productivity will suffer as you're distracted by business activities, but it will likely be no worse than your current plan of
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by efsavage 14y ago
"render all previously purchased software irrelevant" Remember how much business they lost last time they did this (the intel switch, or even the os x switch)? Oh wait...
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by efsavage 14y ago
Not showing "user not found" errors may not be a strong security measure, but it's an effective and important privacy measure. And while you may think that the fact that your app isn't a risk because it doesn't deal with sensitive issues, y
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by efsavage 14y ago
4G is a mobile broadband technology that will change the way your department communicates, collaborates, and operates. 3G is a mobile broadband technology that will change the way your department communicates, collaborates, and operates. GP
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by efsavage 14y ago
I don't see why TDD and Code Reviews are mutually exclusive choices. You can easily use both (or neither) on a project, or mix and match, or use one on one part of a project and the other elsewhere. Knowing what each of them are is the o
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by efsavage 14y ago
My point was not clearly made. I'm not talking about vertical or horizontal, I would put them both in the "technical" category of scaling. I meant to say that scalability is not something that can simply grow to meet a certain load, it is
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by efsavage 14y ago
Scalability is about more than operations/second or any single metric, it's about making a service/system that can survive at scale, both technically and logistically. A server that goes 10x faster than it's competitor but cannot work wit

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