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by enjo 14y ago
That's the thing about "culture". It's defined very much by the people involved most directly in it. Within a company like Amazon you will have teams that foster amazing environments. You'll also have teams that hand out toy ninjas. The tri
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by enjo 14y ago
Yep. It's why camera phones, in some places, have to make a noise when they a picture (by law). You have to announce that you are doing something.
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by enjo 14y ago
Can't imagine that would be terribly difficult. They don't move like large insects for sure.
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Why? I have a pretty new Galaxy Nexus and I can replace the battery just fine.
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by enjo 14y ago
Particularly right after they talk about 20B app-installs.
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by enjo 14y ago
In most countries (I'm not familiar with Dutch law), including the two I've worked with in the EU, the company would most definitely still own the code he wrote using company resources and on company time.
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by enjo 14y ago
I'm a tech person and I don't agree that "patents and copyright stifle innovation". I believe that patents, as presently construed, do. It's not the concept, but the process that's the issue. Terms are too long, they have no requirement of
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by enjo 14y ago
Are people going to no longer releasing stuff on cloud platforms? I have some loyalty to AWS mainly because I've already figured out how to make stuff work nicely on it. However, for whatever I release next I'd certainly consider a competit
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by enjo 14y ago
Absolutely agree, and that's PHP's biggest issue. It is constantly doing things like this instead of simply complaining and stopping things down like any sane system would. If I were in charge of PHP, release 6 would be 5.4.4 with the stand
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by enjo 14y ago
How is that indicative of bad code? That seems like a very big jump to make. If you're using PHP at the presentation layer you are probably doing a lot of this. Why would you write some sort of abstraction around number formatting when ther
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by enjo 14y ago
100% correct in my experience.
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by enjo 14y ago
But what about parts that are going to fail in the next 35 minutes of running, and then you run it for 30. There are too many variables to account for here I think.
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by enjo 14y ago
Regarding that last bit: I wonder if they feel a bit of social pressure to stay. Basically when you say " I'd love to know why" all of a sudden there is an actual person who would be clearly harmed by their decision to leave.
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by enjo 14y ago
Except that EVERYONE has a dog in that fight, and it seems to be different for just about everyone. That's the fascinating thing about it. When you take away the labels (who made it or the period in which it was created) peoples tastes seem
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by enjo 14y ago
I think you came close to the biggest differentiator: adaptability. Great programmers can dive into a new technology and use their past experience to quickly gain competency in it. If I hand node.js to a great programmer, I expect that he/s
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by enjo 14y ago
Nothing forces taxes to be complicated, its not some sort of inherent property of taxes -- I think it very well might be. At least with how everyone actually utilize taxes. After all, government routinely utilize taxes (or rebates) as inc
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by enjo 14y ago
It's important to note that Cloudfront also supports custom origins, so it doesn't even have to involve s3 these days.
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I've always felt like this was a major shortcoming of the specification. Inputs should have some consistent visual specification along with support for a well-defined set of styling options. We go through all of these gyrations precisely be
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by enjo 14y ago
It was actually the server room. We had a couple of desktops serving the website and the development staff (two of us) crowded in there to work as well:)
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I really need to meet the new folks:) You guys did a great job!
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Also Excel and Powerpoint... plus editing:)
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by enjo 14y ago
I'm incredibly excited for the guys at Quickoffice! Its really interesting, I still feel like Quickoffice is my baby (I was the lead architect from 2002-2008). It's actually kind of bittersweet to see the whole thing grown up and headed o
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by enjo 14y ago
Keep in mind, Quickoffice (I was there) did that before the spec was released:)
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by enjo 14y ago
#1 certainly is, particularly for businesses prone to seasonal fluctuations. In local lead-gen (for instance) you see big changes in conversion based on the time of year.
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by enjo 14y ago
Holy color clash batman! That blog has to be the ugliest thing I've seen in a long time. Same for their actual (former) home page.
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by enjo 14y ago
That personal growth translates to your career as well. I find that the liberal arts education I had forced upon me (I just wanted math/physics dammit!) helps me more than any other part of my education. Even the philosophy classes I took s
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by enjo 14y ago
I'll toss my two cents in. Java is one of the few languages in existence that I actively avoid (Symbian's particular flavor of C++ is the other). I've heard it best described as being a very "bureaucratic" language and I think that sums it
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by enjo 14y ago
That seems..vague. What are we investing in? More money for schools? More money for roads? Mor money for...? Is there data to suggest that it works?
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What are the solutions?
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by enjo 14y ago
I'm confident in saying it's a cultural issue. Probably more to do with "poor" than "black". Anecdotally I know this to be true. I live near a major urban high school in Denver. It's an interesting school as the surrounding neighborhoods ha

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