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by ern 15y ago
being stuck on 1 technology will quickly see your business left behind Or your career. I know of a couple of VB6 developers who stopped coding after .NET displaced it.
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by ern 15y ago
Windows developers have a bad reputation for being fixated on one or two programming languages and tools at the expense of learning other platforms. Can't say I would feel sorry for them if any of this were to be true. This is an unfortun
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by ern 15y ago
How many of these mission critical business systems are written with WPF or Silverlight for the native front-end? I don't know the numbers, but my guess is that the bulk would still be Winforms. I think a lot of people who develop desktop f
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by ern 15y ago
I had a play with Lightswitch and I liked it. It is like MS Access. I'm surprised they positioned this at the developers rather than power users though. They are positioning at power users, but it does seem like more of a developer tool
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by ern 15y ago
MS is effectively switching sides from developers who have invested in exclusively MS tech to those who are far less partisan, and it hurts. Microsoft does seem to be inching away from its traditional developer base to broaden its appeal.
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by ern 15y ago
1 You've never had a magnetic strip fail on your card? or the numbers worn off your card? I am certain magnetic strip/smartcard failures happen far less often than flat phone batteries.
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by ern 15y ago
I feel bad for the unemployed youth, but are can they really be called "doomed", considering freedom of movement of workers in the the EU?
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by ern 15y ago
TFA uses the metaphor of a ten year old movie, not me. In fact it presents the plot twist as part of its main argument - people don't realize that they are trapped in a dead business model, and are shocked when they find out. The fact is th
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by ern 15y ago
Since he uses The Sixth Sense as his main metaphor, I should point out that I figured out "the twist" before seeing the movie, since I watched it after many other people. Everyone talking mysteriously about "THE TWIST", made it pretty obvio
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by ern 15y ago
Found this ad while viewing the Abbottabad compound where Bin Laden was shot on Google Maps with caption: The end of al-Qaeda? - www.helpfindhim.com - Jihadists, want to go home? Rewards for information on al-Qaeda Whoever is behind it ha
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Mysterious website-served by Adwords when viewing OBL's compound on Google Maps(helpfindhim.com)
1 points by ern 15y ago|1 comments
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by ern 15y ago
Where would tablets and netbooks fit in? 2008 was a long time ago, in some ways.
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by ern 16y ago
Another useful trick was taught to me in second grade: draw two dots for the bigger number, and one dot for the smaller one. Then join the dots.
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by ern 16y ago
I think that visible point counts make it clearer what the norms of the community are to newcomers and reinforce them for other users. Comments that fail to attract points (but are not downvoted) send a clear signal that something is not ri
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by ern 16y ago
I think the scores should appear to a user after (A) that person votes What stops people from voting just to find out the score?
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by ern 16y ago
I think that visible comment scores are quite useful in allowing users to understand community norms. A visible score would indicate what sort of comments are valued by the community, and the extent to which they are valued.
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by ern 16y ago
You say they "understood" the concept. Was this understanding tested in some way?
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by ern 16y ago
There was old adage that people who say they code in "C/C++" don't really know either one. This was about a decade ago, I can't recall where I saw it, and don't know if it still a widely held view.
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by ern 16y ago
Your comment resonated with me. My wife's very verbal niece could name 12 animals in a book of animals at 18 months. Her mother drilled her, and then they would take the book around to show how clever their daughter was. I'd feel quite bad
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by ern 16y ago
I think the most compelling aspect of the Khan Academy is Sal Khan's ability to explain stuff. Diluting that with other instructors could weaken the main selling point of KA.
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Reasons for UML's descent into darkness (2008)(littletutorials.com)
4 points by ern 16y ago|2 comments
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by ern 16y ago
I am surprised that they got rid of the padlock icon. I had to Google before I realized that they now use a colored section with the site name in the address bar to show a secure connection. Not very obvious when you first start using it. I
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by ern 16y ago
I'm in a situation like that currently, but in an open plan office, with a manager sitting behind me keeping me in line. And since our bug tracker is linked to timesheets, things like refactoring don't happen anymore, unless linked to a spe
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by ern 16y ago
I don't know about Einstein's memory, but I do know that people often mistake having a good memory for obscure facts and above average verbal ability for intelligence.
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by ern 16y ago
Have you had to work around Khan Academy's CC noncommercial license?
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by ern 16y ago
This reminded me of the 2008 Google Reader redesign, where some of the rounded borders and shadows were dropped. http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/12/square-is-new-round... In the case of the simplified logo, "square is the new round"
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by ern 16y ago
Link to street view website: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/
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The Content Farm (a parody site)(thecontentfarm.net)
7 points by ern 16y ago|0 comments
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by ern 16y ago
As far as I can tell, deleting a profile has nothing to do with Gmail, or the rest of your Google account, besides Buzz. I deleted my profile, and still have access to the rest of my Google stuff, including Gmail.
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by ern 16y ago
I doubt it, I deleted my profile. My Buzz posts went as well, but my Gmail remains fine.

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