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by etler 13y ago
Personally, some of the stuff microsoft has been building recently looks really appealing. I want to give some of their stuff a chance, particularly their direction with tablets. I have a convertible tablet and in college used things like o
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by etler 13y ago
I've seen it some other places too. Was Amazon Payments not open to everyone before? I just assumed it was.
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by etler 13y ago
It's been 3 years since the release of bejeweled 3, and there is still no mobile version. The market was theirs for the taking, and they did nothing. Now they're losing it to Candy Crush. There's bejeweled blitz, but people w
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by etler 13y ago
I've been doing something similar to this with Backbone. Backbone has Models, Views, and Events. I put the "Operations" in the Model and Collection extended classes, so the login operation is performed by the User model. So I
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by etler 13y ago
One of the biggest factors I think you should consider if you want to go the self learning route is if you'll have the time to while juggling a full time job as well. You might be able to take a few courses, but will you be able to ded
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by etler 13y ago
The Tesla should be very exciting in European countries that have very high taxes on gasoline. It makes an £80,000 a lot more affordable. A full charge takes an hour, and a full tank of gas will cost about £120 according to the video. Unles
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by etler 13y ago
They mention that in the video. He says "It isn't meant to compete with a car like the aston to be honest, on any level. We just wanted to show how fast it is in a straight line".
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by etler 13y ago
I am not a car guy, but the Tesla cars regularly give me goosebumps.
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by etler 13y ago
Well I finally know what octane means.
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by etler 13y ago
I think it's the same as SEO. There are legitimate SEO practices and then there are scammy trendy sounding ones. The legitimate techniques typically involve a lot of systematic testing and hard work. The scammy ones throw buzz words ar
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by etler 13y ago
Making the mistake once is forgivable, but twice? After all the press from his previous parabolic building, you'd think he'd give it a second thought!
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by etler 13y ago
Open Source has an accepted definition. The Open Source Definition was created for the purpose of clarifying what should b required to label something Open Source. Just because they don't go beyond that to the point that others in the
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by etler 13y ago
The problem is that people have built false expectations for themselves about what Android is, and even created false definitions of what open source is. All Android is is the operating system. Take any Linux distro, and strip out all the a
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by etler 13y ago
I'm starting to really dislike the term "legacy code". It implies the code is bad because it's old. It perpetuates the misconception that code gets "stale" and problems build up. But that's not true. &quot
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by etler 13y ago
You don't rewrite for features. You rewrite for better maintainability and productivity. After your rewrite you shouldn't have to rewrite it again. The balancing act is that a rewrite should improve your implementation velocity, s
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by etler 13y ago
Assuming your code base is even clean enough to do that. Lack of encapsulation and modularity is also part of technical debt. Getting a disastrous codebase to the point where gradual refactorization is even possible will be a blocking task,
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by etler 13y ago
Technical debt will never go away unless you confront it directly. If you put it off for too long you simply cannot recover it. Yes a complete rewrite is painful, and can kill you, but so will technical debt. By the time you're drownin
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by etler 13y ago
The new historical perspective on this is very interesting. The code rewrite killed the company, but it gave birth to mozilla, which came back to topple IE from its throne and help bring through a new renaissance of browser development. If
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by etler 13y ago
After thinking about it, turn based RPG games sound like they would work well. My main problem with touch is for any kind of real time game that isn't a 1 to 1 swipe game like bejeweled. The problem is the lack of constant dedicated co
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by etler 13y ago
The number of modules don't matter, but what does matter is that NVM and NPM are incredible tools. I've never used any package or version manager that comes close to their polish, ease of use, and simplicity. They make a huge diff
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by etler 13y ago
The Phillips deal was essentially a way to annoy Sony, with whom they had a contract that went sour. They weren't involved in any of the CDI games, and they were all horrible.
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by etler 13y ago
I haven't played an ios game that has come anywhere near the quality or fun of a Nintendo game, and the lack of physical controls is the primary reason for that. I absolutely do not want Nintendo to develop phone games. It will take re
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by etler 13y ago
It's not an error. If it were, it would be a very big error, as their directions would be completely broken for everyone going to or from San Francisco and Oakland, dis-servicing hundreds of thousands of people. But the bay bridge is c
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by etler 13y ago
I love git, but some of the metaphors and inconsistencies it makes are definitely not good and make it much harder to pick up than it should be. I think with the right set of metaphors and ui it can work.
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by etler 13y ago
What is appealing to a 5 or 6 year old is very different to what's appealing to well, anyone else. I'm sure they tested it on them, and I think slab like devices are easier for kids. It's no coincidence that this release coin
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by etler 13y ago
The difference between the DS and 3DS isn't just the 3D display. The 3DS also has faster hardware, and wider top screen, and plenty of other new hardware aspects that the DS didn't have. So what this is is a different form factor
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by etler 13y ago
Thanks for finding that!
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by etler 13y ago
I was going to say this. People aren't going to work hard for someone else (they'll work enough to get by but that's it). If you empower them they'll be working for themselves, and they'll actually want to do a good
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by etler 13y ago
I think node can beat out php in regards of ease of hosting. I've simply never worked with a version or package manager that works as well as nvm and npm. Trying to do the same thing with Ruby or Python is like pulling teeth. Even comp
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by etler 13y ago
I think it depends on the kind of worker you want to create. With engineering and development, it's an inherently creative process, and creativity needs collaboration to prosper. I don't know enough about Wall Street, but it seems

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