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by gcb 14y ago
But it doesn't help to use the wrong names for things. everytime i move teams at bigcorp, which recently mandated agile, i have to figure out what waterfall artifact got each scrum name. It's madness.
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by gcb 14y ago
It's all fun until someone loses an eye. What if i look at your API output and assume it's json (only got unique items) but it's rjson? Or whatever? The most important thing when adding another layer to a protocol is identification. So, ple
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by gcb 14y ago
feels like they just gave up palms and not replaced with anything then.
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by gcb 14y ago
1. Only need rudimentary Photoshop/illustrator 2. Learn to talk to users and do usabilitytests (Paper prototype, etc) as well as understand the results (read about cognitive sciences and such) 3. Find a company that cares about it and don't
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by gcb 14y ago
With my highschool physics i was lost at "since energy can create matter"...
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by gcb 14y ago
Palo alto, full of trees and porches.
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by gcb 14y ago
Meanwhile in LA people think high palms are trees.
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by gcb 14y ago
Remember that polarized plugs are not to protect against properly designed products. And with the vast amount of international electronics in Brazil (heck, i think i had only a electric shaver that had national plugs, everything else requir
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by gcb 14y ago
Remember that the idea,of polarization is,because cost cuttings in products. A product opting to use 2 prongs and grounding the chassis would cause problems. Yes it's forbidden, but may happen and (and products may be repaired by not so per
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by gcb 14y ago
have you ever seen a building construction? it's pretty much 'manual 3d printing' they form some crude walls with cheap wood, and pour lots and lots of concrete, and the bigger challenge for bigger building is that you have to pour one leve
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by gcb 14y ago
Last time i checked the middle plug was optional, so no, not polarized. granted, the last time i looked at the paper was 2,5 years ago and there was still a lot of allowances for transition. And i'm certain the Nokia adapters sold via local
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by gcb 14y ago
heh, in brazil they just finished a mandatory replacement of all the plugs. previously we had a plug with a flat face like the US, but the connectors were like "d b" meaning a US flat in the middle with round ones right out. using the same
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by gcb 14y ago
Or not. That's why they have national security and classified information. So they don't have to tell you were your tax is going.
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by gcb 14y ago
Terrorist, the new communist.
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by gcb 14y ago
Military power is a requirement for international politics. Do you think counties summit to laws because of what? If no one can over power then, they have to abide to no law. UNis just to cut costs for the dominating military powers. Want s
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by gcb 14y ago
It will draw more attention to the core of the problem: people using Microsoft products deliberately breaking standards for lockin reasons
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by gcb 14y ago
Solution: email who sent you the file "hi, my Microsoft word 2011 can't open the file. Can you send it back saved (insert format you can open)"
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by gcb 14y ago
Just fished helping the wife with a paper on libreoffice... Heck latex is the ultimate user friendliness. But mostly because i can write in vim. openoffice is a joke. Don't know if it's because i still can't find how to fine tune key shortc
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by gcb 14y ago
Was an attempt at joke. Everyone do find the glasses a joke to be displayed in public environments already
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by gcb 14y ago
itunes and appstore is monetization of the post marketing success. you convert them to switch, and then lock them there. hard drive was a step back. for the same price (and 5 months before ipod launched) you could get a creative flash memor
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by gcb 14y ago
30,000, of which 19,500 are California security mall personnel.
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by gcb 14y ago
> If they don't mess it up with weird looking hardware Q.E.D.
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by gcb 14y ago
yes, I AM against. but if he wins the bet, my money goes to it since for me to lose means he won. as it seems to be what he's into. and yes. they work like that. the discussion is if it will happen in 1 year as he says or in 10-15 years as
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by gcb 14y ago
Marketing. apple made walkmans cool again. After the 80s. with marketing alone.
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by gcb 14y ago
1. i don't believe in paying third party charity 2. you think all that for the same reason I also think all that: Wishful thinking... but deep inside i can see the truth. we are the hippies-yuppies who will buy it :) put yourself on the sho
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by gcb 14y ago
i did read the article, clicked to the interview link, saw only a picture and left. now i saw your comment, clicked the link and was about to dismiss the page a second time thinking all it had was a silly image when i finally decided to cli
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by gcb 14y ago
Glass will be google's newton pad. a new world promise, but in reality totally uncool and only used by a few san francisco hippies-yuppies. And then forgotten. With a chance of a decade later becoming a game changer.
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by gcb 14y ago
"today i made a website that can't zoom out or scroll sideways on mobile" Let's hope all pictures have the interesting portion to the far left.
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by gcb 14y ago
Their conclusion that because it doesn't steal money it can't belong to cybercriminals is bogus and show how little they understand of the industry. I've heard of researchers from one company dumpster diving the competition. A worm (as amat
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by gcb 14y ago
I hope you say crap meaning human rights violations justified because the other does too. If you mean crap as in pointing out the inconvenient truth to invite dialog, then all i have to say is fuck yeah America!

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