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by generalk 15y ago
> Look at the following photo and tell me that Samsung > didn't completely rip off the iPhone's look and feel, > right down to the icon layout A grid of icons with text underneath is considered ripping off Apple
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by generalk 15y ago
This looks beautiful, and I'm definitely in love with the idea of writing presentations in HTML/JS/CSS rather than in a blob of Keynote or Powerpoint, but there's one thing keeping me back: Keynote gives me a second display with a timer, th
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by generalk 15y ago
That makes it an effective form of communication, but not correct. If I talk to someone who's not computer-savvy and they describe a workflow as "I put the USB in the CPU and then drag all my files onto my screen" (verbatim quote) I can fig
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by generalk 15y ago
If you say you've written some very RESTful APIs internally, perhaps writing an article about the things you've specifically done from most APIs that makes yours RESTful and advantageous vs. a less RESTful API.
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by generalk 15y ago
> Taking one example of an engineer who may have had a bad day [...] Well wait a second. Look, if I get moody and pissed off and start cursing to myself at my desk, hey, just another Tuesday. But if I then decide to terminate p
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by generalk 15y ago
> What do you think "maturity and respect" means in the > context of interacting with other humans? We're not talking cross-cultural divides here, we're talking about engineers not being allowed to hide behind the excuse
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by generalk 15y ago
No, I think the author's point stands. He isn't saying that engineers should all go to cocktail parties and mingle, he's saying specifically that you should be able to not be an asshole. Personally I'm not great at socializing either, but I
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by generalk 15y ago
> My professional experience involves enough interaction > with extraordinarily talented engineers who have > extremely abrasive personalities. There's a difference between "that guy's kind of a jerk, but I don't t
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by generalk 15y ago
This is not about social skills. The ability to function in a crowd of strangers doesn't matter here. Not being an asshole to paying customers is what matters here. That's not a social skill, that's a matter of maturity and respect.
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by generalk 15y ago
> I really do believe that social "skills" can't be > learned, at least not well. Well, I believe they can, but that's not the point. Being a social butterfly or socially inept doesn't matter here. I have a customer-facing
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by generalk 15y ago
Did you watch the video? Most of the time you'll talk to the police and tell them everything you saw and that's that. It's not likely the police will target you, but that's cold comfort if you somehow end up on the wrong end of a police inv
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by generalk 15y ago
The best thing I ever did for my prompt was switch to zsh and start using oh-my-zsh[1]. Zsh itself has a handful of interesting features, but oh-my-zsh's built-in prompt theme support means I can cycle through prompts (most of which also in
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by generalk 15y ago
If it really does end up being a free upgrade I'll download it and give it a shot, but Textmate really soured me on paying for a closed-source editor. TextMate was the best editor I'd ever seen on a computer lab Mac, and when I finally boug
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by generalk 15y ago
Well yes, but there's a big usability difference between: "Finder used to know how to handle this file but now it doesn't. Please select the application to use for this type of file." and "This requires the Java runtime which isn't installe
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by generalk 15y ago
Yes, PHP has fundamental flaws. But the only decent fix for that is to use a different language, and there may be many valid reasons why a developer is using PHP. But the "details" grate daily. Poor reflection, no FP? Fine, you craft soluti
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by generalk 15y ago
> When people want to pick nits about this or significant whitespace > it makes me think that there must very little variance between > the languages if THIS is the issue that deserves scrutiny. For the record: thi
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by generalk 15y ago
There are some good reasons to like PHP but the array functions in the standard library are not one of them. * Arrays are created with array() as opposed to a more modern []. * Arrays are not objects, so you have a ton of functions in the g
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by generalk 15y ago
> In the case of (1) the biggest issue I see is when people from an organization leave. > [...] when deleting a Google Apps account all of the user's shared docs, > calendars, emails, etc. are deleted. Wow, that's
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by generalk 15y ago
> their organization name was being used in lieu of > a circle when they tried to share something. I think there are two types of Google Apps users: (1) the Large Organization and (2) the Guy Who Wants Gmail At His Domain
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by generalk 15y ago
I've tried it out with my regular old gmail account, but I hardly use that anymore. I'll love it once I can use it with my Google Apps account.
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by generalk 15y ago
The three extra physical buttons beyond Home are my favorite Android features! - Menu: It's nice having a go-to place to find options or additional functions. With the iPhone, it's however the app author decided to design his software. With
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by generalk 15y ago
No need to shit on the guy. TFA boils down to: "I was emailed a proprietary format for an application that doesn't exist on my platform. I was able to find and install a third-party utility to convert it to something usable." An astonishing
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by generalk 15y ago
> The article does say that it is mostly to combat people > harvesting and selling large number of accounts/passwords > which seems reasonable to me. It seems reasonable that there be a law against that? Reasonabl
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by generalk 15y ago
You can just read the internals, but that doesn't mean that the criticism is wrong. Certain problems do suggest deeper internal issues. "Good error messages cost a lot" and "They turned off yacc's 'produce better error messages' mode" see
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by generalk 15y ago
Or, even better: "Unexpected '::' on line 14." I wouldn't want to see "Unexpected key/value delimiter" ( => ) or "Unexpected opening of new scope" ( { ). Just show the character(s) you found you weren't expecting.
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by generalk 15y ago
> It's WAY more useful than "Illegal operation" or "Syntax error". Wut. "Syntax error on line 14" -- Okay, time to look at line 14 for a mistyped semicolon or something. These two words Mean Something. "Unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEK
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by generalk 15y ago
I'm no security expert, but I do try to keep up. Someone please correct me if my facts are off. Ahem : Windows 7 does a lot more randomization of memory layout than Mac OS X does, making it more difficult to exploit executables and librari
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by generalk 15y ago
I don't understand how someone can count that as a downside, realistically. That's like saying your browser doesn't do much if you're not connected to the net, or your fireplace doesn't work without wood. Of course it doesn't, why would it?
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by generalk 15y ago
Untrue. I have a cr48, and after you've done the initial setup it is possible to boot and log into your Google account before the wifi kicks in.
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by generalk 15y ago
Word problems are still abstract manipulation of symbols, you just have to hunt around in the phrasing for the right operands or operations, which arguably makes it harder.

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