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by generalk 16y ago
My original point was that it's not necessarily "deceptive business practice." For example: when I first built my buddy's business site, I wasn't knowingly half-assing his work, or attempting to extract maximum profit for minimum work. I wa
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by generalk 16y ago
You're right. Sometimes. A hacker writing a quickie web server for the experience of doing so is laudable. This applies to lots of types of projects: toy OSes, social networking protocols, web frameworks, what have you. Exploration is fun,
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by generalk 16y ago
4chan as a whole is not "balls-to-the-wall crazy." Several of their boards are, but as a whole that's not necessarily the case.
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by generalk 16y ago
Soon: google for 'inurl:github_update.php' and click each result. Better alternative: use something like Capistrano to automate deployments. It's not Heroku-style automatic after a push, but it's pretty close. Still, points for ingenuity.
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by generalk 16y ago
That's true, but on the other hand, as TFA points out, IE8 is the latest that a WinXP user can ever get from Microsoft, which is two-years old and practically outdated now. Linking IE6 users to IE8 is progress, sure, but useless given that
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by generalk 16y ago
I like microframework or lightweight framework. Both communicate that the framework isn't a full-stack, Django/Rails-type affair, and neither is particularly charged. Nobody's going to get into an architecture argument about scaling or ease
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by generalk 16y ago
> Don't just do something because everyone else is > doing it – do something because it makes sense. I can't speak for the particulars of gradients or drop-shadows, but if two-sentence landing pages with an obvious call t
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by generalk 16y ago
As far as "how upset will people get", people get much more upset at factors that they perceive to be out of their control rather than factors they perceive to be in their control. If my laptop hard drive dies tomorrow and I realize my ba
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by generalk 16y ago
> To be fair at 0.02% affected (latest revised number) it's not even > a 'micro-failure' it's a rounding error Would this fact placate you if you had just lost access to all of your email?
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by generalk 16y ago
That's the sensible behavior if you plan on reading local documentation . I can't say I've ever used ri, although I do browse local rdoc, sometimes. I know plenty of developers that hadn't heard of "gem server" until I mentioned it. And
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by generalk 16y ago
> Are you seriously suggesting that switching apps makes you more productive? Yes, that's what practically everyone here is saying. Are you seriously suggesting that the ability to switch between two concurrently running applica
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by generalk 16y ago
> It's not Apple's duty to make it easier for you by building > a boot loader into the device [...]" Nobody said it was. In fact, I think for the most part nobody has ever said that it's Apple's duty to do anything. A b
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by generalk 16y ago
No, of course they didn't buy the channel. But that's not the point. When Apple sells you an iPhone, it ceases to become their phone and becomes your phone. You're not leasing it, you aren't renting it, you've paid for it and it's yours
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by generalk 16y ago
There's a joke there somewhere.
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by generalk 16y ago
Actually, I didn't. I bought a first-gen iPhone before the App Store was a reality. Now I use a Nexus One and don't suffer from these shenanigans. No need for snark.
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by generalk 16y ago
$100 is clearly not a great bozo filter, as evidenced by the ream of poor/useless apps in the store. Also, Apple is not doing the right thing. I bought a phone from them, I have it connected to my computer, and I have the development ki
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by generalk 16y ago
Thank you. This is the best example I've seen of how to make Net::HTTP do the right thing with SSL certificates. The reason the VERIFY_NONE fix got so popular is that, by default, if you turn on SSL support in Net::HTTP in an otherwise
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by generalk 16y ago
The US date format isn't unintuitive if you're fluent in colloquial American english, because that's how we speak dates aloud. You're more likely to hear "March 12, 2010" than "12 March, 2010" in casual conversation. That said, I try to sti
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by generalk 16y ago
> But at least they're out there doing it, venting, and participating in some mostly rules-free shenanigans. You're obviously starting from the viewpoint that this is a noble activity. That's not necessarily the case. Fight Club
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by generalk 16y ago
> Always compare results with a null model that reflects luck. If nothing else, playing poker has taught me this. It's possible to win lots of money based on making exceedingly poor bets and getting very lucky. There's one car
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by generalk 16y ago
Beware the temptation of datagrids as the main UI element of your app. It's very tempting: clients love datagrids because they know how to use them. You might like them because they're simple to plug in and provide tons of functionality you
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by generalk 16y ago
Right, but the important thing is that you're much more valuable to your paying job because of your experience writing free software. In most other fields, if you ask for someone with experience, that means they must have had a job in the
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by generalk 16y ago
I upvoted this by accident (meant to downvote), so I might as well respond: > The fact that someone would promote dropping out to live in the outback > serving beer to a bunch of tourists is insane. I know several career ba
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by generalk 16y ago
Sure, but I figure there are two classes of folks that need a text editor (not a WYSIWYG editor): 1) People who occasionally want to open/save plain text files: Gedit works just fine. 2) Programmers, who should know one of Emacs or Vim out
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by generalk 16y ago
I very much agree here! Ubuntu's 90% of the way there, but when you're used to things like Cmd+, for preferences, not having it is frustrating. That said, more and more I'm moving to the cloud for doing things that aren't Emacs or a shell,
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by generalk 16y ago
I love my Macbook Pro -- best laptop I've ever owned. I even love OS X in that, for the most part, everything works without issue. But articles like this make me wonder why I shouldn't switch back to Ubuntu. TFA mentions the following softw
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by generalk 16y ago
I have never cared about, or taken notice of any 'culture'. I agree that some programmers do, but I think you only pay attention to 'culture' if you don't really know what you're doing. False. If I'm starting a company around a product b
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by generalk 16y ago
I disagree to some extent. Sure, some people would overarchitect because culture says so, but I think the more important thing is that Java doesn't give the developer "other choices" Java doesn't force you to over-architect solutions. W
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by generalk 16y ago
Quit it with the "most users" reasoning, unless your goal in life is to part fools from their money. I don't follow your reasoning, but still: Listing granular permissions is like throwing up a confirmation dialog before a destructive act
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by generalk 16y ago
Most users will never analyze the "This application requests the following permissions..." screens; see: anyone that owns an Android phone.

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