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by heresy 16y ago
I think you're more likely to stick to and maintain todos on a mobile device that syncs to the cloud. Maybe that's just how I'm wired, but I never could stick to any one system until I got a smartphone, now I run my life out of it.
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by heresy 16y ago
What is an architect doing making developer salary decisions? Does not compute.
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by heresy 16y ago
Took a bit under an hour on my machine. Core i7, 12GB of RAM, 10k RPM HDDs. The built executable worked first time too, which was impressive for a project of that size, given that it was the very latest bleeding edge trunk source code. For
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by heresy 16y ago
That goes without saying, of course. But if the veracity of the accusation holds up, the perpetrator fully deserves what is coming to him. "No" does not mean "yes, please continue".
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by heresy 16y ago
The "guilty until proven innocent" provision was present in a prior version of the legislation, was dropped after public outcry, and has magically appeared again without notice. If it was not suitable before, why is it suitable now? Sometim
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Microsoft Slowly Euthanizes Xbox Indie Games(devlicio.us)
71 points by heresy 16y ago|31 comments
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by heresy 16y ago
That would get in the way of writing up a good rant.
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by heresy 16y ago
Technology isn't static, there will be a time when the quality from a phone camera is "good enough" that the whole first part of the diatribe becomes moot, arguably for most people it's already at that stage. My Olympus digital camera from
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by heresy 16y ago
Sounds very similar to my story, also left home and started work immediately, only doing my degree in late 20s. Now 30, I've worked in 8 countries, developed on Linux, OS X, Windows & iPhone, for web, desktop and mobile. First salary wa
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by heresy 16y ago
I'm aware of the performance hit, I just like the approach of a BigDecimal literal instead of having to write that boilerplate.
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by heresy 16y ago
This seems like the right way to do it. Though, I assume non-suffixed literals are still regular floats?
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by heresy 16y ago
My point is, this is elementary stuff that you need to know as a computer scientist or self-taught hacker. Whether you can convert a decimal number into its binary IEEE-754 equivalent, or not, is besides the point. You just need to know tha
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by heresy 16y ago
I have to question the value of CS educations when a post of this nature pops up every couple of weeks, as if it is news that floating point arithmetic as implemented today, is by its nature an approximation, and that this is more noticeabl
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by heresy 16y ago
Until the interconnect is a commodity, and at any point the advances they've made there can be as easily utilized in building new US supercomputers. I don't really see the point of this chest thumping, whoever does it, it just seems like so
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by heresy 16y ago
Right idea at the right time.
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by heresy 16y ago
I didn't mind paying the $24/month to use it for running my side contracting jobs, but they seriously aren't good enough that I'd consider it worth paying double the amount for the same feature set. EDIT: Looks like they just dropped the Ba
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by heresy 16y ago
I work on software that improves the efficiency of manufacturing, any manufacturing. It's an interesting problem space, and with many challenges. Yes, Boeing, Northrop Grumman & Lockheed Martin number among our customers, and our softwa
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by heresy 16y ago
There's a difference between the level of programming required to build a proof of concept, and the level required to make it do anything off the beaten path. I think it's well established that it's never been easier to get a web applicatio
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by heresy 16y ago
This may be the best advice I've read today. The thing is, how do you get the right people to notice when you fix things like that which really are a problem? I have a real problem doing this, it feels like so much boasting. But on the othe
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by heresy 16y ago
Morale wouldn't be undermined if wages were fair and rules around raises applied predictably. It's when someone gets bumped to the next pay grade without merit that you're going to get sour grapes among those not as fortunate.
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by heresy 16y ago
The problem is that he leaves so much underspecified. This may be a reaction to the extremes of WSDL and SOAP, but how could the current outcomes and state of "REST" APIs be any different, if no one person can agree particularly much on wh
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by heresy 16y ago
Good article, though there's a hint of "I just had my coffee" in it. Do programmers dream of O(n!) sheep?
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by heresy 16y ago
Try playing on a Huge map :) End-game means 20-30 seconds wait for turns to complete, even on a Core i7.
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by heresy 16y ago
Why don't you join forces with Diaspora? Or, why would someone decide to donate to you over Diaspora?
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by heresy 16y ago
The all-time worst I've ever experienced is Korea Exchange Bank. It only works in MSIE. You have to install a panoply of ActiveX controls. You have to install a "keyboard security" device driver (ha!). Then, for an actual transaction involv
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The Five Steps to Future Hardware Happiness(android-developers.blogspot.com)
3 points by heresy 16y ago|0 comments
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by heresy 16y ago
Nit: These aren't "optimizations", they're syntactic sugar.
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by heresy 16y ago
Forwarded this to our network guys for blocking at the source, cheers.
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by heresy 16y ago
Contract rates (also converted to USD): noob - $35-45/hr intermediate - $55-65/hr experienced - $75+/hr
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by heresy 16y ago
Sorry, let me clarify. Let's say you started investing/saving at the age of 18 up until 65, and lets say the amount you put in per month over that period of time was $800 per month - this is pretty low, given how much your income should inc

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