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by ibsulon 19y ago
I get the AF08 bit, but what's wrong with designing the front end first? I know that many clients presume that if it's in the front end, it's done, but most clients are also most concerned with ease of use. It can be perfect on the backend,
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smacks forehead Because, of course, just because something is provided for you gratis and libre means that it isn't without value. "The headaches from removing pirated libraries from your desktop app code?"
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by ibsulon 19y ago
The other piece is that it takes a bit less time to learn a fair bit about Python. Regardless of the merits of each language, Python has a lower barrier to entry. With Python, it only takes a half day to get used to the language. While I pi
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by ibsulon 19y ago
I hope Java doesn't have a nuclear power plant control system under it - it's explicitly mentioned that it is not designed for that in its terms of service. 3. RESTRICTIONS. Software is confidential and copyrighted. Title to Software and al
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by ibsulon 19y ago
Time to write it in an enterprise language -- I suggest C++. (Seriously, though, this should give pg and company some valuable benchmarking data for later on.)
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They did, once Facebook allowed open registration.
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This was really cool over a decade ago, a year after Adrian Thompson received his thesis for this work. (I mean, it's still cool, though there's a 11 years of research between then and now.) http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.ht
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by ibsulon 19y ago
Alternatively, three mentally I'll geniuses and a fourth who was tortured into suicide after great service to his country. (to be fair, I only know about Turing and Godel...)
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by ibsulon 19y ago
BA in communications from the University of Arizona - minor in CS. They were restricting the students going into the major and I flubbed up the first semester. (I got a D in discrete math. None of the concepts were difficult for me, but the
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by ibsulon 19y ago
And, as I mentioned in the blog post, how does that work for screen readers and other enabling technologies for the disabled?
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Salmonella doesn't kill you - it just makes you wish you were dead.
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While similar reasoning ultimately influenced me not to go to law school, tier 1 schools are not overly difficult to get into for someone who has already figured out the game. (A la Paul Graham's infamous essay.) Frankly, the problems of wh
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by ibsulon 19y ago
Here's the question: is the idea so good, that you'll never have another idea that good? Is this billions and billions of dollars material? If it is, tell them you want to do another project with them for the class and see how you work toge
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To be fair, the search space was much smaller before Google. Also, I kept using Altavista for quite a while before finally switching over to Google as my default search, changing only because google is infinitely better on technical searche
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Funny enough, I can. I've seen how people use it. There is nothing there that people wouldn't have wanted to do ten years ago, and while I'm sure there will be new features in the next decade, I can't see people not wanting to keep in tou
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I hate to be old fashioned, but where's the revenue stream?
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The iPhone has been the best advertizing Nokia's N95 could get.
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I am not a woman, just someone who has been around enough gender studies conversations to comment. :) "Many of them told stories about being asked to order lunch for the group and expressing shock because "that's not how a professional shou
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I had a lot of hamburger vegetable soup for a while. Start with hamburger, onions, potatoes, and two or three bay leaves in a crock pot the night before. In the morning, add canned tomatoes, corn, green beans, carrots, and peas. Eat at lun
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by ibsulon 19y ago
In Tucson, there are multiple theatres (art houses, mostly) that do this. They usually get a good showing. (I remember a midnight showing of beatlejuice that was great fun. In fact, a large group of us sat on the floor before and played duc