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by iowahansen 19y ago
Any Wall Street hackers reading this? I heard that while you earn big chunks of money at investments firms (nice 200-500k bonuses if you are really good), you are still seen as a second class citizen to the actual people that deal with the
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by iowahansen 19y ago
I'm generally a person that values function more than form, but I have to say it is a real daily joy to work on gorgeous hardware like a Macbook Pro. The reason Macs are more expensive because they only offer high-end hardware specs. A simi
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by iowahansen 19y ago
While there are a bunch of browser screen shot SaaS out there (browsershots.org browsercam.com), I haven't found a good app to do the same thing locally (that ideally controls the corresponding VMware instances as well). Anyone seen such as
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by iowahansen 19y ago
I used to be bleeding edge, always upgrading to the latest version of anything that came out, but as a consequence ran into occasions where things broke that were working perfectly before (and ended up wasting time getting things back to no
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by iowahansen 19y ago
* 15" Macbook Pro, 4GB, 10.4.8 (waiting for 10.5.3 before upgrading). * Quicksilver (one of the big reasons I switched to Mac in the first place) * IntelliJ IDEA for Java backend stuff (imho, the best code virtuoso tool out there bar none;
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by iowahansen 19y ago
Sigh, one more browser version to test for. Plus with Firefox3 coming out this year and Safari gaining market share, things are going to get worse before they get better. What are your favorite tools to automate functionality testing/layout
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by iowahansen 19y ago
My advice: be an atheist when it comes to your tool selection. Use the tools that get a specific job done the fastest. Anecdotal evidence: back in 1998 I insisted of doing websites in Vi and Photoshop. Refreshing a graphic layout would take
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by iowahansen 19y ago
One single company could affect a global semantic web adoption within 6 months: Google. Once they decide to give webpages with semantic info a higher relevance, armies of SEO experts would swiftly generate vast amounts of semantic informati