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by j_baker 14y ago
Another thing worth pointing out: how common is it that an actual valid scientific study is posted and someone says "Well this isn't true in my experience"? More often than not, it's a case where some other article summarizes (most likely
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by j_baker 14y ago
Man do I wish I had heard of Graylog2 or logstash before now. That would have eliminated days of hacking together my own two-bit implementation.
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by j_baker 14y ago
Alternative interpretation: Bret Taylor just wants to do his own thing now and this is not indicative of executive morale at Facebook.
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by j_baker 14y ago
You know, I can respect people who choose to use rebase instead of merge, but your arguments against merging borderline on hysteria. I mean, plenty of teams of equal or larger size have dealt with merge commits that it's just silly to say
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by j_baker 14y ago
Actually, quite the opposite. I'm not sure I agree that students need to be informed of how to write build files, but I don't use an IDE myself. That said, I did learn how to program in an IDE, and I don't feel as though I missed out on
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by j_baker 14y ago
I'm convinced rebase vs merge is the new spaces vs tabs or emacs vs vim. There are reasons to use both, and it usually isn't worth your time to try and convince the other side they're wrong.
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by j_baker 14y ago
Indeed. But these tools can (and some might argue should ) be learned outside of school. On what basis do you make the claim that make should be taught in school? I can count the number of times I've had to edit makefiles as part of my
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by j_baker 14y ago
> That there is a whole generation of developers who come out of school thinking that "building" is the action of pressing a button in an IDE GUI Why? I mean, the fact that a newbie developer just needs to know how to press one button
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by j_baker 14y ago
This kind of analogy is useful to have on hand to explain things to non-technical people, who may not grasp the subtleties of threading vs asynchronicity.
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A Design with All-Caps (Visual Studio 2012)(blogs.msdn.com)
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I suppose it makes a difference when it comes to getting your local dev environment set up. Plus, you might be able to get away with doing continuous integration that downloads all its dependencies every time it runs.
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by j_baker 14y ago
If scrolling down gives me jodd experience, am I to assume that jodd is made for UX folks who care only about form and not function? That's what this webpage seems to be telling me. (Although to be fair, it is pretty and neat.)
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by j_baker 14y ago
And yet sadly, these reports are probably good for Flurry's bottom line. "Flurry? Do they support Android?" "Who cares? Nobody is developing for Android because it's so fragmented."
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No, but I would like to see evidence that a majority of consumers really do want such a thing.
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by j_baker 14y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that we're facing the end of IT as we know it . I think that the only difference the "cloud revolution" will have is meaning that IT staff will work for some cloud provider rather than the companies themsel
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by j_baker 14y ago
So then it sounds like one might say that lower blood pressure isn't necessarily good unless you already have high blood pressure (or are on the cusp of having high blood pressure)?
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TV: An Intervention(huffingtonpost.com)
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Netflix Launches 'Open Connect' Content Delivery Network(pcmag.com)
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by j_baker 14y ago
Indeed. But is lower blood pressure good in a person who doesn't have high blood pressure? This is a serious question too. :-)
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by j_baker 14y ago
There should be an official supported way to obtain advanced access to your device. This seems like an awfully arbitrary statement. Why should there be an official way to get access to the filesystem?
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by j_baker 14y ago
It was that the majority of "behaviour disorders" are 'diagnosed' by teachers or parents. I don't doubt that this happens, but to convince me that this happens in a majority of cases, you've got to give me some concrete evidence.
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by j_baker 14y ago
Today we’re excited to launch Airtime, the first live video network. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is flatly inaccurate, isn't it? Justin.tv has been doing live video for a while now.
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by j_baker 14y ago
Do you have any arguments that aren't flippantly insulting and irrational?
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by j_baker 14y ago
Everyone's different, and that makes for a great number of different strengths and weaknesses. The biggest problem you run into with opinionated people is that they're frequently more interested in offering their opinion than doing anythin
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by j_baker 14y ago
I can't speak for dyslexia or asperger's, but there are documented advantages to not being able to pay attention: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/why-being-sleepy-a...
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by j_baker 14y ago
Anyone who's a common victim of recruiter spam might actually consider being blacklisted a plus.
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by j_baker 14y ago
Google's a bit ambivalent about Python. On one hand, you have a contingent of programmers who don't consider python a "real" programming language. These types seem to be mostly on the search team. On the other hand, there are plenty of p
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"A successful candidate will have 3 years experience using Test-Driven Cooking."
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but isn't this a bit like saying that files are overly complex because they can be used to simulate sockets?
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by j_baker 14y ago
It would seem as though prototypes are the more expressive option if you can use them to simulate classes. In fact, one could argue that this is essentially what Python does. ...but the OP seemed to indicate that prototypes were "primitive

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