jeffreymcmanus

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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
We attempted to do a project with jQM and dumped it in favor of Sencha. The performance just isn't there for anything but the most trivial apps. Sencha has a significantly steeper learning curve (jQM is mostly markup while Sencha apps are m
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
I got the point of the email, thanks.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
You know who's a joker? The guy who "got a top creative designer in there working for a fraction of his normal cost by being very fucking cool with him, and also working out a deal where we refer him business". That's who.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
tl;dr: In November only 56.81% of visitors to talkingpointsmemo.com were using Windows. Windows is losing ground to OSX but mostly to mobile. It would be interesting to compare this to other sites. I'm sure there's a demographic that's infl
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Why only 57% of visitors to TPM are using Windows(talkingpointsmemo.com)
4 points by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago|2 comments
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
If you're on the international space station, solar is indeed significant.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Another example of a misuse of the phrase "disruptive innovation". The writer marvels at the fact that nearly no venture dough is thrown at the internal combustion engine. But investment in gas-burning engines would be a sustaining, not dis
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Let me get this straight: you're taking a stance against reading books? Fascinating.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
So their CEO has a list of executives that he feels did so little he considers them "missing in action". If that were the case, why didn't he just fire them for cause? That would have stopped the vesting clocks on their options. Or was he p
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
This seems kind of pedantic but the guy gets it. And if you're a tech entrepreneur and you haven't read "The Innovator's Dilemma," it's quite likely you're doing it wrong.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Something about "outsource server-side back-end" doesn't, um, parse for me.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Yes -- the vast majority of IIS implementations are run behind corporate firewalls -- they won't show up in surveys like this. These stats don't show web server popularity, they show the popularity of public web servers.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
This kind of work is one way we let people know.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
You can enjoy programming and not necessarily enjoy slogging through books.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
What would they sue them for? Not adequately meeting requirements of niche markets? If that were an actionable offense, you'd be able to sue half the startups in Silicon Valley.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
One of the other things that a liberal arts education teaches you is to take criticism gracefully. Just a thought.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
I had this when I was a kid. I picked up a copy on eBay a few years back.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
The first sentence of that post is a run-on sentence. This fact brought to you by a liberal arts education.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
I've hired about fifty people over the past five years. With maybe one or two exceptions, I can't tell you what any of their college majors were.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
You can use voice searches with google.com right now. The fact that (I'm guessing) few people use it is probably a function of the fact that people aren't socialized to talk to their web browsers (while they are socialized to talk to their
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
This is a little prissy. I'm far more offended by a poorly-edited tl;dr blog post than the occasional f-bomb. Both can show disrespect for the reader; there's an art to it.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
I know. It sucks, but Java is what schools teach. It's what students need for college, and it's what the advanced placement exam uses. My choice would be to use Python, but it's kind of a disservice to high school kids to teach them anythin
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
I'm watching this thread and I can answer any questions you have about how CSEdWeek works and what volunteering entails. The time commitment isn't huge and we try our best to make it fun for everyone.
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Call for Volunteers: CodeLesson Computer Science Education Week(blog.codelesson.com)
8 points by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago|3 comments
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
If you do it just right you can make them do the head-bobbing dance from "Night at the Roxbury". WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON'T HURT ME.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Yes, I founded and ran Y's developer network, so I would have been the one to tell these guys that they can't pre-announce a developer product. The last year I ran YDN we were the most productive product organization in Yahoo, releasing a n
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
Saying that "TIOBE rankings are at least the best system we currently have" for gauging uptake of a programming language is like saying that astrology is the best system we have for predicting the future.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
So it looks like they're pre-announcing a developer platform as a way to support the launch of a consumer app (Livestand). But the actual developer bits aren't actually available yet? What? Why are you wasting my time, Yahoo? Who does this?
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
So your theory is that he's making this all up? No.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
This guy clearly had shitty teachers. Unfortunately, this has caused him to conclude that his bad college experience is a manifestation of a global international conspiracy to suppress his awesomeness. I bet it would shock him to learn that

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