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by jparise 16y ago
There actually are Android User Interface Guidelines, albeit less comprehensive than Apple's equivalent: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/i... ... but it is certainly true that there is no review or enforcement m
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Lessons learned from hiring mistakes(thesimplelogic.com)
8 points by jparise 16y ago|0 comments
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by jparise 16y ago
Development costs have gone up. Even if the cost of hiring individual programmers has remained constant (and I don't have evidence one way or another there - we'd have to consult something like Game Developers' annual salary survey and appl
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by jparise 16y ago
Just be careful to interpret the answers to those questions in context. If a small company is growing or expanding into new areas or technologies, I wouldn't necessarily consider it a bad thing if the answers to the second two questions we
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by jparise 17y ago
According to http://github.com/blog/621-bye-bye-flash-network-graph-is-no... , there are too many DOM objects involved in the graph for SVG to be performant.
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Python Enhancement Proposal: futures - execute computations asynchronously(python.org)
4 points by jparise 17y ago|0 comments
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by jparise 17y ago
There's a really good segment on Benford's Law (and how it's been applied to business fraud detection) in a recent Radio Lab episode called "Numbers": http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/11/30/numbers/
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Instapaper Text view bookmarklet(instapaper.com)
1 points by jparise 17y ago|0 comments
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by jparise 17y ago
The timeit module ( http://docs.python.org/library/timeit.html ) is an invaluable tool for taking and comparing performance measurements.
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by jparise 17y ago
I would have liked to have seen Brightkite included in the review, as well.
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by jparise 17y ago
The liquids aspect of this sounds like a pain to enforce. At least in the US, the initial security screening (before you get to the gates) is supposed to filter out all liquids (over 3oz.), but once you're through security, you can buy gal
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by jparise 17y ago
Some SCM systems have per-commit metadata facilities. For example, Perforce changelists can be tagged with a "job" field, which could be a bug identifier.
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by jparise 17y ago
Commit descriptions describe the change , which is very often different than the design of the code itself. My approach is to use detailed descriptions in both places: commit logs track the evolution of the source tree, and comments/docume
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by jparise 17y ago
According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mac_OS#System_1.2C_2... ), System 2.0 is from 1985, not 1987 as listed.
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by jparise 17y ago
Definitely. That's one of my favorite features of http://www.icombinator.net/ .
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by jparise 17y ago
They seem to have a pretty nice API ( http://docs.wordnik.com/api ), including: * Definitions from the The Century Dictionary * Frequency data reflecting occurrences in our alpha API corpus * Example sentences for words * An autoc
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by jparise 17y ago
No Susan Kare ( http://www.kare.com/ )? She's iconic (!!) in the history of user interfaces.
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by jparise 17y ago
It's important to note that improvements to the standard library and C API are still permitted while the language (grammar) moratorium is in effect.
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by jparise 17y ago
The referenced Wall Street Journal article is here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870374000457451...
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by jparise 17y ago
Software that doesn't improve over time is generally forgotten and replaced by software that does. Given that, the software we are using at an arbitrary point in time is likely to be in the latter category.
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by jparise 17y ago
"That’s not to say that all shipping code wins; after all, Andrew and Intermedia and HyTime shipped code too. Code is necessary but not sufficient for success." That's a good lesson to recognize and appreciate.
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by jparise 17y ago
It looks like those details are buried here: http://rad-dev.org/lithium/wiki/about
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Reworking Python's Global Interpreter Lock(mail.python.org)
13 points by jparise 17y ago|0 comments
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Surfacescapes - a D&D-based game for Microsoft Surface(vimeo.com)
2 points by jparise 17y ago|0 comments
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by jparise 17y ago
There's a lot of excellent PHP code in the Horde Project's repository: http://cvs.horde.org/
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by jparise 17y ago
I'm undecided because, while Facebook's message is like email, it doesn't need to behave identically. For example, the mailbox view could simply display the first line or so of the message's content to give the reader context.
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Should Facebook remove subject lines from messaging system?(mashable.com)
5 points by jparise 17y ago|5 comments
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by jparise 17y ago
I'd stay away from red and green and go with orange, to match the header color. These dots shouldn't map to any specific connotation; they're just visual indicators.
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by jparise 17y ago
1/2 used to result in integer division, so it would return 0. In Python 3, integer division is spelled "1//2".
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by jparise 17y ago
While there are many language choices for writing gameplay code, C++ is still the dominant implementation language for game engines themselves. (I was a lead engineer on The Sims 3.)

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