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by jtheory 13y ago
This isn't applicable to only programmers, of course; my wife is a novelist -- there are a lot of high-level concerns that she needs to balance in her head PLUS there's the fiddly nature of creative flow, and it all comes crashing
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by jtheory 13y ago
I do this as well -- once I have the complete solution to something in my head, I quickly go through the various parts of the codebase that will be affected and drop pseudo-code or even just rapid notes in each place -- which will intention
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by jtheory 13y ago
This sounds like the kind of "security" feature that will show up on a criminal court case in the future -- that's why I don't like it. Think about how easy it will be for a company to prosecute the "hacker" wh
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by jtheory 13y ago
Last night I submitted comments on the Bugzilla bug, and joined the (small) conversation on the dev list. My message is still in moderation, though (it wasn't rude or anything, so I suspect it's just because of time differences).
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by jtheory 13y ago
A coding test in which they're writing code you could actually use in your business is a work sample test. If it's more than a 10-minute job, you should be paying for them for the work.
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by jtheory 13y ago
Ah, it's not willful, though. They apparently assumed that every single patient would read and understand the tiny, italicized grey print warning to not include personal information.
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by jtheory 13y ago
This is one of the primary features of the company I'm with now, Patients Know Best. (Online communication with your doctor -- though not via email, because that cannot be secured properly). We're not free to hospitals/doct
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by jtheory 13y ago
I don't have much hope - the pile-on against applets has been unrelenting for months now - but I will give this a shot. It's not obvious to me which part of the site you mean yet, though.
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by jtheory 13y ago
I really hope you aren't one of the same people who say IE6 and IE7 have to die, and so web developers are right to try to force their users to use modern browsers. I work with the NHS in the UK; quite a few of the medical professional
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by jtheory 13y ago
Thanks for clarifying! This is honestly what makes the Firefox warnings even more damaging than they already are. If a brave user decides to click past the "DO NOT ENTER" sign on the Firefox warning, they are immediately presented
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by jtheory 13y ago
Does anyone want to write a user-friendly walk-through to help normal users get Java running? I may have the time to assist, though I'm doubtful I could do the whole thing. ScreenLeap has a good start: http://www.screenleap
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by jtheory 13y ago
From what I've read, Java isn't banned from Chrome on OS X, but it doesn't work because OS X Java 7 is 64-bit only and Chrome is 32-bit only.
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by jtheory 13y ago
Yes, this is what I mean. Exercise empathy first - even just "I'm sorry, this is obviously frustrating" is a much better start than an angry defense of why you obviously can't include X and Y in the free version.
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by jtheory 13y ago
True, if it's a knee-jerk action. If you get in the habit of empathizing with the people around you, though, and you do it well, that will continue to be valuable.
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by jtheory 13y ago
This makes a lot of sense to me - it's not even because the apology is logical, but because it's a gesture that shows the speaker is thinking of the other's welfare. There's a rule I have followed for many years when doi
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by jtheory 13y ago
This was "a thing" back in the 80's in the US -- does anyone remember sniglets? There were several books published with compilations of them, sniglet-a-day calendars, etc.
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by jtheory 13y ago
What does "remotely exploitable" mean , though? What would "authentication" mean, in this context? I think what this must mean is that IF you click through the various dialogs to enable an applet or Java webstart appl
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by jtheory 13y ago
It's not always convenient (or even possible) for your everyday transportation to also be exercise. Electric assist extends biking range (and makes biking possible) for people who would otherwise need to use another mode of transpor
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by jtheory 13y ago
How much more deeply does it make you sleep? I have small children; I don't want to be difficult to wake.
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by jtheory 13y ago
I don't have personal experience with it; but my sleep schedule is horrible (I tend to stay up to 5am on alternate nights), so I may give it a try to enforce a normal bedtime, and kick the procrastination monster down a bit (if I don&#
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by jtheory 13y ago
LastPass wins based on features (like sharing passwords with a set of employees) and devices/browsers supported, but it seriously lacks good usability & polish. Users in our company aren't keen on it (the word "hate&quot
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by jtheory 13y ago
I should add -- I'm protecting comment forms and sign-up forms, which certainly do get bot spam, but are lower-value targets than forums, etc. where the spammer's content can actually be posted to a wider audience. Protecting foru
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by jtheory 13y ago
Yes, it'd be easy to get around this for a single site. But the people writing bots really do not want to have to tweak their bot for any single site. And most of the people using bots cannot write their own. I've been using
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by jtheory 13y ago
They're easy to find, though -- I'm not a smoker or, uh, e-smoker, but I'm in rural central France, and there's an entire shop that seems to be dedicated to e-cigarettes in the closest major town (population 7K or so). T
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by jtheory 13y ago
From what I've read plus anecdotal evidence (people I know with radically different experiences quitting smoking), there's a large genetic component to how addicted you get, and how easy it is to quit. Unfortunately most people ha
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by jtheory 13y ago
Climate change models must predict future climate-related stats to be falsifiable, and those that don't make accurate predictions must be rejected; that's science. The future continues to arrive, so climate change models continue
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by jtheory 13y ago
There's something heinous about demanding that a group of people think about "the product" in every waking hour. I think I'm mostly objecting to the wording -- "product" is such a lifeless, anodyne word. If I
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by jtheory 13y ago
Is all science required to be "provable" now, then? Most science doesn't really work on proof, unfortunately; it's levels of certainty, not stamping something "proven" and being done with it. It's buildi
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by jtheory 13y ago
Eh, Florida has enough green lawns to water that they're making good progress salinizing their aquifers without any rising tide necessary.
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by jtheory 13y ago
This sounds like not quite the same situation. Much of the description (yours and the GP) is POV, though. I don't know you; maybe your suggestions for improvements were interesting engineering problems but horrible business decisions

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