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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
Huh? I thought it was just the opposite- the site had "missing plugin" icons all over the place. My feeling was that Jobs did this very much on purpose, so that the Times would think about dumping Flash. http://garmhold.blogspot.com/2010
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Apple's iPad: One Ring to Rule Them All?(garmhold.blogspot.com)
4 points by kaffeinecoma 17y ago|0 comments
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
... "the director of graduate admissions, a software engineer, told me he had burned some political capital to get me admitted despite my crappy GPA, that he had a lot riding on my success, that he'd gambled on me because of my work experie
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
"Branching in code"? I'd be curious to know what is the average half-life of a developer there. How long until they throw their arms up and say "no more monkey-patching... I'm outta here!"
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
I'm kind of curious how this would be practical, from a maintenance viewpoint. Would you then adopt the program's output back as your new "source"? Is the output readable, maintainable? If you end up keeping your original source, and mere
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
Hear, hear.
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
Hey ajaimk, I'd love to get a copy of the contract (with personal details redacted, of course). Could you send it to me at kaffeinecoma@gmail.com ? Thanks.
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
No, a Kernel Panic would result in a crash. All modern computer fans are under software (BIOS/firmware) control. I also tried re-installing the OS to no good effect. The machine was totally functional, except for the fact that it was mis
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
"DOA" was Apple's term when I called in both machines (I'm the author of the blog.) I think they intend it to mean that the machine arrived "flawed", rather than developed a problem at some point post-delivery.
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Apple Fails at Customer Service(garmhold.blogspot.com)
33 points by kaffeinecoma 17y ago|29 comments
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
I copy/pasted it in because the site was overwhelmed, and people were having a hard time getting to the content. Why was this bad? (Really, I don't understand what the problem is.)
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
If this gets popular, you could hire a few helpers to handle the printing/mailing. The job ad could go something like "Work from home. Get paid to stuff envelopes!" :-)
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
If they're not using an IDE, then they've not yet worked on large projects. Either that or they're doing themselves a serious disservice. This from a hardcore Emacs-and-shell guy until fairly recently...
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
Nor is GWT, unfortunately. Then again, it's only $600 to get these features vs over a grand previously.
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
I definitely hear you about momentum. That's why the open-source move excites me. IDEA always just seems to be much better at navigating and "connecting" parts of a complicated codebase. For example, in GWT, I can command-click (this is o
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
IntelliJ IDEA Open Sourced October 15th, 2009 by Egor Malyshev I believe you’ll like this announcement — IntelliJ IDEA has just gone open-source! Check out the press release as well as the new jetbrains.org community site for the details. W
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
Site seems overloaded. Mirror, anyone? This is awesome news... I was hoping for something like this now for quite a while. IntelliJ is just so much better than Eclipse (this from a paying customer now for about 3 years.)
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
I managed to "fool" myself that my own app was faster by adding a snappier animated gif. Perception really is everything. http://garmhold.blogspot.com/2009/09/make-your-ajax-apps-see...
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by kaffeinecoma 17y ago
I'd say about 20-30 years away: http://markii.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/kurzweils-singularity...