kemiller

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by kemiller 15y ago
I disagree. Pulling access to something you've come to depend on (especially, derive your livelihood from) is worse than never fostering that dependence in the first place.
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by kemiller 15y ago
According to a screenshot the Macworld Hands-on ( http://www.macworld.com/article/165407/2012/02/hands_on_with... ) you can whitelist individual apps on the fly.
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by kemiller 15y ago
Dare I suggest it - part of the problem here is the minimum wage. I'm pretty ambivalent about even writing that, but before you downvote me, think about it. The only way it makes sense to hire a human is if you expect to make more money f
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by kemiller 15y ago
I'm not sure what he's talking about wrt density of startups in NYC versus SF/SV. San Francisco is positively bursting with startups.
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by kemiller 15y ago
Certainly they are not. But you have more deployment options, and while 15 miles of phone line run to a single customer benefits only the customer (and, I suppose, everyone else who might want to reach them) a single cell tower has potenti
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by kemiller 15y ago
You can sell just part of your holdings when you have 100 * $1.
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by kemiller 15y ago
Not necessarily. Paying dividends forces everyone to "sell" whether they want to or not, and the only way to stay on the ride is to accept the taxes you have to pay and then buy back in. When the company reinvests (and/or buys back stock)
578.
by kemiller 15y ago
This conversation goes rather differently in the age of the mobile phone.
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by kemiller 15y ago
You'd think this would be a great use for a custom gesture. Actually, having various gestures available as mappable objects would be pretty cool...
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by kemiller 15y ago
Pluggable modules would be fine. But surely rewriting marshaling code is a relatively small part of swapping out your application code... And what if you can't or don't want to work with the particular flavor of XML it generates? JSON is
581.
by kemiller 15y ago
My first reaction to this is - "Ugh. Haven't we been down this road with XML?" I don't want the format du jour baked into my datastore. Now, if it had a field that stored some sort of abstract lists-and-hashes structure (sort of redis-in
582.
by kemiller 15y ago
Typical swimsuit doesn't cover the arms or legs, does it?
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by kemiller 15y ago
All over the place. They have deliberately avoided establishing tax nexus in almost every major metro area. California orders all ship from Nevada, for example. Seattle is the exception, for obvious reasons.
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by kemiller 15y ago
I think the "dabbling" phase of learning a language is important, and this is the best intro for Haskell dabblers I've ever seen. Nice work, author.
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by kemiller 15y ago
I would contest the assertion that emacs is powerful enough to emulate vi. Every attempt I've seen so far has been a superficial effort that enables some keystrokes but doesn't really get at the heart of what makes vi(m) what it is. I was
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by kemiller 15y ago
Question I've always had that you might be able to answer: how do you know how much sap you can take? Is there some point at which you're doing damage to the tree?
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by kemiller 15y ago
I completely agree, but passion isn't the only way to experience joy in your work, and obsession isn't the only way to express passion.
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by kemiller 15y ago
This seems like the perspective of someone without spouse and kids. Which is fine, and I don't even disagree. But there are people for whom (and phases of life in which) a steady pace is not a bad thing at all, and not necessarily indicat
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by kemiller 15y ago
For those of us chained down by mortgage: how about job listings within n minutes of my house?
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by kemiller 15y ago
nvi -> emacs -> vim -> eclipse -> vim/macvim
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by kemiller 15y ago
There are some theoretical computer scientists and FP geeks who haven't made the leap yet. ;)
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by kemiller 15y ago
Really? When you're not limited to a few out at a time, and when they don't have to be physically delivered to you at a cost of 1-3 days, does the queue per se really matter so much anymore? I can see a lot of different ways to represent
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by kemiller 15y ago
Those task are not just things that could be called "managing" they ARE managing. I think it's funny that programmers think of managing as this horrid thing outside their realm, but really, it's just the skill of working with others and ex
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by kemiller 15y ago
I'm not sure what that's in response to.
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by kemiller 15y ago
I read pud's comments as essentially the same thing: he has better things to worry about. However. A lot of the leeway in technology choice you might have as a lone-wolf entrepreneur fly out the window once you grow beyond that. If you ha
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by kemiller 15y ago
I guarantee that if you like what Plano represents, you'll hate what Portland represents, and that the feeling is mutual. But you'd probably like Lake Oswego or Beaverton. I'm surprised you like Seattle, for that matter, unless you're act
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by kemiller 15y ago
As far as I understand it, it's not a design patent, it's a trade dress complaint.
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by kemiller 15y ago
None of them were successful , and I don't mean business-wise. They existed as niche applications at best. I'm not claiming Apple invented tablets. What you've linked looks really nothing like the iPad, except insofar as it's a screen wi
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by kemiller 15y ago
I don't see this mentioned anywhere, but one very important difference between programmers and the other professions is that doctors and lawyers have not only a high bar to entry, but a legal monopoly. There is outsourcing of legal review
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by kemiller 15y ago
A rectangle may be a rectangle, but the fact is that no one actually made a working and workable device in this form factor before Apple. If 2001 and Star Trek are prior art, then where were the hordes of copycats before 2010?

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