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by kondro 16y ago
I don't see why not. It isn't rocket surgery. I say, if you employ smart staff, they can learn new things and smart staff always provide more value than cheap staff.
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by kondro 16y ago
I do apologize however, they don't move any faster. Has SIP even been ratified yet? :-p
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by kondro 16y ago
I'm glad I work in a world where the performance overhead of decimal (both SQL and Ruby's BigDecimal) isn't too high. I still remember when every Rails-based example with an invoice in it stored dollar amounts in the DB as floats. Ahh bless
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by kondro 16y ago
Wow. Didn't expect that. Didn't they just do some more capital raising themselves?
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by kondro 16y ago
Do you really think that developers spend their 40 hours (or whatever allocated time they have) steeped over a monitor writing code?? People need variety, and sometimes a walk across an office is a welcome break to a particularly annoying p
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by kondro 16y ago
I'm sure they would have, but probably not for stuff like this. If you want another one, go get it yourself. If you want to send a fax, go send it yourself. If you want a book, get off your lazy ass and get it. The trouble with giving "impo
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by kondro 16y ago
Yes, itvis, but I think the title is a good starting point for a discussion on the point(lessness) of 8 hour work days, 8.30 am starts and 5 day weeks.
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by kondro 16y ago
Looks pretty good to me. A step in the right direction. I guess they are trying to convince the popular content providers that instead of them scraping their data all the time to provide subscription-style services to their users, they shou
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by kondro 16y ago
For WebSockets? Maybe there isn't. It's not really the browsers fault necessarily, W3C takes many, many years to ratify standards so they go ahead an implement things themselves causing incompatibilities and, in the case of WebSockets, for
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by kondro 16y ago
I think the WebSockets movement just died a little. It's already hard enough to write modern web-apps that work across a multitude of browsers either replicating features with crappy techniques in the older ones or being given the capabilit
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by kondro 16y ago
Seems like a reasonably good product. The biggest issue still remains that you need to get your data into it and, because it is designed to handle really big datasets, that data could be terabytes or more. Another example of an interesting
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by kondro 16y ago
Oh, that's the other core tenant that normal office workers need to be taught. Source/version control. The amount of issues I've had with exchanging and modifying Excel/Word documents via email with groups of people is uncountable. Some bas
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by kondro 16y ago
As a software engineer, I disagree. I think more people should spend more effort learning how to write software. Every day I see people doing jobs that would be better completed by automated systems, or human-assisted automated systems. If
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by kondro 16y ago
I guess the trick is to make sure your servers are close to the database... like running on force.com ;-) I guess for most sites, users won't really notice a few hundred milliseconds. I mean, most websites take many seconds to load when you
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by kondro 16y ago
Looks really promising but, does $10/100,000 records and $10/150,000 transactions seem high to anyone else? On the plus side, it is meant to work really well with Ruby's ActiveRecord library. I need to try it out :-)
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by kondro 16y ago
Isn't money the reason most of us start businesses? The road of an entrepreneur is a long and difficult one and, unless you already drive a Porsche, surely money (or freedom, which is usually bought by money) is a primary motivating factor?
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by kondro 16y ago
The RESTfulness of an API is of very low concern on how I choose a service to use and the quality of the service is paramount. If the API lets me get things done and/or provides an abstraction library in my language of choice so I never hav
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by kondro 16y ago
Everyone here seems to be so much smarter than me at this math stuff. I think I'll stick to writing accounting software.
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by kondro 16y ago
Important to being a great developer. Languages and tools are interchangeable. It's the basics - the ability to problem solve, learn and adapt to new environments that are truly important and timeless. Sure, being exposed to a new set of la
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by kondro 16y ago
Smart people can move between languages easily. It's concepts, understanding of problems and patterns that are important. I will continue to choose languages that I enjoy and will continue to recruit people who also enjoy the challenge of l
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Spirit Fingers(d-flat.dylanlacey.com)
1 points by kondro 16y ago|0 comments
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by kondro 16y ago
Probably the most highly used piece of software to come out of Australia. Just in front of Samba and Rsync :-)
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by kondro 16y ago
The biggest problem will be the lack of knowledge of Apple products and software from the perspective of he IT department. They can't manage and secure something they don't know how to use. If you're the only person in the company with a Ma
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by kondro 16y ago
Even hiring more staff just before launch doesn't really solve this problem. If you've got good code and tested the product well the quantity of emergencies at launch should be quite low as unless you are launching a new product to a lot of
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by kondro 16y ago
I really like CampaignMonitor and their reseller options are great.
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by kondro 16y ago
A friend of mine applied for a position at RTM but the staff didn't even respond to the application. They didn't even respond to the follow-up email asking if they received the application. You might be hiring, but you don't seem to be doin
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by kondro 16y ago
This is one instance where I would've thought lowering the price to somewhere around the cost of an expensive textbook ($200-$300) would dramatically increase their sales. From the looks of things, they've only sold 200 copies. There must b
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by kondro 16y ago
Irrelevant. They aren't even similar products, similarly priced, or in similar markets.
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Professor Scrum Von Agile and his Dancing Index Cards(d-flat.dylanlacey.com)
1 points by kondro 16y ago|0 comments