laconian

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1. 181.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   Keep up the heat. Don't back down, guys!
2. 182.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   NOnononononono. If it "works" superficially it will be considered good enough by management. High fives all around, the checklist is ticked off, and everybody moves on -- except for the poor developers have to maintain the mess. Nimbleness
3. 183.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   Cook very large quantities of food so you can have leftovers later == shaky analogy for code reuse?
4. 184.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   That article specifically says "Believe it or not, in China at least, demolition via rooftop excavator is the safer, cleaner, and above all cheaper option." But yeah, that looks crazy .
5. 185.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   It'd be second class in terms of performance. Native code execution speed is one of iOS device's strongest selling points vs. Android, which has a few GC hiccups here and there. Apple is probably more inclined to push the tool that yields t
6. 186.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   All emotion and no logic in that post. MG, enjoy your slide into irrelevancy. The torrent of negative rhetoric will only get you so far in journalism. Eh, who am I kidding? It's made Rupert Murdoch rich!
7. 187.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   A lot has changed over the past month: http://www.fastcompany.com/1800727/former-bing-product-lead-...
8. 188.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   Personalization is just organizing on a per-user basis.
9. 189.▲
   by laconian 15y ago

   I'm no slumlord, but the fact that people can do this analysis with public data does spook me more than a little. Still, that's good detectivework and a great outcome!
10. 190.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Google doesn't ask these questions! It's a fiction that is probably perpetuated because the topic is SEO linkbait. Again: Google doesn't ask these questions!
11. 191.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Could this article be considered a quine? It both describes fanboyism and IS fanboysim at the same time!
12. 192.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Jobs: Look at this mouse. It's the most wonderful mouse you've ever used.
13. 193.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Apple is too bound by its notions of beauty and ID to produce a truly effective ergonomic keyboard. Ergonomic keyboards are nasty monsters because ergonomic correctness doesn't necessarily translate into aesthetically pleasing right angles
14. 194.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Awful. This could destroy a company's hiring pipeline. The cost of retaliation by a spurned candidate are HUGE. All it takes is a few tweets or blog post about how company X is going to blow your cover during your job hunt, and all the cand
15. 195.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    This is an eminently solvable problem. There are excellent open source IDEs and toolchains available that can be repackaged in any way, shape, or form. Double click an installer, and boom - everything's set up. Barrier to entry is a moot po
16. 196.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    I'm a fairly experienced programmer and JS still drives me up the wall. The implicit casting and inconsistent operator overloads have led to many unhappy visits to Stack Overflow to see just WTF my browser is doing. I can't imagine the expe
17. 197.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Said outlaw software would be considered utterly radioactive by any corporation. It wouldn't get legs, especially when there are so many free alternatives that are unburdened by their illegal provenance.
18. 198.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Not the case with the G+ Android application: instant photo upload, background polling, offline content caching, video Hangouts. It's certainly not a browser page facade.
19. 199.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    If you're on Android, then why not use the Android app?
20. 200.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    That Circle Volume feature is a great, nonobvious idea.
21. 201.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    The OpenID identifier can act as a relational key across services.
22. 202.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Laypeople do it all the time.
23. 203.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    This shit makes me want to be put into stasis. Wake me up when sanity returns to this world.
24. 204.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    I honestly don't understand the argument. The post-Infoseek apocalypse: why search when you can visit slashdot.org directly, and use Quake 2 instead of searching for first person shooters?
25. 205.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    But, I don't use the languages those cool kids are using. :) I imagine I would have to formulate a very defensive strategy to deal with breaking changes that would gobble up my productivity gains from using said cool language, just like the
26. 206.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    For a hack, maybe. Fighting your toolchain is an upfront penalty. Once things start moving smoothly, they tend to continue to work smoothly. And that's a problem that can be solved by further development of the toolchain. Poor aesthetics/re
27. 207.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    How cool is this? I bet Touchpad buyers feel even better about that firesale buy. If XBMC is any indication, nothing can reanimate old hardware like dedicated OSS nerds.
28. 208.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    I create $0.00 of value for the company, because I'm building and not selling my product. (rolls eyes)
29. 209.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    Or perhaps he considers it to be the lesser enemy of his mortal enemy?
30. 210.▲
    by laconian 15y ago

    CNet's reviews are also worthless too. So little content, so many skeletal SEO keyword pages.