lighthawk

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by lighthawk 11y ago
"...for whatever reason" is the part that got me.
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> those couple of software engineers would have to have a major say over the entire engine design. I call bullshit. I agree. Developers wouldn't take that amount of corporate risk on for such a hack without having significant backin
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by lighthawk 11y ago
Interesting data, but it seems like the CRA could use some data visualization help. Instead of a rich gradient of color to indicate percent, it chooses a small subset of shades (and texture). I know- this is common, but since many percentag
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by lighthawk 11y ago
He describes elegance as: "the ability of a programmer to easily understand the program's flow and state coordination, being completely familiar with the tools used but completely unfamiliar with the codebase." You're ri
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> Lync... "just works" Those are two things that I would never say together. Lync is great if you are all on Windows within the same building or campus perhaps, but the video quality is horrible compared to Google Hangout or (c
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by lighthawk 11y ago
Meh... some alien civilization probably used it all on irrigation by now.
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> You can be dead serious without being awful. And I agree. That is why I wrote: "That said, you can allow people to be asses and still not allow sexist, racist, etc. remarks." I live with women and girls and respect the hell o
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by lighthawk 11y ago
Not true. Quote from the post: "I did not want to work professionally with people who were allowed to get away with subtle sexist or homophobic jokes." My 2p: I think sexism, racism, etc. is wrong. I think we all need to be more c
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by lighthawk 11y ago
That's not what I was saying. I was saying that government shouldn't impose so much red tape that small companies need a committee assigned to help them, when it is not known whether that committee will necessarily get them throug
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> For the first time in a trade agreement there are provisions to help small businesses without the resources of big corporations to deal with trade barriers and red tape. A committee would be created to assist smaller companies. That&#x
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by lighthawk 11y ago
Yes, but if they enforce that, they might fire you but they won't be able to take your IP away. Not if they exclude the IP you produce for other companies as part of the IP agreement.
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by lighthawk 11y ago
I thought that the way you solve this in the states is by setting up an LLC and copyrighting under your LLC all of the code you write during hours you are not working for the other company. Doesn't that provide adequate additional prot
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> or much of the web I know and love will cease to exist I get what you are saying, but I don't buy it. Much of the web is noise and regurgitation. The reason that publications have started to churn out poorly thought out crap is th
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by lighthawk 11y ago
I agree that this shouldn't be a surprise. What I'm more interested in is whether the medication used to treat ADD/ADHD could have an adverse health effect that would reduce lifespan, i.e. if they ignore accidental deaths com
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by lighthawk 11y ago
I think you and I have different idea of what API docs are. I think that good documentation for usage is a great idea, but not all projects need formal API docs, because not all of them intend for the classes in their project to be used as
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by lighthawk 11y ago
When I say "most people suggest Apache", I mean that for as long as I have been contributing to and developing with various open-source projects most people that I have talked with about licensing open-source or free software proj
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by lighthawk 11y ago
It depends on how you integrate the code into your product. Please read up on the licenses to understand how they are different.
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by lighthawk 11y ago
It depends on your definition. API is application programming interface, which means that if your product doesn't intend for it's internals to be called or it is a DSL, etc. you don't necessarily need to have formal API docs-
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by lighthawk 11y ago
Though it would be great if you could, don't use blackduck as the measuring stick. (Used to be Ohloh now) Blackduck is not a full view into the current state of open source and free software. I gave up on trying to keep my projects upd
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by lighthawk 11y ago
"1. People Before Code" Agreed, but if you are the only user, serve yourself first on the project. If you determine that you can't serve yourself and others at the same time, it might be a bad road you are going down. "2
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Settings in iOS 9: Every notable change you need to know(macworld.com)
1 points by lighthawk 11y ago|0 comments
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by lighthawk 11y ago
David Hume pretty much ruined my life in college. I was totally bought in, but it is not a helpful mindview. When you let go like that, you aren't real anymore. There is benefit to real ideals, real things that exist outside of our sen
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> software gets built by itself if you have the right ideas And for those that read everything in the literal sense: this is a joke because of the /s. I've seen some really scary situations that started with throwing things ove
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Cortana lets Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella down during live presentation(independent.ie)
4 points by lighthawk 11y ago|1 comments
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by lighthawk 11y ago
You don't have to pay for it, btw. There are sites you can post to in order to attract people that will just like/follow your stuff for free. It doesn't take much searching to find them. You won't get the same numbers, b
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> Git isn't so awesome that it's inconceivable that people would be willing to use something else. Inconceivable? No, I just asked why. Git to me is a great solution for source control, so I want to understand it's deficie
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Massive passwords can bypass Android lock screen(thehindu.com)
2 points by lighthawk 11y ago|2 comments
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by lighthawk 11y ago
"The two internet giants (Google and Facebook) are working on an open source version control system that anyone can use to juggle code on a massive scale. It’s based on an existing system called Mercurial. “We’re attempting to see if w
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Apple's 16GB iPhone 6S is a serious strategic mistake(vox.com)
7 points by lighthawk 11y ago|6 comments
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by lighthawk 11y ago
“People who implement new and improved interfaces always seem to get that wrong.” Linus is completely right on this. I have seen this over and over again where developers, creative and problem solving as they are, attack things with their l

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