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by marcusf 14y ago
There's a few things to object to in the plugin (like a comment below I find that removing ads together with asking for donations a very distasteful combo), but honestly, what value does your comment add except trying to put down the author
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by marcusf 14y ago
Rich is of course relative here, but for your argument I assume you mean a middle class person in a stable, western socitety with a couchy job? :) Note that I say that they might be an ethical negative, not that they are intrinsically une
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by marcusf 14y ago
I guess it's a difference in perspectives, because in your lists I definitely see things that help society: - Government provides services. Around here, it's healthcare, schools, universities, infrastructure, defense, a justice system, soci
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by marcusf 14y ago
There's a book on how the marines does management called Corps Business [1], it makes a pretty decent argument for implementing some stuff from the armed forces, eg. adaption, steering by objective, breeding culture etc. It was a while sinc
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by marcusf 14y ago
Might be preemptive then, they're aggressively building out LTE in Sweden (or at least here in Stockholm)
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by marcusf 14y ago
Very amusing :-) I imagine it was designed to and will go viral. Having no insight in to the french election, he seems like a bit of an outsider, though? In general, it's interesting to see campaigns across the globe shifting to a more digi
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by marcusf 14y ago
Yup, seems like the hype took peoples common sense with it out the window. I'd assume and hope that just because there's a mongo api on the client, surely doesn't mean it's the raw socket that's exposed?
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by marcusf 15y ago
I'll gladly concede the point. It was actually more people running noscript than I thought, and for some markets (I'd also wager tech-savy ones) it might very well be a sizable chunk of users.
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by marcusf 15y ago
I think what the poster's implying that a website not working without JS is indicative of an incompetent team, though I might be reading him wrong.
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by marcusf 15y ago
Ok, so presumably somewhere in the vicinity one per mille of total users online. Actually more than I thought, and no doubt an important demographic for some types of sites. I guess the only way to know how relevant it is to cater to noscri
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by marcusf 15y ago
Agreed. Something like a landing page requiring javascript in the first place certainly is bad form. For my comment, I assumed it as a given. I'm not sure how much time I should spend honing my <noscript> tags if my page doesn't wor
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by marcusf 15y ago
Don't get me wrong: I don't disagree with the sentiment, I'm just saying I doubt I'd even put in the effort of redirecting them to a separate page of any kind if I'd decided that my landing pages should be very javascript heavy. My prejudic
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by marcusf 15y ago
Honest question: How large is the noscript population? If I were to chose where to invest my time, catering to the noscript crowd would probably come pretty low on my list of priorities.
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by marcusf 15y ago
First of all, it's of course the Meteor team's prerogative to chose whatever license they want, and wanting attribution and pull requests is in no way an unworthy cause. That said, GPL made me look twice. Mainly because client and server ar
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by marcusf 15y ago
I was about to jump in and chastising you for generalizing about young programmers before I realized it's been 21 years since I wrote my first line of code, and I probably don't count as young anymore... Though let me say that this is where
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by marcusf 15y ago
I doubt the poster meant it as a recursive statement. Rather, if you work in Java you should know how the JVM works, if you work in Javascript you should have a good grasp of how the browser works, etc.
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by marcusf 15y ago
This is exactly why it feels so sexy. I took some courses in sensor fusion at university, and this is a very cool distributed application. Being able to create reliable "Bump-distance" vectors given all the variance with a distributed clock
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by marcusf 15y ago
I was thinking in the case I'm standing next to him and just want to give him the file (I just photographed a whiteboard, for example). There's a ton of different, valid ways to send that file, but this is certainly one.
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by marcusf 15y ago
Yeah, that's true. I thought I wrote that as well but seems I erased it :) From experience, the accuracy on my browser location can be quite low, but I guess if you have (x,y,t) on both devices and a relatively large distance in the vector
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by marcusf 15y ago
This just very cool in a very nerdy sort of way. I kinda wish it was less gimmicky, on the other hand I assume bump uses the time stamps of the shake and the key down to figure out which two devices are trying to talk. I wonder what the thr
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by marcusf 15y ago
I guess he was misled by the URL and title of the document, both of which say Manifesto and not manifest. On a less snarky note (sorry about that), it seems like a good check list for putting together an event I'd like to attend. As someone
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by marcusf 15y ago
Not to pile on with the nitpicking, but for just the cases everybody here is talking about (eg non-crypto hashing) you get to "pick" exactly the hash function. You're forced, actually, to implement hashCode() in Java if you want to be able
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by marcusf 15y ago
I'm not sure what the value of this post is? Would you honestly expect every company or even every demo day to contain a frighteningly ambitious idea? And if they were frighteningly, scarily ambitious, would TC really hype them? The sane re
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by marcusf 15y ago
Sorry, 'months' was ill-chosen. FWIW, it's usually measured in hours where I'm currently at, but I've seen projects where people have spent literally weeks doing inane refactorings and rewrites, or where that has been the dictated norm ("We
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by marcusf 15y ago
Who are 'they'? It might be that teams come from a more rigorous environment with project plans and imposed rules and were never given the chance to experiment with how they create software, or they might come from an environment without an
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by marcusf 15y ago
Then I don't get the hostility displayed in your original comment. Of course it's not a silver bullet, it's a set of tools for managing development together with a philosophy of work. YMMV but we've used several agile ideas (for example ite
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by marcusf 15y ago
There's a lot to take offense to in this article and I wonder if the author has any practical experience with working within agile constraints or if he just picked up a book and didn't like it. For example, "In theory, developers are suppo
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by marcusf 15y ago
Not to be confrontational, but I'd wager that you've never developed in an agile context for any longer period of time?
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by marcusf 15y ago
> Don't rewrite code without consultation. This is linked to a pet peeve of mine, especially with restless, young developers. There's a significant difference between the two statements "I don't get this code, it's crap, let's rewrite i
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by marcusf 15y ago
There's a good quote related to the Curse of Knowledge in a conversation between Daniel Ellsberg and Henry Kissinger as told by Ellsberg: http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsberg-li... .

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