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by mattiask 15y ago
I actually think pair programming cons/benefits is part of a larger pattern that I call "management overhead". The premise is any practice implemented to increase general quality risk being offset by decreased productivity of the top perfor
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by mattiask 15y ago
I can only sympathize, I'm on the end of a 3-year product development cycle myself and it hasn't always been easy. Some tips from my own experience: 1. Focus more on all the positive things that will happen when you succeed than thinking of
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by mattiask 15y ago
Because giving out equity leads you down a path to going public? Not everyone wants to go public if you rather enjoy running your company as you see fit and just having fun doing it.
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by mattiask 15y ago
I have a pet theory that there are what I would say "right-brain coders" and "left-brain coders". Left-brain coders are the typically geeks who love math, engineering, algorithms etc. They can be extremely good at digging down on some parti
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by mattiask 15y ago
From what I gathered Truecrypt provides plausible deniability through hidden volumes that appear to be random data. AFAIK it doesn't allow you to have a partition that when you decrypt with a certain password transforms to alternate content
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by mattiask 15y ago
What you want to do is to have a password that decrypts the content to something innocently looking. If the encryption program has the feature to both "dual encrypt" and do an ordinary encryption it should be hard to prove anything :) Not s
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by mattiask 15y ago
This is why scientists don't get invited to cocktail parties
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by mattiask 15y ago
I've found that it works well even with programming. Braindump code to get things working as quickly as possibly, then refactor mercilessly. Stephen Kings "On Writing" is pretty good read in general and useful not only for fiction but other
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by mattiask 15y ago
For anyone who writes (and these days who doesn't?) I highly recommend the classic "Elements of Style" by William Strunk. If you only read one book about writing this should be it. http://www.bartleby.com/141/ Btw, I think it's more effic
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by mattiask 15y ago
Well, the ball could in theory feel how much pressure you excert on it and where, and provide haptic feedback. In a super advanced scenarion perhaps the ball could provide feedback by varying it's firmness. Guess it depends on how advanced
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by mattiask 15y ago
Well, it wouldn't be a solid ball since it would have to be able to be squeezed so if dropped it atleast shouldn't roll away, and contrary to most smartphones it would actually be able to handle being dropped quite well. Rings/camera/gestur
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by mattiask 15y ago
Oki doki, so given plausible future technology let's try to brainstorm a solution that addresses the issue of tactility in interaction, I give you the ... drumroll KinBall (Kinectic ball). The Kinball would essentially be a wireless ba
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by mattiask 15y ago
Hi, I've been where you've been. From early programmerhood I've lived on a steady diet on coca-cola, pizza, crisps and other fast food. It was by no means an extreme diet and probably more healthy than an "all-in programmers diet" Even tho
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by mattiask 15y ago
In my opinion taglines are a bit overrated. It seems like something you "have" to be like the big boys and brand yourself properly. The problem is that taglines tend say very little, "Love what you do" is a great motto to live by but does
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by mattiask 15y ago
Am I the only one freaked out by this passage? Wasn't this like the opening scene from the "The Mumy"? "The panel managed to open the sixth vault but found an iron wall inside it, reports the BBC. The sixth vault has a snake on the front do
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by mattiask 15y ago
It sounds like a good technique if you have trouble focusing and feel unmotivated. However it feels like a lousy technique if you are :) When you're in flow-mode you don't want to have some stupid clock disturb your concentration every 25
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by mattiask 15y ago
I was wondering something similar but for countries. Say that I work for my own company developing iphone apps or something like that. Now I like to travel around so I go to the US and work from there, could it be problematic?
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by mattiask 15y ago
You know being an introvert or extrovert isn't a binary thing but rather a spectrum. If you want to find out how you are on that scale you can get do a Myers-Briggs personality test to get a rough estimate. I'm squarely in the middle myself
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The Jekyll & Hyde strategy(hackthyself.com)
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by mattiask 16y ago
also known as "No Ping"
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by mattiask 16y ago
I think one of the big issues that needs to be tackled for the next generation of languages is inherent support for concurrency and orchestration of concurrency. Typically multithreading is something you have to explicit program into your s
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by mattiask 16y ago
Being bored is certainly a big reason for procrastination, when you know exactly what needs to be done and it's just a matter of putting keystrokes to the keyboard I tend not to be terribly motivated (a trick for these cases is to trick you
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by mattiask 16y ago
Opera pretty much has this with it's new tab stacks. I think Firefox panorama is a bit of a misconceived concept where they've gone more for what's "cool" than practical. The idea with panorama is that the browser is like your desktop and g
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by mattiask 16y ago
Of all the ways for humanity to go out, that would be one of the cooler, not with a whimper but with bang! :)
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by mattiask 16y ago
I hope "exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood" doesn't mean "big astereoid coming our way" ;)
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by mattiask 16y ago
To code quickly you should just code quickly. To code difficult stuff lying on the sofa or talking a walk is an excellent way to "meditate" on a solution. If you think through a problem that way the ensuing coding will be quicker and bette
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by mattiask 16y ago
I don't agree with one the points and I think at least one important is omitted. You don't need to know any scripting language and while Ruby, Python etc is popular in the LAMP camp .Net (and possibly Java) and probably a dussin other compi
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by mattiask 16y ago
Browsers are going mainsteam and it spells bad news for the browser vendors and good news for the users. All browers nowadays pretty much look the same, have the same performance and try desperately to distinguish themselves with surroundin
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by mattiask 16y ago
The release early and release often is an often repeated mantra, the problem is that it's only about half true and mostly misunderstood. The reason for releasing early is often stated as that the user feedback will guide your product and de
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by mattiask 16y ago
What is the purpose? If you do it on twitter you lose lot's of stuff that makes stackoverflow good: reputation, voting, a competent userbase etc. What you want probably is a notification when someone anwers a question. If email isnt' fast e

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