mattiask

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by mattiask 16y ago
Well, there's two sides to that coin. By having the client pay hourly you put the "risk" of the project on his shoulders, but you also limit yourself to earning only a hourly rate. Why is that bad? An experienced programmer might accompli
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by mattiask 16y ago
I've recently started working with Lucene.net, It's immensly useful but I can understand why they're in trouble. It's not exactly easy to get started, downloading the current branch, get an overview of the state of the project etc etc. I th
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by mattiask 16y ago
"Stand back, I know Physics!"
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by mattiask 16y ago
I'm a little worried about point 3. I've done a fair amount of WPF (of which silverlight is a subset) programming on the desktop and while you can achieve pretty smooth animations they still arent as fluid as the ones we're seeing in iOS a
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by mattiask 16y ago
It's also doesn't support things like positioning except when the app is actually open and on screen so you can't have jogging tracker for instance since it would stop tracking when it locks, which is pretty stupid. I've no doubt though tha
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by mattiask 16y ago
This is mainly my personal view and experience although I've done some research on the subject. Regarding "skill" genius: of course you can get extremely good at anything by practice, but getting into that very last percentile seems to dem
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by mattiask 16y ago
There's different kinds of genius I think. You have "skill" genius where someone can play the piano, chess etc extremely well. You also have "creative" genius which is people like Einstein who makes creative new leaps. The first kind of ge
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by mattiask 16y ago
A WPF application desktop search engine/launcher. A little like Quicksilver/Ubiquity but with a new kind of interface and scope.
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by mattiask 16y ago
The problem with Microsoft and leadership is the same as in every big company. To truly do something different and innovative you need a benevolent dictator that can put down their feet and say "I don't care what you think, we're doing this
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by mattiask 16y ago
I've myself been doing an awful lot of multi-core programming recently so I can appreciate the effort that goes into building these kinds of systems/applications/games. One things for sure, asynchronous and multicore programming is the big
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by mattiask 16y ago
I'm exactly in this position myself. I'm 80%-90% done with a product but there's the last things that needs to be finished before I can launch, like configuration, setup procedures, small details etc. I find it extremely hard to finish it.