mhomde

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by mhomde 12y ago
Yeah I agree, having to keep in mind what you put into Item1, Item2, Item3 etc really isn't programmer friendly
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by mhomde 12y ago
I don't know, dont' get me wrong these are all nice features but it's nothing that I think will drastically change or improve the way I code (like for instance LINQ or generics did). With the possible exception of null tracki
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by mhomde 12y ago
Couldn't you have a kickstarter where you only get part of a lump sum in the beginning for investments, and then minimum-wage for each employee each month? Keep the start-up lean and hungry and perhaps intrinsically motivated. I guess
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by mhomde 12y ago
Or just supress it, for some methods you might want to return a null value/"null object"/bool rather than have an exception cascade up the chain and risk crashing the application. I think Exceptions are a bit problemati
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by mhomde 12y ago
A novice doesn't know what tools he need. An expert has mastered the tools he has been given. A master starts thinking about the tools he COULD have :)
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by mhomde 12y ago
That was the point, they didn't want to idolize Snowden and even made some pretty hard accusations about him being responsible for inadvertent repercussions That made the rest of the interview more believable and trustworthy. Fair, bal
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by mhomde 12y ago
It would be ironic if the author overestimates his interpretation of the Dunning-Kruger study...
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by mhomde 12y ago
That you no longer can sort by popularity AFAIK any longer is mindboggling, although even before you had to know about the "spotify:search: syntax. Seems like a very common scenario they don't support any longer, for technical rea
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by mhomde 12y ago
You can't reach goals you never set. That's how we went to the moon.
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by mhomde 12y ago
There's an interesting interview with Alan Cooper about the subject up on Channel 9 (and a lot of other stuff, Alan pulls no punches :). I did find it odd that "Ruby" (what became VB) was suppose to be the "shell for wi
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by mhomde 12y ago
Yeah, there's certainly something rotten with Microsoft's App Store. I'd hazard a guess that most of it is outsourced to India and there's some internal bureaucracy putting it outside of purview of the people who could f
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by mhomde 12y ago
You know the world is going crazy when Google is evil, Apple is doing tacky devices and Microsoft makes the best browser
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by mhomde 12y ago
Only if they strategically wanted to market Meerkat :) I had never heard of it before and doubt I would have if it wasn't for this debacle
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by mhomde 12y ago
Yes, I would agree. Material is clearly designed to brand apps as "Google apps" not necessarily provide the best UX possible. To be fair though there are some more subtle accents, like Gray and Blue Gray than can be used
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by mhomde 12y ago
"A Pattern language" is such a great book, its' a shame its kinda forgotten by many these days. Whenever I talk to an architect I ask them if they've read it and I've yet to get a "yes". Anyways, highly r
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by mhomde 12y ago
One approach I took in a recent project was keeping the documentation in documentation folders under each project, using markdown. It was good because documentation was tied to the source control and easy to locate and read when you were wo
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by mhomde 12y ago
I was curious about what I read in Blink so I looked it up and it seems to be a bit of the usual Gladwell hyperbole even if it was based in some kind of studies. Needless to say marriages probably can't be simplified that much but it s
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by mhomde 12y ago
That's very true! I've found that the key to having a constructive argument is always doing your best not to hurt their ego, assign blame or back them into a corner where they'll lose face (always leave an out). Otherwise the
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by mhomde 12y ago
I wouldn't say that those things are "mostly" subjective, that sounds like a defensive argument. I'm pretty sure there are good objective metrics both for readability and maintainability, they might not be the only aspec
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by mhomde 12y ago
"Are you out of your mind???" ;) But in all seriousness, projecting issues as character flaws is a really destructive thing to do, not just in programming but in any relationship. It's a really good habit to avoid it whenever
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by mhomde 12y ago
I think you can... but it's really hard to design an architecture that's both powerful and easy to use. It's important to have different layers of abstraction and allow developers to develop at the level of abstraction neede
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by mhomde 12y ago
Haven't people actually been giving UP their US citizenship because they tax their citizens wherever they live?
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by mhomde 12y ago
I wouldn't say that's true (unless things have changed since I played). There are some decks that are dependent on many rare and expensive cards... but its also possible to build killer decks on common/uncommon cards with per
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by mhomde 12y ago
But but... only n00bs black with white border cards ;)
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by mhomde 12y ago
ah the dreaded "Power Nine" :) I think the most infuriating thing about MtG was the obsolation of whole sets, I get that's its' smart business from WoT and there are some tournament forms where you can use different sets
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by mhomde 12y ago
and that is still better than being dead :)
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by mhomde 12y ago
Man, first Nimoy and now this... I hate being the age when all your childhood heroes starts dying off one by one :(
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by mhomde 12y ago
Might be a good idea to make a folder and a filter for Apple mail :)
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by mhomde 12y ago
An author can give a book to different people for proofreading, copyediting, and substantive line Editing. Some of the "voice" of the author might indeed be lost just because good copy editing normally is about 20% of a draft , bu
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by mhomde 12y ago
yes maximum entropy = high information density. When you compress a file it usually leds to higher entropy. I agree that being terse in itself isn't the primarily goal, that's why I said "while being" ie has to reac

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