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by mkozlows 11y ago
Which is great, for projects where that kind of upfront waterfall design is sensible. That's not most projects.
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1. I know many people who've had significant salary increases into their 40s, at least. 2. Management is not automatically higher-paying than development, until you get into the higher reaches of management, which not everyone will. 3.
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The biggest card this article palms is by starting out talking about tech companies, and then switching into a survey that's not primarily about tech companies: "A survey last year of 5,000 such workers at both tech and non-tech f
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A look at the PaaS landscape that doesn't mention AWS (Elastic Beanstalk) or Azure is a very weird look. Why is it getting harder for randos to succeed in PaaS? Because they're competing with Amazon and Microsoft, and that's
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This has nothing to do with operating systems, and everything to do with hardware makers. If you design hardware for a particular OS, it will work very well with that OS and poorly with anything else. So for instance: Every Chromebook out t
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Look, Go might be gaining in popularity, but there's just no way it could compete with behemoths like Apex, Ladder Logic, and ABAP.
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Delphi/ObjectPascal above both Swift AND ObjC? Sure, that makes sense. If it's 1997.
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This sounds a lot like the argument for XHTML 2.0.
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The Kickstarter was in 2012. They've been putting out developer kits for years and years. There's no sensible way they could just go for another few years without releasing something.
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There is no expectation from anyone that the Rift is nausea-free.
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So part of what I'm saying is that 1 & 2 cancel themselves out. The people who would drop $1500 ($1K computer plus maybe $500 VR headset) on a first-gen thing are more likely to be the early-adopter types who are less interested in
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I've played with a DK2. It was cool. But reasons not to be super-excited are: 1. Hardware requirements are steep (GTX 970 minimum), so plenty of hardware -- including plenty of hardware that's good for high-end gaming today -- won
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It uses an elastic strap around your head, and flexible rubber surrounds for the eyepiece. It should fit just about any head.
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Evidence suggests not -- they still finance it, and the difference between $27/month (for a $650 phone) and $18/month (for a $450 phone) is one that most people would wave off.
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You need to quit saying "a metropolitan area" when you mean "Silicon Valley and a few places that have satellite offices for companies based in Silicon Valley," is the thing. Show me the companies in Columbus, OH that pa
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The Pixel "line" has consisted of one device: The Chromebook Pixel, which has had two revisions, the most recent just earlier this year.
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Yes, Vista still exists -- but it's not much of the market, because it only existed for a short while before Win7 replaced it, and it never got much corporate adoption (where people hold onto legacy IE forever). Unsupported XP is, in p
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Everyone using a browser that doesn't get security patches is basically a walking malware farm. Not supporting them with your site and pushing them to upgrade is the moral high ground.
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This is what you want to happen. The alternative is, you shrinkwrap everything and lock it down, and your dependencies never change. Except that now it's been a year, and you want to update your dependencies, and it's this huge ju
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async/await is built on generators and promises.
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The Chromecast experience varies depending on your phone, to some extent. If you have a memory-limited device that pages out the app controlling the casting stream, the experience is going to be awkward and unpleasant. But if the app stays
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by mkozlows 11y ago
I think it's very clear from this post that they do plan to combine them -- but that the goal is to make a combined technical base featuring the best of ChromeOS and Android (which makes sense), not to kill ChromeOS and replace it with
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Lotus Notes is a fine example of what we're talking about. Yes, companies use it, but no company is ever going to switch to Notes. The companies that use Notes in 2020 is going to be the ones that use it in 2015 minus the ones that qui
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by mkozlows 11y ago
So the thing is, yes, that's true. Lots of companies can get by with Cisco/Dell/EMC stuff and don't need the ultra-high-end datacenters of Amazon/Google. And if Cisco/Dell/EMC stuff was bargain-priced and
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This isn't an argument against them being the "walking dead." If nobody was using them anymore, they'd just be the dead-dead. The "walking" part comes from their existing support base propping them up. "Or
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Facebook and Google and Amazon do not use Cisco networking equipment, nor do they use Dell servers: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/facebooks-new-data-center-bad-n... That's basically the point of the article: T
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So two things: 1. Cloud providers are making it easy for legacy businesses to take baby steps. You don't have to use a NoSQL solution with AWS Dynamo, you can use Postgres with RDS. Or if you're hyper-conservative/stuck with
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There's nothing spartan about it. Vim has tons of plugins. Using it as a Javascript editor, I've got syntax highlighting, git integration, linting, code completion, and more.
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Leaving the Edge news aside, that article starts off by defining event listeners as callbacks, which is awfully weird.
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Yeah, I suspect that was a big part of their thought here -- USB-C charging is very fast, and whatever marginal convenience win you get from wireless charging would almost certainly be overshadowed by the speed of wired charging.

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