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by mrj 15y ago
Absolutely. They'll never be able to experiment with a platform that Visual Studio doesn't support. Or with the many fine languages that don't have a fancy IDE. They will artificially limit their career and opportunities based on a tool.
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by mrj 15y ago
In C with it's lack of exceptions, goto can be used to jump unconditionally to cleanup code before exiting a function. This is far cleaner than every branch and loop following a call needing explicit instructions to check for error status
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by mrj 15y ago
I'm not sure that's the example I'd use. They sunk billions in the first on for little to show for it. Billions fixing broken xboxes in the second one and only recently have begun to gather some steam -- and even then it was helped by Sony'
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by mrj 15y ago
Sadly too common: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015653368_a...
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by mrj 15y ago
Yeah, mostly stuff you wear. They're nice and comfy if you don't happen to be wearing body armor, your weapon, a pack, food for a day, camelback, etc. Every time a door opens you see Marines and all the gear that was stuffed in there pour o
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by mrj 15y ago
Oh, they're pretty cramped. (As a Marine, I can tell you Generation Kill was pretty good.) Actually, I would be more concerned about a tendency to rollover just by looking at it. When the armored ones first came out there were a bunch of ac
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by mrj 15y ago
Krugman's main point is that giving more money to rich people isn't necessarily going to stimulate growth because they are already sitting on lots of money. Your link there goes off on a tangent about government spending and taxes instead o
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by mrj 15y ago
Sounds nice but look at the history of business. Laissez faire was attempted and didn't work out so great. Sometimes there need to be rules and they need to be applied evenly so nobody has an advantage that others don't. If one business has
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by mrj 15y ago
You forgot this, on all OSes: http://www.publicstatic.net/media/adminfiles/flash_not_relev... Still waiting, all this time later. The killed the beta some time ago that ran on Linux. It seems there's some hard problem they're unable to so
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by mrj 15y ago
God, I hope so. If there is any industry more deserving of a disruption, it's the fumbling, backwards telcoms. Sadly, it requires so much money to fight them that whatever replaces the telcoms might only be slightly better. I will take that
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by mrj 15y ago
People having babies is kinda important. Strange how difficult modern life is with children.
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by mrj 15y ago
That's not the dev server, which is able to start and reload pretty fast. That post is complaining about the startup time for loading several pre-forked Python VMs on the first request. That's pretty much a production problem. It's somewhat
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by mrj 15y ago
Not to mention, they got a great gift last month with PSN going down. XBOX will be picking up even more steam in the future.
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by mrj 15y ago
I switched from Slicehost shortly after that. They had been stagnating for some time since Rackspace seemed disinterested in maintaining Slicehost. It's a shame, Slicehost was a good host.
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by mrj 16y ago
Ha, glad it's not just me! Though you can add this to the netbeans.conf to disable the AA fonts (makes it much, much more readable): -J-Dswing.aatext=false
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by mrj 16y ago
You can turn of "Enable auto-scanning of sources" which makes it loads better. But netbeans will still have to scan projects from time to time. I've had to keep just a small number active at any time to prevent it from scanning too much and
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by mrj 16y ago
Physical location is outdated.
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by mrj 16y ago
Logging in Django is meant more for writing out application logs, which can be seriously useful for support purposes. But in no way is anybody suggesting writing an access log to the database using django, it's not what it's designed for.
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by mrj 16y ago
Brother, you should include that anywhere you apply! Semper
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by mrj 16y ago
Unfortunately, the amendment didn't specify where you can assemble and petition. Government in recent years has been making sure that's a "free speech zone" that's quite a distance away. They removed him because they don't allow you to pe
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by mrj 16y ago
I used to count the limos passing by in downtown SF (there were many). It's nothing like that anymore and hasn't been for some time.
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by mrj 16y ago
Do any of those things, whatever interests you. Nobody here can tell you what is going to hold your interest. I'm convinced the only way to really "cure" burn-out is to change scenery and time. It sounds like you've got both, so go do somet
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by mrj 16y ago
Personally, I've found it difficult to get much attention online. I guess I've just been off doing weird stuff for too long to interest most programmers. Every time I hear stories of so-and-so making a website that caught on like wildfire o
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by mrj 16y ago
Any go enthusiasts mind explaining this one? It looks like a very strange syntax: No, Andrew described this case: > should be rewritten as, > select { > case ch <- v: > // s
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by mrj 16y ago
Don't use a task killer, it'll just mess things up for you. Either uninstall or stop the services you don't want (using the built-in app manager). Android ~1.6 did have some issues, plus the slower processor and memory meant that the task m
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by mrj 16y ago
That their demos show working products is very awesome, true. But to be fair, the often also announce them quite a bit before they're actually available. Just to let the suspense build, I guess.
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by mrj 16y ago
Yes, it's an old Microsoft trick for goosing the numbers.
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by mrj 16y ago
Instead of buying a phone from the carrier, if you want freedom you will have to look elsewhere. Buy a unlocked+rooted phone off EBay (let somebody else take the risk) or buy a developer phone (like the Nexus One). You bought a locked-down,
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by mrj 16y ago
Yes, it's totally an issue. On the other hand, he's willing to hack his iPhone but not his Android? It's different on Android. After the initial root, you get your future OS updates from the community. There's no reason to ever go back to t
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by mrj 16y ago
I don't know about that, a popular past-time here is complaining about all the various ways government is screwed up/stomping our rights/doing something stupid/etc. It's what normal people talk about over beers instead of emacs vs vi.

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