notJim

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1921.
by notJim 16y ago
This article also seems to ignore the many, many "techies"/programmers who love Apple products. As if programmers don't care about experience, and are all hardware hackers.
1922.
by notJim 16y ago
Haha, I know, that was just a bit of artistic prose. Still, I think unposed photos would have been more interesting.
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by notJim 16y ago
Became far less interesting the moment he started posing for the pictures, IMO. There's tons of photos on the web of geeky types mugging for the camera. It's those moments of unguarded excitement, waiting for your MBP to finish waking up fr
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by notJim 16y ago
I totally agree with this. Frankly, I don't think its too much to ask people to use modern software that is capable of very basic functionality like wrapping text. I find 72-column text with arbitrary (in the sense that the line breaks are
1925.
by notJim 16y ago
Don't you mean: > Exactly. That's why you write it to the lowest common denominator, so > that everyone can use it well. Reads great!
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by notJim 16y ago
Right-click, Inspect Element `white-space: normal` No more scrolling.
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by notJim 16y ago
Writing and maintaining terribly-designed software is actually a really great way to learn software design. It makes it so that when you read about a technique or pattern, the application of that pattern is very real to you, in the sense of
1928.
by notJim 16y ago
I think that's orthogonal to my point. All I was saying was that many of the answers presented only a majority view of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and that if you were to ask women and blacks what they thought, you might see some different an
1929.
by notJim 16y ago
The nostalgia in this article really bothers me, in some ways. Maybe I'm just oversensitive, but it just seems like there's a lot of unacknowedged white male bias. Where are the women talking about how incredibly sexist everyday society was
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by notJim 16y ago
It seems like even among startups and small businesses that are reasonably well-run (meaning decent process, and developers aren't overworked because of management failure), it's very hard to compete with the benefits and compensation that