outsidetheparty

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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
This matches my experience. We recently brought on a couple of PM consultants who are deep into Agile as a methodology, and decided to give it a go -- it's been about six months now and productivity has basically ground to a halt as we
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
Strange story. I'll refrain from projecting too much onto the author, and instead say that his characters' relationship to alcohol is downright alien to me. As is their relationship to women, who are apparently without exception u
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
iCloud is optional.
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
Haven't played with the framework at all yet, but I have to say that was the best announcement for a framework I think I've ever read. Totally subverted my knee-jerk oh no not ANOTHER one reaction I've come to expect...
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
>Put another way: "don't have the choice any more" An odd way to describe an optional feature. >And its only hard to run a home file server because its hard and nobody has made it easier You've heard of Back To My
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
Yes, Yes, and Yes
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
"I'm not at all interested in the Cloud features of this release" "what I wish I was seeing, instead, was a way for me to leave my computer online at home, and still have access to my media library, seamlessly, from anyw
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
Same story in the opposing camp's echo chamber, opposite headlines: "OVER 10 MILLION ANDROID USERS INFECTED WITH MALWARE" "SIGNIFICANT ODDS OF MALWARE, EVEN WITHIN 'SAFE' GOOGLE PLAY" The whole platform w
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
What a ridiculously overblown article. "The robber barons built entire greenfield company towns with a paternalistic controlling agenda! Facebook plans to build less than 400 housing units and obviously won't be able to do any of
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
Apparently I'm in the minority; I read it for the articles. Certainly the level of discourse here compares favorably against the average mass-interest discussion board -- but that's a textbook example of "damning with faint p
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
Agreed re composition -- the sign that the language had finally 'clicked' was when you started seeing lots of little xsl:templates instead of one gigantic mass of if statements. I don't really agree that cruft or configuratio
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
Yep. I used to love XSLT -- working in it finally forced me to understand recursion at, like, a deep cellular level -- but the whole time I was using it I knew it was a doomed language (because most people don't want to have to unde
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
Lots and lots of very bad ideas here -- backwards-incompatibility with previous versions of HTML is always a good litmus test that a proposal hasn't been thought through, as is "hey let's restructure everything around this on
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
The first startup I worked for, back in the Ancient Days Of The Web, gave me (employee #4, 5, or 6, depending on which of the three of us walked in the door first) options that would have netted me low seven figures when the company was gob
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That's an absolutely brilliant headline -- it's total clickbait without using any of the typical clickbait patterns. Shark dick! You won't believe what happens next!
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
My main feeling about this is not so much about typeScript (which, meh, some syntax sugar I don't care about, and tooltips for an IDE I don't use) -- more it's that just the mere whiff of Microsoft's involvement will be
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
Same effect at about 1/1000th of the price: http://cornfieldelectronics.com/tripglasses/trip.home.php (I can verify that the effect is real. It works better if you're already high, though.)
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
I was a freelance designer and web developer for about a dozen years before I started my current gig. Approximately 80% of my clients came either directly or indirectly through contacts I had met in the few years before I became a freelan
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
I stopped writing javascript for work at 10pm and then for fun immediately started writing javascript for imaginary elevators until way too late o'clock I can't help but feel like there is something deeply wrong with me
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Or if you choose different values for the variables in the Drake Equation for which we have only a single known data point -- i.e. most of them -- there is probably exactly one civilization in the galaxy.
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
The few brief glimpses of the actual product included in this intro video appear to have very little to do with the "rah-rah entrepreneurship is great" cheerleading which takes up the bulk of the time. Work on your elevator pitch
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
The phrase that came to my mind was "wildly disproportionate straw man", but, yeah. I'm mildly sympathetic to the author's point -- there certainly exists a subset of developers who are more interested in bashing other p
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
That chart is a textbook example of "we drew a trendline through noisy data and drew completely unwarranted conclusions as a result".
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by outsidetheparty 12y ago
I feel like being backwards-incompatible with html5 (while using the same doctype!) is a tiny bit of a deal-killer.