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by pbz 15y ago
Or someone who's willing to call out your bullshit.
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by pbz 15y ago
I started dreaming in English while I was still learning the language. Same when thinking about a hard problem. It's in your mind even, or especially, when you're asleep.
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by pbz 15y ago
"I can't query all places in the code where the UI interacts with a database column." Why can't you?
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by pbz 15y ago
Does IE10 respect the system's ClearType settings or still forcing its own way?
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by pbz 15y ago
I got used to the new gmail thread display, although I agree that the old way was more suggestive, but the missing + in Chrome still bugs me.
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by pbz 15y ago
That was the first thing I noticed. It's constantly bugging me when looking at it. Makes it feel half 3D and half 2D, like one of those impossible stairs.
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by pbz 15y ago
He used HTML 5
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by pbz 15y ago
Foreign sites are outside of the "current US law". The only way you can influence them would be to either "convince" the foreign nation to follow the US law, unlikely for most countries, or somehow block the site and hence the great US fire
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by pbz 15y ago
Don't worry, they drill more geography in you before high school than they do here throughout high school. Teaching foreign languages starts from kindergarten. By high school if you're inclined and had good teachers you should know enough t
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by pbz 15y ago
Most people would think it was you who bundled those extra "apps", not download.com. To protect your app's brand I would remove it from download.com
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by pbz 15y ago
I have a similar experience, but while I can get used to the blurriness, and after a while I don't notice it as much, going back is always a breath of fresh air. I imagine it like putting your glassses on - if I had to wear any - everything
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by pbz 15y ago
I'd be very surprised if they don't teach English in elementary. In Eastern Europe they start teaching English from kindergarten.
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by pbz 15y ago
Right, but here's what that one looks like for my account: http://i.imgur.com/QiV1E.png
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by pbz 15y ago
It's not the white space that makes the delineation, is the alignment of the items around that white space. If I plot a bunch of blocks of text on a white canvas you couldn't make columns or rows out of that mess. You'd have plenty of white
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by pbz 15y ago
Yes, convey separation, but after a certain number of pixels white space is not as effective anymore. Notice how in the example of the table he argues that for wider tables using white space is not effective, and that delineation using col
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by pbz 15y ago
Delineation and white space are two related but different concepts. One is talking about some way of separating different parts of an interface, through lines or contrast (i.e. different colors). The other is talking about avoiding clutter,
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by pbz 15y ago
While I understand where you're coming from, I feel his criticism is well founded. There is noticeably less contrast and delineation. It also does take more to discover the interface - you have to actually hover over buttons. While you coul
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by pbz 15y ago
JS in browsers is not multi-threaded. There's only one JS thread where requests from async calls are queued: http://ejohn.org/blog/how-javascript-timers-work/ When dealing with true multi-threading you have all sorts of issues you need to
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by pbz 15y ago
How does the strong typing compare with Java/C#? Thanks.
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by pbz 15y ago
I'm talking about places where maybe 10 people really need email and 100 other maybe once a week if that. You can definitely justify the cost for those 10 people, but not for the other 100. If you could mix and match free and non-free accou
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by pbz 15y ago
Exactly, you're either small and use the free version or you're very big and $50/a/y is no big deal. There's nothing in-between. I know quite a few companies who would gladly pay something, even if the free version works for them.
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by pbz 15y ago
Seems to me like Google has only two dials: free or expensive. For example, in the case of Google Apps, the jump from free to $50 per account / year is rather steep imo. $4 fee for each 1K over seems rather expensive. Anybody know the price
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by pbz 15y ago
It's definitely something weird going on, but I can promise you I'm not alone. Starting with 2.1 (Nexus One stock, no tweaks) every version got worse. Tried a reset, wipe, and eventually installed CyanogenMod. CM is actually a bit more stab
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by pbz 15y ago
Any word on fixing stability issues? In my experience that's by far the number one issue with the OS (keyboard crashes, slowing down after about a day without reboot, the actual phone app acting up, the call not going through, not being abl
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by pbz 15y ago
If you're not worrying you either don't care or you're fooling yourself. If it takes 30 min to fix a potential problem in production, I'd rather upset 10 people in the middle of the night than 1000 people during working hours.
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by pbz 15y ago
When you go through the regular PCI compliance scan they actually warn you about this...
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by pbz 15y ago
You're making the assumption that MS is the only target, it's not. The reason it's so destructive is because you eliminate certain options based on emotion rather than reason. So on one hand you're dealing with a fanatic that only sees blac
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by pbz 15y ago
I wouldn't say zealotry is any better. I've had experiences where as soon as anything MS is brought up, or they find out you use MS technologies, you get looked at like you're crazy / inferior. Zealotry is a good word for it, because I'd ge
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by pbz 15y ago
In my experience, looking at it from the other side is even worse. In fact, it's so bad that as soon as they hear Microsoft their brain shuts down. They get this emotional reaction that makes any rational discussion difficult if not impossi
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by pbz 15y ago
Here's a trivial example: Let's say you have a class that writes a string to the database. You abstract out the actual writing to the database of this string thinking it's always going to work, it's just dumping data after all. Your test pa

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