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811.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Suppose someone ( cough we cough ) were already working on everything this guy's talking about - would you play it?
812.
by phaedrus 19y ago
This sort of interface problem is common with clocks too. We have a clock at work that signals break time; it has four alarms but you have to manually turn them off. One time I had to be the one to turn it off, and I looked at the back.
813.
by phaedrus 19y ago
This is not a bad idea, unfortunately a lot of sites (especially online applications) check for IE specifically and if you don't have it, take you to a message page that says "this page only displays in IE, go away." You see this a lot usi
814.
by phaedrus 19y ago
This is why I read Joel on Software!
815.
by phaedrus 19y ago
His argument could apply equally well to explain that the fragmentation (read: number of) Linux distributions is not such a bad thing either. It is just a sign people have freedom to do what they want, and guess what, when people have free
816.
by phaedrus 19y ago
+1 for bashing string theory in the last frame of the strip! Haha!
817.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Wait, wait. What is the appropriate unit of work for programming? Lines of Code? We've been down that road, and it doesn't work well. Especially if you improve the project by deleting unneeded code - did you just do negative work? Featur
818.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Much as there's been confusion about 1024 vs. 1000, creating another set of types like "KiB and MiB" just makes things worse, not better! I really hope the "KiB" ridiculousness goes away eventually.
819.
by phaedrus 19y ago
I wonder how this compares with the Io language, which is also a (partial) descendant of Smalltalk and Self?
820.
by phaedrus 19y ago
This article was rather pointless...
821.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Actually we're doing that... If you hear about our company in 5 - 6 years, that means it worked!
822.
by phaedrus 19y ago
I was a finalist in The Daily WTF programming contest: http://dennisferron.blogspot.com/2007/06/that-contest-i-didn...
823.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Reminds me of how kids were doing drugs in my high school while the principal had a campaign that "we really need to crack down on gum chewing in the halls."
824.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Thanks! I've been looking for a backup tool. Linus Torvalds uses git for Linux. Linus is cool as well as Linux is cool. So is finding unintended uses for things. Therefore, if I use this gibak program, I'll be cool^3. It's simple math.
825.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Oh, it's easy! I just let my classwork suffer. I stay up all night working on our startup project, and sleep through six classes a week. I only take classes with lenient professors who won't flunk me if I do this. But I go to a small un
826.
by phaedrus 19y ago
My evolution (doing C++ development on Linux): 1. First I tried Eclipse. And tried it again, and again. I couldn't figure out how to do the simplest darn things in Eclipse, hated the interface, and it just seemed too complicated to me. 2
827.
by phaedrus 19y ago
This map makes me sad. I live in western Oklahoma, where the Starbucks to Walmart ratio heavy favors cheap plastic crap over delicious trendy lattes. Someone gave me a gift card for Starbucks for Christmas and I haven't even gotten to use
828.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Cardboard is under appreciated. It has a favorable strength-weight ratio, is cheap, and easy to work with. That being said: - How long is this furniture going to last? - Why does "design" always have to be synonymous with "ignores good en
829.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Mwahaha, someday I'll work on an enterprise database, and I'll implement a 6502 emulator in SQL stored procedures... The database "data" will actually be op codes for a state machine; other tables will represent registers. The Java "appli
830.
by phaedrus 19y ago
My high school algebra/trig teacher was a real drone; every problem had to be done by rote and she cared more about your handwriting and placing the numbers the same way she did than whether you actually knew what you were doing. She had t
831.
by phaedrus 19y ago
What about the psychological principle that giving someone an external motivation to something wipes out their internal motivation to do it? What about dealing with the cultural problem in American schools that makes it "uncool" to be smart
832.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Cobol was designed on the premise that it would be so "English like" (and by using business expressions as keywords) that it would allow business people to express things in familiar terms so that they could write their own programs and fir
833.
by phaedrus 19y ago
The article has a pretty good explanation of night owls vs. morning people, namely that the real reason people are one or the other is not the time of day they prefer, but that the night owl has a circadian rhythm that is longer than a 24 h
834.
by phaedrus 19y ago
The trouble with the C++ paradigm that the implementor of a class does a bit more work so that the user of a class doesn't have to is that it's recursively extra work: I do extra work in a low-level class so it's user can do less - but wai
835.
by phaedrus 19y ago
The best book I ever read about programming was Writing Solid Code, by Steve Macquire.
836.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Bad article, but good points made in it. If you think about it, given that SQL is used so much with data containing people's names, it's perversely ironic that the creators of the language chose to give a special meaning to a symbol that i
837.
by phaedrus 19y ago
Not a single mention in the article of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and how the light affects the electron!
838.
by phaedrus 19y ago
I had my heart set on Ignorant Iguana...