philbarr

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by philbarr 13y ago
> Any good reading material? "Working Effectively With Legacy Code", by your esteemed parent poster... :)
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by philbarr 13y ago
If I remember this correctly, I think he had just been actively accusing employers of not doing due diligence when hiring people and that ignorance was no excuse. Then it turns out that he was doing the exact same thing...
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by philbarr 13y ago
Why would there be no insurance? Surely we would just pool our money together in a big pot for when people have their houses burnt down? Kind of like we do now - except possibly without someone skimming a huge profit off the top.
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by philbarr 13y ago
Yes, I guess you'd have to use real world factors to try and trim down your n before you start with the n/e thing. Although if you're in a strange place you probably won't know that much about which areas are good or not
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by philbarr 13y ago
Try out my guaranteed chat up line: "Polar bear! It's just something to break the ice..." Then laugh drunkenly at your own joke - that bit's important. Worked for me - married over 10 years now.
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by philbarr 13y ago
Hmm, I wonder if this could be used to find a decent pub whilst in a strange city? It's always a problem when you're on holiday and you know there are n pubs around, but you don't want to spend all your time going around and
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by philbarr 13y ago
Are there any IDEs out there that aren't hated? I find Eclipse to be fine but I've been using it for years now (since it's early days). On the other hand, I've been using VS for a couple of years and think it stinks.
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by philbarr 13y ago
I think developing a thick skin is most important when asking for someone to review your work. I don't have any developers locally that I can ask to look at stuff, so I'm never going to get a professional point of view. Instead I
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by philbarr 13y ago
Yes but what we're looking at here is: can we use cognitive bias to increase the number of people who pay for the full version. So you give someone a demo for free. They know it's a demo and they know it's free. They will be
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by philbarr 13y ago
Now I'm starting to laugh at all the evil ways I could treat my users!
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by philbarr 13y ago
Hmm - interesting. Two samples spring to mind: One of my apps is called "Calculate" [1] which has you solving maths problems. There is always a solution which you can view. You start off with ten solutions and when you run out you
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by philbarr 13y ago
He had already done that, because he needed to buy a couple of very expensive music apps he "needs". I would agree if that was the case though. Should have said. But usually he doesn't like to buy any apps on general principl
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by philbarr 13y ago
On the reason why people will spend $5 on a coffee but not $1 on an app: I've been thinking about this for a while and noticed this behaviour amongst my friends. I have one friend who is a true apple fan-boy and finishes his phone cont
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by philbarr 13y ago
I've read your comment twice, and it seems to me that it actually validates the "first to file, biatch" comment..? According to (a) if someone files a patent first then if there is any prior art that and any subsequent pate
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by philbarr 13y ago
I worked on some software that automatically generated documentation for engineers. During testing someone put "hello fuckers" in the code so that he could easily see when it came out the other end. Naturally that code was left in
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by philbarr 13y ago
Nice app! Quick spelling check though: You can focus on and isolate part of a rep to really understand how well "YOUR" performed
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by philbarr 13y ago
I'm using LibGDX for writing games (although you could of course write other apps). They have fairly recently added RoboVM support for compiling to ios and it's amazing. I literally loaded up my code in Eclipse on a Mac, right-cli
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by philbarr 13y ago
This might be niave of me, but couldn't he just accept his $50,000 a day and simply not read the hate he was getting? It's not like he has to go on the computer every day - he could just do something else for a couple of weeks (
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by philbarr 13y ago
Yes. In fact in my local Waterstones, where supposedly pay a little more so that the knowledgeable staff can help you, I recently saw a sign for books: "C, C+, C++".
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by philbarr 13y ago
Already posted (several times)
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by philbarr 13y ago
Oh right, I see now that you are in fact the Apportable guys. Fair enough ;)
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by philbarr 13y ago
This looks really good! A couple of things that I noticed watching the video and reading the site: - are you responsible for creating the variables in the xcode project yourself, and ensuring they're exactly the same as the ones in the
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by philbarr 13y ago
The "the French don't have a word for entrepreneur" is supposedly a quote from George Bush [1], and he's ridiculed for it because we all know "entrepreneur" is French. [1] http://www.snopes.com&#x2
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by philbarr 13y ago
I like the idea, but I find it really difficult to actually stop when I'm "in the zone". I tend to recognise when I am and treasure those moments of hyper-productivity to get lots done. I use the technique in the article and
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by philbarr 13y ago
Seems to me that if he had enough time to take his phone out of his pocket and take a picture so that he could blog about it he had enough time to turn around and run in the opposite direction. That's worked perfectly well for me a cou
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by philbarr 13y ago
Lots of people seem to be moving over to Gradle now? I don't suppose anyone can provide an opinion on Gradle vs. Maven? Personally I've always found Maven to be a pain, but a necessary evil for larger projects / teams. I&#x27
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by philbarr 13y ago
I have a friend who works the emergency telephone line and is getting increasingly frustrated with calls regarding Facebook. A typical call will have the caller complain that, "[person x] has written something horrible on my wall!&quot
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by philbarr 13y ago
I started off making a small game [1], which I thought would be quick and easy and wouldn't take very long so would be a good starter, and it ended up taking me about 6 months to finish. At points I absolutely couldn't stand this
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by philbarr 13y ago
I stuffed up my education for one reason and another and never got a degree. When I eventually had to do work I started out de-stapling things so that they could be scanned in. I did this for about 9 months - after 3 months my boss actually
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by philbarr 13y ago
Unfortunately the "enterprise" seem set on it. Yesterday I was working with a new content management platform and I had to downgrade my Internet Explorer to 9 because it only works with IE 7,8 and 9. Then that still didn't

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