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   by pippy 14y ago

   I loved everything about this post. Very enlightening
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   by pippy 14y ago

   Microsoft Office is a superior experience to its OpenSource competitors, and definitely worth the cost. However OpenOffice & LibreOffice (and possibly Google Docs) are functionality equivalent, and use open source standards. This raises
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   by pippy 14y ago

   Yes. And it would be better than simply adjusting for inflation too. Disposable income has an effect services, which leads more more interesting interpretations of where things are going.
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   by pippy 14y ago

   Interesting, but I'd want to see the costs adjusted for inflation. Of course inflation means things cost 'more', but we get paid more as well.
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   by pippy 14y ago

   So samba 4.0 Samaba would be worth it, even if it required an entry level position (most likely part time)
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   by pippy 14y ago

   I had to give Dick Smith (A NZ retailer) my phone number before I bought an external the other day. "Do I _have_ to give you my number before I buy this?" "yes, but it's for return purposes only" Of course I received 'promotional' txts the
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   by pippy 14y ago

   This could be a good thing. If you approach your manager wanting to switch from dedicated to cloud email service, and you tell him it's for free, he's going to be suspicious. If there's a cost involved - no matter how small - it gives the p
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   by pippy 14y ago

   Explicit is better than implicit. If you have to explain something you've probably written the JSON wrong. You can always do this: { 'people' : 10, 'desc': 'People who will attend' }
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   by pippy 14y ago

   It's one of the reasons I hate surfing snoops. I'd spend a lot more time there if I could highlight when I'm reading.
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    by pippy 14y ago

    I liked this article. imo the problem stemmed from MS not wanting to fix something. They didn't have to create a new langauge because their API was broken. They could have simply added a modern optional API binding for C++, instead of tryin
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    by pippy 14y ago

    I tried to give the internet a go without ads after an upgrade. It wasn't that bad, advertisers have improved. Until I tried to watch a 10 second clip on youtube of Ace Ventura saying "yes Satan?". After a 20 second ad for a car, music star
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    by pippy 14y ago

    I love his in depth passion for the quality of his music, though the application UI is suffering from some "programmeritus". Nitpicking: tt should have the song name as its title, "addSome" button should be removed and replaced with drag an
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    by pippy 14y ago

    Conflicting methodologies is a great way spur innovation by forcing the best of each to try and out do each other. This, however, isn't why Apply is successful. Employees famously hated even being on the elevator with Steve. What ever the e
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    by pippy 14y ago

    Windows 8 isn't bad or good. It depends what _you_ use it for. Ads get in the way for me. Some people don't mind ads. I use computers to code, multitask and use open source software. The majority of people don't do these things, so Windows
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    by pippy 14y ago

    You could give voters a receipt with the time, machine, and candidate they voted for. Checking for voter fraud would be as simple as comparing some receipts against the voter logs.
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    by pippy 14y ago

    Cross platform compatibility is detrimental to Microsoft. Their core businesses is an Operating System, so vendor lock in is an important strategic goal. Visual Studio has always compiled differently, so portability must be done diligently
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    by pippy 14y ago

    Two things caught me by surprise: for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) I thought PHP would be smart enough to optimise this. 'contains no dollar signs' I practised the single vs. double quotes thing religiosity. I'm
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    by pippy 14y ago

    I've stopped using conditionals for anything newer than IE8. I still have to make workarounds for IE (usually by just fiddling with the CSS). IE9 is far from perfect and is still a timesink, this is time that could be spent making resources
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    by pippy 14y ago

    Google looks like such a cool company to work for. I'm sad I'll never have the skill set to be hired by them.
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    by pippy 14y ago

    The sad thing is we've already got the technology for clean(er), cheaper reactors now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyr7jZOllI But we lack the infrastructure and investment to build them.
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    by pippy 14y ago

    If its title swapped 'Programmer Competency Matrix' with 'Computer Science Competency Matrix' it would make a lot more sense. Some of the level 3 competency ratings have little relevance in the real world. Everyone in the programming world
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    by pippy 14y ago

    It's a personality thing. Some people work well with todo's, some people don't. I work better with them.
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    by pippy 14y ago

    Google IO brushed on this topic and quantised the marketing potential of different forms of broadcasting in a graph: http://i.imgur.com/akG0F.png TV advertisers are restricted to one way flow of information, so advertising is about buildi
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    by pippy 14y ago

    That's a fairly impressive stack. He must have paid for people in the know. For some reason I associate old conservative parties with old conservative technology; such as IIS, ASP, cgi-bin and HTML transitional. But hey, if Romney's stack w
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    by pippy 14y ago

    Right now that can't happen. Market share is dictating a productive environment for HTML5 that forces standard compliant behaviour. Until a browser comes out on top it's unlikely we'll see anything similar to what IE6 did to the web for som
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    by pippy 14y ago

    No. The best way to disrupt an industry is to do something unrelated - something crazy and something different. You'll never break the mould and explode by copying incumbent industries line of thought. For example the real estate industry h
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    by pippy 14y ago

    You should buy them beer irl :(
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    by pippy 14y ago

    Comparing Apple's walled garden to Microsoft's is comparing apples to pears. Not being able to open a .doc on another word processor is different from stopping grandma from opening funnycatpicsnotvirus.app I like to see things from the bene
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    by pippy 14y ago

    >Software is all zeroes and ones, after all. The quantity and order may vary, but that’s about it. Hardware is just protons, neutrons, electrons and photons buzzing around, nothing original. Apple didn’t “invent” anything, the iPad is s
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    by pippy 14y ago

    Thank you, this is the answer that I was looking for