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by ratsbane 16y ago
At the risk of confusing the question more: what about "Software Architect," "Enterprise Architect," and "Business Analyst?" They are used to cover widely disparate jobs and their meaning has become mangled.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I wondered, reading the original article, how many of the security measures were to impress potential clients and investors and how many were really there to keep bad people away from the boxes.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I'm looking forward to Strange Loop in St. Louis October 14 and 15. I haven't been to this before. The speakers list includes Guy Steele, Douglas Crockford, Joshua Bloch, et al: http://strangeloop2010.com/speakers
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by ratsbane 16y ago
"... real sleazebag or a complete idiot" is a bit harsh. He was young and naive. Who isn't at 18? Zuckerberg was born May 14, 1984. This contract was signed April 28, 2003. He was 18 years old. If this contract had been signed a year
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Steve Jobs is, more than anything else, a designer. He studied calligraphy in college and has said an understanding that gave him was the most important lesson he got from school. He has arguably made much better business decisions than t
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by ratsbane 16y ago
You could also look at it as what kind of industry do you want to be entangled in. Bioinformatics seems especially interesting. Financial, banking, and trading-related programming also require a commitment to domain-specific knowledge. I
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I also read it several years ago too and I frequently pick it up and re-read bits. It's changed my programming style for the better, not just Perl, but related languages. MJD, wherever you are, good work.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
The Nexus One is made by HTC and many of them, including mine, have been upgraded to 2.2. I agree with your original point, though: what version of Android OS and Palm was he comparing?
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by ratsbane 16y ago
The word "work" can mean different things to different people. In this case it may mean "enables c-level management to cut expenses and show short-term profits so they can sell the company." I think it hardly ever works in the sense of "ma
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Several people have already mentioned exercise and nutrition; along the same lines, drinking plenty of water is kind of a big deal.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
An office building I used to work in tried this a few years ago. Within a few months they replaced them with flush urinals because the men's room was starting to smell like downtown San Francisco. Oddly enough, when I was in SF last month
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by ratsbane 16y ago
How would you interpret the phrase "...In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways?"
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by ratsbane 16y ago
This is correct on the face of it. However, some of the terms, though vague, effectively prohibit running Office under Wine, etc. The following phrase occurs in the Office 2007 EULA: "...In doing so, you must comply with any technical li
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I had much the same train of thought when I saw this article. I've been very harsh on Microsoft since roughly the Active-X era of the late '90s for doing things that benefit their own dominance at the expense of the ecosystem. I WANT them
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Not just Firefox - all HTML 4 forms support only GET and POST (though XMLHttpRequest supports any method.) HTML 5 forms do support PUT and DELETE though not HEAD. (I think this is accurate. Corrections appreciated.)
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from an IT manager whose project was slowly going mushy. She assembled the team and told everyone they had to stop all work and "write some emergency documentation." I was working with another group
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by ratsbane 16y ago
As Google still develops and tests for Windows I question that line about needing CIO approval for any Windows machine. Still, great to hear.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
As far as that goes it's a reasonable demonstration. I suspect many people will note how insignificant the actual installation time is in the context of the entire lifecycle. You might also point out the cost difference. Depending on the
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I wanted to see that session too but got sidetracked somewhere else at IO. That's the biggest problem with IO - at any given time there were two or three places I wanted to be. They've said they'll be posting all of the session videos on
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by ratsbane 16y ago
That was great... but WTF (What Turbo Fan)
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by ratsbane 16y ago
I got an Evo at I/O also and, while I really like some of the phone's features (I'm typing this now on 4g wirelessly tethered to my Macbook) the Sense UI is very annoying. I turned it off a few days ago and the phone's been much more usabl
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by ratsbane 16y ago
They asked everyone to please turn off our phones because the wifi was interfering. I'm pretty sure they said "wifi" and not "bluetooth." I thought that was strange because you'd expect a keyboard/remote to be bluetooth. Theory as to what
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Agreed. I wanted to vote him up for that. That's a crazy idea... what if we could vote up or down the public utterances of government officials?
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Intelligent rant about newspapers and social media(theogeo.com)
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by ratsbane 17y ago
That was my thought too. If I buy a car, do I have to send the dealership a 1099? Worse yet, if I spend $601 on gas at the same gas station in $30 chunks, do I have to keep track of the receipts at the end of the year and send them a 1099
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Don't forget the phase-out of analog TV and analog cell phones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition
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by ratsbane 17y ago
That's an advantage of having an old, already-broken car. The potential downside of messing with it is small relative to the potential upside. I've a friend who has a nice BMW he drives every day but he recently bought an old junky Jeep a
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by ratsbane 17y ago
That last clause is quite clear, isn't it? "...unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." - It says "invasion." This doesn't mean just an attack, even if it is a successful terrorist attack by nineteen
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Thanks for suggesting that. I enjoyed that article. I remember doing the time-travel mental exercise when I was a kid. Now I can mentally replay the same conversation with my younger self from the other side as well as have a chat with my
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Good grief. $41,000 for a full set of CALs to run SharePoint. Does anyone know if that's per server or for a given site? I understand Microsoft's motivation in trying to sell this but it's hard to fathom the reasoning of anyone who would

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