rdrimmie

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by rdrimmie 17y ago
I'm only a (very happy) user of WriteRoom, but my comments should also be taken with a grain of salt. I find WriteRoom to be extremely pleasant, in a way that OmniWriter isn't. The experience of OmniWriter is nice, certainly, but it's not a
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
Yes, it's just a joke, but while it's a moderately entertaining implementation of the FrustrateTheInterviewer response pattern it's really not especially unique or noteworthy.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
There's probably elements of his personality that aren't being relayed properly, and I definitely agree that personality a key elements for a hire. But your presentation of this story suggests astonishment that someone coming to you for the
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
I'm curious how quickly most users become frequent Twitter users. My own ramping up process went something along the lines of: Year 0: Made an account, was almost never on the site. Year 1: Started paying a bit more attention, used twitter.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
But does anyone actually dismiss Augmented Reality as a toy? Current implementations are generally at a toy level, but isn't the concept of obvious benefit?
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
I _am_ obese and I don't buy it either. I've lost 40 pounds over the past 3 years following a scaled down version of the exact same plan as in the post. And I've gained 5 back over the past 3 months by being lax. There are many people who d
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
I'm a moderately regular (though infrequent) stack overflow user, and I think it's great. I am perhaps biased because some of the work I do is supported by affiliate advertising (though at this point not very much!). And our affiliate links
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
I am pretty sure this is a recommendation from Code Complete, too. It's full of great tips like this. If you haven't, you should definitely check it out.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
I think you can absolutely ask the interviewer to write some code. Right after you show them yours.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
I'm in agreement with everything except that it's not a matter of focusing on the company's needs. If you're sending resumes to 15 companies a day you aren't even focusing on your own needs. Figure out who you want to work for and then figu
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
Regarding item 1, in the real world analogy of getting seed money an entrepreneur certainly isn't limited to only using that seed money. They can use their credit cards or their house or their own equipment or anything else. The point of th
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
Apple promotes the distinction between Macs and PCs in its extremely successful advertising campaign. Anyone who doesn't understand the difference is either ignorant of current computing culture or being willfully obtuse.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
So here's my problem with this: How much of the fun is predicated on the novelty of the situation? After a week, how many people on their morning commute are loving those stairs? After a month? Fun benefits tremendously from novelty, but ge
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
I wish decrying popular things as fads was just a fad
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
The article includes a quote "never take software advice from a bug tracking system salesman", and I think the same entertaining aphorism holds true for methodology consultants. Both have too much invested in you listening to their advice.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
Image curls and embedded audio players are essential? These effects are modern-day animated under construction gifs.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
If the article is accurate, then the device itself claimed that it supported on-device encryption when it communicated with Exchange. I don't know about the marketing materials, but for the past year, the software itself has made the claim.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
Agreed. What possible reason is there to link to a post that itself is just a link? Link to the source.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
Remember too that Franklin lived about 100 years before Daylight Savings Time, not to mention however long before household electricity was common. Getting to sleep at 10 was probably easier when it was too dark to do anything.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
Because we're in a forum full of IT people, not farmers. I guarantee you there are places (on the Internet and in real life) where farmers are talking about the flaws of any number of software and hardware. This just isn't one of them.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
Well, part of your wish is coming true. Apple's announcing an average time-to-approval for developers. Which is a very small step. ( http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/01/apple-adds-queue-time-contact... )
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
This is true, but stinkers like .mac and using the iTunes store for App developers still make it through in a place where the standards are much higher.
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
I think it's a walled garden argument. Twitter wants to control the firehose, which is like the wall?
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
The post isn't about evilness (and in fact Dash has frequently defended Microsoft, as he states). The post is about a corporate entity growing past the point where the internal concept of 'self' that its staff has differs largely from the e
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by rdrimmie 17y ago
I don't think he created it, he selected the best performers of an apparently existing species and bred them.
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
It's hard for us to guess, but the Vogel has several other titles that have been available online for a number of years so I bet he can make a reasonably strong prediction. I would be very surprised if Geneforge 1 (which I don't think is hi
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
It definitely won't hurt to encourage people to buy more hardware, but the hardware doesn't matter nearly as much as the content. Kindle being a universal eBook manager type software brand is far more valuable to Amazon than keeping the boo
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
I have two unused copies of XP Home sitting around unused because I could not find installation media. I was able to torrent a copy in under 30 minutes, but unfortunately the way it was hacked breaks the key authentication so I can't use it
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
This is something I don't understand about these sorts of grid systems. Isn't using specific classes for the divs of the grid in the HTML just as difficult for maintenance purposes as using a table? You're defining specific rows and columns

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