rdrimmie

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by rdrimmie 18y ago
Agreed. Just as with consoles, 'Next Gen' is now current gen, so the quaifier is no longer necessary.
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
I think it depends a bit on how relevant community is to your application. If there's a community of users that is built up naturally by using your app (like there is at say Stack Overflow, which uses UserVoice) then you'll want to provide
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
Maybe throttle the number of advanced functins or calculations unregistered users are allowed to do per day (or session, or other time period) and have a countdown/tracker displaying the number they have remaining along with a link to regis
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
Or it will thrive like Blogger, which given the players involved is a much more apt comparison.
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
IIRC, twitter not too long ago acquired a 3rd party company who offered better searching. It may be an integration issue as well.
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
Suzanne Dingwall Williams is highly recommended by the Waterloo community. I haven't dealt with her first-hand. http://venturelaw.blogspot.com/
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
Can we define Goredwin's Law as: 'As a technology forum discussion continues the probability of someone joking about Al Gore creating the internet approaches 1' and as a corollary stipulate that the participant who jokes immediately loses a
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
4.2 is the oldest worth developing for at this point, the vast majority of devices support it. My impression is that most developers currently use 4.5 (because the IDE tools are improved), then go back and compile for previous versions. The
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
Are there any relevant local meetups or foo/bar/startup/etc camps? Any sort of gathering where there'll be other local people you can meet and talk to?
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
I didn't come here for insight, I came here for entertainment. ;-) Of course that thread is running through the community. We're a community that (largely) works by choice. We're privileged because we have skills you don't, and you need us.
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
Fuck off. Every declaration you make about how great your magical business background was is hedged with qualifiers and exceptions. Tech and design are riddled with lazy entitled assholes, granted, but that's because lazy entitled assholes
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
I am absolutely not a graphic designer. Usually I start with a dominant colour that I like (for example the default orange header here) and I'll plug it into a colour-match system like http://colorblender.com/ Another resource I've used
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
My current agreement requires that I explicitly seek company exclusion for any ip I work on at home. The key to this sort of implementation is that it is ridiculously simple. I write up a sentence or a paragraph or so, I bring it to the CTO
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
New employees of a large organization dislike long-established IT policies. News at 11.
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
A slightly less trollish alternative, which I attribute to Penny Arcade but can't easily source, is to post the wrong answer to a question. This prompts people to prove themselves smarter than you by providing the correct answer. In the ex
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by rdrimmie 18y ago
One solution for this is two use different browsers for entertainment and work (similar to an earlier comment about using different computers for the division). I use Safari for slacking off and FireFox for development. When I need to buck