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by rickmb 15y ago
Rants about OS X, but only bitches about the email client like a clueless 90's Windows-user. Is there any reason to take this seriously?
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by rickmb 15y ago
Methinks you're confusing "good judgement" with clairvoyance. Sure, you can anticipate change, but the decision for how much change you account for in your strategy still remains an educated guess.
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by rickmb 15y ago
With many interesting open source projects migrating to or being started on GitHub, almost everyone depending on such tools will install Git for client usage. It doesn't necessarily mean Git is that rapidly surpassing SVN in actual use as r
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by rickmb 15y ago
Excuse me for sounding harsh, but I don't find this "aesthetically pleasing". Quite the opposite, it looks very, very badly designed. The number of different and seemingly totally randomly used fonts alone give me a headache.
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by rickmb 15y ago
You should get out in the real world more and especially talk to people who are not in software development. What you call a code monkey is what the rest of the world considers a programmer.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Please note, he got to do this working for a boss who "never even asked what produced the deliverable". This sounds like a very dysfunctional company in the first place.
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by rickmb 15y ago
In other words, "a cultural match".
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by rickmb 15y ago
Have we collectively forgotten the time when journalists went to jail rather than reveal their sources, and publishers didn't waiver in their support? However understandable Google's position may be, fighting the law is not an "absurdly hig
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by rickmb 15y ago
Anybody with any knowledge of what both Jobs and RMS have achieved and how their vision has affected our work and our lives can only have respect for both of them. What we do every day would be very different without them. And for fuck's
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by rickmb 15y ago
Harassment goes well beyond trolling, and so does the specific targeting of women.
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by rickmb 15y ago
But isn't this exactly what the core of craftsmanship is about: aligning yourself with the needs of the business (i.e.: try to beat that number, increase velocity, finish more stories), but not compromising quality? This only becomes a prob
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by rickmb 15y ago
Health includes mental health. Especially important for someone who's personal make up is not particularly compatible with a life of travel and public appearances. Most of it tells me "this is what I need to stay sane and productive", and a
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by rickmb 15y ago
It amazes me how someone can actually write such an almost insultingly ignorant US-centric article (the headline alone is hilariously idiotic) on this subject and not for one second pause to think: "wait, what am I doing?".
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by rickmb 15y ago
Unmeltable? Not for long. Heat is becoming a problem Ben & Jerry. The entire article is a sales pitch, skip to the final paragraph for the pay off.
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by rickmb 15y ago
These numbers are meaningless outside the US. And I don't just mean taxes. Cost of living, housing, healthcare, insurances, transportation, social security, all of these things are so vastly different outside the US. It's pointless to compa
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by rickmb 15y ago
For a long time I've been getting increasingly annoyed with Google's "intelligence" not respecting my searches and modifying them into what they think I'm looking for. So far I've been too lazy to switch, but this does it. For the first tim
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by rickmb 15y ago
Although I'm a supporter of using Scrum over anything else in a context where that is feasible, the first paragraph alone illustrates the myopic view of this all-or-nothing attitude. I mean, I would count myself very lucky if on a given pro
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by rickmb 15y ago
I don't see how those statements contradict each other. Growl 1.3 is clearly not open source at this moment, and the stated intend to "push the source over the wall" seems to very deliberately use wording that avoids any kind of commitment
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by rickmb 15y ago
Nice try. Now please excuse me while I return to watching the series that without "piracy" I would not be able to watch in any way, shape or form, no matter how much I would be willing to pay for it. To be "constructive" about it as a consu
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by rickmb 15y ago
The opposite approach is much simpler. There's only one sign that you are a great programmer: Clients and fellow programmers are still happy with your work two years after you've delivered it. (Of course: "still" implies that they we're h
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by rickmb 15y ago
All the arguments that defend Facebook e.a come down to: "making money trumps human rights". There's no arguing about this subject with people who believe that people should not have the right to control their own data, just as there is rea
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by rickmb 15y ago
Companies and governments already did horrible things in the past few decades. That's why the laws are there. Basically the same reasons why the US has the right to bare arms. You may want to read up on your history before you call European
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by rickmb 15y ago
In my opinion this post ignores the significant divide between the general understanding of hardware and software. Most people have a general idea of how an internal combustion engine works, how their fridge works, how a tv works, hell, eve
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by rickmb 15y ago
In that case, you're just trolling and your story lacks all credibility. For starters, because you should know damn well what you get into if you try to find housing in a major European city outside the normal housing system. Also, because
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by rickmb 15y ago
Wow. Just wow. You've basically managed to reinforce just about any stereotype of an ignorant, unprepared American who shouldn't even be trying to live abroad. This quote says it all: > The building looked like a century old, fourth flo
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by rickmb 15y ago
Even without experience, a very good sign is that they know and are passionate about the market they want to enter. Sure, it will be a bigger risk if that person has no startup experience, but if they've been working in the X-industry for y
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by rickmb 15y ago
Opposed for historical reasons? The fact is that the citizens of Germany, and most other Western nations formerly known as the "free world" are today under more intense surveillance than the Stasi could have ever dreamed of. The German publ
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by rickmb 15y ago
I sincerely hope you enjoy playing with your straw man. P.s.: Most patent trolls are "little guys", and they are usually suing where the money is.
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by rickmb 15y ago
This is purely a way to rate movies for entertainment value. Which means although the method may be better, the end result is very likely to barely differ from the current abysmal state of IMDB ratings.
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by rickmb 15y ago
The court order in this case is extremely specific in both what should be blocked and the method of blocking to be applied. It even notes that the blocking is circumventable, but that " it should be assumed the average internet-user will

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