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by rjd 15y ago
Indeed, I replied a little lower down about emotion and opinion and that it in part it isn't mine ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3309208 ). But for your specific comments I'll reply. You make 3 comments that I think answer themselves
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by rjd 15y ago
For developing I do as well, I think it may be a comfort thing for myself mainly. As far as I'm aware all the tools I use are available on most if not all other browsers. The opinion of people calling it a joke isn't my opinion its what I k
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by rjd 15y ago
Firefox is doomed because its lost its developer foot hold, anecdotally most devs I know refer to it as a joke and use Chrome instead. Its a browser that relies on recommendation to exist, and it no longer is getting recommendation. On a te
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by rjd 15y ago
"But boy is Facebook’s mobile presence looking bland these days." TBH if the guy is just judging business and there processes on visual appeal and not product/content/service or any concern for users he's an idiot. What works for one compan
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by rjd 15y ago
Anyone else wonder where they got obese monkeys from? I guess they feed them up terrible diets or something... And because the article had no pictures of obese monkeys, and I was curious to know what an obese monkey looked like... heres a g
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by rjd 15y ago
Nope, I've started building a procedure solar system generator, and I've found myself on it on a regular basis lately. Its an amazing resource if you need what it has. So I assume as it keeps expanding I'll use it more and more.
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by rjd 15y ago
I decided to take a break from the .net community a while back, recently I decided to start going to meetings again and theres been a heavy mind shift that I've seen. Lots of extremely defensive people, lots of people saying things similar
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by rjd 15y ago
I struggled through high school never managing to get my head around statistics. I changed majors from chemistry to microbiology my first year of my science degree (because thats where all the girls where), and found statistics really easy.
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by rjd 15y ago
Oh man, I remember going to my uncles house and spending hours trying to decide which program to choose, this book and others. Then Id spend the afternoon typing it in and trying to get it working. If I was real lucky I'd get it going and g
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by rjd 15y ago
Oh I forgot about this... very tempting... very tempting indeed
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by rjd 15y ago
Yep, but when you get hundreds of emails a day, you end up folders inside folders. Not being able to trim excess is a total pain. Not to mention the pain of having limited mailbox sizes, so you have to ring the infrastructure vendor to arch
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by rjd 15y ago
I was working for a government agency in New Zealand when they introduced a law that meant every email became a government communication and you couldn't delete anything. I usually operate on an empty inbox principal, it was a total nightma
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The same can be said about any IT department. One of my friends sent made the news papers over sending a racially shared joke through the email system to the "boys joke list" in a rather large and respected company. Turns out some people in
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by rjd 15y ago
Sorry I don't really have any good links, my knowledge on demographics comes from working in the news/TV industry and attending a lot of marketing meetings. Heres one I found in a quick google: https://www.aarpglobalnetwork.org/netzine/Tre
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by rjd 15y ago
You have to then mix in demographics. Apple has always targeted the 50+ market, most companies do infact target that bracket as its where the money is. Off the top of my head the reasoning is because that demographic have paid the majority
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by rjd 15y ago
Ouch, so this headline should really be "Unhappy America workers happiest in the world."
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by rjd 15y ago
I bet the figures wouldn't change much if it was a world wide survey. One of my friends said something that always stuck with me (mainly because I burst out laughing when he said it): "Its called WORKing not FUNing, so STFU we all hate our
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by rjd 15y ago
I'm a big outposken critic of Google, I've disliked them for a long time. But IMO I see no wrong here. If your business relies on Google to survive you don't have a good business, you need to do some introspection and reevaluate your busine
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by rjd 15y ago
Oh that vid was brilliant, I have been in presentation like that, intact I gave one the other that got extremely luke warm responses, and people staring at each other going this guy has lost his marbles. My concept was this (pitched to the
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by rjd 15y ago
Yep thats a great vid. I've been working as a producer myself for the last few years, running the online branch of a international news agency no less. And that vid is spot on. The managers I'm specifically talking about are the ones who ca
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by rjd 15y ago
I've worked for a few companies over the years, and there is a type of manager I run into a lot. I can summarize them by a statement they make "Just get it done." The thing about these managers are they are delivery focused, not product foc
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by rjd 15y ago
I did something recently I wish I did years ago, I picked up a second language for personal projects. Which just so happened to be python, but I agree it probably doesn't matter, but from my experience don't use the same language you use at
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by rjd 15y ago
I definitely agree. That particular incident destroyed my confidence for a short while. If it was for a chain of events mainly already having another position lined up it could of had significant impact on my long term confidence. I become
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by rjd 15y ago
Yep I know exactly what you mean. What I find kind of interesting is I would feel nervous having myself from 5 years ago in my team today. That guy was pretty damned sharp, worked long hours, researched implemented push boundaries, and deli
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I remember years ago having a senior developer say to me "don't use software patterns they will only make things complicated, you'll regret it in the long run." I scoffed at him, sat down with my books and learned al sorts of things. After
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Why? I'm aware of two people I know who don't have Facebook accounts. My sister who lives in a house bus, and a guy I used to work with whom we used to make tin foil hat jokes about. Even my 80+ grandmother is on Facebook and she doesn't ev
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by rjd 15y ago
Killed it last time? sooo it had nothing to do with Microsoft , Windows 95, and the arrival of the internet? The 90s house hold computing boom left Apple completely out of the equation, the couldn't compete on any level. Jobs turned that ar
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I used to wind up a work project manger with that response. He would always ask "whats the percentage chance of this working?" around problems that where difficult, and often needed trial and error investigation. Since you often don't have
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It's clearly option B. Whatever answer you choose is either correct or false, hence 50% :P
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Its hard to think this is a balanced article when the title is: "Microsoft: Why innovate when you can litigate?" Because to be in the position they are in to be able to litigate involves having innovated first. The modern MS is well known f

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