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by rpeden 12y ago
> There are many programs that aren't feasible to write in a spreadsheet There are many programs that aren't feasible to write in a spreadsheet, and yet people have written them regardless. In college, one course I took got gro
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by rpeden 12y ago
Go easy on them. They're just trying to catch up with OS X!
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by rpeden 12y ago
The readme in the repository give instructions on how to compile it using Borland C++.
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by rpeden 12y ago
Have you tried Envy? The ones I've gotten this year have been a great combination (for me) of crispness and great flavor.
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by rpeden 12y ago
Or it means they recognize that passion is a finite resource that takes time to replenish. Works too hard for too long at something you are passionate about is a good way to lose the passion for it you once felt. So someone who is trying to
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by rpeden 12y ago
Looks good! I'm looking forward to reading it.
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by rpeden 13y ago
Have you found C#'s null coalescing operator useful in these situations at all? I've found it to be quite handy. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173224.aspx
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by rpeden 13y ago
I'll bet a lot of startups are using parts of it. Servlets and JPA are both part of Java EE, and I've worked at a startup that used at least those parts of the EE stack. Any startup that uses Grails is using Java EE, albeit indire
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by rpeden 13y ago
A MacBook Air, running Debian.
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by rpeden 13y ago
I see some negative responses to this, and I understand what people are saying, i.e. that people here are already familiar with 4HWW concepts so this is nothing new. However, there are many people out there who are familiar with these conce
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by rpeden 14y ago
Absolutely. In this case, though, bad tools aren't the problem. The problem is that there are too many roughly equivalent tools, and many of them are very good, but there is a lot of arguing and navel gazing about which new one is the best
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by rpeden 14y ago
I've found that a large subset of programmers share the same trait as a large subset of photographers: they become so obsessed with tools that they lose sight of the fact that the end product is what matters at the end of the day. For examp
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Quit Social Media In 2013(forbes.com)
3 points by rpeden 14y ago|1 comments
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by rpeden 14y ago
We will see. It's only anecdotal, but I have quite a few friends and family members who have grudgingly switched from BB to Androids and iPhones, and even after a year or more they still hate the on-screen keyboard. I used to tell them to
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by rpeden 14y ago
From what I've seen, it's not that a BB is all they can afford; it's that all of their friends are in BBM, and they prefer using it instead of SMS, so in switching to a non BB device would make it more difficult to keep in to touch with the
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by rpeden 14y ago
What he/she said is only true of the dev tools for the old BlackBerry OS. The dev tools for the new OS offer a far wider variety of languages to choose from, and no require developed to run windows if they don't want to.
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Upgrading RAM on new iMac practically impossible(computerworld.com)
37 points by rpeden 14y ago|71 comments
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by rpeden 14y ago
Welcome! I think you'll find that long, insightful comments like this one valued here.
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by rpeden 14y ago
This isn't the first positive review I've read about BB10, so perhaps it has potential. Here's to hoping it is a success, as the more viable competition we see in mobile, the better. I work across the road from QNX, so it would be nice to s
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by rpeden 14y ago
In some cases, it's not just against company policy, but is included in the employment contract the employee signed when they were hired. I guess the legality of such a clause will depend on where you live, but for people who have something
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by rpeden 14y ago
A quick look at the ASP.NET MVC source shows that it uses the Apache license, which is OSI approved: http://opensource.org/licenses/category So yes, I'd say that is sounds like open source, using a very permissive license. People can (and
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by rpeden 14y ago
Indeed. With lambdas, closures, LINQ, and dynamic types when I want them, I find that C# feels sort of like a nice midway point between Java and Ruby.
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by rpeden 14y ago
To be fair, they named it ASP.NET MVC, not just MVC. Considering that it is Microsoft's official MVC web framework on the ASP.NET web stack, I don't think it is an unreasonable name.
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by rpeden 14y ago
This is the first time I've read anything about what defines a "growth hacker". The people quoted in the article seem so eager to assert that they are not marketers, yet they seem to have a tenuous grasp on what marketing encompasses. Altho
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by rpeden 14y ago
I have a pile of PC Magazines from the late 80s and early 90s. I'll have to dig up them up and post some of those ads online, as well. They're similar to these, but for different companies and products.
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by rpeden 14y ago
The Treo 180g was a cell phone and a PDA with a touch screen and no physical keyboard. In 2002. http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=372&pg=...
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by rpeden 14y ago
What makes you think he was the one who downvoted you? You could easily have asked him about his technical decisions without being a jerk. Besides, this was a personal project, probably created without the intention of eventually open sourc
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by rpeden 14y ago
Metro style apps can only be installed through the store. Old-style desktop apps can be installed the same way as before.
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by rpeden 14y ago
And the beautiful thing is that we can see actual results of Bill Atkinson's philosophy. You can download the source of both MacPaint and QuickDraw from http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/ . It's in Pascal and 68k assembly,
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by rpeden 14y ago
Could actually be as many as 6,000: http://business.financialpost.com/2012/05/27/rim-layoffs-cou...

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