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by rpeden 14y ago
I see a lot of people who are inside the industry as employees agreeing that it is a bubble. But I see a lot of people inside the industry as investors saying it isn't. I'm not sure if that means anything, though.
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by rpeden 14y ago
You're right about the Canadian housing market; There are those predicting it is in a bubble, the most vocal of whom is a former government MP blogging at http://greaterfool.ca . The funny thing is that even after watching the carnage in
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by rpeden 14y ago
Overinvestment in hope of exceptional returns is what a financial bubble is. Excess liquidity in the economy is one of the things that can lead to a bubble, as people look for places to put the money to use. If this is the case now, we shou
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by rpeden 14y ago
As an outsider who watched a couple of bubbles from the outside (dotcom and housing), it seems that the likelihood of being in one ends up being inversely proportional to the vociferousness with which those on the inside claim it's not a bu
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by rpeden 14y ago
Weren't <img>, <li>, <ul>, and <ol> experimental, non-standard features added by Netscape? Due to Netscape's dominance, everyone ended up implementing them. I'm not saying non-standard features are always a g
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by rpeden 14y ago
Seems to me there has, for a long time, been a double standard when MS is involved. The response I often see is: Something non-standard but cool in IE? "Screw MS, they're trying to embrace and extend the web!" Something non-standard but coo
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by rpeden 14y ago
To be fair, there's nothing wrong with the language. The article points out problems in the VM and the compiler. There's nothing stopping someone from writing, for example, an AS3 compiler for the JVM that interacts with Java libraries in t
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by rpeden 15y ago
I agree with you, and don't mind someone being blunt when they believe they're right and mainstream views are wrong, even when I disagree with the argument the person is making. It often seems to result in a strong reaction in the opposite
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by rpeden 15y ago
I remember similar things being said in the 90s. We'd all be be ditching Windows and running internet appliances and doing everything via the web and Java applets. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that similar predictions haven't panned ou
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by rpeden 15y ago
When I read things like this, I have to wonder if the people saying it are really naive or sheltered enough to believe it: "You want to be in the tech game, because in time it will be the only game in town." Well, no...because tech won't be
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by rpeden 15y ago
There's an update at the bottom of the linked Geocoder page that says the site is now being represented in federal court by the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. There's more info about CIPPIC at http://www.cippic.ca/en
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by rpeden 15y ago
Every time one of these arguments pops up, I'm reminded of this: http://i.imgur.com/pG3q7.jpg Different people will end up enjoying different tools. I started web development with Ruby and Rails, but find that I really enjoy PHP. Then aga
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by rpeden 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3004918
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by rpeden 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll definitely come to the next PHP Software Craftsmanship meetup.
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by rpeden 15y ago
Thanks for sharing that. Burnout is sneaky. Since it seems to be a condition that accumulates over time, it can take a long time to realize it is happening to you. I dealt with this exact issue recently. I felt as though the harder I tried
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by rpeden 15y ago
I think your final point is actually exactly what Dave is saying. His point is not that everything should look the same. He's saying that it is helpful for common items, such as menus, to be factored out into reusable bits like Bootstrap so
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by rpeden 15y ago
I've seen quite a few that execute the coffee shop idea nicely! The main branch of the Ottawa Public Library has a nice little coffee/food shop in the middle of its main floor. I've also visited two public libraries in smaller cities north
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by rpeden 15y ago
The source is available on github: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
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New D programming language forum, written entirely in D (forum.dlang.org)
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by rpeden 15y ago
The Mesta Machine Company is now part of WHEMCO - specifically, what used to be Mesta is now WHEMCO Steel Castings Inc. http://www.whemco.com/whemco_steel_castings.aspx There's a bit of company history at http://todengine.websitetoolbox.
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by rpeden 15y ago
I'd love to have a chance to see it in action. Many of us here work as engineers. Few of us are likely to be building something like this, a machine that will be able to serve its purpose relatively unmodified for over a century.
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by rpeden 15y ago
At least that fact that it was refurbished and continues to be used means that when the time comes (and it will), the US will have the equipment it needs to produce most of that infrastructure itself.
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by rpeden 15y ago
I think you are reading too much into this. I didn't see any romanticization of military production - just a fascinating description of a very interesting piece of engineering. The article specifically mentioned that the press is used to cr
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by rpeden 15y ago
I've dabbled in Tcl a few times, and I really like it. The author talks about the ease with which the language's syntax can be extended. For me, this gives me the same feeling I get when I'm using Lisp. I'm aware of the large differences be
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by rpeden 15y ago
I'm saddened by the lack of patience I'm starting to see among commenters recently. The article wasn't that long; I finished it in a few minutes. If you're unwilling to finish it, that is okay. Coming here to complain about the length of a
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by rpeden 15y ago
I think this analysis is a little unfair. It may be true that pg wasn't really saying anything new. That doesn't mean that it wasn't worth writing about, however, because it is one of those lessons that seems to continually go unlearned. I
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by rpeden 15y ago
It was John McCain a few years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg
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by rpeden 15y ago
It crashed my iPhone 4. Seems like it is giving mobile Safari problems.
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by rpeden 15y ago
It seems to me that RIM needs strong, decisive leadership. The BlackBerry brand is still formidable. I see RIM as being in a position similar to where Apple was prior to the return of Steve Jobs: Too many products, with the company's focus
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by rpeden 15y ago
I used to be very ambivalent about BB devices, until I spent some time recently using a BlackBerry 9900. I'd read about the BlackBerry OS being behind the times, and outdated, but as I used the 9900, I just wasn't seeing it. The touchscreen

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