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by samspot 14y ago
Self-taught programmers get a bad rap because we've all seen the guy who didn't know about arrays and defined 300 variables (I'm not kidding by the way, and this was in perl. Full of wonderful names like $aa1, $aa2, etc.). However you can
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by samspot 14y ago
I live in Phoenix, Arizona, and i've heard my old market (Raleigh, NC) is experiencing similar issues.
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by samspot 14y ago
I sense sarcasm, but 100 lines of xml in a 200,000 line web application is wonderful. And this xml is specifiying critical things like database connection and pool settings, transaction management, entity caching, and more. You are going
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by samspot 14y ago
Curious enough in fact, to do some research. I found an interesting article: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1824790 I also forgot about file i/o, which I don't do much of in web applications.
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by samspot 14y ago
I noticed a lot of criticism of Java's verbosity in the comments and I'm a bit curious what people are referring to? I work primarily in Java, but also do quite a bit of Javascript and Perl, and I don't notice Java being especially verbose
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by samspot 14y ago
The best reason to use Java is the enormous ecosystem of libraries and resources. The best reason to AVOID using Java is the huge demand for Java programmers and the low supply. At my job we can barely find applicants with Java so we end u
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by samspot 14y ago
You can ditch the xml almost entirely in spring 3, which I've been using for 2 years now. All you need is 50-100 boilerplate lines and the rest is annotations. I agree that 2.x was xml hell, but it is worlds better now.
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by samspot 14y ago
I really like Mercurial, but even with it I've had some trouble getting the other developers I work with to really understand it. I could not imagine trying to show them Git. I think those who have mastered Git are blinding by how Smart a
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by samspot 14y ago
I was inspired by this to share the rebuild alias I've finally come up with: sf = tcstop && mvp stretch-base,stretch-app && tcs tcstop = ~/tomcat6/bin/catalina.sh stop mvp = mvn package -projects tcs = cl &#3
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by samspot 14y ago
> True, but they would have gotten more money had they held their ground. I was still going to buy the item, sometimes I abandon the cart accidentally because I got distracted. This is one of the very things they are trying to fight.
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by samspot 14y ago
That's a new policy, it was more when I did it. It was summer 2011 but I can't find an email reciept so I'm not completely sure. I believe it was between $2-$5 at the time. An expensive typo for sure.
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by samspot 14y ago
I was setting up my wife's account for youtube and accidentally put today's date in for her birthdate. I was immediately locked out and had to pay a fee to get her email back.
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by samspot 14y ago
I put my information in, and the max home I can afford is about 1/5th the price of my current mortgage. I know that my house is more than I can afford, but that is a pretty large discrepancy.
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by samspot 14y ago
You are bringing up a valid point. Doug is saying that I should not use Backbone but instead create my own code structure and organization... but that's the thing. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I want to use something proven. And
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by samspot 14y ago
I'm reading your comment as "Ignore your interests, passions, and ideas and just do the work that is put in front of you. Also, don't take any risks ever". Since I'm sure that's not what you really think, would you mind explaining your pos
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by samspot 14y ago
Yup, there will always be bugs, many of them not important enough to ever fix.
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by samspot 14y ago
But sometimes completely unanticipated problems come up and you need stackoverflow... I'm not even sure how I did any work pre-internet. I know troubleshooting took me significantly longer back then, but I was also less experienced.
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by samspot 14y ago
My pinky hurts after using this for sublime for a few minutes, and I'm getting emacs flashbacks!
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by samspot 14y ago
Unless the login form falls into your lap from heaven pre-tested, I see no way it would not add time to a project.
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by samspot 14y ago
According to the article, this guy is only expecting about 70% of his costs to be covered in the end. He said he was expecting to be out around 10,000 pounds.
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by samspot 14y ago
That is where reddit shines... they can splinter off to subreddits.
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by samspot 14y ago
Is it really just and sane when the defendant is out thousands of pounds even after winning?
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by samspot 14y ago
This looks like a tool I love called AgileZen Has anyone who has used both got an opinion?
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by samspot 14y ago
Of course fixed bid is fantastic for the client, but it can be a really bad deal for the contractor. I work for a consulting company that does a lot of fixed bid work, and we've been absolutely destroyed by some projects where scope got ou
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by samspot 14y ago
It doesn't help that they show you a 'do this in the background' option but it's always grayed out.
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by samspot 14y ago
You can mitigate a lot of this with budget usability testing (show your mom :)).
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by samspot 14y ago
I think he is quoting someone with that line but I can't place it. If I remember correctly the purpose of that advice was not to keep you from ever changing your UI, but to instead weigh the cost carefully.
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by samspot 14y ago
You are of course entitled to your opinion but I must disagree. Users don't care what it iss called, they care about being annoyed. Firefox was always nagging you about updates while chrome silently updated in the background. And I per
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by samspot 14y ago
"Your users do not "love" your software. Your users are temporarily tolerating your software because it's the least horrible option they have -- for now -- to meet some need." This is the hardest lesson, and what I need to remember most. A
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by samspot 14y ago
The baby formula is an exception that I'm fairly sure will only work if you have an actual baby with you. Since most terrorists aren't carrying infants it is deemed an acceptable risk. Based on what I know about breastfeeding laws it may

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