shaggyfrog

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   by shaggyfrog 16y ago

   I used to think "everything should be in code" as well, when I started iOS development. But after I used IB for a while, I could see how it was saving me time on certain tasks, like setting up the ol' MainWindow.xib (especially if you have
2. 602.▲
   by shaggyfrog 16y ago

   "I'd actually say this is a failing of almost every VCS out there because it doesn't let you lock files. CVS is the only VCS that I know of that lets you do this." I know that both Perforce and Subversion allow file locking.
3. 603.▲
   by shaggyfrog 16y ago

   You are being hopelessly dogmatic on this point. I'm not sure it's worth belabouring.
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   by shaggyfrog 16y ago

   Re: reunification, Korea has the advantage to learn from Germany what worked and what didn't. I think the contrast is even sharper in this case, though. NK seems to be hopelessly destitute.
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   by shaggyfrog 16y ago

   To put it bluntly, this is an ignorant response. Many systems have constraints beyond the control of the developer. It isn't an excuse to say, for example, that doing save/load from a PS2 memcard is slow and non-trivial; that's just the w
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   by shaggyfrog 16y ago

   "Store the previous state" sounds great in theory. Doesn't always work in practice. Storing the state of the system may involve a non-trivial amount of both storage and/or time. Or the backing store may not allow for reversing a deletion. p
7. 607.▲
   by shaggyfrog 16y ago

   I found the answer: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Betteridge%27...
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   by shaggyfrog 16y ago

   I'm not so sure about this. If I'm Acme Phone Retailer and I ordered and stocked 150 phones for launch, and 3 months later I still have 100 of them, I'm not placing an order for another 50 phones. That would not only tie up valuable capit
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   by shaggyfrog 16y ago

   I'm not sure writing is a great analogy to the discovery, unless you're describing a writing process where you can immediately destroy the medium used to fixate the information and have it spontaneously reassemble itself somehow in N years
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    by shaggyfrog 16y ago

    I know this is the pedantic (and correct) response, but the idea of pixel "doubling", in this sense, is a doubling of height/width, even though you get quadruple the area. The general public, being not super-duper mathcores, understand th
11. 611.▲
    by shaggyfrog 16y ago

    1.78 out of 600 million users is a pretty low mortality rate. (Edit: oh sure, go and fix the headline on me...)
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    by shaggyfrog 16y ago

    Pay no attention to the stock options behind the curtain...