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by shawnb576 12y ago
Thank you. No kidding. I grew up on food stamps, and I remind myself that when I realize I'm now well into the 1%. This shit matters and most of the people on these programs aren't on them just so they can be lazy, they're
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by shawnb576 12y ago
These are good points. I think this 10,000 hour idea is a vast oversimplification. For example, it's often difficult to differentiate rate of progress from final ability. As someone who has been involved with elite athletics, there are
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by shawnb576 13y ago
This is all on a continuum, so I think these labels overcomplicate this. All of us started at the "bang on things until they work" stage, whether it was in 1985 with a C64 or 2013 a web tutorial. A person can be in multiple stage
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by shawnb576 13y ago
This article is either pseudo-science at best and sexist garbage at worst. I'll be generous and call it the former. See, I've done 9 Ironmans, and coached several athletes doing them as well, so I know a thing or two about cardio. And I k
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by shawnb576 14y ago
Two problems here worth calling out: even when the forms packages worked, they produced apps that looked like crap. HTML is worse in this regard, you get poor quality mobile apps (imagine if your app needs an interactive map...JS maps are
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by shawnb576 14y ago
So you're equally as likely to pursue the electro-chemical-rush-called-love with anyone who can get you off? I didn't think so. Let's try this again. What's to figure out? It's past time for people like this guy to "figure out" that some
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by shawnb576 14y ago
Visibility is everything at MS. Is there a line item on your review for "W8 App d/l #s"? No absolutely not. Are there positive career effects for your boss being able to say "yeah, so-and-so wrote an early Win8 app and got a bunch of goo
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by shawnb576 14y ago
I spent most of my career at Microsoft. 14 years, in fact. I had a great run there, and there was a lot of good, and plenty of bad, like anything. I just up and left one day, so take that for what it's worth. But I did spend a lot of tim
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by shawnb576 14y ago
Interesting. Worth noting that the Azure SDK [1] was released on GitHub over a year ago with the same attributes. The move to Codeplex is concerning. [1] https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-node
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by shawnb576 14y ago
Reminds me of why I think Slate is so terrible. Grandstanding contrarianism. As others have pointed out, it doesn't take a very sharp needle to poke a hole in this guy's argument.
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by shawnb576 14y ago
Assuming you're competent in both, e.g. you are good enough to be professionally productive in either and can ramp/dial your skills to match, this is dumb advice. Especially because good designers that understand how software works are frea