shelfoo

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by shelfoo 17y ago
There do seem to be some questionable UI pieces. I don't like the look of the reply/reply all buttons. They're especially bad if using the 3 pane (veritical view with message pane). The tabs are pretty sweet though. I like having everything
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by shelfoo 17y ago
I think that this is horrible advice for someone new. But if you've been around for a while, and understand that what you're doing is a hack because you need to get a product released, it's more acceptable. It's a case of making sure that y
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by shelfoo 17y ago
I understand what you're saying, and perhaps I came off as not wanting anything to do with my childrens education, which is definitely not what I meant. I guess what I was getting at with the irritated part is that without my signature on t
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by shelfoo 17y ago
Desktop all the way. Used to be laptop, but the large code base, the huge amount of files, and the memory/CPU in use by the compilation of this app would make laptops scary. Yes I understand there are better ways, but this place has seemed
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by shelfoo 17y ago
I live in Calgary, we don't home-school our kids. I have two children, 11 (grade 6) and 8 (grade 3). The homework is about an hour each night for the 8 year old, and can vary greatly for the 11 year old, anything from 1-2 hours (practicing
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by shelfoo 17y ago
Keep in mind that this will continue to be the case for a while. Sometimes you have to worry less about understanding what's happening to start off with, don't let not knowing how to do something stop you from doing it. Sometimes it all bec
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by shelfoo 17y ago
Two immediately jump to mind. One that had a massively bad impact to the company, another that might have.. First, using perl a (later-fired) co-worker added a hardcoded check like the following: if ($client_id = "specific_id") { #email rep
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by shelfoo 17y ago
It's interesting. My wife has recently started using linux on a regular basis, and this is what she hates about it. She doesn't "get" it. For one thing, the package manager has horrible descriptions for the stuff being installed. "core li