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by skyebook 14y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. I might say "hey it's a standard bootstrap site, must not be much of a designer" but at least I'll be able to read the content.
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by skyebook 14y ago
Agreed, I'm a big fan of Java and have written client software with it but the annoyances are rapidly beginning to outweigh the benefits. Bad press, awful UI support on OS X, Web Start's seeming disappearing/reappearing act... What's the p
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by skyebook 14y ago
It would seem the guru market is crashing pretty hard after solid growth. Might be smart to do some job retraining to become a ninja
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by skyebook 14y ago
+1 for your -1, these notifications and the postmortems are always excellent sources of information
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by skyebook 14y ago
Any information on who he is? Specific mention of one speaker piqued my interest but a superficial Googling only gave me Nitin Gupta's in California
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by skyebook 14y ago
Couldn't agree more. I'll also be the first to admit though that some commit messages I've sent off after particularly infuriating bugs have had language that my mother would slap me for (and not very helpful, to boot). We're only human
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by skyebook 14y ago
I think that regardless of tendencies, some of the most inspiring and successful people (on any path in life) have been those who are authentic and comfortable with themselves. That said, the world seems to have a real deficit of sincere an
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by skyebook 14y ago
Obnoxious ads that also happen to slow down your computer.
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by skyebook 14y ago
As mentioned, this page has been up for ages (I've actually read it previously). At this point its sort of pointless, it is normally referred to as 'Postgres' by people giving PG talks at conferences and such.
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by skyebook 14y ago
Does anyone know if an 'official' entity is being referred to by the term United Nations on page 2? I suppose it could've been close enough to the end of the war that the wheels were already in motion for the UN..
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by skyebook 14y ago
What's most perplexing to me is how/why shreddings from a police department in a suburban police department came to be used, considering the relative size of the NYPD. Unless the floats and everything relating to the parade were prepared on
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by skyebook 14y ago
Crappy infrastructure != crappy code and web application design. - No API for app reviews? Business decision. - No API for app rankings? Business decision. - No API for... you get my point. If apple saw a reason to have these things, they'd
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by skyebook 14y ago
$750,000 a day and he can't keep his blog up.
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by skyebook 14y ago
This was a bit of a bust for me as well. Talking about Apple's web services being terrible and then slamming the technology that has made them oodles of money and rarely - if ever - has problems... It seemed a bit extreme.
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by skyebook 14y ago
Glad to hear about the positive outcome, I followed the original thread and was similarly impressed by the outpouring of support.
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by skyebook 14y ago
This sort of thinking is actually a large part of the piece.. I'd highly recommend giving it an honest and unaffected read, it's thought-provoking stuff
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by skyebook 14y ago
I haven't seen one personally yet but from what I understand it does indicate that the post is sponsored.. Whether or not that image is from the POV of the poster or another user, I have no idea
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by skyebook 14y ago
The claim that not all of the information is collected in the same place rings false to me. The Wiki, as noted, is rich in information. If you want concise, the http://switch2osm.org is an awesome resource.
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by skyebook 14y ago
It's a nice stat to see but I think this sort of comparison with "we moved our infrastructure of undisclosed age and unknown bloat to this new infrastructure built for the current problem domain" doesn't really do much for the ongoing conve
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by skyebook 14y ago
Asking how someone would go about solving a problem is a good question to ask but simply can't replace making sure the candidate can write code. Imagine hiring script-kiddies instead of actual hackers. As an aside, did anyone else see th
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by skyebook 14y ago
Nice to see Aparapi mentioned, the API looked promising but seemed to never really catch on. The concept of not having to ship code as Strings via native OpenCL wrappers like LWJGL was a nice usability improvement. Hopefully Sumatra gains
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by skyebook 14y ago
Does a anyone else get the feeling that between Intel, OEM's, and MS promising the revolutionary they have too many cooks in the kitchen? Not every company in the chain can be at the pinnacle of their creativity all the time. All of them
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by skyebook 14y ago
Think Coffee is a great spot, decent amount of room in the back that is pretty empty during the day and clears out again after rush hour
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by skyebook 14y ago
So basically, Tim Cook says: "Use it! Or don't." It would've been nice to see OpenStreetMap get some mention though, as users who think OSM sucks can improve it and indirectly improve iOS maps at the same time.
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by skyebook 14y ago
Totally agree. I would only add a lack of thinking on the part of developers who jump on the NoSQL bandwagon for the buzzword without understanding the implications of not having a relational database. I'm not a RoR fan but the ActiveRecord
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by skyebook 14y ago
The article kind of nicely sums up why using USB wouldn't work, adaptation to other transport standards being the big point.
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by skyebook 14y ago
Great to see another hole in secure connections being plugged.