slavik81

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by slavik81 13y ago
You only hear about the people who succeeded when everyone told them they would fail. The many that failed when everyone said they'd fail don't often make the news. People usually have good reasons why they say negative things. It
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> Even open source (which is 100% unpaid labor) Actually, work on major projects is typically paid labour. For example, if you look at the Qt project, only about 10% of contributions come from individuals. Most of the other 90% of contri
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Have you considered that they might not be the same people? If they are, perhaps you should address them individually.
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I've never used Cucumber, but a lot of this article seems very familiar. I was working in a C++ desktop app, and we had similar problems with our tests. Some developers insisted on thoroughness and would write massive sets of end-to-en
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The restrictions I'd been referring to are legal, not technical. The requirements that Metro apps be certified by Microsoft and distributed through the Microsoft store are particularly troubling to me.
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He was saying that Modern UI (Metro) applications require APIs that come with certain restrictions. Those restrictions hold regardless of whether the apps are being run on Windows RT tablets or Windows desktops. It was a little scarier when
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The fact that engineering programs are required to meet professional accreditation standards, on the other hand, means that the degree is more consistent. My father always complained about some of the other math majors in his program who wo
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I think it's often easier to start with scripts, automating manual tasks. Jumping into a big, complicated program is difficult. Even just compiling from source might not be easy. Existing code and its requirements are extra things you
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This seems a little better than it is. Those control characters are appealing because they're rarely used. Making them important by using them in a common data exchange format will dramatically increase the rate at which you find them
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I've been on the other side of an exchange like that. I'm not a web developer, so "Apache" doesn't mean anything to me. I wanted to know "What does Apache do, and how does it interact with the code you write?&q