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by smurph 14y ago
I'm a bit surprised that the article never mentioned the potential affects of the tree's roots on the structures supporting them. My driveway can tell you that the roots of a decent sized tree will not play nice with man made things that ge
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by smurph 14y ago
The Computer Science program at my college. At the school I went to, you had to apply to your program at the end of your Sophomore year, and in order to continue, they had to accept you. The advisers basically told us up front that you had
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by smurph 14y ago
Employers in knowledge fields have a tough time scaling pay with performance or productivity (pg's essays cover this), so we see them exploring other methods like remote work and free food, etc. I guess when the employer agrees to let you w
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by smurph 14y ago
This article doesn't even want to make the argument that is in the title. It's winking at the reader the whole time saying "Not Really". I grew up around Detroit and there's a big difference between a city that has some tough times and a ci
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by smurph 14y ago
It unclear where all of the carbon dioxide goes after they capture it. Does the process actually use the carbon dioxide for a second reaction? Or do they just put it in a tank somewhere? If it's the later, this would be difficult to do at s
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by smurph 14y ago
With MS creating a new framework for Windows 8 Apps, this makes me wonder if .NET will die soon as well. I don't think there's anything to worry about for the next year or so, but if it's 2014 and there's been no talk of .Net 5.0...
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by smurph 14y ago
I find that the people who supposedly want everyone to work on site will always make exceptions if it means getting an employee they really want. You know that if <Insert your favorite programming blogger here> offered to work for y
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by smurph 14y ago
Regarding the gaming angle, I think there will always be some kind of premium gaming platform for people who aren't satisfied with phone and tablet games. It may well be that the standard gamer demographic continues to shift to an older cro
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by smurph 14y ago
How would you handle a piece of content that is too long for 1 page, but doesn't deal well with being broken up? Like a tall infographic or block quote? I just think there are too many failure scenarios for this to take off. It is cool thou
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by smurph 14y ago
I've had a lot of trouble with this at my current job. There's a strict policy that requires a review before anything makes it in to a deliverable branch, but there's also a culture of emergency fire fighting where they will expect problems
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by smurph 14y ago
I think your first heavy users will need to be people who are putting brand new products on the market and have no idea how they are going to get feedback. People who have been making iterations for years will have a bunch of work in the pa
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by smurph 14y ago
Idea: let companies/brands create accounts and commit to implementing features. Give them report cards based on the number of features they commit to and actually implement. Maybe include pages for individual products, and grade them indivi
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by smurph 14y ago
"Deviation from the Apple aesthetic has been risky and mostly unsuccessful (Metro, Zune, etc.)" I think it's a bit early to call Metro unsuccessful. The fact that Windows Phone has even survived is proof that some people prefer it, since de
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by smurph 14y ago
I think you were right to avoid sending that info because that's an identity thief's gold mine. On the other hand, I wonder how many times airbnb has been scammed. Hopefully this is some kind of knee-jerk reaction to problems they are havin
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by smurph 14y ago
I really like it too. I'm afraid that if Windows 8 doesn't go over well, the whole look will get trashed by association.
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by smurph 14y ago
This is accurate at big companies, but I think too much time doing other work and too little time doing core technical work is a sign of immature leadership. Joel Spolsky wrote in one of his blogs that a manager's job is to move obstacles o
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by smurph 14y ago
I could see people wanting to use this to add simple chat rooms to existing products. I would probably think about going through the XEP-0045 standard to verify that you are satisfying all the requirements for XMPP Chatrooms (if you aren't,
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by smurph 14y ago
All good points. I sometimes think it would make more sense for companies to skip Detroit and just open an office in Royal Oak or Ferndale. I would work there in a heartbeat.
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by smurph 14y ago
You're right, the grocery store problem needs to be solved in order for it to make sense for most companies to do business there. But major software companies like Google and Facebook can bypass it by building their own amenities for employ
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by smurph 14y ago
I think one or two big time tech company campuses would make a world of difference in downtown Detroit. Open a big dev shop, recruit underpaid people from local companies and best and brightest from Big 10 schools. Just please, don't feel o
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by smurph 14y ago
Question: Does it sync with any other task lists? Like Google Tasks or Astrid? Are you planning on doing that? Funny story: A while back I was messing around with the Windows Phone SDK and I started a todo list app which I named "TaskUp". I
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by smurph 14y ago
So say you take $300 from each dev to handle expenses. They live like kings maybe spending another $500 a month on themselves. At the end of a year they've saved ~$18000, barring any plane tickets home. I'm not sure a lot of people would do
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Windows 8: Top Reasons Why I choose XAML Over HTML5(css.dzone.com)
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by smurph 14y ago
This seems like overkill. Why does each unit have a 256GB SSD when there is a central server with 4TB of storage?