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931.
by snorkel 18y ago
The "Windows is becoming less relevent" problem
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by snorkel 18y ago
If the rover had crashed and stopped responding then that somehow would seem appropriate.
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by snorkel 18y ago
The example code I've seen from popular payment gateways is some of the worst code I've ever seen and that's usually the code the web developers start with. It's obvious the original authors of payment API examples has zero experience with
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by snorkel 18y ago
The front page you have now should be the help page. I think the front page ought to be just two big loud buttons: create a meeting or find a meeting (and small text "click here to learn how to use gutmeet").
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by snorkel 19y ago
1. Make IE 6, 7, and 8 fully standards compliant. Don't say it can't be done. MS puts out hotfixes all the time. It can be done. 2. Release all Windows development tools for free. Free as in free for commercial use too. Build all the Window
936.
by snorkel 19y ago
At least make urls all lower case. Consider how tedious it is spell out a url over the phone which happens quite often. "... dot com forward slash u s e r ... no, capital U on user ... upper case U ... user is upper case U ... no, the rest
937.
by snorkel 19y ago
Disrespectful to their users? Tumblr is free. I don't think they owe their users absolute iron clad security.
938.
by snorkel 19y ago
Cameras are to indie film makers as laptops are to web startups: important to have but not their biggest concern. Pro cameras can always be borrowed or rented if need be. The bigger concerns for an indie film are paying for a lighting crew,
939.
by snorkel 19y ago
Sure startups can work well remotely but they work even better in person.
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by snorkel 19y ago
There seems to have been the same level of hype over Facebook's apps and I haven't seen many Facebook app startups getting acquired by Facebook. Granted the Google App Engine is whole other level of app hosting but compared to the scale of
941.
by snorkel 19y ago
I use neither of their products but hope that Yahoo's shareholders will tell Microsoft to go urinate in a direction opposite the wind.
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by snorkel 19y ago
I like it. Textbook example of readable code.
943.
by snorkel 19y ago
I take the 80/20 approach to supporting ie6: If 80% of the features and layout work well in ie6 and 20% not so well then that's acceptable. I have no interest in wasting time writing exceptions for a broken browser. True to their oblivious
944.
by snorkel 19y ago
Very cool. It's sort of Hot or Not for stocks. I would suggest showing just a small summary and graph of previous trade below the current total so you can get rid of the New Trade button and have the Buy/Skip/Sell buttons and chart for the
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by snorkel 19y ago
Syntax annoyances can be forgiven but for a language interpreter to call exit(1) when unable to allocate memory is really bad. It should instead return an error to the app and let the app keep running.
946.
by snorkel 19y ago
I just feel sorry for Microsoft developers. As a Windows app developer I felt Microsoft was deliberately trying to waste my time. Rather than adding useful functionality to their frameworks that would make it easier to do the common tasks t
947.
by snorkel 19y ago
Neat but non-technical HR reps who filter resume piles won't get it. In general its best to write the resume to match the job description. Rather than listing all of your skills list only the skills that job requires plus a few extra closel
948.
by snorkel 19y ago
Reasons I will never use Vista ever again: 1. Could not share a printer. Seriously. A plain generic HP printer. On a Windows network. XP shared it just fine, Vista would not share it, for security reasons, I suppose. 2. Vista refused, total
949.
by snorkel 19y ago
> Perl is horrible, ugly, unclean, unmaintainable in the general case, inelegant Depends on the coder. To me "maintainable code" == "readable code" == "self-documenting code" and that's very easy to achieve with Perl. Unfortunately most
950.
by snorkel 19y ago
In the short term yes, Microsoft can win the business market by grabbing SAP. But in the long term Microsoft knows that the web is the next platform and eventually Windows and Office are going to be obsolete by the web, and how long before
951.
by snorkel 19y ago
Good point: setInterval() will fire the given function repeatedly no matter if the previous execution of that function is done yet which can lead to an unexpected pile up of calls to the same function.
952.
by snorkel 19y ago
Comrades, The Lego bricks belong to the People! You are a friend of the Lego Revolution, are you not? I suspect you do not like our Cherished Leaders! Western ideas have poisoned you! Do not sit with us during the Snack Time Celebration! Ou
953.
by snorkel 19y ago
Joel suggests using one licensed copy of Office to run as a web service backend but I'm not so sure Microsoft's EULA allows that.
954.
by snorkel 19y ago
With no less than 3 favorable mentions of .NET? Do ya' think?
955.
by snorkel 19y ago
It's sad how many people continue filling it in anyway.
956.
by snorkel 19y ago
Fascinating reading the entire discussion thread. Andressen proposes a simple tag for embedding images and right away everyone else makes more complicated proposals. Tim Bernes-Lee himself suggests only embedding icons in links. Soon the th
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by snorkel 19y ago
I too scoffed at the pretentious Apple store until I tried editing video on a PC. Soon I too was walking out of an Apple store with happy with my purchase. I scoff no more.
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by snorkel 19y ago
95% of laptop thieves are not computer saavy. Rest assured they are not examining your hard drive for sensistive data or reading your email, data theft is too sophisticated for laptop thiefs and takes valuable time that could be spent smoki
959.
by snorkel 19y ago
Yes, these vanity web sites are pretty but don't get carried away with splattering the page with design . Remember that the average web surfer has the attention span of a caffeinated squirrel and if you carpet bomb their visual cortex with
960.
by snorkel 19y ago
If you need more than 50 hours/week for business then postpone the child but don't wait too long. Kids are fun but at the same time you don't want to be chasing a 10 year old when you're 50 and raising a teenager when you're 60+.

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