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by sp4rki 16y ago
Even if you're right and some companies do count this as a plus, I wouldn't touch that company with a ten foot pole. Why would anyone subject themselves to such extremist oligarchy in which you are forbidden from doing mostly anything that
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by sp4rki 16y ago
You probably tried the no arrows method of switching to Vim. A piece of advice, just use it. Try to learn a few movements and commands each day as you need them, but keep using the editor as you used to use any other editor until you've lea
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I agree. I've never had the need to have an IDE for a specific language. I'm also a Vim guy, and though I've tried enough IDE's for a lifetime, I found the best IDE (for me at least) is a command line and Vim.
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by sp4rki 16y ago
The whole point of the "Ideas don't matter" debate is exactly what you're pointing out on your post. People taking the phrase at face value just want to be on the opposing side because they like to antagonize popular opinion. When people sa
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by sp4rki 16y ago
That's really not the point. It's not that execution will guarantee success. It's that execution is the differentiating factor (apart from luck) regarding various companies attempting the same idea. Neither Facebook, Twitter, or Groupon (ca
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http://daytaapp.com/ Link to the apps site itself instead of the iTunes Store site.
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He never said anything about being 'employee number ten' at Apple. He just said he felt the ambient invigorating and felt excitement to work with people of the caliber that Apple employs. Aside, making a difference doesn't have to mean to '
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by sp4rki 16y ago
How is this a tale about fragmentation on either operating system's ecosystems? It reads more like a story about how the developer has a faulty approach to releasing software. He made the mistake of making an assumption that turned out to b
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Panama
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I don't know about other countries, but where I live the default is working six days a week. Some lucky people work half time on Saturdays. I work five days a week. It's the first thing I tell a potential employer. I've tried to get a four
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by sp4rki 16y ago
The author should add "Founder's or CEO's promises of grandeur, huge exits, and unbelievable equity". I'm currently leaving for greener pastures (after three years), but this is so common in our industry that it's not even funny. If you're
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by sp4rki 16y ago
And then people ask why Apple tries so hard to have total control over their App Store. The last thing I want is to have to buy an antivirus for my phone.
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I agree that pair programming has it's place and can be a positive workflow for some, but for the way I work I just find it extremely intrusive and I easily get a third of what I would get done. I'm a big advocate of peer reviews, but pair
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by sp4rki 16y ago
11. I wanted to crack shareware games so I learned some C, Assembler and some Softice debugger skills.
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Those generally don't try to justify the piracy. That camp think it's all fair game. I also find people in that group are generally teens who would rather not spend their money in a blueray in any case. These are rarely the one's justifying
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by sp4rki 16y ago
No. Read the post again. The parent asked why people feel the need to defend piracy. I answered why, in my opinion, they defend it. I also mentioned that I sympathize with the first two cases, which has no relevance to what I personally do
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by sp4rki 16y ago
If I really liked the Mona Lisa, I'd have three options: 1) Go see the original painting even if might cost me a pretty penny (not that it does, bare with me here) 2) Buy a decent copy from a reputable artist. 3) Get a high definition scan
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Touche. I was having this discussion with a coworker the other day and I was saying sort of the same thing. People think it was unwise to refuse Google's offer, but Google's culture and track record regarding what need's to be done to make
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by sp4rki 16y ago
By any chance was this call-center servicing the same country (or a country with similarities in culture and language) and where you properly trained by the company? I should have added to my comment that I meant most outsourced call-center
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I worked in not one but two call-centers during a very dark time of my life. I say freaking bomb all call-centers out of existence. They create crap jobs, with crap pay, and crap benefits that steal work from better qualified people. In the
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Then again, you might be a hacker on the NSA payroll and are currently reading my raunchy emails to the hot chick in the marketing department.
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FaceTime and the Future of Video Calling(mac.appstorm.net)
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by sp4rki 16y ago
A fully anonymous system as you describe would have the side effect of removing responsibility from the consumer. How do you request payment from an overdue customer when you can't even tell who he/she is? In real life, when you shop with y
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Envy Labs Book Club - Processes on Applied Software Project Management(blog.envylabs.com)
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Calculating Color Contrast(24ways.org)
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This is always a good idea when dealing with color schemes. More often than not, the colors found in nature are pleasant and easy to link to an animal, place, or situation in nature. Using a photo of a spring sunrise in the mountains or one
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Fair enough. Your responses are very much a breath of fresh air in comparison to the comebacks that I've encountered in my day to day. That being said, if I'm interested in the treatment for Aids of diabetes, be it for my own person or for
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by sp4rki 16y ago
I was finding your post enlightening and even started to change my opinion on Jehovah's Witnesses (myself being an atheist) up until the point where I read this "doing door to door preaching". I have nothing against your religion (or any re
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by sp4rki 16y ago
So you would rather they stopped trying to innovate and implement new features on the B E T A version because it doesn't play youtube FOR YOU? Mozilla's priorities are right where they should be, on adding features and fixing bugs. The fact
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by sp4rki 16y ago
Wifi/Cable syncing of a desktop and phone app is a completely different beast to doing so over the internet. The difference is that when you connect your iphone to your laptop and sync, the app determines which one has the last state and up

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