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   by stevejohnson 17y ago

   I agree. Wave is complex enough that people are going to want to use their OS's native interface with it, for both usability and speed reasons.
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   by stevejohnson 17y ago

   I could see that web site being a lot more interesting and compelling if it gave you some sort of visual discovery for each new day. If you break the chain, you have to start back at the first one.
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   by stevejohnson 17y ago

   Here's a working link: http://www.inc.com/articles/2009/06/alice.html
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   by stevejohnson 17y ago

   I really wish people would stop naming their software 'Alice.' This is at least the third one I've seen. On the other hand, it sounds effective at getting people interested in programming.
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   by stevejohnson 17y ago

   If you let me have this one, I'll happily make some sort of egocentric wiki site out of it. steve.johnson.public @ that gmail site
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   by stevejohnson 17y ago

   EXTREMELY minimal, but I really like the openness and availability. At the very least, it's a good way to test your own gadgets. I'll certainly be playing with this more during the next few weeks.
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   by stevejohnson 17y ago

   I totally agree with you. I was going after the author's pooh-pooh attitude toward Apple's design philosophy, not claiming to know of some mythical objective standard of user friendliness.
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   by stevejohnson 17y ago

   Pretty standard "Apple fanbois are pathetic" trolling. Here's all you need: "Apple's products and policies have always been biased toward childish, whiny, and self-centered behavior, and now the company’s stakeholders are mirroring that." "
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   by stevejohnson 17y ago

   This article jumps to some pretty ridiculous conclusions. The support note just says that since Apple never promised to support the Pre (for very good reasons I might add), it might break, and in that scenario, it will be up to Palm to fix
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    I want to like D, but the documentation just isn't there. Good tutorials for it are hard to find, and the OS X installation instructions on the web site are just plain wrong. If they could just get together some decent documentation, I woul
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    What's stopping you from just setting up a wiki on it then?
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    bowbefore.us sounds really appealing to me, but I'll need to come up with a concept before I offer to take it off your hands.
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    I don't like the way he trotted out the old "C++ will always beat Java/C# in speed" line. It ain't necessarily so. Besides that, this article is full of great advice.
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    Exactly. You have just stated the main reason why this article is wrong.
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    You're kidding, right? Since when has hacking been all about utility? This is clever and cool!
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    The whole point of the Kindle, at least as I perceive it, is to sell more books on the Amazon store. Why wouldn't they let a company like Apple provide yet another interface for their store? If anything, an "iPhone of ebook readers" would i
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    Mercurial+BitBucket and Git+Github are almost interchangeable. If a team member is on Windows, go with Mercurial+BitBucket, as it has much better cross-platform support. Otherwise, use Git+Github because it has a great community, good docum
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    This list is wicked awesome. I didn't realize RWH or KnR were online!
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    I am increasingly skeptical of these "new models of software development." It sounds suspiciously like the business school jargon another article mentioned earlier today. Some key excerpts: "This is the book you must absolutely read...It id
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    4: Would you care to back this up? 10: This has been shown time and again to be FUD. I won't even bother linking the appropriate articles.
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    This is pretty old, but a decent read. Notice that the link is to archive.org, not the original site.
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    While I am a huge Git fan, I completely understand their decision to go with Mercurial. It has better documentation, better cross-platform support, and a similar feature set. Git is improving in all these areas, and I use Git for my persona
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    by stevejohnson 17y ago

    Sure, the generalized statement is a bit iffy, but in this case, the number of users, ease of implementation, and utility of the feature make the lack of constants inexcusable. Bon's argument sounds pretty silly.
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    by stevejohnson 18y ago

    For some reason I can't get "Barney Stinson! Barney Stinson!" out of my head. I feel like if I tried to pull some of that stuff with a potential employer, I would be dismissed as a pretentious blowhard. http://barneysvideoresume.com/
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    by stevejohnson 18y ago

    Sorry for the mistake. When you do a normal "ln -s" on the console, it looks exactly the same as an alias in the Finder with the little arrow overlay, which is why I was confused.
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    by stevejohnson 18y ago

    I think Path Finder is probably the only usable alternative, but some of your supposed "missing features" aren't actually missing. Please correct me if I misread you... > Proper collapsible/expandable tree view View -> as List: Chec