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by steverb 14y ago
Would you trust dictionary.com? It agrees with Wikipedia. Origin: 1350–1400; engine + -eer; replacing Middle English engin ( e ) our < Anglo-French engineor Old French engigneor < Medieval Latin ingeniātor, equivalent to ingen
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by steverb 14y ago
Also, if you weren't the best student in high school, community college will give you a chance to establish a better track record. I was an average student in HS (3.0 GPA), but I buckled down at CC and got my GPA up high enough to score an
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by steverb 14y ago
Thank you for that. I can fumble my way around in Vim, but it's not second nature.
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by steverb 14y ago
I thought it was a serious attempt at contrasting the two. While the article does point out some similarities, it also spends the time to show how Apple diverges from actual cults. I suspect that you could find similarities between any cohe
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by steverb 14y ago
I find it hard to believe that anyone ever thought containment was necessary for oobleck to harden. It basically bounces if you throw a glob of it at a hard surface.
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by steverb 14y ago
Microsoft itself supports Redis on Windows: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/04/26/... The major issue I see MS having is one of perception. For many long years they had "not invented here" blinders on. They have (for
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by steverb 14y ago
As far as I can tell, that works exactly the same in Windows 8. Hit the win key, type the first few letters of a program name, hit enter.
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by steverb 14y ago
Yeah, it is software. Software that I can manage just like the rest of our software and not have to worry about buying two devices, or convincing the user that I should be able to wipe the device that they bought, or trying to convince them
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The fact that with the Pro Version I can run whatever software on it I want. We are salivating over these at an enterprise level as it solves several major problems for us (if they work as advertised). It means that rather than buying sales
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And here I was, all prepared to think bad thoughts in your direction and you have to go and be all reasonable. What has the internet come to?
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by steverb 14y ago
Actually, I was responding to the bit about it crashing when you move the mouse wrong. Complaining about how long VS takes to start up is about as useful as complaining about how long it takes the computer to boot. Neither are part of my da
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by steverb 14y ago
If that is actually true, then you do not have a high quality workstation.
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by steverb 14y ago
The 1.5 hour battery laptop serves (for me) an important niche. You see, I don't actually need a laptop. I need a portable desktop with built in battery backup, which is what the 1.5 hour battery laptop is. Of course, it's entirely within A
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by steverb 14y ago
We do the same using Team City and Git (on the .NET stack) although we don't merge to master until the feature in question has gone through manual QA as well. We have 5 QA servers and a dashboard where the tester can point any of the QA ser
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by steverb 14y ago
Adding to sources of grumpiness, my personal pet peeve is being expected to remember everything about the way a particular piece of software works. Yes, I have worked on it. I may even have worked on it just last week. But unless I worked o
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by steverb 14y ago
I owe you a beer. Why the heck have I not thought of that before?
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by steverb 14y ago
To be frank, Apple makes awesome Windows PCs. Their Windows drivers are quite good also. Still hate the placement of the control key on the keyboard though, but I am slowly becoming acclimated to it.
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by steverb 14y ago
I found this line telling: "It is possible to have multiple windows in Windows 8’s “desktop” app, which is basically a way to mimic Windows 7 on the new OS. Microsoft, though, clearly expects the new interface to become the dominant way to
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by steverb 14y ago
Great article, but the bit about Web Development vs. Software Development threw me off for a bit. It seems like a pointless distinction. I'm a software developer, my platform is (usually) the web. Sometimes it's the desktop, or a mobile dev
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by steverb 14y ago
Sure you can. Create a folder. Rename it to ".Net.". The dot at the end of the folder name is important.
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by steverb 14y ago
Knoxville, TN CellularSales is a fast growing retailer of Verizon Wireless Cellular Service, and we're looking for a few good devs. Our stack is .NET and we're looking for people who love getting stuff done, and are good enough to teach the
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by steverb 14y ago
I'll add that with the GUI you don't know exactly what GUI menus correspond to what Git commands, and therefore you can't be sure exactly what the behavior will be when you click that button. Frankly, after you've used git regularly for a w
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by steverb 14y ago
Sadly, I did not realize it was a navigation bar before reading your comment. I thought it was something generated by a poorly constructed markov chain.
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by steverb 15y ago
Coffescript based interpreter: https://github.com/Janiczek/cfs-dcpu16
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by steverb 15y ago
Agreed on the hardware. This is why I bought a MacBook and installed Windows on it. I still hate the damned keyboard, but I hate all non Model M keyboards, so I've learned to live with it.
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The MacBooks are stellar Windows laptops. Apple's Windows drivers are quite good. I do curse the placement of the control key on a daily basis, but it's a price I'm willing to pay.
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Seriously. Windows 7 is as good as OSX. Not the same, and it has its own weaknesses and foibles, meaning that it might not be as good an operating system for you, but for most users they're interchangeable quality wise.
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by steverb 15y ago
This is great, but if you've ever seen any of the Apigee slide decks on API design you won't see anything new. Also, remember that these are "Best Practices". Which means that sometimes, after a lot of thought, you might need to do somethin
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by steverb 15y ago
I keep an open wifi on as a public service myself. If they start doing this locally I may have to change the SSID to something more annoying.
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Yes. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/548475/efficient-way-to-i...

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