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by suresk 14y ago
Perhaps somewhat more interesting - why my side projects have failed. For the longest time, I didn't really mind - side projects were at least partially a way for me to learn new techniques/languages/frameworks, and the experience generally
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by suresk 14y ago
Too many to remember/list, unfortunately - some of them before I even started, many when I was halfway through building sort of an minimum product, and some after I'd actually launched them. The one that hurts the most is an advertising ana
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by suresk 14y ago
Generally speaking, I agree with you. In this case, however, this was just a weekend project and easy distribution was a goal of mine - hence the app store. If I were trying to make a full-time living off something like this, then there are
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by suresk 14y ago
I make between $200 - $400 per month off my HTTP testing tool: http://www.uresk.net/httpclient/ Not very impressive (who knew selling a niche tool in an environment where $5 is considered "expensive" wasn't the road to instant riches?), b
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by suresk 14y ago
Actually, the correct comment for an empty catch block is: // This should never happen. (Until it does) I have mixed feelings about checked exceptions. They seem like a great idea in theory - if there are known error states, then making the
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by suresk 14y ago
They don't necessarily force the developer to deal with the problem, unless you're talking about checked exceptions (which are a whole other controversial programming opinion). What they do accomplish, in my opinion, is more deterministic
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by suresk 14y ago
I agree with the assertion that few (probably close to 0) programmers routinely write bug-free code, but I think "incompetent" is a bit harsh - "imperfect" is more apt, I think. Very, very few non-trivial pieces of code are completely bug-f
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by suresk 14y ago
I think the point retillit is trying to make is, why even bother with private insurance companies if insurance is compulsory? Which is a good question. The answer, I think, is partially politics, but also partly whether you think the compet
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by suresk 14y ago
A bit more attention? If spending half an hour thinking about an idea, and another 20 minutes building a 4 page website comes anywhere near a $1 million valuation, then I really don't know what to think anymore...
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by suresk 14y ago
There is practically no information on the site, and the whole thing couldn't have taken more than 15 minutes to throw together. Sure, take my $100.
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by suresk 14y ago
There is a lot of natural pressure to keep wages down in most companies. This is far, far worse in companies where software isn't their primary business. Programmer wages are going up much faster than other wages (even more if it is a devel
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by suresk 14y ago
One potential problem with that approach - a lot of people would utilize more knowledgeable salespeople like they currently utilize brick and mortar stores: Do the research there, then buy online to save money. This is fine for Apple, since
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by suresk 14y ago
I've just used an alias file for some of my more common typos ('sl' is probably my most common) - nice to know I'm not the only one who makes silly typos with enough frequency to warrant some kind of technological solution!
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by suresk 14y ago
This seems like a fairly common thing right now - I've got an update for my app that has been waiting to be reviewed for several weeks now, and lots of others have been reporting waiting times close to a month. Prior to this summer, wait ti
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by suresk 14y ago
Don't know if I'll have time (or the skills) to finish Level 8 (it looks pretty intense), but the other levels were a lot of fun. This was done really well - thanks for doing it!
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by suresk 14y ago
Yes, absolutely. The main drawback is that all of them (at least the main ones - Scala, JRuby, Groovy, Clojure) all have their own runtime libraries, which bloats the size of the app considerably. I believe most people who go down this rout
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by suresk 14y ago
I got prompted by Chrome to allow 3 different plugins to run on the homepage alone. This site might be useful to the internet as the canonical web design anti-pattern repository.
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by suresk 14y ago
While I agree that the concept of Daily Deals and Groupon as an implementation of that concept are not dead, I still think Groupon is going to struggle. 1) The model is promising for some businesses, but a lot of them end up being one-time
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by suresk 14y ago
Something like that would certainly work - I was thinking a one-time code could be emailed to the email address on the account, but either way would be fine. Given the relative simplicity, I wonder why nobody (at least that I know of) has i
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by suresk 14y ago
This doesn't sound good, but it got me thinking.. How do you verify someone is who they say they are in situations like this? As we've seen with recent breaches, the last 4 digits of your CC # aren't incredibly hard to find out. "Secret" qu
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by suresk 14y ago
Here is a worse one: > What is the make of your first car? The number of relatively common car makers is really low, and when you factor in the fact that most people don't get a really high-end car as their first car, 5 or 6 makers are
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by suresk 14y ago
I would also argue that while learning stuff on your own is doable for most people, it is even more important to know what you need to learn and to stick with learning it, even if it doesn't seem immediately useful. This is one thing I th
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by suresk 14y ago
Not getting a CS education was my biggest mistake. I got most of a Finance degree, then dropped out when I ran out of money and found out people would pay decent money to a relatively inexperienced programmer. I'm happy with the way things
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by suresk 14y ago
> and information relating to Mobile and Dial-In Authenticators were also accessed. I don't know a ton about 2 factor auth implementation details, but I'm assuming that if you were able to access the serial # or whatever is used to uniq
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by suresk 14y ago
The bulk of the damage was done as a result of the breach in Apple's security - all the Amazon breach did was give the attacker the last 4 digits of a card, which is not super private anyway. It isn't 100% fair - and to be clear, processes
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by suresk 14y ago
Given how central (for better or worse) of a role email plays in safeguarding other accounts, the hassle of 2-factor auth for it is feeling like less and less of an annoyance. About a month ago, one of my credit card accounts got hacked and
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by suresk 14y ago
If a decent to-do app is enough advertisement to be able to justify an hourly rate of $1000 (or even 1/4 that), I've been doing something really wrong. However, the $10,000 fee (or at least some significant fee) for signing an NDA bonus is
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by suresk 14y ago
Texting while driving is never safe. Please stop doing it.
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Interestingly, I believe this is roughly the same size (in LOC) as Eclipse (counting the entire release train), give or take a few million. I don't have any specific knowledge about VS, but most giant software projects (including Eclipse) w
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by suresk 14y ago
They really are horrible. When I'm given a small list of questions to choose from, they generally fall into three buckets: - Completely non-applicable (I'm not married and don't have any kids or pets) - Transitory and inane (I don't really

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