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by suresk 14y ago
I tend to think debugging is a pretty useful indicator of how well someone will do - the best developers I've known were really good at debugging, and I've seen very few people be good at debugging and bad at programming - so I usually try
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by suresk 14y ago
Maybe. But I think the school system (K-12 and higher education) are somewhat culpable here. Starting fairly early, we teach students that there are a bunch of hoops they need to jump through in order to get a good job later in life. For an
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by suresk 14y ago
Once people find out that you build software, they are (in my experience, at least) all too happy to tell you what kind of app/website you should build. The bad news is that most of the ideas they have are unworkable, unmarketable, or just
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by suresk 14y ago
> [...] but they're worse when you're suing a megabank, because the suit impacts the broader economy. I don't disagree with the factual correctness of this statement, but the implication is unsettling. Any kind of legal action from the
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by suresk 14y ago
I'm primarily a PC gamer, although I certainly see the benefits consoles bring to the table (cheaper, easier, much better for in-person multiplayer). I'm really dreading the death of PC gaming for one reason - controls. For a lot of game ty
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by suresk 14y ago
A monthly premium pass (for riding buses, Trax, and FrontRunner) is only $190 per month, which seems fairly reasonable. If you are commuting to/from downtown SLC, public transit is actually somewhat reasonable - I live in the southwest end
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by suresk 14y ago
VPS and Dedicated Servers certainly work and are usually going to be more economical, but then you are going to have to deal with all of the setup/maintenance tasks that Heroku abstracts away from you. I'd venture that there are far more pe
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by suresk 14y ago
This is kind of an annoying problem if you have a lot of small sites for whatever reason. I think their policy is reasonable and they are upfront about it, so I certainly don't begrudge them, but it is still annoying. What is the best way t
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by suresk 14y ago
More importantly - each incremental user costs the website operator money, but this isn't the case for broadcast content.
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by suresk 14y ago
If that is the case, I apologize and feel a bit sheepish. In my defense, I live an incredibly conservative area in the US, and many of my neighbors honestly believe this exact thing, so it isn't obvious sarcasm to me.
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by suresk 14y ago
The "Welfare Queen" exists largely in the imagination of the right. Even in areas of the US with relatively generous public assistance, the difference in standard of living for someone who relies solely on welfare versus someone with even a
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by suresk 14y ago
I may be misunderstanding you re: #2, but it their Simple card appears to just be a debit card with no overdraft protection.
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by suresk 14y ago
I'm genuinely curious - what is Simple doing that is disrupting the banking industry (excluding, of course, the current literal disruption of banking for their customers)? My current setup is a cash-back credit card, with the bills for it p
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by suresk 14y ago
This is an actual first-world problem, and dealing with it is going to be one of the most important and interesting challenges of the next 50 - 100 years. I see technology continuing to improve productivity, drive down demand for labor, and
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by suresk 14y ago
This has been a huge annoyance of mine. I had a smoke detector on a high ceiling (roughly 14ft high) that was defective - if the temperature got below 68 degrees, it would go off, setting off all the other alarms in the house and probably w
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by suresk 14y ago
Yeah, my Nexus is slowly overtaking my iPad in that department. It is a little surprising to me that I appear to have far more negative experiences with iPads than is normal - I don't really do anything out of the ordinary or even push the
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by suresk 14y ago
I own a number of electronic devices - Galaxy Nexus, iPad (3rd gen), MacBook Pro, iMac, and a Windows desktop. Surprisingly, the most unreliable (in terms of application crashes and weird issues that require a reboot of the device) is hands
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by suresk 14y ago
If we're talking about differentiating features (at least at a hardware level), I think it would be: - Larger display - Keyboard - Mouse - Power It depends on what your usage requirements are, of course, but once you start carrying around o
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by suresk 14y ago
This may partially be due to the maturity of the two: desktops and laptops are, of course, continuing to improve, but at a much slower rate, and you probably won't get a huge benefit out of an upgrade unless you are doing high-end stuff. Ta
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by suresk 14y ago
Breaking through layers of abstraction and learning more about what actually happens with the code you write is a generally useful thing, in my opinion. As a long-time Java developer, I've spent a fair amount of time learning about JVM inte
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by suresk 14y ago
This is depressing to read, and I think he is wrong, but the more I think about this, the more I think reforming patent issuance is not going to be as helpful as we think. Think about it - if the PTO stopped issuing software patents today,
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by suresk 14y ago
To be clear - I don't think Microsoft is shunning or trying to destroy (at least in the short term) the non-metro desktop. I just think they are going to be pushing metro (or whatever it is called now) pretty hard, and if you don't like met
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by suresk 14y ago
Yeah, but I'd argue that the major benefit of app stores are: - Discoverability - Easy payment processing/distribution - Automatic updates - Being able to easily re-download it later - Consistent purchase, install, update experience - Some
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by suresk 14y ago
Then how do you explain the fact that the Windows App Store is metro-only? That seems to imply that either Microsoft wants to push metro-style apps in the long run, or they don't care about the app store on the desktop - I'd put my money on
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by suresk 14y ago
I've had some other odd issues with Safari on my 3rd generation iPad: - About every day (sometimes much more frequently) a tab will just die. You'll click a link or enter a url, and the indicator in the top left corner will start spinning,
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by suresk 14y ago
Ah, remapping it to backspace is kind of interesting. The reason remapping it to control works well for me is that most of the keyboard shortcuts I use for things (and I use a lot) use it, so remapping the capslock key to it helps you keep
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by suresk 14y ago
Random usability rant: I find it slightly odd that, even now on Windows 8, keyboard customization requires so much effort in Windows. For example, I always make my capslock key an extra control key (if you haven't tried this before - try it
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by suresk 14y ago
Yeah, it's not quite as bad as it sounds. That said, I find it somewhat annoying that the new-style apps are clearly targeted at tablets, and yet are the only way to get apps sold via the Windows app store.
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by suresk 14y ago
Basically, no matter what the developer and Apple do, people will always use reviews as a place to submit vague bugs. There have been a few times where I was lucky enough to be able to track someone down based on their username and personal
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by suresk 14y ago
The behavior you want, I think, kind of depends. Regardless, since Java 6 (I think), if the GC time becomes excessive (where "excessive" means x% of time is spent in GC and less than y% of memory is reclaimed in each GC cycle), an OutOfMemo

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