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by taligent 14y ago
Looks very interesting and wish them all the best.
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by taligent 14y ago
> Is that true in 2013? It's absolutely true and nothing will ever change it. The fact is that likability and fun at the workplace can routinely trump the quality of the output. Especially if the manager is a permanent employee and they
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by taligent 14y ago
Which if it's the case then they have a shocking lack of understanding of how people actually work. I mean people email every day do we need to get rid of that as well ?
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by taligent 14y ago
> What's the point of the faux outrage at Yahoo's HR decision? Because Yahoo is still respected enough to affect the decision making process at other companies. And many of us want to see more flexibility and trust in our work life. Wor
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by taligent 14y ago
Actually it would be a pointless to use it for the purpose you describe. What truly separates Pixel from a $250 laptop is the retina, touchscreen display which is wasted if you are exclusively using it for VNC.
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by taligent 14y ago
Chrome and Safari both use WebKit and it handles it terribly. So again. Unless Google has added something magical in recent builds of WebKit that hasn't yet made it to the iPad then it will equally be terrible.
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by taligent 14y ago
Unless Google has done a lot of work with WebKit then it is going to be a pretty awful experience. You only have to compare the native Google Maps with the web version to know that "touch" is poorly handled by browsers. It is an order of ma
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by taligent 14y ago
You might have to move your eyes left/right to read. But it sure beats having to move your head.
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by taligent 14y ago
It can boot Linux but the trackpad and touchscreen doesn't work. Again. Why wouldn't you buy a MacBook Pro that is usable out of the box ?
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by taligent 14y ago
Really. The only thing not making it a 'great' device is the battery life ? You do realise that ALL it does is surf the web ? I don't understand why anybody would buy it over an iPad or a refurbished MacBook Pro. I personally think it is on
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by taligent 14y ago
The reason wider screens are preferred is because of human's field of view. We see 180 degrees horizontally yet only 135 degrees vertically. So why on earth would you build a screen that requires people to expend more energy to use ?
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by taligent 14y ago
> Especially true for coding where it's useful to see as many lines of code on the screen at possible. Have to disagree here. For Java and iOS development widescreen is far better because it allows project tree on the left, code in the
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by taligent 14y ago
What a ridiculous argument. You are talking about behavioural issues i.e. not being available for scheduled meetings not something inherent to working remotely. Or to put it more simply: Where's Bob? He should be in this meeting. He's
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by taligent 14y ago
Exactly. Every single person talking about how working remotely doesn't work can be refuted by open source. And why does no one talk about how working in an office reduces productivity. I know I get far more done at home.
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by taligent 14y ago
Play is not new. It's been around for years and was the first Java framework of its kind. You know in the time it took you to write that you could have Google'd this information.
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by taligent 14y ago
Well let's be clear here. In Play 1 development happened on Java first and Scala second. In Play 2 development happened on Scala first and Java second.
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by taligent 14y ago
The FACTS speak for themselves. Look at the sales and Apple's advertising.
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by taligent 14y ago
What about them ? I honestly don't think of them as IDEs more as text editors with syntax highlighting.
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by taligent 14y ago
> No, the point was that you could seamlessly move between different clients One word. Dropbox. I work on three computers every day. Documents, Preferences etc all sync immediately. And how does living in the cloud help me when
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by taligent 14y ago
Do you realise how completely ridiculous and illogical you sound ? > I've never really understood being cheap with something that you're going to look at and touch 6-10 hours a day for 3-4 years, on average. So if that is the cas
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by taligent 14y ago
So why wouldn't you spend the few hundred more and get a MacBook Pro that isn't a dumb terminal ?
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by taligent 14y ago
> There is also nothing stopping you from porting your favorite development tools to NaCl. You expect people to dedicate YEARS of their life porting development tools to a platform that in all likelihood is going to be dead soon
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by taligent 14y ago
That's Play 2 you are talking about. Play 1 had instant refresh. It is not necessarily the case that you would use Play 2 for new projects.
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by taligent 14y ago
jbooth: Hindsight is a wonderful thing. The standards weren't terrible it was the entire concepts themselves and reflective of that era of computing. Most people thought XML was the future of the world and component architectures would be h
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by taligent 14y ago
The Java Community Process back in the day was a good example of how lots of large companies working together could define a standard and yet still leave room for innovation. H.264 and WiFi standards are recent examples of a lot of companie
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by taligent 14y ago
>I'd go so far as to say that in these areas Google is serving as a model corporate citizen. Well that is a curious way to look at it. Instead of working with other companies to define a common standard they force it through at
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by taligent 14y ago
This has nothing to do with 9/11. It has done with a passenger exhibiting odd behaviour leading to the flight attendant believing that he might cause a disturbance during the flight. People causing problems on planes are a nightmare for air
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by taligent 14y ago
> It is a word. Context matters. Context in this case would suggest there was nothing to worry about. Wait. A plane is an appropriate context for the word "terrorist" ? Interesting.
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by taligent 14y ago
This sort of attitude is childish and pathetic. And it will get you absolutely nowhere in life. Nowhere.
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by taligent 14y ago
Yes. I take it you've never worked at an enterprise company before ? Every time a new developer comes on board they just love to add new technology X and then in the years to come other developers add Y and so on. Of course there are develo

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