terrywilcox

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by terrywilcox 12y ago
I'm disappointed by your misuse of "obsolete".
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by terrywilcox 12y ago
I have an opposable thumb, so I just move my thumb off the screen when it's in the way. It's like when I'm holding onto something; I just move my thumb off to let go.
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by terrywilcox 12y ago
"in a sense our military spending subsidizes Canadian healthcare" In the nonsense sense, yes. Your military spending subsidizes American defence contractors, who subsidize American politicians. "Free" healthcare beats no
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by terrywilcox 13y ago
"pro homo"? Really? You go with a derogatory term, issue the standard "I know gay people so I'm not a bigot" defence, and expect people to take you seriously? Your first sentence was fine, but you should have stoppe
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by terrywilcox 14y ago
It's best that you give up now. The app submission and approval process also requires patience. As do all the stupid users with their stupid questions and stupid one star reviews because they don't understand how it works. And the paperwork
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by terrywilcox 14y ago
I'm in Canada and my DUNS application took about a week. As far as I'm concerned it's just another business number that I need to apply for. You won't get far in business if you don't have the patience to put up with all the stupid paperwor
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by terrywilcox 14y ago
I own a Canadian corporation and had zero problems getting a DUNS number, once I figured out what it is. It was free and only took a couple of weeks from start to finish. It wasn't half as annoying as having to snail mail a piece of paper t
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by terrywilcox 14y ago
It's OK if my analysis is flawed because I'm not trolling for page hits. I did write that on my Air though.
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by terrywilcox 14y ago
After cutting Ultrabook shipping forecasts by 50% for the year, the 4th quarter shipments are supposed to be larger than the sum of shipments in the first three quarters? And in this one quarter alone, those shipments will exceed the sales
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by terrywilcox 14y ago
I'm not sure what the symbols mean, but there's a red circle next to Kingston, ON. The Kingston info is correct. It's in the right location and Portsmouth is part of Kingston. The Belleville information looks mostly correct, though it place
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by terrywilcox 14y ago
My total medical bill for having a child: $0. My bill for visits to my doctor (checkup, prescription renewal, etc.): $0. My hospital bill for stitches after too much beer: $0. The out-of-pocket cost of health care is not something we Canadi
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
If you want attention in the fashionable inheritance bashing crowd, you need some hyperbole to stand out. Simply saying "inheritance has its uses, but should be used in moderation" isn't going to score too many points.
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
NeXT voluntarily coming into compliance when asked is not nearly as exciting as "Apple violates GPL!".
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
Except it wasn't Apple. NeXT wasn't Apple. It particularly wasn't Apple in 1989. And it came into compliance, then contributed to gcc. That makes the headline bogus. Fishing for page views?
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
Straw man. Edit: I'm not saying that the original argument is correct, as it really isn't, but your response was a straw man.
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. The Occupy Wall Street movement may have people who feel entitled to something, but I'd say Wall Street has a bigger sense of entitlement. Remember how upset they got when their bonuses were in danger unless
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
How is buying a house and working a job a safe thing? I'm Canadian. We Canadians grow up extremely aware of our behemoth neighbour. We watch your TV, your news, your movies. Your culture permeates our culture. And your culture celebrates ho
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
Projecting your life upon others is remarkably naive. He ignores the students who have to drop out and take care of the family when a parent gets sick or dies. He ignores the students who get sick or battle addictions or have mental health
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
If you're not receiving resumes from women, you may want to examine your job advertising, benefits, and reputation in the industry. The way you advertise jobs will have a large influence on the type of people who apply. Word of mouth throug
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
I live in Calgary where, despite the old boy network, we have a large number of female IT professionals and engineers. They still face barriers, but it's improving. Your hiring experience sounds unusual. You never get resumes from women? Y
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
You've missed the bus on female nerds vs. male nerds. My wife is a senior Oracle DBA. She's very technical. She has great Unix skills on top of her Oracle knowledge. I know plenty of women like that in tech. Intelligent, highly skilled, mot
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
The C++ programmer who can't get a job is 47. He was unemployed for 10 months and is now considering taking a couse on Java. I'm 46. I was just unemployed (voluntarily and happily) for 10 months. In that time I wrote an iPhone app, took a R
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
Stop and be flattered, you're clearly doing something right. If they're just copying you, continue to innovate. If one of them actually manages to come up with a good idea, steal it. Above all, realize that the idea itself is not sufficient
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by terrywilcox 15y ago
I wish I had read your comment before reading the article.
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by terrywilcox 16y ago
How is Apple excluding competitive products? VLC is in the App Store. Apple isn't excluding it at all. Apple's not doing the complaining.
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by terrywilcox 16y ago
How would that sell more Apple hardware? A $300 AppleTV isn't going to sell as well as a $99 AppleTV, particularly to people who just want to watch TV.
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by terrywilcox 16y ago
I don't qualify any languages as OO, their creators do. You can do OO in any language, with varying degrees of difficulty and success. The language merely tries to provide mechanisms for encouraging object oriented design (or not). You appe
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by terrywilcox 16y ago
I think you'll find that the basic principles of good design are shared between most design philosophies. Reducing coupling and increasing cohesion spring to mind. Stop thinking in terms of whether a language claims to be object oriented an
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by terrywilcox 16y ago
I rarely see programmers agree on anything. We're very argumentative. I've worked with people who insist their code is object oriented because it's written in Java, even though it's all classes full of static methods with no instance variab
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by terrywilcox 16y ago
Object Orientation is a design philosophy, not a concrete process or mechanism. Its major principle is encapsulation; things outside of me don't need to know about my internal workings, just my external appearance. This leads to abstraction

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