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by teyc 15y ago
While PhD may sound like a qualifying area, I don't think you should necessarily give up. The reason is a PhD in, say, Chemical Engineering, doesn't really help with electronic patents do they? Read up on Groklaw the issues at hand and see
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Patent law is becoming a serious issue in I.T. Don't worry about low paying jobs initially, as long as it is in the right area. The debt is already going to kill you, so don't sweat it anymore. It is irrelevant to the discussion. Just don't
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by teyc 15y ago
What's the point of minimalism if not to reduce one's impact on the world? Am I understanding this "movement" incorrectly? It is very similar to agile. Don't optimize prematurely. "You aren't going to need it"
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by teyc 15y ago
I was just telling my son that a Buddhist monk is only allowed to own 4 kinds of items, not necessarily 4 items. Nowadays when people think they need to "own" things to be happy, hopefully it serves as a call to others that it is not only p
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by teyc 15y ago
Not a problem really. People need security fixes. If they download from elsewhere, they won't get priority notification. You can also obfuscate your code. In the long run, you can also remove dependencies on WP, by writing your own code to
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If you squint your eyes, and tilt your head slightly to the left, a franchise is like a software business.
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by teyc 15y ago
How did the startup that made cheese sandwiches go?
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by teyc 15y ago
It would be more intuitive for hardware switches to trump software ones. For instance, if I push the power off button on my mains, I mean it. Not obeying this directive is the province of HAL.
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The problem here is domain knowledge. Everybody understands what a To Do List is.
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Multiplayer mode can be extremely hard and can take any fun out of being an indie game developer. I'm still not sure if it is the right abstraction to work in on day one.
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by teyc 15y ago
The 20-under-20 isn't about "no formal education". It is about formless education, which is different to no education. Formless education is a style of seeking knowledge, not just from formal educators, but Ali from practitioners who are no
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by teyc 15y ago
Engineering has been always about trade offs. Every time I'm raced to use reflection to get to private members, I'm reminded that these abstractions are never free.
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+1 reminds me of j2ee pet shop. Beautiful abstractions; low as a dog.
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Abstractions reflect a persons understanding of the problem space. Iterative game development is exploratory. There is some trade off between redundant code and ease of local modification without worrying about global impact.
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Not that controversial in Python. GvR's attitude is use conventions, and "after all, we are all consenting adults. :)" I found this worked very well in real life.
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ObjectFactoryFacadeCollection eh? I know of a lot of people who'd code like this saying that it makes their code more testable et c, but they couldn't show me any test code.
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by teyc 15y ago
The toolkits are really just a starting point. Most of them work on a callback manner, similar to how you'd deal with device drivers, e.g. someone pressed a button and you'd respond with showing/hiding another panel. However, if you wrote c
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by teyc 15y ago
Not only that, foreign aid is usually tied to spending the money on US services, businesses and products. When it comes down to it, it is a giveaway for businesses under the guise of foreign aid.
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by teyc 15y ago
I'm sure they'd have change in requirements, but that happens in any project. However, the obvious distinction here is there is no development application, or approvals from government. This is the wild west.
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There was an old news article talking about how this Chinese guy started a factory. He had a plot of land, and went out with a contractor, paper pad in hand, roughly drawing the outline of the factory, as well as where the offices were goin
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by teyc 15y ago
1. Would donations be tax-exempt? 2. Would these people be entitled to privacy when they perform their religious activities? 3. Would they be able to block courts the publication of their secret rites? 4. Would they be allowed to freely exp
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by teyc 15y ago
It is comforting to see someone like Chris Crawford, who has multiple hits, to admit failure. This is a guy who comes out with a lot of interesting game ideas.
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What Went Wrong with "The Erasmatron" - Chris Crawford(storytron.com)
7 points by teyc 15y ago|1 comments
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by teyc 15y ago
one of the basic purposes of system architecture is to partition a system into one of roles and responsibilities. For instance, software belongs to the ISV; configuration belongs technicians, and business rules belong to analysts. Since eac
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by teyc 15y ago
The issue at hand isn't businesses being sabotaged, but rather , nobody wants the world to go back to ironcurtains being drawn and government has the monopoly on truth.
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Read the article carefully. This guy has a point. Zipfs law applies to software stacks. There is always a leader , the second and third place drops off exponentially. So, in .NET, the leader is obviously MS with its tooling. However, these
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by teyc 15y ago
oh I see. I agree with you entirely.
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Production code baes are never trivial enough for a quick test. They usually require a deep understanding of domain. Have you ever tried to fix an open bug on a GitHub project? It is non-trivial.
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by teyc 15y ago
Here's something worth trying. 1. Look for existing businesses in your local area that already has a website, preferably a small site. 2. Go to http://www.howtogomo.com/en/ 3. Run a report on their site. If their site looks terrible on mo
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by teyc 15y ago
Could it possibly be a talent acquisition? After all, they have demonstrated ability to put FB and Twitter on a feature phone. Furthermore, one of the problems with Symbian is entrenched management issues. By getting rid of the entire Symbi

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