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by teyc 15y ago
The biggest take away is that it is better to be direct than indirect. When you have only one component to modify, it is clear that the new code goes into that component. When you have multiple layers of components, it takes a lot more anal
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by teyc 15y ago
I've not heard of TF2, but the characters are quite unique in the sense that none of the them conform to our daily ideas of what heroes look like.
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by teyc 15y ago
No. If you called Sprint and the operator told you he/she can't update your customer details because the latest version of FF was incompatible with the CRM software they were using, you'd be rather unhappy. This is why I.T. departments have
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by teyc 15y ago
Someone will have to give Mozilla due credit for being upfront with what it is, instead of saying sweet nothings. The message from Mozilla is loud and clear. They are a consumer product, and have no enterprise aspirations. In contrast, comp
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by teyc 15y ago
Here are some quick thoughts: 1. Customer acquisition costs vs customer retention costs. I recall Indinero went from freemium to paid and then back to freemium. Their feature set weren't complete, and keeping them on free and eventually off
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by teyc 15y ago
It is stunningly beautiful. Can you sell it as a theme, on Themeforest? say?
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by teyc 15y ago
| The failure of GoF, in particular, is that people took it as a golden rule for every environment +1 Back in the days of C when assembly was still important, calling conventions represented patterns that ensure the stack got cleaned up p
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by teyc 15y ago
Also read Tom de Marco. Try to put your developers closer to your customers. It always helps to put a face to the problems they are trying to solve.
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by teyc 15y ago
Still getting 404. Some browsers can share their GeoIP. navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(showMap); http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html
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by teyc 15y ago
There was this post by a professional driver developer who wrote Linux drivers for the hardware company he works for. The problem he said, (I'm now paraphrasing) is that the kernel APIs kept changing and he had to keep reworking his drivers
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by teyc 15y ago
+1 It is like solving sudoku. There's a rush when you solve it, but it is not like you have made a genuine progress.
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by teyc 15y ago
Actually, I'm wondering how does a bitcoin bank avoid physical robberies? For example, a criminal or government officials physically kidnaps a bank official and demands the private keys? How do you implement the equivalent of cryptographic
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by teyc 15y ago
I've been thinking about bitcoins. If there is some way clearing houses can prove they own a certain quantity of bitcoins, then, the bitcoins don't need to be physically transferred. This has some advantages. Firstly, the bitcoins can be se
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by teyc 15y ago
I wouldn't necessarily blame this on the guy programming this. However, the person who spec'd the application up would be due for a quick demotion. The problem with antiquated bank systems is that the teller is trusted with the access to an
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by teyc 15y ago
Neither do I. There is really no safe method if a piece of malware can read your process memory, or read your temp files. Assuming your process memory is safe and the seed value is safe, then we can require the user to enter another passwor
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by teyc 15y ago
I wonder if this approach is any good at mastering technical exams like SCJP etc.
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by teyc 15y ago
Of historical note - the IBM PC was a de facto reference platform and the Taiwanese were there too.
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by teyc 15y ago
it is a new technology after all, people are just getting a feel of things. I don't know anything about how Bitcoin Wallet works technically. Anyone care to point to some references? Incidentally, isn't the Zeus Trojan a keylogger? Would se
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by teyc 15y ago
The problem is not necessarily because Color didn't get traction. Entrepreneurs have a great deal of patience and will try different things. My reading is that there is some kind of disagreement over direction (either with the other founder
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by teyc 15y ago
I wonder if this caused the demise of Nokia?
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by teyc 15y ago
Yes for new development, but major projects developed in VB6 still needs to be supported.
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by teyc 15y ago
They can be quite different. For instance, HP WebOS uses additional attributes to turn DIVs into Buttons. I've no idea what MS is going to come up with.
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by teyc 15y ago
Once MS stops development of VB6, the deathclock on its runtime has effectively started. The VB6 runtime may in the future only run on XP emulation. The situation is even more dire with the IDE. The support has effectively run out and if th
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by teyc 15y ago
MS has lost a lot of trust when they killed off VFP and then VB6. People with large codebases had to migrate and it means loss of competitive advantage making new code do old things.
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by teyc 15y ago
Well, the tools may be awful, but designers are not easily persuaded to change their tools. Even today, Photoshop trumps Illustrator in popularity. There is no workflow from PSD to HTML other than a secondary market of slicers. If MS wish
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by teyc 15y ago
There is probably another reason here. WPF and Silverlight were meant to bring rich beautiful interfaces to Windows. But they did not succeed not because of the technology. The reason is precisely because a majority of the people who are pr
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by teyc 15y ago
Yeah, I've been following the naiveuser Jupiter dissection. There is no Silverlight runtime. A new library has been developed on top of DirectUI, similar to Win32 on WinNT. It is not WPF and it is not Silverlight. It will probably start as
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by teyc 15y ago
Don't forget, WPF held up LongHorn and they had to reboot their development. By taking care of the windowing framework deep within Windows (presumably the underlying code is unmanaged) and removing the dependency on .NET, Windows division i
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by teyc 15y ago
No, I suspect it is a deeper fear. C# and Java devs have always commanded higher rates despite the HTML devs producing better looking apps and cheaper rates. With HTML being a first class citizen, I'm afraid this heralds the end of the .NET
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by teyc 15y ago
there's a chance that what they jump to won't be controlled by Microsoft. ... like HTML and jQuery ?

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