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by tjpick 18y ago
All my bad habits are hidden behind a clean, stable public API.
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by tjpick 18y ago
I got a really comfortable chair from warehouse stationary (New Zealand) for about $300. Basically I went in, sat on every chair in there regardless of price or brand and chose a top 3. Then I tested these against each other several times a
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by tjpick 18y ago
you're right but what concerns me is being trigger happy with change while lacking in requirements, which is my impression of the original post.
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by tjpick 18y ago
I think it's a result of life. Diet, parenting, exercise, natural interests, drugs etc (things outside the education system) play as big a role. Current trend seems to be to blame the public education system for failings in other areas. The
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by tjpick 18y ago
Resting on the assumption that it's the system that's broken and not the kids?
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by tjpick 18y ago
this is so hard to use, so hard, so hard... type in username. So hard to use: ignores "usability standards"... type in password. How can anyone use this?! Completely unconventional... type in email. I hate to see a novel approach like this
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by tjpick 18y ago
I've never heard of the "across the room" usability test before. I'm intrigued: can you point to sources?
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by tjpick 18y ago
It's ok, but I find it too "sunny day" to really be meaningful. You end up thinking your site looks awesome, and then when you get real, quirky, half filled in, random content in there the site looks broken anyway. You're better off to get
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by tjpick 18y ago
The title is pretty bad. Nothing earth shattering there and nothing that is specific to programmers. It's just that often times the programmer gets stuck implementing it because they have the technical smarts. I've seen similarly bad design
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by tjpick 18y ago
I'm currently using GNUe DCL and it's working out pretty well for me. We also use it at my day job (team environment) and it's pretty good. Can be a little hard to get up and running and is a bit rough in places. Used fogbugz at previous jo
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by tjpick 18y ago
just use your pencil to draw one
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or choose to pay someone to do that admin work for you. There is always a cost: your time, your money, or your freedom. Your choice.
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by tjpick 18y ago
> Should we also home-school our children, keep our money under our mattress, grow our own food, give ourselves medical exams? There are companies/service providers out there grow some salad greens and tomatoes and eat those instead of
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by tjpick 18y ago
But that's not true in Stallman's case. He openly acknowledges it by stating that we should choose freedom over convenience. He recognizes the burden and encourages people to choose it anyway because freedom is worth fighting for. That's at
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by tjpick 18y ago
One effective technique to use is to write the shiny new thing down. It goes into a list of things you are working on or want to work on. Let it sit for a couple of days, jot down extra ideas and details as they come to you, do a little sco
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by tjpick 18y ago
Because web apps are on the web. Things that are on the web can be indexed. Things that are indexed can be found. Things that get found get users and make money. In some cases.
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by tjpick 18y ago
You are right about distinguishing between CS & SE. At least here in New Zealand there is a distinction between the two. I have a BE (software eng), which is internationally accredited, rather than a BSc (CS). The SE degree involves gen
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by tjpick 18y ago
The person with the code wins the argument.
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Peer pressure is the reason you use Facebook?
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by tjpick 18y ago
That's a strange argument. Learning to do something is going from seeing it being done, to doing it. Seeing the raw material, seeing the end product (either in you mind or in the world) and being able to use the raw material in the right wa
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by tjpick 18y ago
I have to balance this by saying that some of the most satisfying and elegant solutions I have found came from a careful, organised, timely approach to the problem where many options are considered, rather than slapping something together i
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yes, most things are.
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by tjpick 18y ago
using the internet means a dependence on an external system over which you have no control. OpenID is no less reliable in that regard than the internet in general.
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by tjpick 18y ago
it's not awesome. It's acceptable and you can get a job done with it as far as I can see. The author hypothesises that people choose plain PHP over drupal because they are scared off by the many configuration options. I'd say it's a case of
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by tjpick 18y ago
I just recently went to a RMS talk, and this is what he said too. (I paraphrase) Piracy is people in boats killing other people and stealing their stuff. What about software piracy? As far as I know, pirates use guns and boats, not software
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by tjpick 18y ago
HTML _is_ more semantic. It's perfect for marking up text.
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I'm in Christchurch, NZ. I just biked to work and "fantastic weather" is not the way I'd describe it. But then we are also not the "Far East". Other material in OP may or may not be true.
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by tjpick 18y ago
same amount of tea for me. About 2 coffees per week.
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we were doing this stuff for a couple of years at a search company I worked for.
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by tjpick 18y ago
for some reason I read that with a Scottish accent.

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