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by umjames 19y ago
Here's a question to both pg and rokhayakebe: How do you each define "working hard"? Is it the difficulty of the problem you're trying to solve or is it more so the time spent thinking about and/or physically solving the problem? I ask thi
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by umjames 19y ago
Excellent comment. It's true that outside of homework, college is a great place to put off getting a job for about 4 years :)
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by umjames 19y ago
Wow. This is why I like Apple. Despite all of the business rationale for this move, it actually feels like Apple cares for its early adopters. Whether they do or not is immaterial; the effect is still the same, it feels sincere.
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by umjames 19y ago
Which companies are profitable, the enterprise software companies or the corporations that buy their software, or both? I'm not blaming enterprise software companies for making money selling mediocre technology that doesn't work as well as
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by umjames 19y ago
It's funny how the person being interviewed is the CEO of a company that makes products that require the same expensive, over-hyped crap that he says is keeping "innovation" from happening in enterprise software. Otherwise, it's just more
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by umjames 19y ago
Recently, I had to make my way through some ColdFusion code because my job's external and staging websites (which haven't been updated in years prior to when I got there) use it. My advice: Run far away from ColdFusion. It does suck as muc
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by umjames 19y ago
College may not be the one actually killing your entrepreneurial spirit. Most colleges just put a contract out on you. Societal hivemind thinking (which begins when you're a child) and the face-time-driven workplace are the actual hitmen
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by umjames 19y ago
This sort of thing should be an "industry standard" among programmers. We'd all be happier if we had the freedom to dice up our work and play time (and locations) anyway we wanted. It looks like some people at Best Buy have been reading (o
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by umjames 19y ago
Didn't Paul Graham already cover this in his essay "How to Be Silicon Valley" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html )?
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by umjames 19y ago
I agree, I initially tried looking at the page on my iPhone while I was outside on the EDGE network. It took forever as I watched all the flash stuff in the sidebar not load. Then the article itself appeared in the sidebar as one big link
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by umjames 19y ago
But the results of that hard work can get you girls!
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With so many coders, it looks like there's enough for a 2nd book!
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It also doesn't mean that they don't produce high quality software. Remember, that when it comes to programming language choice, you often end up with programmer happiness (low ramp-up time to get something implemented) vs. performance. It
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by umjames 19y ago
ditto
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Hmmm... Read news.yc or work on boring enterprise apps at work? That's a tough one :)
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by umjames 19y ago
The problem with most CS courses (and any course in general) is that the class is taught to the lowest common denominator of students. Yes, a class can have pre-requisites, but the first required CS classes for freshmen cannot. Some colleg
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by umjames 19y ago
Let's hope so. Maybe they'll do it by allowing native Cocoa development on the iPhone. They can prove that giving developers access to an API better (and less restricted) than J2ME is the way to go.
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Who, Troy Angrignon or Vijay? :)
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by umjames 19y ago
Maybe the iPhone sends a custom HTTP header that the server logic checks for to determine which content to show. When you get an iPhone, create a page that dumps the user's HTTP request (either on the page or in the server logs) and then ac
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by umjames 19y ago
You're pretty much right. The problems really start when you work in an enterprise but you are on a very small team (no greater than 2, but almost always just me), and your boss wants it done in Java for no real good reason. Another proble
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by umjames 19y ago
Ha ha :) Was there something really wrong with AJAX? I gues s these products are aimed at corporate drones who want AJAX for buzzword-compliance reasons, not because they actually know anything about it.