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by umjames 17y ago
That's true. When I was in college as a CS undergrad, the only hardware-themed course we were required to take was an Intro to Computer Engineering class that was mostly done on paper (think logic gate circuit diagrams and truth tables). T
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by umjames 17y ago
It makes you wonder why they don't mark applications with the explicit tag that they use for the rest of the iTunes Store. Then you could have parental controls that disallow explicit content (apps or otherwise) from being visible to certa
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by umjames 17y ago
I don't think I agree with no comments in methods and not much comments overall. What if the comments specify why you're taking a certain approach over another or something that was decided by other people? Comments are good for documentin
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by umjames 17y ago
Yes, you didn't know that? Wherever you see the word "enterprise" just replace it with "CYA". As someone whose day job entails writing servlets (and all Java web development boils down to servlets), I find that I really can no longer get e
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by umjames 17y ago
I'd also like to see a list of the diets and living habits of people in these countries. How is their work/life balance? When I was in France (granted it was 1995), I saw that a lot of people smoked, which could explain how they stay thin
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by umjames 17y ago
Of course they do, not only are they playing for the right to win a championship, but their contracts have incentive clauses for advancing through and winning the title. It also means they'll have more leverage when they negotiate for highe
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by umjames 17y ago
I think the deeper question here is how eager are the recently-unemployed to find another job and what is the key motivating factor to get another job? I think it's highly related to how people in different countries view the world of work
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by umjames 17y ago
Just add TPS reports and you're working at Initech. Have you ever been on a day-long 7-person email conversation to change one string to another in a text file, and 6 of those people were IT people? I feel your pain.
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by umjames 17y ago
I would say to start building things, not for the purpose that someone will hire you for it someday, but because you actually want to build it. If your goal is just to get hired somewhere, what happens when you finally get a job? Do you s
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by umjames 17y ago
I'm not sure most IT departments really want a seamless, easy-to-use and easy-to-administer solution. Judging from the IT shops I've worked in, I'd say that they prefer the opposite. It employs more people for longer amounts of time tha
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by umjames 18y ago
If that's true, we should re-purpose ADD to stand for Advertisement Deluge Disorder.
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by umjames 18y ago
As if HL7 wasn't complicated enough. I've written my own HL7 (pre-XML v2.x) message parser and generator in Java for work. I'd really like to not have to touch that code again, if possible. My code is easy enough to understand, but I don'
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by umjames 18y ago
Maybe instead of exclaiming "Blu-ray!", they could have exclaimed "Conficker!" or "IE!". Sheesh.
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by umjames 18y ago
That's fine by me. I'm sure some of the things they'll discuss will be new to people. At least they're trying to help. That said, I'll agree with Homer when in that episode, he said: "Alright, alright! I'll go to clown college!"
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by umjames 18y ago
I think the advantage of having non-maximized windows is that dragging and dropping data from one app (or even one window) to another is a lot easier and more intuitive without going through the Windows task bar. It's also easier to do some
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by umjames 18y ago
I can't attest for South Korea and Scandinavian countries, but Japan's internet access was unbelievable when I was there for a week on vacation. From what I understand, they're working on getting 1GB of bandwidth to the home over there. M
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by umjames 18y ago
I think to fix the education system, you have to fix the employment and hiring systems first. Unfortunately, a lot of people view college as a 4-year job-preparation institution instead of an institute of higher learning. Then again, you c
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by umjames 18y ago
...is also the second rule of conficker
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by umjames 18y ago
I wish someone from my job was going (particularly my boss), but I seriously doubt it. They aren't enlightened enough to go.
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by umjames 18y ago
Overall, I would say no. I think a developer who spends more time actually developing is better off than one who only studies about the theories of Computer Science and doesn't really ever apply the knowledge they acquired. That's not to s
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by umjames 18y ago
And if the key bindings in OS X's System Preferences isn't something you want to use, Command+Left Arrow and Command+Right Arrow move the cursor to the front and end of the line respectively.
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by umjames 18y ago
Pretending that something does matter when I've already come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter doesn't work for me. I can't fool myself like that without some other consequence making me do that thing. I actually want to do things t
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by umjames 18y ago
It doesn't have anything to do with "dirty" or Mike Rowe. You were saying that you were tired of people complaining about their jobs. I happen to think that complaining about your job is fine. I don't think anyone is trying to hijack the
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by umjames 18y ago
I know it's not going to happen, but I say if IE updates break existing enterprise web sites because they are more standards-compliant, then go for it. Any place that's holding on to IE6 because they're afraid to break IE-only web sites pr
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by umjames 18y ago
Of course the TV show has to depict physically dirty jobs. Most TV programs seem to have a requirement to capture and keep hold of the viewer's eyes and ears. A TV show where a bunch of people sit in cubicles in a mostly silent office and
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by umjames 18y ago
It looks like they're a business consulting agency, not a direct-to-customer app shop. They'll be going to individual businesses as consultants and developing apps that work with the company's in-house systems. So you're not likely to be
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by umjames 18y ago
Yeah, I was hoping to find an article about giving your employees more autonomy and letting them work on projects that interest them. The title was slightly misleading to me.
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by umjames 18y ago
Because vendor-made enterprise software is a culmination of that vendor trying to say "yes" to the questions of almost every company who expressed interest in their software.
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by umjames 18y ago
I can haz WiFi? It actually sounds like a good idea to me. Is there a reason this is a joke instead of a legitimate business idea?
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by umjames 18y ago
Inspirational article for those of us doing (or at least wish we were doing) Mac indie development.

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