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by varikin 15y ago
From the customer care side of it, responsiveness matters a lot in the enterprise world (and the non-enterprise world as well). Even if a very complicated issue takes 3 months to fix, responding to an email or opened ticket within an hour a
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by varikin 15y ago
The firehose and feeds pages on diveintomark are still active. http://firehose.diveintomark.org/ http://feeds.diveintomark.org/
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by varikin 15y ago
I always wanted to support OpenOffice and then LibreOffice, but it has never been as good as Word. Sadly, the corporate world uses MS Office and that forces me to use Office. The compatibility for complex files are lacking. Formatting would
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by varikin 15y ago
I agree. I just signed up for a paid account on Saturday for one project I didn't want public. Time to reassess my options.
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by varikin 15y ago
I have been bitten by that a couple times now. I develop on a mac, but deploy on Linux and had a couple cases of trying to import or open a file that couldn't be found due to a case issue. And it is next to impossible to rename the file on
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by varikin 15y ago
It seems an extreme that the web will in 50 years will require different browsers for every site. The way I read this is that HTML/CSS/JS could be replaced overtime, bit by bit in 50 years by something else. Flash could have done this, thou
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by varikin 15y ago
I agree with one nitpick. The web is Wikipedia, Google, Facebbok, blogs, HN, and everything because of of the concept of the hyperlink. It couldn't exist without the hyperlink. That everything is written in HTML, CSS, JS, and other related
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by varikin 15y ago
I agree. It isn't just pure programming that I have learned either. It is learning more about tools, different apps, different workflows, and new debugging tips. Also, I don't think the experience matters. Someone fresh out of school may ha
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by varikin 15y ago
On those lines, I have realized lately that I am more inclined to buy products that have familiar names, especially if it is a type of product I am not familiar with. For example, if I needed some allergy medication, I would look for someth
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by varikin 15y ago
Except were you get wrong results but not errors. If the JS engine doesn't see an error, it doesn't know to fallback.
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by varikin 15y ago
That description was meant for those who don't understand programming, weak & strong typing, & type inference. It is a good enough description for those who don't know and will never care to know more. I understand the importance of
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by varikin 15y ago
I love the ease of UI. I like a graphical way to look through logs and diffs and Github does this better than anyone else. Beyond that, if I want a nice web based alternative, I would have to maintain it which I hate doing. Really, $7 is no
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by varikin 15y ago
One thing I think should be added is that to participate in the community. It can be working on projects—your own or other open source projects, being active on IRC and mailing lists, or going to local user groups. I like to believe I got m
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by varikin 15y ago
We had mandatory code reviews at a previous job. We had a grab someone and have them look at the code in our cube pre-checkin. I found that is was great for finding non-obvious bugs. For example, our codebase was for a legacy system and the
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by varikin 15y ago
In regards to our system, very internal, unless you want add PICK to your list of databases :)
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by varikin 15y ago
We recently added agree/disagree buttons which works much like voting. There have been talks about more sophisticated things like thresholds and sorting, but it is happening slowly.
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by varikin 15y ago
We want input. I know the executives want feedback. Our company has a good history change through complaints and feedback. The founders were skeptical of version control, a programmer said we need it. They adopted CVS even though the founde
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by varikin 15y ago
A forum was recently launched at work which allows anonymous posts and comments. It has been both good and bad. The good: Open discussions about sensitive topics with fear being singled out. A good example of this is that someone posted abo
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by varikin 15y ago
I can't be bothered to manually sort something. Tell me when I can just call wallet.sort().
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by varikin 15y ago
I use to work with Oracle daily (previous job) and now I use MySQL mostly with some Postgres and SQLServer at times (lots of client work). I would say all these databases are worthwhile as long as the DBA is competent. Given that, unless yo
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by varikin 15y ago
1.5 did introduce at least one major backwards incompatible change. A new keyword which meant any variables named enum now broke the app. Installing a new Java version on your desktop to run some app is different than rolling out a new majo
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by varikin 15y ago
And it was non-trivial to go from Java 1.4 to 1.5.
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by varikin 15y ago
From a logical standpoint, you are correct. From a marketing or political (business, no government politics), Apple could blame Microsoft for iCloud failing, regardless of the truth, to a point. To put it another way, I frequently tell peop
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by varikin 15y ago
The occasional security release breaks that. I have had to install updates, and then it found more after a reboot. Though I haven't done that on a base 10.6 to current.
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by varikin 15y ago
It is an ugly step when you have to go through 3 or 4 updates in row that require reboots.
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by varikin 15y ago
Restore with your current restore DVD/flash drive first then reinstall to Lion. I assume new computers will still come with the restore DVD or flash drive in the case of the Air. Sounds like the starting point to me.
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by varikin 15y ago
Rdio has done it this way. My wife and I share an account. If I am listening to something and she starts listening, after the song I am currently listening too ends, it stops. If I then play another song, hers stops.
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by varikin 15y ago
One strange aside to this is from the journalists perspective. My mom was a reporter for many years in a small town and talked frequently to the cops. She was good friends with some of them and not so good friends with others—due to politic
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by varikin 15y ago
I am not saying Apple isn't doing well, just that they are great at consumer products but "meh" at business products. That is not a problem though. They are great a consumer products and I admire their ability to release a product without w
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by varikin 15y ago
XServe and WebObjects.

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