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by wanderr 16y ago
I'd argue that who's at the helm has a direct influence over whether a company follows a changing market and grows with it or stagnates (or fails).
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by wanderr 16y ago
I have some influence over certain hiring decisions at a startup. I'd look at experience like that and think "this guy is probably pretty awesome." The MS name might be a bit tainted, but there's no doubt that they have a lot of very talent
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by wanderr 16y ago
I think cap and trade has at least one major flaw: Unless every country is participating equally, activities that create a lot of CO2 will simply be outsourced to countries without the regulations. With CO2 emissions being a global problem,
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by wanderr 16y ago
I like to use Windows for my dev environment, but I code for Linux systems. When I used 32-bit Windows, I used pubuntu to run an ubuntu server inside Windows without using a VM. It was nice and fast and worked well aside from a few networki
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by wanderr 16y ago
Chrome's developer tools are still lacking in some areas. I'm a backend dev responsible for maintaining an API used primarily by a flash client. When something goes wrong, Firebug's net tab let's me quickly see what calls were made, what wa
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by wanderr 16y ago
Do you know how memcached does it? Do they pay the performance overhead, or do they cheat in some way? I don't think perfect LRU is needed, but the general idea behind LRU works /very/ well for a memcached style cache. Trying to achieve som
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by wanderr 16y ago
I agree with Larry Wall on this particular point, but I'd love to see further examples illustrating the principle here.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Redis isn't a direct competitor to memcached. The great thing about Redis (disk-backed cache) is actually a liability if you're using it like an L2 cache which is how memcached is intended to be used. To be clear: in memcached you can effec
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by wanderr 16y ago
He's married to his blackberry. Not remotely surprising that he's not into i* products.
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by wanderr 16y ago
If a project like this were actually successful, it would be exciting news indeed. Not just for those who want to bail on facebook, but those who wish their blogs were more connected, or those who wish that livejournal wasn't dying a slow a
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by wanderr 16y ago
I would argue that tabbed or multi-windowed browsing is most important on limited resource and low bandwidth devices. The main advantage of opening a tab/window in the background is not having to wait for it to load; the longer the wait, th
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by wanderr 16y ago
The Lowes self checkout is annoying because you have to switch back and forth from the touch screan to the credit card pad thing several times, so by the time it wants me to sign, I just write something vulgar. It's never been a problem.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Define easily. We have no idea what the Adobe Flash codebase looks like, but given its age and complexity, it's probably pretty hairy. And it was never designed to be open sourced, so there probably weren't any efforts made to keep propriet
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by wanderr 16y ago
If you read the article, unattractive people are more likely to be found guilty /by jurors who react emotionally/ tather than rationally.
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The Openness of Flash (or lack thereof)(wanderr.com)
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Comparison of Performance of Flash Player 10.1 and HTML5(vimeo.com)
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by wanderr 17y ago
It frustrates me to no end that SOAP is the face of RPC. SOAP is pretty much the worst thing ever, but there are RPC alternatives that don't have SOAP's problems and are less weird (i.e. don't attempt to adhere to an impossible ideal). I hi
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by wanderr 17y ago
Peak [insert metal here] isn't directly comparable to peak oil/coal/combustible for the obvious reason that when the former is used up and discarded, it can be reclaimed, while the latter is gone forever. Obviously you can still hit limitat
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by wanderr 17y ago
I think you can find many worse habits employed by software managers, such as not propeerly planning projects or speccing out features. I think referring to people as resources is pretty common practice in any industry. If you don't like it
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by wanderr 17y ago
/We'll never truly run out of oil as long is there is a free market/ That is a completely absurd statement. Oil is a finite resource that cannot be reused (at least when it is used for its main purpose). By definition it /must/ run out some
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by wanderr 17y ago
Because most people aren't geeks and just don't care about their computing environment enough to make the huge move of seeking alternate employment. Not to mention that in this lousy economy, your average person is probably quite short on o
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by wanderr 17y ago
This. The performance improvements in modern hardware are primarily beneficial to developers, not users. Developers have always aimed for "fast enough," and the less time and effort it takes to reach that goal, the more functionality can be
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by wanderr 17y ago
This article is pure fantasy, with little to no basis in reality.
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by wanderr 17y ago
Who cares? If browser tech is getting better, we all win. Besides, FF isn't sitting still, they are borrowing Chrome's best features. The beauty of OSS.
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by wanderr 17y ago
Oops, accidentally upvoted. :P Really I don't think encouraging people to switch jobs is a remotely realistic idea.
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by wanderr 17y ago
Wow, I had no idea! Thanks for the summary. :)
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by wanderr 17y ago
In the 40's? By the time they would have had an opportunity to apply this to making a search engine, its unlikely that they would be in a position to drop everything they were doing and create a startup, assuming they would even remember th
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by wanderr 17y ago
Can anyone elaborate on how JIT is new to 2.2 and how that compares to how <=2.1 handles it? I haven't touched Java in ages, but I thought JIT was a fundamental part of how Java works, so I'm a bit confused.
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by wanderr 17y ago
There was a streaming music app not too long ago that accidentally wiped people's SD cards entirely if the update was installed. Definitely glad I waited a few days and checked the comments before updating.
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by wanderr 17y ago
I don't think you have much to worry about, the N1 is hardly going to become obsolete the moment a better Android phone comes out. My droid wasn't obsoleted by the N1 and likely won't be obsoleted by an N2 either; afaik there aren't any app

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