wanorris

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by wanorris 15y ago
I would think there would be value in framing it in terms of "why we're not just another cloud + mobile (or whatever) company". Go out of your way to show that while it's nice that you happen to be "on trend," it wasn't because you just sat
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by wanorris 15y ago
The opportunity cost involved in "hiding" might make this a bad deal though. The author was involved in doing above-board consulting work and planning his next startup. I would expect that taking legal employment under your own name makes y
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by wanorris 15y ago
Here's at least some of the author's code. Not sure if it's the whole thing. https://github.com/kylemcdonald/ofxFaceTracker Edit: that code doesn't actually cover the substitution. Here's more info: http://vimeo.com/29279198
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by wanorris 15y ago
In other words, like a Microsoft Surface table, but set up for dining? What's the advantage of using a projector over a touchscreen?
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by wanorris 15y ago
The Metro interface is the center of the user experience on ARM tablets, so there shouldn't be much in the way of desktop artifacts lingering around there. If you use your desktop in the normal "Classic" interface, the Metro interface will
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by wanorris 15y ago
Sometimes you know you're getting a beatdown and your metrics reflect it. Your goal is to simply close the distance over time. But one thing that happens is that if you decide a metric is important and make it a KPI, you are then trying to
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by wanorris 15y ago
The words "threaten to" are extraneous.
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by wanorris 15y ago
There are always gift cards if you want DLC. And really, if you use anonymous gift cards (or no payment information), you have the option to not even give them your real personal information, never mind your financial information. That wa
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by wanorris 15y ago
It's not as concise as Haskell, but the addition of FP capabilities to C# make it a lot more pleasant as a practical language than it was in earlier days. var filteredCollection = collection.Where(x => predicate(x));
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by wanorris 15y ago
Sort of. Programming is justifiably considered a profession, like engineering, medicine, and the law -- as distinguished from other careers like sales and customer support. The distinction is a large body of background knowledge and skills
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by wanorris 15y ago
The central problem with kneeling chairs is that it's normal and necessary to subtly shift your sitting position on your chair with some frequency (often without even noticing), and kneeling chairs are not conducive to this since they effec
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by wanorris 15y ago
The $550 Acer Iconia W500 tablet (which comes with an attachable keyboard base) got 4:06 on a Cnet video playback battery drain test. http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/acer-iconia-tab-w500p/4505-3... Acer isn't exactly known for brilliant p
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by wanorris 15y ago
The interesting thing is that consumer surveys still show more people want to buy iPhones. But they walk out of stores with considerably more Android phones than iPhones.
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by wanorris 15y ago
No, but I can imagine an average consumer being happy that the device can run the copy of Home Landscape Architect 3D Pro Plus 2007 that they bought a few years back, work with their old Quicken data, and play that copy of Hoyle Card Games
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by wanorris 15y ago
TFS is a below average source control system in an age when there are many better choices. VSS, on the other hand, is an active threat to all of your code. At a previous employer, I was delighted by the switch to TFS, because it meant we no
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by wanorris 15y ago
I now recommend to anyone I know that's nontechnical that they buy their new laptops at the Microsoft Store (we have one nearby). All the computers they sell are crapware free, and even come preloaded with the free, near-invisible MSE inste
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by wanorris 15y ago
For one thing, because there is no evidence I'm aware of that any tangible, real-world action originates from the belief that the poor should be "elevated" in some other manner. When the government gives poor single moms peanut butter to ma
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by wanorris 15y ago
Don't you think that the top tax bracket being slashed from over 70% to well below 50% had something to do with it as well?
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by wanorris 15y ago
You know A+ is way below the credit rating the US was downgraded to (AA+), right?
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by wanorris 15y ago
And then they discover that transitioning undocumented business logic, retraining their user base, and adapting their business processes to use the new tools takes way longer than a few months, and indeed has a fairly high chance of entirel
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by wanorris 15y ago
What in particular? (Java isn't my primary language, so I haven't been following this.) Do you mean about how lambdas are implemented from a bytecode standpoint, or other types of issues?
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by wanorris 15y ago
I would classify Python and C# as languages that have improved considerably over time. So I would say that it is, in fact, possible to get better languages without developing more.
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by wanorris 15y ago
I would say that it depends entirely on what aspect(s) of the problem of web programming Dart is trying to solve. It may be that the decision to make a new language stemmed from new ideas about type systems or new semantics that didn't real
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by wanorris 15y ago
So in a gay or lesbian marriage, which partner should voluntarily subordinate themselves to the other? Which I guess is my way of saying that any particular marriage happens between two individuals with their own strengths, weakenesses, and
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by wanorris 15y ago
This is certainly key to the appeal to the current enthusiasts, but (to pick an obvious example) suitcases full of dollar bills or Krugerrands are also decentralized and anonymous, compared with centralized and usually non-anonymous methods
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by wanorris 15y ago
Why? Om Malik is a partner in a venture firm[1] and still writes for GigaOm. You don't have to obtain a license or agree to uphold any particular code of conduct to be allowed to write about news for the web. You just write, and if people v
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by wanorris 15y ago
Wait, are you saying that we need to encourage women to be less capable because the career market is zero sum, and men need careers more than women? I'm very open to the idea that I misunderstood your statement, but if I have characterized
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by wanorris 15y ago
Arianna was the one who announced that Arrington would no longer be doing TechCrunch now that he was doing CrunchFund. The higher-ups at AOL were apparently on board with the plan for him to do both up until then. I don't have any inside in
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by wanorris 15y ago
My guess is that Microsoft's research has uncovered a couple of usability problems for new users with drag and drop. First, there are two possible new-user intuitions about what drag and drop ought to do, and it won't always do what they ex
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by wanorris 15y ago
Unix shell scripts are fantastic for what they do. But most people find that it's easier (and more performant) to build, say, web applications using a programming language than by using shell scripts over CGI. Assuming you commit to a progr

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