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by zelos 11y ago
I believe some of that is 'sleep debt', after a few weeks you tend back to 7-8h.
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by zelos 11y ago
Define 'proper' mobile view. How can the designer know how the user is viewing their site? On a cheap device with low contrast? At an awkward angle at arm's length while trying to keep the baby asleep? Trying to read somethin
693.
by zelos 11y ago
For this article? Most of it, because the animations annoyed all the human readers so much they closed the tab.
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by zelos 11y ago
Should we really be comparing the two genders at all? Is it possible to just set minimum standards - "must be able to run x km in y minutes", "must be able to get x% of rounds on target at y m" - and then accept anyone w
695.
by zelos 11y ago
Ouya and PS Vita TV were hardly huge succeses.
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by zelos 11y ago
Are TV boxes really a growth market though? This looks kind of interesting, but most new TVs already have Netflix, Amazon, iPlayer etc. At $149/199 it's not exactly in Chromecast territory, either.
697.
by zelos 11y ago
I remember looking round a local pre-school and being horrified that they had the kids all sat down quietly on the carpet while the 'teacher' stood up front holding up flash cards with shapes on them reading out the names.
698.
by zelos 11y ago
I thought that too. I'd love to get more sleep: being woken once or twice a night and then having to get up before 6am to look after the kids or go to work makes that a bit tricky.
699.
by zelos 11y ago
What I'd really appreciate (as one of those people who's read LYAH and is struggling to get going with real code) is a Haskell equivalent of Effective Java or Effective C++.
700.
by zelos 11y ago
I think the bigger problem is this: 1. Open Passbook on your iPhone - before boarding a bus or tram/as you approach a gateline. 2. Place your finger on Touch ID to authorise the upcoming payment. 3. Touch it on a yellow card reader wit
701.
by zelos 11y ago
In my experience, a combination is best. Reading gives you the broad scope, doing gives you detail, repetition and context.
702.
by zelos 11y ago
Possibly this is just Apple pushing the burden of proof onto the developers? They could have had their app reviewers go through every app one by one and try to understand the context, or they can do this and force the developers that care t
703.
by zelos 11y ago
We used to have a Perforce changelist guideline newsletter here. No, I'm not kidding.
704.
by zelos 11y ago
Embedded yes, but modern mobile is miles away from this. ~1GHz dual core, triple issue out-of-order CPU with 512MB-1GB RAM and maybe 10-20GB storage? That was a reasonable desktop PC not that many years ago.
705.
by zelos 11y ago
Most Nintendo games still seem to be locked at 60Hz (sometimes 30 maybe?). Look at the fuss when people realised that Mario Kart 8 dropped to 59Hz sometimes ;-)
706.
by zelos 11y ago
It's tongue-in-cheek. The Register's style is basically a joke on British tabloid styles.
707.
by zelos 11y ago
I just started looking at Standard ML so I could understand the examples in Purely Functional Data Structures. There's something very pleasing in the simplicity of its syntax. Anybody have experience in applying it to larger problems?
708.
by zelos 11y ago
14,000 new members of the Lib Dems since the election would suggest it's not as simple as that.
709.
by zelos 11y ago
I think one problem is that Agile gives a numerical value to how much work has been done: story points. Management get addicted to getting more story points, and any push back from developers that would lower the number in the short term is
710.
by zelos 11y ago
> The Valve megacorporation is fundamentally based on this. It works. So where's my Half Life 3, dammit ;-)
711.
by zelos 11y ago
In my experience, either: - A few people end up discussing some minor point only of interest to them while everyone else stares into space - Every retrospective ends up being the same as the previous one: it's like someone recorded a m
712.
by zelos 11y ago
> I once reviewed code that defined: static final int ONE_HUNDRED = 100; I saw: static final int ONE_HUNERD = 100; a while back, which really made me laugh.
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by zelos 12y ago
You're eliminating the first part of the flight, so the rocket just has to provide the delta-V for orbital insertion, not lift the fuel to do that from sea level. The Tsiolkovsky equation suggests that's going to be a big saving:
714.
by zelos 12y ago
"The article also purports that the higher level of communication inherent in engineering jobs may be vital. A healthy communication in a marriage is vital for its survival." Yeah, us software engineers are renowned for our commun
715.
by zelos 12y ago
If you travel, it's one more thing to carry. Plus, I occasionally forget to plug the phone in to charge at night. My current smartphone makes it through two days without charging, though.
716.
by zelos 12y ago
A quick Google suggests the FAA uses some version of decision coverage (i.e. for each branch in your code, what percentage were taken during testing), not simple line coverage.
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by zelos 12y ago
There seem like lots of other options that aren't so invasive. Better childcare, flexible/part time working hours, decent maternity/paternity leave, not expecting your employees to dedicate their entire existence to the Compa
718.
by zelos 12y ago
Got to keep the supply of young, cheap, idealistic and naive new developers going somehow ;-) /am a boring developer at a boring big company
719.
by zelos 12y ago
Precisely. I see loads of people here working until late because "they have to hit the deadline". All it seems to produce is a bigger pile of bugs to fix in the next sprint.
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by zelos 12y ago
When I went to an open day at a local primary school they were using Scratch to teach coding (~10 year olds I think?)

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