BillGoates

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by BillGoates 6y ago
Now we are getting somewhere. Yes, neither option works. The points you mention should be open to debate, based on open and truthful information. And if the points of view are so incompatible that no reasonable solution is possible maybe we
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by BillGoates 6y ago
You not agreeing with my statement, is only because you decided for yourself what you see as a minor or a major inconvenience. But you cannot project your belief system onto others. People should always have the choice to decide what works
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by BillGoates 6y ago
The problem with this kind of reasoning is that you put blame on a large group of individuals, without being a 100% the measure have any positive effect at all. This creates a dangerous precedent. Putting health before anything else will ma
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by BillGoates 14y ago
Separating DOM and data I can understand, but I am not convinced Backbone is the right way to do it. My code would look more like: function postdata(url, data, callback) { $.ajax({ url: '/status', type:
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by BillGoates 14y ago
The problem with TBBT is that the writing of the last season(s) is so bad and lazy, that you are wondering why you liked it in the first place. Same thing happened with Two and a Half men. The decline in the writing of both shows coincidenc
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by BillGoates 15y ago
In FireFox the problems are either with the timer or how fast a screen is drawn. On an old laptop, changing the opacity, or set a different color of the same amount of divs takes about 50ms. The next timeout or interrupt, is on average 200m
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by BillGoates 15y ago
Less than 1% has JavaScript turned off. The answer to your question is the same as to if a website should support Netscape 3. I would say the answer depends on what the target audience is, what kind of site it is, and how much time it will
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by BillGoates 15y ago
For me personally, I couldn't work without music. It blocks out environment noise. In a silent area it's like every small sound is amplified tenfold. It could be I'm different, but I had very productive weeks, while on the other monitor Far
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by BillGoates 15y ago
I don't think the author intended to insult Java/C# developers. He just gave an extreme example to show that a good IDE will pay it self back.
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by BillGoates 15y ago
Only 8 more days till April 1st
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by BillGoates 16y ago
It wouldn't be the first time Wikileaks went after corporations. Half a year ago they published a document about how shareholders plundered the islandic bank Kaupthing before it collapsed. Publishing intellectual property would be illegal,
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by BillGoates 16y ago
Details missing the point. Yes it's possible to use .NET, but Microsoft development tools aren't automatically the best choice anymore, and often even the worst choice.
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by BillGoates 16y ago
No the opposite of holding back. Without MS we wouldn't have AJAX or Rich Text editors at the moment. I am fully supportive of open standards, but it's rare that companies together can develop one. The year 2019 I mentioned was wrong, the f
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by BillGoates 16y ago
The server and tools revenue doesn't say anything about .NET. I didn't say get rid of SQL server or their server OS. Compare the popularity of C# + VB.net to other languages to see .NET has less than 1/20th of the market. And that for a com
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by BillGoates 16y ago
I would tell Microsoft to go back to their 90s mindset. Less focussed on big corporations, and more on getting (Windows) Microsoft software everywhere. Back then Microsoft was maybe an evil empire, but at least they did some exciting things
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by BillGoates 16y ago
As always I am wondering if this test tells me, who I am, who I think I am, or, who I want to be. Today I am somewhere between ENTP and INTP ENTP (E: 1 N: 75 T: 50 P: 33)
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by BillGoates 16y ago
There is no point in getting up either; eventually gravity will win.
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by BillGoates 16y ago
For every analyst predicting a stock will go up there is one predicting the opposite. Guessing correct 50% of the time is probably an improvement to their past predictions. Till now using darts to pick stocks consistently outperforms these
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by BillGoates 17y ago
Above 40 good programmers probably are rare, but doesn't have much to do with age, but is more of a generation difference. 40 and below is the same as the gamer generation, starting with those growing up with the first popular home computer
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by BillGoates 17y ago
We have more stuff than 40 years ago, but less than 20. What also changed is that many single income households are double incomes now. Or that people are working 60-80 hours a week. 15 years ago you also could buy a second hand car for che
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by BillGoates 17y ago
When robots are making robots that make our stuff, noone will be able to buy any of the cheap stuff, except the people that controls the goods. Labor is the only good most people have, and it's worth is declining. The previous generation co
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by BillGoates 17y ago
The upperbound = maxint The total number of items = maxint + 1
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by BillGoates 17y ago
1) The maxint was just an example and these tests are not limited to arrays. For the same I was talking about bytes. And comparing a byte value against 255 + 1 is still wrong. So yes, test inclusively, but not only the special cases, but al
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by BillGoates 17y ago
1) I think you are missing the point. According to Dijkstra you need to test if a var is within a range with i < last + 1. If last = maxint your computer will explode. 2) Sorry, I don't have a clue what you mean. What's the difference b
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by BillGoates 17y ago
1) He is using real world math arguments why computer arrays should be 0 or 1 based. His example seems valid, but once you use Maxint it fails, proving his argument wrong. 2) Yes, but that has nothing to do with anything I wrote. Also calcu
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by BillGoates 17y ago
I am starting to think Dijkstra is about the worst thing ever happening to software development. He arguments that option A is the least ugly one, but forgets that computers have maximum numbers. According to Dijkstra, you should test if a