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by atlei 15y ago
Microsoft UI:Win32/MFC - WinForms - WPF - Sliverlight - WinRT ? Which technology does MS Office use ? Which one will MS Office 2015 use ? If you want to create a word or excel document in the future, will you use a tablet with Metro or "cla
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Metro and WinRT: Too early to call, but I’m paying close attention(pseale.com)
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by atlei 15y ago
From Wikipedia: "The term patent usually refers to an exclusive right granted to anyone who invents any new, useful, and non-obvious process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement there
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by atlei 15y ago
I've been using Opera as my main browser for years, but also uses Chrome and Firefox. Chrome; very fast, but crashes too often, and uses a LOT of memory (and messes up my Task Manager) Firefox; lots of interesting add-ons, but slow and memo
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by atlei 15y ago
Step 1: Get all Mac/iPhone/iPad users to use the iCloud Step 2: Integrate API (with access to your data) and a MacCloud Store Now, it doesn't matter if you purchase software using your iPhone/iPad, Mac or the cloud; Apple will get 30% of a
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by atlei 15y ago
How about two options: - Agree/Disagree buttons/links - High/Low quality buttons/links This way it is easier to separate if you upvote because you agree or because you think it is a high-quality contribution (even if you maybe disagree). Ka
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by atlei 15y ago
Very true; I realized this myself a couple of months ago, and reorganized my blog as follows: - main page shows categories and a chronological list of posts (I don't post that often; if you do, maybe list the last 30-50 only ?) in the rig
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by atlei 15y ago
Back in my Cobol/CICS days, every line that was edited was marked with a 3-character identifier for the person responsible. In a limited "ide" this made it possible to find the person responsible and at least ask him/her for more informat
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by atlei 15y ago
I don't think any language is vastly superior to any other in every case. You can say that C++ is vastly more powerful (and flexible) than C, but for low-level/embedded/kernel etc development, many would argue that C is the superior l
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Mixing ideas from Python, Ruby on Rails and .Net framework with C++(ppcsoft.com)
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by atlei 15y ago
(shameless plug) A short comparison of Evernote, OneNote and iKnow (my company's product) - http://www.ppcsoft.com/blog/iknow-onenote-evernote.asp More information - http://www.ppcsoft.com/blog/ppcsoft-iknow-2011-beta-released... - htt
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by atlei 15y ago
Even the most trivial computer programs have lots of bugs (with VERY few exceptions [1]), and we're worrying about creating a super-brain that is actually smarter than we are ourselves ? And let's not forget the debugging, which is TWICE
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by atlei 15y ago
Two golden oldies by Joel Spolsky: Where do These People Get Their (Unoriginal) Ideas? - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html Human Task Switches Considered Harmful - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000
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by atlei 16y ago
Anyone have any tips/links to convert my CD's into great quality MP3's (for listening only) ? I've been using VBR, 196, Lame etc, but this was recommended to me years ago... Which encoder/tool/settings do you recommend for Windows (and Mac)
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by atlei 16y ago
If you never go swimming, or to the sea (or above), you have a 0% chance of being killed by a shark. If you don't work with pigs (a pigfarm ?) or visit any farms, you probably have a 0% chance of getting killed by pigs as well (unless you c
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by atlei 16y ago
Very cool implementation :-) So what they have is - an OCR function that reads a few words from an (easy) image - a (simple) translator that translates the words into a different language word for word - and then paints the translated words
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by atlei 16y ago
So I guess they don't make enough money on it, then ? I wish the general attitude would change to "I'm willing to pay for services that I find useful" instead of "Everything should be free !!!!"...
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by atlei 16y ago
Get a kinesis keyboard and learn to touch-type; it's probably the best investment you'll ever make... You'll save time when programming, but also when you create the design/requirement/test documents, the help file, the web pages, your blog
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by atlei 16y ago
Idea x Execution x Marketing x Persistence x Luck = Success Based on Sivers Multiplier idea: - http://sivers.org/multiply
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by atlei 16y ago
Some notes about Note-taking: Write it down - 1. "copying" the information - 2. using your own words 1. is great for storing information, 2. is better for learning (and recall) ! Spending all your time in class doing 1. is often a waste o
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by atlei 16y ago
Joel Spolsky (2001): "Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it." - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html
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by atlei 16y ago
I use simple Outlook rules to automatically highlight emails from important people and friends... However, this sounds like a "reverse bayesian spam filter" that instead of filtering out spam is filtering out "most important email" and lear
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by atlei 16y ago
How sad :-( "But the ultimate purpose of music is a physiological/emotional response, something utterly subjective and that does not enrich our objective understanding of the world." You can read about our planet, and see pictures of it, an
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by atlei 16y ago
"What makes programming so unique?" E.W.Dijkstra, "The humble programmer", ACM Turing Lecture 1972 "Let me conclude. Automatic computers have now been with us for a quarter of a century. They have had a great impact on our society in their
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by atlei 16y ago
For more about Incredibuild: - http://gamesfromwithin.com/how-incredible-is-incredibuild My summary of the article (I haven't tried it myself): - can improve a full build compile time - will probably slow down incremental build compile
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by atlei 16y ago
My guess for most slow compiles (yes, pulled out of my ...hat): 1. Templates 2. No pre-compiled headers 3. Bad header-organization We have a reasonable sized desktop application 5 mb (release) / 19 mb (debug) that fully rebuilds in 10 s / 1
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by atlei 16y ago
Good point on 2) total market dominance ! I wonder if Twitter would have had a chance at all if they required payment for participating (even as little as $5 a year would probably be too much for it to take off) ?
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by atlei 16y ago
(shameless plug) PpcSoft iKnow is a "personal wiki" with the following features: - standalone desktop application for Windows - WYSIWYG editing - all "pages" (or notes) are stored in a single Unicode text file - all "pages" are automati
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by atlei 16y ago
Taking notes is very important as it forces you to think twice about the information as you write it down using your own words ("copy-paste-and-dump" information does not have the same learning effect). In addition, you use different "sense
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by atlei 16y ago
Shameless plug: http://www.ppcsoft.com/iknow.asp Before this I used plain text files as many others.

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