ethermal

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by ethermal 13y ago
I'm throwing my 2 cents in, although I haven't built a large scale app with either, I did do a full evaluation of both before my latest large app and I decided on neither one. There were many reasons but every time I wanted to do anything
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by ethermal 13y ago
I don't get this line of thinking. Do you know there are programs written on system/36 machines from the early eighties still in production today on ibm iSeries machines? And even older software/systems in place that are older then that.
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by ethermal 13y ago
it isn't, it's all political.
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by ethermal 14y ago
just wanted to say that if alcohol is related to 31% of the deaths in driving crashes. Then being sober accounts for 69% of the deaths therefore it is safer to be drunk then to be sober. Woohoo!
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by ethermal 14y ago
I agree and perhaps handing a coder some code and asking the coder what's going is maybe a better test of their skills then asking them to code on the spot.
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by ethermal 14y ago
That's true, however asking someone on the spot to write a function that requires domain specific knowledge isn't a good solution. What are you in fact testing, do they know how to code or do they know how to calculate the area of a circle
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by ethermal 14y ago
But you could make possession of stolen property (the bike) a major crime with prison and financial punishment and you weaken the demand side of things. Then using RFID or similar technology, you could embed a RFID tag somewhere in the fram
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by ethermal 14y ago
Well said.
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by ethermal 14y ago
indeed. I can't stand when setting width:100% can actually extend past the bounds of the parent.
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by ethermal 14y ago
But having to use the app to manage files, is a whole new paradigm that someone has to learn which is exactly what people are trying to avoid in the first place. So either teach one paradigm to a new user and stick to it (aka using the file
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by ethermal 14y ago
Very true, I've been in IT for over 20 years and have worked at sites ranging from 10 users to over 13000 users. I can attest to the flat filing system as the exception not the rule. At my current employer, looking at public folders on ne
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by ethermal 14y ago
not true in the least, the healthiest of my friends from outward appearances eat no fruit or veggies what so ever. Observations on small samples sizes are useless.
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by ethermal 14y ago
IE9 can easily handle your quick example. Check out http://jsfiddle.net/c8rN3/ then hit f12 bring up the developer tools. In the HTML tab click the tiny refresh button then hit the select element by click and select an element within th
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by ethermal 14y ago
wha? Hit the tiny html refresh button ctrl-b select away.
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by ethermal 14y ago
IE9's debug tools are hands down the best at this point in time. Although Chrome's is cacthing up, pound for pound you will be far more productive in IE9s debug tools then firebug, dragon fly or any other at the moment. I think there is
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by ethermal 14y ago
VMs run all of them crazy easily. And using unity you can have all versions on your desktop at once and open. I do it every day. My default browser is IE 9, so when i launch I always launch in IE 9 do all of my testing debugging there, a
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by ethermal 14y ago
So why would you sort it in FF then open IE why wouldn't you start with IE then go to FF. I really think you are starting in the wrong spot.
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by ethermal 14y ago
almost all of my spinning disks in the last 20+ years have failed. Some right away, some in a few months, some in a few years but they all have failed.