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by gbvb 10y ago
Without sounding like a curmudgeon, "An even more egregious form of negative work is a developer who is stuck using out of date programming practices AND has a large amount of influence at a company. " can happen when new develop
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by gbvb 10y ago
Nevermind. I should have googled first. https://medium.com/@okonetchnikov/long-term-caching-of-stati...
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by gbvb 10y ago
Is there a write up on how this is implemented? I want to find out more about this model of delivering content.
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by gbvb 10y ago
QuoVadis as the authn framework
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by gbvb 10y ago
if you are naming kids and want to save them a lot of bureaucracy in their lives, give them short names. - Thing One and Thing Two.. I wonder if it will fail..
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Vimwiki – that can do what orgmode does for vim(github.com)
1 points by gbvb 11y ago|0 comments
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Beards good for your health?(bbc.com)
2 points by gbvb 11y ago|0 comments
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Be careful with that statistic about the top 1% owning half the world’s wealth(vox.com)
1 points by gbvb 12y ago|0 comments
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by gbvb 12y ago
It seems to be to avoid using currentKey inadvertently. If someone refers it elsewhere they get deadbeef.
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by gbvb 13y ago
The way I read this article, It is less about building new smartphone but more about the next technology shift that is going to change the direction. Basically, as oft repeated Ford statement goes, 'if you asked people what they wante
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Bridgestone sues IBM for $600 million(businessinsider.com)
2 points by gbvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by gbvb 13y ago
I have had lasership make mistakes couple of times (dropping of at the neighbors, claiming no answer when never attempted).. I complained to amazon about the shipping and I have not received any shipment from them via Lasership after that.
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Outsourcing your chores is a good thing(nytimes.com)
49 points by gbvb 13y ago|56 comments
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by gbvb 13y ago
I think the problem is that it is not 'hate' like people are hating java. I think it is more that MS has become 'irrelevant' in circles that matter :) i.e. the consultants who go around telling new companies what to deve
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by gbvb 13y ago
You never know. ( http://www.babynamespedia.com/start/m/ann ) just saying! :)
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by gbvb 13y ago
I think there might be a need for providing a decent layer between the various closed layers created by Amazon, Google et al. At least, that would allow apps to be friendly to Android without marrying Google Play. (Is there one?)
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by gbvb 13y ago
:) It is the one that you see when it is built by Apple. Says the guy who buys everything Apple produces :)
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The Size of Electronic Consumer Devices Affects our Behavior [pdf](hbs.edu)
1 points by gbvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by gbvb 13y ago
A personal check would be appreciated, but I can use with bags of them as well. :)
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US Navy can use lower case letters now..:)(npr.org)
3 points by gbvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by gbvb 13y ago
Thank you for that explanation and the example. I love that calculator. I see why skeumorphic free design is hard to find. :)
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by gbvb 13y ago
Do you have good examples of true 'flat' design? I fear that if we are too flat, will it endup becoming an abstract entity that needs explanation on what that is meant to be? I thought the ones you point out seemed like good examples of not
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Calatrava: Interesting cross mobile development platform(github.com)
1 points by gbvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by gbvb 13y ago
I have been using vimwiki[1] with vim + Dropbox. It has been fantastic. That might convince you to move from emacs :) http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2226
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by gbvb 13y ago
Software development is like movie making: http://www.silicon-stories.com/movie-making-software-develop... Software architecture is like city planning: http://www.windley.com/archives/2003/09/enterprise_arch_4.sh... Software development
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LinkedIn: A Story About Silicon Valley's Possibly Unhealthy Need for Speed(businessweek.com)
4 points by gbvb 13y ago|0 comments
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NLP package for Node.js(chrisumbel.com)
2 points by gbvb 13y ago|0 comments
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by gbvb 14y ago
IMO, Art exists for the sake of itself. It serves no other purpose. It has no intrinsic value. Whether you like it as is or not is a different question. So, while anyone call anything art, If the random shopper is doing to have a surprise
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by gbvb 14y ago
I have been using http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-nocturne/downloads/detail... (Nocturne) which essentially turns the entire desktop darker. It is very soothing to turn everything monochrome.
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PlantUML, a neat tool for UML generation with text(yetanothersoftwareguy.com)
2 points by gbvb 14y ago|0 comments

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