megaduck

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by megaduck 5y ago
What exactly are you trying to say?
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by megaduck 7y ago
<BEGIN PSA> Please, please, please, do not use hover controls. They are useless for touch users as well as screen readers, and the discoverability is poor. Modals are also really really hard to make accessible, and are often confusin
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by megaduck 8y ago
I run the Pivotal office in Singapore. Breakfast is wonderful, but it's hardly mandatory. Standup at 9:06 is important, though. In order for pairing to work, you need to have everybody there at the same time. The iron bargain is that y
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by megaduck 9y ago
I've worked with Eno (the OP) on the product that he's talking about (Cloud Foundry). It's worth noting that the first versions of Cloud Foundry were written in Ruby/Sinatra for the reasons that you're talking abou
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by megaduck 9y ago
Predictability. We pair program, so we need everybody to be there at the same time. People sometimes work less, due to doctor appointments, child care, home repairs, and such. However, they never work more.
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by megaduck 9y ago
I'm not convinced it's optimal! However, it's a "known good" number that's easy to convince people to follow along with. Running experiments is hard and expensive, so we just haven't tackled that yet. My
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by megaduck 9y ago
We use Pivotal Tracker, and it's pretty easy to see how many bugs are popping up and how often. Code quality shows up in your velocity over time. My favorite saying right now is "quality is future speed". We also do regular
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by megaduck 9y ago
I enforce a militant "40 hours only" policy for my employees, and it's incredible for productivity. When you work longer hours defect rates increase, code quality drops, and things are on fire all the time. You also lose rea
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by megaduck 10y ago
You're clearly the target market for these new MBPs, and that's great. Glad you have a machine that fits your needs. People with more strenuous computing needs are miffed because the MBP used to fit our use case, and now it doesn
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by megaduck 14y ago
Clarification: Your code != your startup. You can have a polished high quality codebase, but still have a dying startup because you've built something that nobody wants. Conversely, having a desirable product makes up for a vast multitude
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by megaduck 14y ago
I work at one of those "contracting shops" (Pivotal Labs), and I think you're misunderstanding the reason we push TDD so damn hard: It's not about speed. It's about predictability. Good TDD forces you into building loosely-coupled code th
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by megaduck 15y ago
I know because I've seen it. My wife and I used to live in China, and we did traveling in both the high and the low places. I can't speak to the particulars in Daisey's story (since I don't know which ones were made up), but the overall pi
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by megaduck 15y ago
What's really tragic here is that the truth in Mr. Daisey's story will get dragged down by the weight of his lies. Chinese factory conditions are often horrible, and there's often a blatant disregard for human life and dignity. Mr. Daisey d
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by megaduck 15y ago
This is fantastic news. WebOS has always been full of great ideas, but held back by shaky underpinnings. It's like the inverse of most open-source projects. Great UI, not-so-hot implementation. There's a lot of folks (myself included) th
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HP to open-source WebOS(precentral.net)
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by megaduck 15y ago
Full disclosure up front: I work for IndieGoGo. I can't speak for other crowdfunding platforms, but I assume that they're similar on this topic. A lot of people bring up the possibility of fraud with these crowdfunding sites (IndieGoGo, K
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by megaduck 15y ago
IndieGoGo, San Francisco CA H1B okay, No telecommute (sorry) IndieGoGo is a rapidly growing funding platform, based in beautiful San Francisco. Our site is used by people all over the world to raise money for creative projects, businesses
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by megaduck 15y ago
Who says they haven't been? They certainly were in markets where Symbian was dominant. When I was in China (2008-2009), the developer support for Symbian was dramatically better than BlackBerry or iOS. Now that Android has exploded in tha
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by megaduck 15y ago
I am amazed that we've got 56 comments on this thread, and nobody's brought up market share. Android has been beating the bejeezus out of iOS on unit sales for a while now, both in the U.S. and globally. Even more importantly, Android's
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by megaduck 16y ago
I'm a Tepco (Tokyo) customer. Looking at my most recent electric bill we're paying about 22 yen a kWh, or around 27 cents. That'll probably go up with Fukushima out of commission.
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by megaduck 16y ago
Smartphones were better than regular phones during this emergency. My android phone was useless for voice and SMS, but still had a data connection. So, my wife and I were able to send gmail back and forth to stay in touch. Also, the landli
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by megaduck 16y ago
I'm curious what flaws he sees with the WebOS notification system. It's hands-down the most elegant notifications I've seen on any platform. Initial notifications are minimally intrusive (similar to Growl on OS X). From there, they can
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by megaduck 16y ago
Speaking as someone who's automating a large-ish business right now: 300k will buy you a lot of contracting. It might be possible to do what you want for less, which would expand your options. Email me, and I'd be happy to discuss your
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by megaduck 16y ago
How is Google playing catch-up? Android is the clear market share leader, and is still accelerating. According to Google's most recent numbers, Android is shipping 300,000 devices per day . While Apple has a lot of mindshare, the reality
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by megaduck 16y ago
Looking at Yegge's projects, I think NBL was just "javascript". The first big one was a rails clone on Rhino, which he talked about but never released ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QD9XQm_Jd4 ). After that, he started building a system
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by megaduck 16y ago
My Palm does that, only I don't need a computer: it does it over the net onto Palm servers. The only thing that doesn't get backed up is media files. However, apps, settings, contacts, notes, etc. are all invisibly backed up daily. Real
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by megaduck 16y ago
The language of individual HTML tags is certainly regular, and trivially easy. However, the language of "matched HTML tags with junk between them" is NOT regular. Anything that requires balanced matching is NOT parseable with standard Regu
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by megaduck 16y ago
Looking at the raw numbers from Apple and Google (not AdMob's!), Android's supremacy is looking increasingly inevitable. At the Droid X launch, Google claimed 160,000 activations a day, which translates to a run rate of almost 60 million de
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by megaduck 16y ago
Seconded. Shadow of the Colossus is the best refutation to Ebert that I can think of. One factor that you're leaving out is the moral horror of painfully slaughtering these giant and beautiful creatures. Often the colossi are completely b
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by megaduck 16y ago
Too bad Aza Raskin's already got a gig.

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