programzeta

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by programzeta 3y ago
I think this depends greatly on the product area and ease of updating. Removing problems categorically from designs early has been valuable to me in the past to reduce surface area, avoid impossible refactoring, and eliminate systemic bug
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by programzeta 3y ago
Being unwilling to even try talk through your emotions with the /person who you are going to marry/ is absolutely a bad signal and deal breaker.
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by programzeta 3y ago
It’s not life or death, but time spent dealing with errors - debugging, the direct effects, understanding full impact - isn’t a resource we can get back.
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by programzeta 3y ago
Thank you for asking this, it helped tease out and crystalize some thoughts I’ve had about the difference in tenor between computer programming and software engineering. I hope these off-the-cuff answers help explain why this doesn’t feel q
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by programzeta 3y ago
Hear-hear for Flowdock. Been a decade and I still can't help but think of it when I bump into the latest annoying Slack-ism.
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by programzeta 3y ago
(c) could be re-written as “If you’re going to give gifts, make them personally meaningful and not generic.” I think this advice is most relevant when you’re doing personal, one-on-one concierge or consulting. When you have lower contact ra
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by programzeta 3y ago
It’s been my experience that without regulatory heat it takes a massive, embarrassing mistake to get traction on internal tool lockdowns and security.
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by programzeta 3y ago
The forum (as well as ‘stage’ and ‘announcement’) feature requires changing to a “community” instance which has some other strings attached. AFAICT long-running servers would never know the new setting is available.
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by programzeta 5y ago
It's not what Facebook does that the others don't, in my opinion, it's that Facebook does not have services for businesses. They have scant little utility to businesses outside of advertising services to temper their outrag
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by programzeta 5y ago
You can have an iCloud account with any e-mail, including a gmail address - might have been the case there?
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by programzeta 5y ago
Apple’s trying to mitigate this by putting themselves to a more internationally focused standard of matches against at least two separate sources of CSA hashes, if my understanding of their announcements/follow-ups is right. Separately
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by programzeta 6y ago
Some devs do focus on it - this blog post goes into detail about how someone worked through making sure you could walk everywhere in The Witness: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0005
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by programzeta 14y ago
The title is 'SimCity', all as one word.
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by programzeta 14y ago
From a past example at the University of Pittsburgh[1], the result is simply a campus-wide lockdown and increasingly strenuous security requirements for those caught in between the hoaxer and their target. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by programzeta 14y ago
Seems like they've had this idea for a while, between their previous PS3 integration and their take on supporting televisions via Steamworks: http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/thebigpicture.php
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by programzeta 15y ago
I'm definitely interested in this opportunity - my e-mail address in my profile.
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by programzeta 15y ago
I think it's a ripe field for experimentation at this point, as it's a very entertaining way to present information. There is/was a series in Australia called Hungry Beast, which produced "Beast File" segments that used kinetic typography i
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by programzeta 17y ago
I'm curious as to why people should feel 'conned'; certainly there's the iTunes sync issue that was never resolved but that can't really be the entirety of your complaint? I have a Palm Pre and like it, but I may be missing something as I d