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As Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley implied to the New York Times, and more directly related to TechCrunch, the path to selling ads and services against reviews and user recommendations is a lot smoother than that of eventually charging users for a game they feel they can leave and not really sweat too much. [ITworld]
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I do hope you realise I am being facetious here. However, there is a grain of truth in every joke. I have seen instances of this type of behaviour and have been guilty of engaging in some of it myself from time to time – you probably have as well. Rockstars and ninjas need not apply.
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Very amusing.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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What if you'd just like to play around creating logic circuits? Or maybe use a program to help you learn how to design them? Oh yeah, and where the source for that program was available too? This app is cool: true or false?
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So freaking true.
Every now and then say, "What the Elephant." "What the Elephant" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.
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I've been wanting a program like that to fiddle with for a while...thanks! (sure I could use an HDL, but it's not quite the same...)
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I have used it before, and I can say that it is an AWESOME application!!!
I would recommend downloading it!
public class SysAdmin : Employee
{
public override void DoWork(IWorkItem workItem)
{
if (workItem.User.Type == UserType.NoLearn){
throw new NoIWillNotFixYourComputerException(new Luser(workItem.User));
}else{
base.DoWork(workItem);
}
}
}
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If you haven’t noticed already: Windows Azure Websites makes Windows Azure a lot easier. After a couple of seconds, Git publishing is configured and all it takes to deploy your website is commit your source code, whether ASP.NET, ASP.NET Webpages or PHP to the newly created Git repository. Windows Azure Websites will take care of the build process (cool!) and will deploy this to Windows Azure in just a couple of seconds. Partly cloudy with a chance of easy deployment.
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Though coder Jeff Atwood thinks coding isn’t for non-computer geeks, we can think of a lot of reasons normals should learn computer language. Wrong. With the help of an angry comment thread on Hacker News, we can think of at least five ways someone who has no professional programming ambitions might want to learn a little bit about the way the machines we use every single day, some of us all day, work. A hack a day keeps the Geek Squad away.
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Ambiguous -- is it "(non-computer) geek" as it appears or "non-(computer geek)"?
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Look at the judge who decided the Oracle v. Google case on copyright infringement.
By coding one of the routines in question, he satisfied himself that there was no great intellectual effort needed to write that rouine. He could then tell Oracle to go elephant themselves.
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Well, OK, it’s not *just* typing, but fundamentally, typing has a lot to do with it. In fact, it wouldn’t be too great a stretch of the imagination for someone watching a room full of programmers to mistake them for a room full of writers, typists, dictation takers, or similar clerical staff. What we do to produce software is type it in, one word at a time. Does faster typing mean more bugs per minute?
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"a faster typist is able to convert thoughts into code more productively than a slow typist."
Wrong. A better programmer is able to convert thoughts into code more productively than a lousy programmer.
/ravi
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80wpm with 1 mistake. Thank you, Mavis Beacon. Hmmm, I wonder if there is a French version.
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It never occurred to me that how many words you type is a measure of coding ability and success. Clearly, I've been doing it wrong all these years. Writers apparently suffer from "writer's block" which is another way of saying I'm just too darned lazy to do anything today. I never met a coder who suffered from "coder's block". Some days are better than others and if even if we struggle with syntax once in a while, the ideas behind the objective are still generally sound.
Mind you, I've worked with some real plonkers on occasions. Myself included!
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
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PHS241 wrote: I never met a coder who suffered from "coder's block".
You could meet me.
There was a game I wrote where I got to a point where I needed to write a way to determine the outcome of an action -- I considerd two algorithms for a year before making a decision. (It did get done eventually.)
And two years ago I stared an app -- I got most of the core functionality working in a couple of months, then again had to choose between two options, I still haven't chosen.
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I type at around 35 words per minute if I am on a roll, but that generally in emails or other correspondence in my first language. In English I go down to around 25 words per minute. In programming I would think it might be even lower. It isn't the speed of my fingers that go down, it is the speed of the input mechanism i.e. my thinking, that cannot keep up.
To be honest though, I attain my typing speed using no more than about 5 of the fingers on my hands
So, no, being able to type faster will not be able to make me produce more bugs per minute.
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Jan Steyn wrote: 5 of the fingers on my hands
Do you sometimes use the fingers not on your hands?
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I did see someone typing an email to his professor with his toes. Needless to say, the email was a mess and the professor was not too happy. (The professor was actually an ENGLISH professor!)
public class SysAdmin : Employee
{
public override void DoWork(IWorkItem workItem)
{
if (workItem.User.Type == UserType.NoLearn){
throw new NoIWillNotFixYourComputerException(new Luser(workItem.User));
}else{
base.DoWork(workItem);
}
}
}
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And then the English got me
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Free services in exchange for personal information. That's the "privacy bargain" we all strike on the Web. It could be the worst deal ever. Soylent Green is people!
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For everything that the Fahrenheit 451 author was enthusiastic about, he had a wonderful turn of phrase to express it, whether it was in one of his books or in an interview. To commemorate his wise words, here are some of his most memorable quotes on life’s most important topics and biggest ideas. Something wonderful this way comes.
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Strange bloke.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
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Disassembling Apple's diminutive inch-cube iPhone charger reveals a technologically advanced flyback switching power supply that goes beyond the typical charger. It simply takes AC input (anything between 100 and 240 volts) and produce 5 watts of smooth 5 volt power, but the circuit to do this is surprisingly complex and innovative. Better, smaller... safer?
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