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Comment · 1 year ago
Letting software engineers use their favourite tools, even if those tools are suboptimal, is a way to make your engineers happier without paying them anymore.

it may cost you more in slower development times.

Comment · 9 years ago
I, for one, can see what he posts and they aren't hidden in any way.
Comment · 10 years ago
In vanilla C, exceptions do not exist. Thus goto is the standard (at least for the Linux kernel) statement for handling exceptions.
Comment · 10 years ago
Inkscape is defiantly software where reading the manual is a good idea. I tried to use it with out doing so, and found it unusable.
Comment · 10 years ago
Not all markets are superstar markets. Some places the 100th best worker is about just as good as the best worker, like for janitors.
Comment · 10 years ago
Use boustrophedon for equality!
Comment · 10 years ago
Many countries are irregular polygons like Chile. Thus a square is very close to a circle, relative to the other shapes.

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