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Comment · 10 years ago
Voting with your wallet is very short sighted. Some examples:

A manager replaces free coffee in the office with a paid vending machine to save expenses. Moral goes down. Production goes down.

A team member is fired because she has the worst production level of the team. What they did not know is that this team member was holding the team together.

So there are a lot of side effects to every decision. And therefore I think voting with your wallet is a bad idea.

Comment · 10 years ago
If you need data integrity you will need a RDBMS.
Comment · 10 years ago
Lately I'm very concerned about my posture. Now I'm watching two people who both have a bad posture like me (hunchback, forward head). And I'm sure this is becoming a problem in the 'read from a screen all day' age.

So the future of better interfaces (with your brain) Elon is talking about might be also much better for our health.

Comment · 10 years ago
As far as I know Ubuntu and Windows are already doing this. But as you said without much luck.

I also think this is the future. But not only for the switch to desktop. Also as car console, key store, tv remote, synthesizer (just put it in a midi device) and so on.

You personal key to everything. And your single attack vector...

Comment · 10 years ago
In an interview George Hotz said he told Elon to drop Mobileye. George is repeating how bad that company is.

So it seems not only Tesla thinks Mobileye can't keep up with safety. Others noticed this too.

Comment · 10 years ago
Is there a way to download Angular2 as Javascript file? Last time I checked I had to install loads of software just to start a Angular project.
Comment · 10 years ago
Because your project is useless when a dependency is removed in the future. It happened to me one time and now I'm really considering to include the vendor folder in my own repository.

Of course a dependency manager is still very useful to setup a new project.

Comment · 10 years ago
It would be more interesting to look at what kind of birds are killed.
Comment · 10 years ago
"I am frustrated by the industry as a whole"

Unfortunately I have to agree as a developer. My job is to make a fast, reliable, stable product but at the same time I'm questioned the tools I use by people who don't have any knowledge but heard the latest trend.

But sometimes it's also very easy to please people. Big data: just insert 10M records in a database and suddenly everyone is happy because they now have big data :|

Comment · 10 years ago
Good listeners are also well rested.

I'm a good listener, but not at the moment. After long days of programming and some lack of sleep I notice that my listening is going down. I really dislike this because I think now I'm faking to be a good listener.

As for a lot of things: rest and sleep is important.

Comment · 10 years ago
Does this require a click from the user? Couldn't you set a background image to make a GET request to the server with the results?
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Why? If framework X does roughly the same as framework Y which is 50% in size then you can estimate that the code of Y is more effective.
Comment · 10 years ago
Some years ago PHP scripts would crash (without log) if the script file was exactly 1024 bytes. After days of blaming our own code we found out about this bug. No unit test would have figured that one out.

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