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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @09:24AM (#16375866)
Then you will need two senior devs. This is because rockstar devs rarely want to mentor junior devs nor attend meetings. Most inventors are not professors.
Re:Saudi Arabia adopts the Gregorian calendar on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:54AM (#13221550)
Now let's just cross fingers and hope the US will adopt the metric system
Re:We only hire the trendiest on Monday March 21, 2016 @10:04AM (#11328096)
"Contractors are generally not the strongest technically"

Nonesense. Contractors are actually much stronger technically because they usually come in to complete a specific task and are not usually trained by the company.

At least that is my experience here on the east coast.

Re:We only hire the trendiest on Monday March 21, 2016 @09:57AM (#11328057)
Contractors get paid way more in the US especially on the East Coast because they usually have to take care of their own benefits and taxes
Re:Will Robots Inherit the Earth? (1994) on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:22AM (#9538658)
Yes, if you mean vs humans.

Mars is the only planet known to be inhabited entirely by robots

Re:Don't Talk to Corp Dev on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:04AM (#8880630)
" I would also consider the effects that knowledge of an explored-but-abandoned acquisition would have on your employees' motivation if they found out"

excellent point.

What if we build a huge sealed bottle garden and send to Mars, can humans live in it!
FoxPro
like I always say: "Write in one language, suck on all platforms"

But it is a good start

Have you checked the JavaScript console?
Re:Don't read TechCrunch on Monday December 03, 2012 @09:46AM (#4865564)
"There are plenty of rich kids that don't accomplish anything, Gates wasn't one of them."

Very true!

Re:Nexus 4 available for purchase again today at 12pm PST on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @04:00PM (#4838984)
Mine too!
Re:Nexus 4 available for purchase again today at 12pm PST on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @03:59PM (#4838978)
Just out of curiosity, what language/platform is Google Play running on?
Re:Nexus 4 available for purchase again today at 12pm PST on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @03:58PM (#4838965)
Nope. I have been there for an hour, still can't buy it.
Because a lot of times "Tom Jones in Skokie, IL" is actually a competitor going around giving everyone else a negative review
There is no such a thing as a negative "honest" review. Competitors (and clueless users) always pile up negative reviews while companies with huge budgets add fake "positive" reviews
What if you downloaded an app that you thought it was what you were looking for (without actually reading the app description), will you still rate it a "1 star"?
You are really on point. recently, one of my apps "Cooking Conversions" was featured on Amazon "Free App of the Day". Can you imagine my app got "1-star" reviews because "there are too many conversions" and also because "it is not a game". http://www.amazon.com/WhichMan-INC-Cooking-Conversions/produ...
Re:Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old on Thursday November 08, 2012 @01:38PM (#4759155)
Slavery lasted for 400yrs(+).
Re:Developer of Tweetie launches LetterPress iPhone Game on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @02:23PM (#4694279)
Cool game. The design Looks like a windows 8 app
Re:Free Book: An Introduction to Programming in Go on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @10:53AM (#4474795)
"It is rare to see an accomplished programmer who started writing any code in Java" are you serious? I know a lot [here in DC]. I personally started with Pascal->C->Java->(all the scripts)->C#
Re:What Happens to Stolen Bicycles? on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @09:55PM (#4446730)
"Just because the risk of a crime is zero, that doesn’t mean that a criminal will engage in that crime. If that were the case, thieves would go about stealing dandelions and day-old newspapers"

Now, that's classic.

Re:The year 2000 illustrated in 1900 on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @11:39AM (#4317783)
The also got tour buses right
"I disagree. I think they have a wealth of talented engineers."

That statement is false in many ways. As a developer, you keep seeing substandard products from Microsoft. Have you looked at the architecture of SharePoint? compare SqlServer CE to SQLite, not to mention the horrible tutorials and source code which Microsoft keeps putting out.

C#/.NET is an excellent platform/language but Microsoft keeps putting out horrible sub standard code/tutorials

Re:Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @01:31PM (#4195142)
"One difference between science and math is that you can't prove anything "correct" in science."

Excellent analogy

Re:A Brief History of Spreadsheets [2004] on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:56PM (#4133502)
No screen shots?
Re:Stop claiming you’re profitable on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:53PM (#4133489)
You comment alone Sir, needs its own blog post. Pretty interesting. My accountant never told me this.
Re:Peter Thiel's unexpected job requirement on Monday May 14, 2012 @01:43PM (#3972167)
Actually there is a difference: Employees from Top Tier universities make better slaves .i.e. They have been trained to "Do as you are told" (no creativity allowed), and "Wait for your turn"
Re:Why Google isn’t worried about Android revenue on Monday April 02, 2012 @03:29PM (#3789666)
The page keeps crashing in Chrome
Re:Why Javascript is a Joy on Monday March 26, 2012 @10:29AM (#3756827)
Not even 1 line of JavaScript code?

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