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Re:We need to talk about systematic fraud on Saturday February 09, 2019 @11:59AM (#19123299)
> In a 2016 study1 in Scientometrics, Byrne and Labbé reported 48 problematic papers, including the 30 papers that had incorrectly identified nucleotide fragments. These were all written by authors from China.
Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @03:50AM (#18128317)
> leverage smart development practices into making the job a lot less labor-intensive.

I think we instead do the same amount of labor, but accomplish more.

Says quite a lot more about American police, I'd say.
Re:Is the open office layout dead? on Sunday August 20, 2017 @11:22PM (#15061696)
Had the same experience working a consulting job one time. Awful, dirty rows of terrible monitors and keyboards, fluorescent lighting, chintzy chairs.

Hotdesking sends to me the pretty degrading message that people are entirely fungible (probably also called "resources" at these places). I'm opposed to it.

And yes, everyone just sat in the same spot everyday.

My CS degree program required an ethics course. It was an immense waste of time.
Users and revenue.

User and revenue growth rate.

One bad sign is if the CEO is replaced. Another bad sign is if the company can't figure out how to make money.

Re:Coinbase adds support for Litecoin on Thursday May 04, 2017 @12:49AM (#14262531)
Segwit and Lightning Network; agility of Litecoin to evolve and advance. These are the reasons LTC is moving now.
Re:Ignite UI is now open source on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:46AM (#12794900)
Infragistics is a bespoke software dev shop that does mostly Microsofty line of business web stuff. SharePoint, ASP.Net, Silverlight, SSRS/SSIS, etc.

I think they sell to big companies who are Microsoft vendor-locked (probably also Microsoft itself).

Ignite UI is a component library, like Telerik UI.

Very similar to Telerik.

Re:Full technical details on Asana's worst outage on Saturday September 10, 2016 @04:26AM (#12468276)
We reconstruct history from timestamps in Slack and our logging and monitoring systems.
Happy to participate. You're welcome, whoever benefits.
Re:Why I'll never abbreviate a variable as long as I live on Saturday July 09, 2016 @12:20AM (#12060061)
Ah, good ol' TransactionTemplatePayloadFactoryExtension.
Re:Why I'll never abbreviate a variable as long as I live on Saturday July 09, 2016 @12:18AM (#12060054)
Yeah, the problem isn't that the airplane is on fire, the problem is that it crashed into another burning airplane as both tumbled uncontrolled through the sky, hurdling toward the earth.
Re:Fuckit.py – The Python error steamroller on Monday August 31, 2015 @02:20PM (#10148218)
Ruby has a language feature for this and it's pure 100% poison.

http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_method_missing.html

Re:Examining Microsoft Edge Browser Performance on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:59PM (#9926480)
Still can't calculate height or fire mouseLeave events correctly.
Re:We apologize on Monday July 06, 2015 @02:45PM (#9841288)
Reddit users are too stupid to effectively use reddit.
"I wear goggles when you are not here" is a mis-heard song lyric from the Macy Gray song "I Try".

Actual lyrics: My world crumbles when you are not here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6kY_I7rUiE#t=53s

Re:Ten Commandments of Sushi on Sunday April 05, 2015 @01:20AM (#9323205)
I prefer dipping my sushi in wasabi mixed with soy sauce and I don't care how anybody else things I should eat it.
Re:New Features in C# 6 (2014) on Sunday January 11, 2015 @08:06PM (#8872019)
I would love to read a blog post about why they thought it was impossible and maybe walking through the implementation.
Re:A Teenager’s View on Social Media on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @04:38PM (#8853482)
Just tried Yik Yak after reading this. In SF's FiDi, appears to be mostly dudes looking for gay hookups. Am I doing it wrong?
Re:Class Hierarchies? Don't Do That on Sunday March 30, 2014 @02:01PM (#7497113)
Okay, but that kind of polymorphism is actually a replacement for conditional logic, e.g. switch on type antipattern.

People hate conditionals. People hate polymorphism.

Everybody is wrong about everything pretty much all of the time, it appears.

Re:Please Excuse my Grammar on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @12:10AM (#7345436)
You are delusional and incredibly vain.
Re:Please Excuse my Grammar on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @12:10AM (#7345431)
This is satire, right?
Re:The Next Microsoft on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @07:39PM (#4196834)
This reminds me of Nike branding, which is very powerful.
Re:Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser on Thursday June 14, 2012 @09:32PM (#4114501)
How is this useful? I can edit colors, border radius, box shadow, line height, font, positioning, and alignment in real time on a real HTML mockup using Firebug, webkit developer tools, even the Internet Explorer F12 tools.

Web design mockups that include these things should be done in HTML and CSS. WYSIWYG editors are crippling for professionals and poison for amateurs.

Only if you're playing open chords. The shape for every chord of the same type is the same in any key when played as a barre chord.