I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened
So one should just keep watching '70 start trek reruns?
Did anybody read the pycon code of conduct?
"License This Code of Conduct was forked from the example policy from the Geek Feminism wiki, created by the Ada Initiative and other volunteers. which is under a Creative Commons Zero license."
That's just too funn... er, I mean I'm offended!!!
I use 14" laptop for coding. Helps me focus. I used to have huge monitors, but they were distraction. Sometimes it would be nice to have more real estate when debugging, but I've learned not to miss it.
Nokia 701 is a great phone now that they've updated the software.
Developing stuff for Symbian was difficult, because Nokia didn't invest into the tools. I think that is actually the whole reason for the downfall.
Singing and programming takes time to learn. If you can't sing, sing only in your shower. If you can't code, thank you not for pretending that you do. How often have you heard somebody mention that Fortran lab they did back in their college days to get street credibility among a software development team. That's like telling Pavarotti that since I know words to "Mary had a little lamb" I'm just like you.
How do you know that the code I write is not all that? Just because a real programmers can write code quickly it doesn't make them bad programmers. On the contrary, if you know what you are doing you can code cleanly and quickly.
There seems to be multitude of people who have opinion on software development who should concentrate on something entirely else like TPS reports. Are you one of those guys who has to assemble a committee to change a font size?
I just coded the final lab for bunch of University of Arizona (or some college near by) just for kicks... Took me 12 hours and these dudes probably had more than four months to do it.
If I can do that, there must be some value to my skill... I'm just a high school graduate... Couple of years of University of Helsinki CS (I think Torvalds was still there when I started), but lost interest when I realized I know how to do stuff.
I've made a simple stopwatch app for Symbian. I entered it into Nokias store when it opened I think 2008. Its sales have actually gone up instead of down even though there has been more competition than in the past. Of course it is the best one in mobile;), but still I don't think that Symbian is quite dead yet. Besides Nokia is still making most of its smartphone money from Symbian.
I don't know if it is that straight forward. I wouldn't recommend open sourcing your first round of code if it is the core of your business, but then again you should have copyright to your own code and if you are clever enough it gives you street cred when you try to sell the stuff. Competition is usually busy trying to figure out their own problems and if they copy from you, you can use it in your marketing and perhaps in future lawsuits. It's pretty rare that you've actually invented something really new and if you have I guess patenting would be to way to protect that.
If you want to drum up publicity I doubt going open source is going to do that in your prospective customers.
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened
Did you know us coders only have limited number of KEYUP events before we die.
Did anybody read the pycon code of conduct?
"License This Code of Conduct was forked from the example policy from the Geek Feminism wiki, created by the Ada Initiative and other volunteers. which is under a Creative Commons Zero license."
That's just too funn... er, I mean I'm offended!!!
I use 14" laptop for coding. Helps me focus. I used to have huge monitors, but they were distraction. Sometimes it would be nice to have more real estate when debugging, but I've learned not to miss it.
I've always wondered outloud why all Russians have dashcams. Now I look like a fool.
Nokia 701 is a great phone now that they've updated the software. Developing stuff for Symbian was difficult, because Nokia didn't invest into the tools. I think that is actually the whole reason for the downfall.
I use my Symbian Nokia 701 daily as a phone and my iPhone nightly for surfing the net. Both are pretty good devices. iPhone UI is pretty feature poor.
For the record: I wasn't putting down Fortran or Mary had a little lamb.
Singing and programming takes time to learn. If you can't sing, sing only in your shower. If you can't code, thank you not for pretending that you do. How often have you heard somebody mention that Fortran lab they did back in their college days to get street credibility among a software development team. That's like telling Pavarotti that since I know words to "Mary had a little lamb" I'm just like you.
How do you know that the code I write is not all that? Just because a real programmers can write code quickly it doesn't make them bad programmers. On the contrary, if you know what you are doing you can code cleanly and quickly. There seems to be multitude of people who have opinion on software development who should concentrate on something entirely else like TPS reports. Are you one of those guys who has to assemble a committee to change a font size?
I just coded the final lab for bunch of University of Arizona (or some college near by) just for kicks... Took me 12 hours and these dudes probably had more than four months to do it. If I can do that, there must be some value to my skill... I'm just a high school graduate... Couple of years of University of Helsinki CS (I think Torvalds was still there when I started), but lost interest when I realized I know how to do stuff.
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My my e-reader is missing a good paper cut simulation.
Few years ago I suggested to guys at Nokia Research Center to use DTN in mines and they actually got something done about it... http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fb375/extremecom/2010/GinzboorgExtremeCom10.pdf
Oh, I forgot. I guess this is the new normal ...
How is Google making money out of Android?
I wait patiently until a genius is close enough and after that pretty much any pen will do.
I'll come to insult you more - after I go through these numbers and make sure they are correct.
I've made a simple stopwatch app for Symbian. I entered it into Nokias store when it opened I think 2008. Its sales have actually gone up instead of down even though there has been more competition than in the past. Of course it is the best one in mobile ;), but still I don't think that Symbian is quite dead yet. Besides Nokia is still making most of its smartphone money from Symbian.
You win some you lose some. Nobody can predict what kind of phones people buy two or tree years from now.
There is a lot of whitespace activity in Europe. Here is one summary.
I don't know if it is that straight forward. I wouldn't recommend open sourcing your first round of code if it is the core of your business, but then again you should have copyright to your own code and if you are clever enough it gives you street cred when you try to sell the stuff. Competition is usually busy trying to figure out their own problems and if they copy from you, you can use it in your marketing and perhaps in future lawsuits. It's pretty rare that you've actually invented something really new and if you have I guess patenting would be to way to protect that. If you want to drum up publicity I doubt going open source is going to do that in your prospective customers.
Of course not. Thought of killing people with swarming drones turns me off no matter how justified the cause.
but, somehow I wouldn't feel good when my code worked in this case