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yen223

8,227karma·2,953submissions·June 6, 2012
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Just another software guy.

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A private Twitter would be Google+, wouldn't it?
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Tensor's point, which I agree with, is that Apple's choice to use skeumorphism has impacted functionality, and is not a good design principal at all. I would also argue that a lot of their designs loo…
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Guy points out that the dripping water is, in fact, not supernatural. Guy has to apologize for that. Seriously?
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Are there any freelance jobs which aren't web-related? I am a software engineer specializing in robotics systems, and I find it really hard to find contract work that doesn't involve Javascript/PHP/et…
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The $2,499 MacBooks can potentially earn money, a nice bed does not.
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Could simply be that most questions have already be answered.
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Could simply be the case that all 'simple' questions have already been answered. Nitty-gritty problems tend to be the edge-cases that don't attract a lot of attention, hence fewer user participation. …
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Out of curiosity, who uses Ada? The DoD?
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There's still a lot of legacy software running VB, e.g. the camera software that I'm currently working with now. Software written in VB.net for the most part plays nicely with C#.net, so there's no hu…
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I used to be like that - cynical and suspicious of anything somebody says. If someone said something nice about me, I'd automatically assume he was trying to sell me something. I realized later on tha…
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[Maybe I'm out of step with the recruiting community but are there people who are sitting around going "let's round up some really mediocre candidates?"] There are a lot of people going "let's round u…
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I'm guessing this is the real reason why Google is killing off iGoogle...
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I'm pretty sure your neighbours can already rent out their rooms to strangers on the Internet.
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