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I found it interesting that they didn't discuss pricing. I wonder why not and I wonder when they will.

Why not a capped pay per use?

I couldn't do my job without ack. We have a code base with millions of lines of C/C++ and tons of PHP. I use ack every day to find code and files. I've been looking forward to 2.0 …

He says advertising is dying, but Google makes most of its money from advertising and they're doing well.

You're mistaken. I worked on the 787 and a derivative of the 747. They use protocols defined by ARINC (google it) that are only used in the airplane industry. Stuff like telnet nee…

I concur. I used to work on interfaces to all the computers on the latest 747 and the 787 and there is no wireless way to talk to any of the computers or sensors that have any inpu…

Nothing special. He put his resume on job boards and started getting calls from recruiters. He looked at jobs offered found some he liked, applied to some, and one of those hired h…

It's a problem with web apps vs apps in general. If I have an app on my laptop/tablet/phone and a new version comes out I don't have to download it if I don't like what I read abou…

I'm not as tuned into iOS right now but a guy I work with just got an Android gig. As soon as he started looking he got a ton of calls and found one he liked in less than a week.

If you have an OS X or Linux machine just use a cron job to do daily google searches. Certainly less than a page of Python.

Try LOGO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

The suggestion "Containerize the airline industry" is wrong on so many levels. First of all every air port in the world would have to install new equipment. That would take money a…

I once joined a project that had been going on for 5 years with >100K lines of Python. At any given time we had more than 25 programmers. In my two years on the project I never had…

Cyclists insist on their rights but do not accept their responsibilities. Once I was walking in a crosswalk with the light when the guy zooms through the crosswalk a foot in front …

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I have never used lambda in years of programming Python. If I need a one time function I define a function and use it once. To me it is more readable and readability is one of Pyth…

The final app will certainly run more slowly than a native app. But if you must have a web app...

I worked on two airplane programs at boeing. The first was a derivative of the 747, the 747-400. The main features of this version that differed from previous 747s were going from …