Viewing profile — lusr

Whenever I see interesting events like this, my first thought is not "what would happen" but always "how could I profit from what would happen [or the uncertainty around it]". Unfo…

I was very keen on using TDD to lay out the design and technical specification of a solution to be implemented by our team (8 developers total). Unfortunately, because the project …

I think the following separates you from the average games player and makes your story (interesting as it is) out of place: > In the late 1990's I wrote for websites strategies and…

He donated the product and kept the barcode.

Here's a guy who pretty much did it for free (and he wasn't the only one): http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/02/28/credit-card-reward-po...

It's not really a "Show HN", though is it? It's an paid-for extension of an existing product. In that vein, while an informative post I did find the following statement a bit disin…

Another fun complication: database stored procedures implemented with non-SQL code. I worked on a project where the client's dedicated SQL ninjas managed to bring the time to proce…

While I agree that immaculate attention to detail is important in documents you're creating for formal consumption (e.g. CVs/resumes), I don't see how the same extends to emails, w…

You're missing the point. The question is about the legality of access without authorisation. Just because it's illegal to leave your car unlocked doesn't magically make it legal t…

I still don't see the value. To me it's like proposing that in SQL we replace 'EXEC' with 'HEAD', 'PUT', 'DELETE'... At the end of the day I still need to understand the contract o…

> There isn't much in the way of discoverable APIs that adhere to the data model suggestion in the HTTP spec I don't even understand why this needs to be pointed out. If the precis…

I'm mostly a back-end developer and I don't have much experience with rich front-end interfaces other than my own little side projects and a WPF project from about a year back - ho…

The problem is that the types in Javascript + dependency injected AngularJS services are hidden. If you forget that "auth.loggedIn" is a value-type, you might unconsciously assume …

1. This tightly couples the service to the view. Changes in the view and/or service will potentially result in nasty surprises and spaghetti code. For instance, what happens if the…

These people are using Facebook with the expectation it works like email. Why do you feel the two are so different? In my experience, the average computer user doesn't like fiddlin…

Is this not a short-sighted view? A middle class salary they can survive on for how long? When that source of income dries up they'll be unable to continue working on their passion…

My machine is always on. Subjectively, having 24GB of RAM made far more of a performance difference than my Plextor PX-256M3P, presumably because with 24GB of RAM pretty much every…

Why a contractor? I'm a contractor for two reasons: (1) money and (2) because I don't buy into the corporate PR. People who work in these places have to buy into the corporate valu…

"CRI is not a good indicator for use in visual assessment, especially for sources below 5000 kelvin (K)." Bulbs in question are 2700K and 5000K. Does your conclusion still hold? [1…

Let's dig into these numbers. Assuming the R40m value is correct over 3 years, then: - since there are 248 working days in a South African year on average, the average daily cost r…

How do you come to this conclusion? It doesn't appear she had much of a choice. Her two successful lawyers in a fancy, shiny, expensive office gave her this advice: "I asked my law…

There are plenty of successful founders who didn't quit their jobs immediately to work on their startup. Not everybody has that luxury. Maybe you meant to limit your comment specif…

I just tried reading a number of articles on the front page using www.spreeder.com that another commenter here mentioned. I got up to 800wpm with chunk size of 3 before my suspicio…

Perhaps this is just my opinion, but if you make a statement that you don't know to be true and assert it as a true statement, you have lied.

The StackExchange network does very well without resorting to any of these tactics.