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programzeta

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    I think this depends greatly on the product area and ease of updating. Removing problems categorically from designs early has been valuable to me in the past to reduce surface area…

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    Comment #36999323

    Being unwilling to even try talk through your emotions with the /person who you are going to marry/ is absolutely a bad signal and deal breaker.

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    Comment #36947119

    It’s not life or death, but time spent dealing with errors - debugging, the direct effects, understanding full impact - isn’t a resource we can get back.

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    Comment #36935625

    Thank you for asking this, it helped tease out and crystalize some thoughts I’ve had about the difference in tenor between computer programming and software engineering. I hope the…

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    Comment #36906728

    Hear-hear for Flowdock. Been a decade and I still can't help but think of it when I bump into the latest annoying Slack-ism.

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    Comment #36898566

    (c) could be re-written as “If you’re going to give gifts, make them personally meaningful and not generic.” I think this advice is most relevant when you’re doing personal, one-on…

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    Comment #36725244

    It’s been my experience that without regulatory heat it takes a massive, embarrassing mistake to get traction on internal tool lockdowns and security.

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    Comment #36403644

    The forum (as well as ‘stage’ and ‘announcement’) feature requires changing to a “community” instance which has some other strings attached. AFAICT long-running servers would never…

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    Comment #29071647

    It's not what Facebook does that the others don't, in my opinion, it's that Facebook does not have services for businesses. They have scant little utility to businesses outside of …

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    Comment #28778170

    You can have an iCloud account with any e-mail, including a gmail address - might have been the case there?

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    Comment #28236789

    Apple’s trying to mitigate this by putting themselves to a more internationally focused standard of matches against at least two separate sources of CSA hashes, if my understanding…

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    Comment #25805876

    Some devs do focus on it - this blog post goes into detail about how someone worked through making sure you could walk everywhere in The Witness: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_000…

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    Comment #5340146

    The title is 'SimCity', all as one word.

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    Comment #5295233

    From a past example at the University of Pittsburgh[1], the result is simply a campus-wide lockdown and increasingly strenuous security requirements for those caught in between the…

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    Comment #3838563

    Seems like they've had this idea for a while, between their previous PS3 integration and their take on supporting televisions via Steamworks: http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks…

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    Comment #3267538

    I'm definitely interested in this opportunity - my e-mail address in my profile.

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    Comment #2981097

    I think it's a ripe field for experimentation at this point, as it's a very entertaining way to present information. There is/was a series in Australia called Hungry Beast, which p…

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    Comment #1118715

    I'm curious as to why people should feel 'conned'; certainly there's the iTunes sync issue that was never resolved but that can't really be the entirety of your complaint? I have a…