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Navigation is pretty handy, but the thing I really love about a smartphone is having a decent portable camera always with me. To quickly take a snap to share with family (mms, emai…

it's probably safer to just remember to use mv instead, because there's a very high chance that you'll do the wrong thing on a terminal that doesn't have that alias available.

why don't you set your default search engine to wikipedia?

realistically, at 27 one is a long way away from senior.

> how do you prevent yourself from wasting hours on Facebook/Twitter/HackerNews/YouTube Have kids.

Well, the classical engineering domains are all pretty different anyway (electrical, structural, civil, etc). I remember my grandfather saying he thought it was ludicrous that they…

> When you're pissing your diapers in an old people's home, what good is your retirement money? As I've understood, the point is to blow all your retirement money between the age o…

> Stuff.co.nz (Fairfax Media) is a more credible news source IMO. If you are interested in the most credible celebrity gossip news source, that is. Stuff is terrible.

> Building something interesting requires a surplus of time and money. Salaried jobs provide neither. Standard negatory bullshit. You should be able to achieve building something i…

Original source FOR the "orders of magnitude" claim seem to usually point back to Fred Brooks Mythical Man Month (5-10x) or Robert Glass (Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineerin…

No. They are part of the curriculum in a good SE degree. There is a SWEBOK. http://www.computer.org/portal/web/swebok

> who have every interest in making the higher cost phones more attractive by not updating the Android version on lower cost phones You'd be better to attribute that to them being …

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and then he jumped in his flying suit and flew around the city beating people up under his own sense of vigilante justice, all powered by the rubics cube sized nuclear reactor he h…

Do scrum. You have the vision and the budget. You are the product owner. Hire a scrum master and a team. Pay them handsomely and treat them kindly.

I got the N9 here in New Zealand a couple of months ago. It is absolutely brilliant. By absolutely brilliant, I mean $200 cheaper than the Lumia 800 (which I also got for my wife);…

Jolt award winners, and Martin Fowler's signature series

Kiwi? [edit: read your profile. Actually Aus] was going to comment that neither python nor ruby are that great if you are looking for jobs in NZ. There are more options with php, a…

In some situations, giving developers direct access to remote [production] servers is unacceptable. (Areas like healthcare, banking.) Not everything in life is about developer effi…

Why is it a problem? I personally get a Macbook because it's a good balance -- I can run all the unix/dev tools I want, and my wife can plug in the digital camera or printer and I …

Eat well, get exercise, sleep properly, drink lots of water. Vitamin tablets are a symptom not a cure.