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Comment Re:Biggest Gripe about coding .. shouldn't be code (Score 1) 207

by SquirrelCrack (#29289929) Attached to: Coders At Work

Are you sure you don't just need a new job?

At my current company we have great analysts and we tend to write purposeful code that has been well optimized for speed and maintainability. Our management even has a clue... Don't assume that your personal experience at your job is indicative of state of an entire industry.

Comment Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free (Score 2, Interesting) 233

by SquirrelCrack (#29278705) Attached to: iPhone App Wins Microsoft App Contest

Actually, you can't.

If you want to install your app on an actual phone it has to be signed using a $99 development key.

I really don't think it's that big of a deal, but folks will get bent out of shape about anything. Hell, if I really cared, I could pay one windows box worth of dollars, then buy visual studio, then buy a Windows Mobile phone, and avoid paying $99 dollars to run my custom application on my phone.
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Wired Writer Disappears, Find Him and Make $5k Screenshot-sm 135

Posted by samzenpus from the hiding-in-plain-sight dept.
carp3_noct3m writes "A freelance Wired magazine journalist has decided to see what it is like to disappear from normal life, all while staying on the grid. The catch, is that he is challenging anyone and everyone to find him, take a picture, and speak a special codeword to him. If you can do that, you can make 5000 dollars, which happens to come out of his paycheck for the article he'll be writing. Oh, and to top it all off, whoever finds him gets pictures and interviews in Wired. He has been posting to his Twitter, using TOR for internet, and the Wired website will be posting his credit card transactions."
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Robot Love Goes Bad Screenshot-sm 101

Posted by samzenpus from the become-my-robot-bride dept.
hundredrabh writes "Ever had a super needy girlfriend that demanded all your love and attention and would freak whenever you would leave her alone? Irritating, right? Now imagine the same situation, only with an asexual third-generation humanoid robot with 100kg arms. Such was the torture subjected upon Japanese researchers recently when their most advanced robot, capable of simulating human emotions, ditched its puppy love programming and switched over into stalker mode. Eventually the researchers had to decommission the robot, with a hope of bringing it back to life again."

Comment It's great for consultants (Score 1) 470

by SquirrelCrack (#24307181) Attached to: Is Anyone Using the Google Web Toolkit?
I work for a large consulting firm and have found that GWT (gwt-ext specifically) is great when our clients have rich client requirements, but do not have the ability to support large scale java script AJAX applications. GWT allows us to code the product in Java, document it, then hand it off successfully to an internal support team composed mainly of inexperienced java "developers" for maintenance.

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