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Comment Re:Is it professional to cheat your boss? (Score 1) 214

by tieTYT on Sunday September 28, 2008 @05:09PM (#25187191) Attached to: Clean Code

Over and over I see developers offering to write unmaintainable garbage, only to get in hot water in a year's time because productivity is in the toilet. It's not even fun the first time, but people keep on doing it. They should stop.

But, as was said in that interview, the problem is convincing the "Developer Managers". You end up competing with people who use the Bait and Switch technique: They claim they can produce code faster and cheaper than you, but really, it's unmaintainable. We need to convince our managers that by saying no, we're doing them a favor.

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Submission + - What video games can I play with my girlfriend? 4

Submitted by tieTYT on Monday January 14, 2008 @04:10AM

tieTYT writes: My girlfriend and I really like video games, but we usually play them on our own. What are some great two player video games out there that are just perfect for couples?

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Weave... Mozilla Is Trying To Be More Social 156

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday January 05, 2008 @12:14PM from the how-about-trying-to-leak-less dept.

Cassanova writes "Weave is the newest Mozilla Labs project. It allows the user to save browser settings on Mozilla servers (Favorites, sessions, passwords, etc.) and load them from anywhere. With this project, Mozilla is trying to be an online services provider, which is an important step. But can Mozilla labs get over the privacy issues?"

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PS3's Back-Compat Loss Explained, Analyzed 266

Posted by Zonk on Monday October 08, 2007 @01:41PM from the can't-play-ffxii-god-of-war-ico-shadow-katamari dept.

The news came down last week that future low-end PS3s won't have any backwards compatibility features, and that surprised a lot of onlookers. In response, Sony UK's Ray Maguire has attempted to clarify their logic. Essentially, in Sony's view, the money spent on back-compat features is better spent on developing new games or reducing the price of the console. "When PS3 first launched, Sony felt that backwards compatibility was an important feature as there were relatively few games for the new system, Maguire explained. 'So it was a big decision," he said of facility's removal, 'and we know it is a very emotive subject as lots of people think that backwards compatibility is high on the agenda and yet few really use it.'" For more on this, Joystiq has a few words on the implications of Sony's decision, while Kotaku says the 40GB unit will be arriving in the US on Nov. 2nd. For those of you who already own PS3s: would you have purchased a unit if it didn't have BC? If you don't have one yet, does the removal of BC make you less likely to buy one?

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Submission + - How Much Are Typos Costing You?

Submitted by tieTYT on Monday April 23, 2007 @05:05PM

tieTYT writes: Domain Name Wire reports on a startup that, on behalf of large trademark owners, is shutting down typosquatting websites using an unprecedented degree of automation. DNW editor Andrew Allemann writes, "CitizenHawk's TypoSquasher tool crawls the web in search of typos of a company's brand name. Whenever it finds an infringing domain name TypoSquasher captures evidence including screenshots, whois information, and how the domain is being monetized. It then automates legal processes to get control of the domain, including sending cease & desist letters and contacting the company that helps monetize the domain (such as a domain parking company)." There is also a tool on the CitizenHawk home page that lets you explore typosquatting domains around your trademark. For instance, there are at least 6795 domain names that contain the word Microsoft or some clear mispelling of it.

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Submission + - Why are T1 lines still expensive?

Submitted by badfrog on Monday April 23, 2007 @04:51PM

badfrog writes: Over the last 10 years, DSL and cable modem has upped its speed (although in some instances only slightly) and dropped its price. However, the price of a T1 has stayed almost exactly the same. If you had asked me 10 years ago, I would have predicted any geek that wanted to would have fiber or their own T1 line to the house by now. What is with this sad state of affairs that a 'business class' 1.544Mbit connection is hundreds of dollars more than a 6Mbit cable connection? Is it a legitimate case that a high upload rate should increase cost so significantly?

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