BMW is looking pioneer a move away from proprietary systems used for in-car entertainment systems, allowing developers to build plug and play applications especially for their cars. This could be extremely good news for the open source community and another ‘notch in the bed post’ in the fight against closed source systems.
When a manufacturer or [...]
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Because of the numerous hours in a day (and various other constraints), the lines in a diary are typically very narrow. They are also usually equally distributed (somewhat). But our information is a hierarchy. Some are more important to us. Some we feel happier about. We want to highlight stuff that’s important to us. We [...]
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It may be cliche, but it seems that people who get good at writing software are motivated by laziness. If everyone was as constructively lazy as a good programmer is, the whole world would be more efficient.
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I wish I could grep my keys.
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Programming teaches you that the universe is predictable and deterministic. I’ve personally found [...]
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After 2 years of excuses, laziness, constant turnover (complete waste of training time when the guy/girl buggers off and leaves you with a new muppet), terrible or copied-from-Google code, never-ending bugs, headaches, baffling phone calls where no-one understood each other, emails that promised to “do the needful” but went ignored, applications that just didn’t work, [...]
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For all developers everywhere, we all share the pain…
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