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Once Upon a time a magical company called MagicDollars (for the sake of brevity for the rest of the answer we will refer to this company by its stock ticker M$) and this company made the most widely used, operating system, internet browser, office productivity suite, and various other products. M$ had this great idea to just integrate all of its software so that they would all work together seamlessly. This would be great for users of this software since this would make doing things like importing a webpage in a Ward processing (because in magicland we have wards instead of words) document, seemlessly and natively.
But this would evidently make the software too good. And we cant have people getting software that is too good. Because then if another company came along with their own version of good software people will be too dumb to install and use that if they have the already integrated versions that were included. So the Neanderthal Union decreed that M$ was using its magical abilities to make things too difficult for smaller developers to create super complex applications that they must give away for free. And said you will no longer make things work together seemlessly.
And instead of extending their middle wand to the NeU and saying fine we shall no longer make software that can be used in the NeU... M$ bowed before the luddites and said ok. So now you can not rename a file from inside of your office productivity suite in Magicland.
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Jun 29 |
suggested | suggested edit on How does having assets saved on a secondary domain(s) reduce the load time of the website? |
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Jun 29 |
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Why is HTML/Javascript minification beneficial +1 for scale. If you have 10 users and 100 hits a day its irrelavent. If you need to server 100k hits an hour it is a substantial savings. |
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Jun 29 |
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2D Image Creator for a video game I think that applies to generic questions of what platform/framework rather than this. This should be on topic... though I urge you to flesh out your question better. |
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Jun 26 |
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Should I demand unit-testing from programmers? @ChrisO - Exactly that it can be gamed proves it does not meet the requirements of the OP. |
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Jun 26 |
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Should I demand unit-testing from programmers? +1 I can write bad unit tests that appear to test everything but do not operate as they should to actually test everything. That does not add quality or prove anything. |
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Jun 26 |
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Should I demand unit-testing from programmers? I firmly believe, that proper automated unit-testing is the only way to document the quality and stability of the code. - anytime someone states that there is only one way to do anything it raises a red flag. There are plenty of other ways to accomplish this. Including some we have not even thought of yet. |
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Jun 21 |
answered | Looking for an example of how a software project can be managed/deployed |
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Jun 20 |
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Looking for an example of how a software project can be managed/deployed Typically... by management counting the cost as though it was draining their lifeblood, setting arbitrary time lines, and unrealistic expectations. Please try to do better than typical. |
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Jun 20 |
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Should I pay my developers for bugs fixes for a project or work that's still in progress? What does your contract say. Do you have a contract guaranteeing bug free code or that you will not have to pay for them to fix them? Often times bugs are created by changing requirements. You could always get a fixed price bid. Those tend to cost more but you have a fixed cost for the project. But this question is not about programming its about business. |
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Jun 18 |
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When working with contractors/interns how protective should one be of your codebase? @Shizam - Well you can use an NDA according to a few sites... |
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Jun 18 |
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When working with contractors/interns how protective should one be of your codebase? added 32 characters in body |
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Jun 18 |
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When working with contractors/interns how protective should one be of your codebase? @Shizam - It doesn't say you are in California... |
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Jun 18 |
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Changes in licence in forked project what are my rights? as a quote instead of code. |
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Jun 18 |
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Changes in licence in forked project what are my rights? Changed it so it was more readable |
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Jun 18 |
suggested | suggested edit on Changes in licence in forked project what are my rights? |
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Jun 18 |
answered | When working with contractors/interns how protective should one be of your codebase? |
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Jun 18 |
answered | How many juniors should a senior mentor? |
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Jun 14 |
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How do you manage projects left over by other employees? @SpencerRathbun - I agree it is a frequent problem in this field but this question is not really even scoped for programming. This question as written could be about an engineering, design, a manuscript, or any other field. This is a workplace problem. |
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Jun 14 |
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How do you manage projects left over by other employees? This is not a programming specific problem. This happens in many professions. Perhaps it would be better handled at the workplace. |
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Jun 12 |
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Is beginner knowledge of Java enough to develop for Android? What are you wanting to program? You are not going to write angry birds, but I am sure you could write a hello world app. So my guess is you are somewhere between the 2. |