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I just want a thicker phone; other than a taller lens for the camera in one corner, a bigger battery is just the thing that would make the most sense to fill the volume. I'm entirely serious about the first point too; half the reason I went with a (fake??) leather case that doubled the thickness of my phone was to make it easier to hold. Enough extra battery capacity that I could leave my charger home on the weekend, or go without having to find an outlet mid afternoon on the rare days I use my phone extra heavily would be much more useful than a slab of non-edible cow parts. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I have a Mophie Juice Pack Plus case for my iPhone. Nearly doubles the thickness and fully doubles the battery life. With my normal usage I can get 3+ days between charges.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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What an ID10T
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
modified 9-Mar-15 12:46pm.
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OK...
Does your smartphone have a battery the size and weight of a car battery and give you year long battery life? No.
Does your smartphone have a battery the size and weight of a dime and give you battery life measured in minutes instead of hours or days? No.
So the reality is somewhere in between. Like every single manufacturer in the world, Apple has to decide what balance of size, weight, battery life, etc... they wish to offer. They made their choices and in an interview he tried to explain their reasons.
BTW - When has Google, Samsung, Microsoft, HP or Dell ever even tried to explain the reasons for any of their hardware decisions? Would you call them idiots if they tried?
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If they said something stupid like he did, "you don't need more power!", yes I would.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: If they said something stupid like he did, "you don't need more power!"
Ummm... show me that quote or anything like it. I read the CNet article and the linked Financial Times interview and there is nothing even close.
From the Financial Times article: Talking of performance, when the issue of the frequent need to recharge the iPhone is raised, he answers that it’s because it’s so light and thin that we use it so much and therefore deplete the battery. With a bigger battery it would be heavier, more cumbersome, less “compelling”.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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"Bigger battery" equates to "more power". So saying we "wouldn't like a bigger battery" is the same as saying we "wouldn't like more power (i.e., longer lasting power)". Ergo, he's an idiot.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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So... would you be happy if your smartphone was as big as a toaster and weighed 25 lbs?
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Now you are being stupid.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Secretly terrible engineers (STEs) are everywhere, and they may be on your very team as we speak. Present company not included, of course.
Other than a few? people in QA. And the forums.
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Nice article.
What really gets me about people who can't FizzBuzz is not that they haven't heard of the modulus operator, but that they didn't bother to Google 'programming interview questions' before the freaking interview!
Seriously! FizzBuzz is the quintessential programming interviewing question, if you just google 'programming interview questions' you will find it in two minutes, and can memorise it in a further 3. That's 5 minutes they clearly couldn't be bothered to spend preparing for an interview, and that is bloody terrifying!
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If they have to "prepare" to solve FizzBuzz, they are already a lost cause anyway.
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Totally, but I would be worried about the ones who don't even try to prepare making me a big-mac, never mind programming 
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Secretly terrible developers are much worse - mainly because of the acronym.
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In Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 we are introducing the "Create Unit Tests" feature that provides the ability to create unit test method stubs. Hopefully they'll write them too. That would save so much effort and time.
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Yeah, I'm also expecting more from Microsoft. For writing a VS-Plugin that creates unit test method STUBS they could've asked me.
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Sounds a lot like what Pex[^] already did?
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Yeah, I suspect this is just Pex rebranded.
TTFN - Kent
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If the standard medical short-term memory loss tests ever expand to include IT there are going to be a good deal more false positives!
modified 9-Mar-15 3:52am.
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Rebranded and extended. Pex was limited to portable class libraries, Smart Unit Tests will also work on code targeting the full .net framework. OTOH if your legacy code wasn't written according to TDD flavor of the week styles, the odds are that it won't be able to generate useful tests. SUT ignores any methods that touch a WinForm UI control (at the most basic level, mocking input controls as strings/Booleans/enums would get about 90% of the way there), can't figure out the need for any non-injected dependencies (hint, if that static class is only initialized one way in the code base, that's probably the way it needs inited in the tests too), or anything that passes paths to the file system as strings (no, "a", "b", ... "aa", ... won't work as a pattern here; admittedly though this one doesn't have an 'obvious' better default behavior).
PS Yeah, yeah, yeah, at some point I should stop procrastinating, create a demo-legacy code project to replicate what I saw trying SUT against one of my work codebases and write an article on it.
PPS Have you seen a unicorn that farts rainbows that lead not to a pot of gold, but to a day of extra free time?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We pretend what we do is computer “science”. When in reality, its more art than science. "The central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way."
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Mine usually ends up as HBDD (Head Banging Driven Development)
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Rock'n'roll! 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others
Well, if others did work that was capable of being built upon...
Kent Sharkey wrote: rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way.
If I were to re-implement something in a trivially different way, then shame on me. But the point of redoing prior work is for exactly the reason that it is not done in a trivially different way, but rather in a significantly different way, namely such that it can be built upon. 
Marc
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With that attitude, we wouldn't have cell phones since we already had phones to begin with.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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