AdieuToLogic

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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
Some are born assholes, some achieve great assholeness, and some have assholes thrust upon them. (with apologies to Billy Shakespeare)
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
You originally asked: > ... actually define in any sort of concrete terms what a great programmer is. And I did. The concrete terms are in measurable aspects of a person who is (or is expected to be) performing the role of programmer.
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
Perhaps we can help educate employers by bringing an X-Box with Guitar Hero to interviews. When the inevitable "why did you bring that to the interview?" comes up, we fire it up and reply with "well, your advert did mention
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
Considering your consideration of GP's confusion harming the considerateness of your considered position has led me to considerately classify this confusion to be considered harmful as well. Ouch. Brain freeze!
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
D'oh! I was thinking that it was a trick question and there was a corollary to <code>extern "C" { ... }</code>. I out thunk myself on that one. Which leaves translation unit variables, class variables (which
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
static variables, methods, functions, and linkage IIRC. But the fifth, and most important of all, is race conditions...
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
> I challenge ANYBODY to actually define in any sort of concrete terms what a great programmer is. Definition: A great programmer is one who can define/identify the problem which needs to be solved as put forth by people who have a
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
While your premise: > Running out of CPU will cause problems regardless of what platform/framework/system you're using. Is technically correct, your subsequent conclusion is faulty in this context since Node.js does not in
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
Or... Have a machine fronting the ones running any system lacking the ability to manage incoming request rates perform the load balancing/throttling, using something like: http://www.haproxy.org Best fight? Not to be in on
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
You're right. I had misremembered thinking that the control keys often exposed in various GUI's were the same as the cmd ones. Which they are not: http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-keyboard.html Also, the original
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
In modern Bourne shell derivatives (Bash, ksh, some POSIX shells), the command: set -o emacs Will give command line editing bindings compatible with Emacs (which is also the default editing keys in MS-Windows and many IDE's BTW). HTH
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
Powerful tools are rarely instinctive. Quite often, one person's obvious is another's opaque.
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
> I think this will glob unless you escape the asterisks. The majority of times, this is the case. At least one exception is when the shell pattern does not match one or more files in the directory which find(1) is executed. However, t
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
Nah, just the hearts and minds.
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by AdieuToLogic 11y ago
Much, much more can be found at: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse