AndrewSChapman

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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
Pattern 1: Reasonable Pattern 2: Yes absolutely Pattern 3: Seems a bit inefficient, allocating memory when a simple if statement would avoid calling the method at all. Pattern 4: Would prefer if (foo && bar) { return true; } ret
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
I'm not so sure about that. For the basics that's definitely true, and no doubt if you're a C++ programmer then it will be an easier transition, but if you're coming from a higher level language like Java, C#, PHP etc t
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
I work in a small team building APIs with PHP for the real estate industry. In my last job I did manage to use D for a "sequence mining" algorithm that looked for problematic behavioural patterns in web user behaviour. PHP would
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
I would love to be able to use D in my day job. It's a fantastic language that is both powerful and fun to work with. It's great to see companies embracing it.
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
Excellent! I've started using Vert.x with Kotlin instead of PHP for making restful API's and it's wonderful. Event driven, strongly typed and performant. Looking forward to trying this out.
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
What about code reviews?
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
I also wouldn't call JavaScript great. It's adequate and tolerable. Typescript makes it better. Languages I'd call great include: Kotlin, C# and D.
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by AndrewSChapman 8y ago
If our goal is true anonymisation, that is, even the host cannot know who the data belongs to, why are we hashing data at all, and not completely removing it? Replace the pii (name, email address, phone etc) with a fixed number of *'s
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by AndrewSChapman 9y ago
Let's face it - how intelligent you are, what if anything you're gifted at, how tenatious you are, where you were born, who your parents are, who you know, what opportunities life presents you, what you enjoy doing, how much you a