Andys

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by Andys 18y ago
Yes! People will give you feedback over phone, that they don't over email.
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by Andys 18y ago
I have a theory that there's two types of programmers: The ones who interrupt others, and the ones who get interrupted. The interrupters have a more social-oriented personality hate working at home. The ones like me who always seem to be
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by Andys 18y ago
Wow, that is really sad and not something I would have expected from MS.
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by Andys 18y ago
> "Corporate Simplificator" We call it "the startup".
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by Andys 18y ago
I don't doubt any of that. But the question is, did you then go and write any actual, production applications using Haskell or did the book just go back on the shelf with all the other academic texts?
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by Andys 18y ago
The thing is, if you're writing a Ruby framework and there's a tiny chance someone will want to extend some part of it, they can do it without you needing layers of ClassFactoryFactory crud.
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by Andys 18y ago
JoelOnHosting.com?
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by Andys 18y ago
Sun - We're the dot in "Please wait............."
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by Andys 18y ago
Glossy screens are a killer if you like working in areas with lots of natural light or sunlight. Try wearing a white tshirt, sitting in partial sunlight, and using a glossy LCD> Having said that, I find that smaller screens are fine wit
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by Andys 18y ago
Its a shame that blocking foreign countries works so well.
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by Andys 18y ago
Its nice that they release the fruit of their labours in OpenSolaris. I've rolled my own hybrid storage and played with it in ZFS using a RAM disk and flash storage and it really does work - it can make a RAID of slow SATA disks look like a
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by Andys 18y ago
Enterprise drive makers like Seagate and WD are now claiming to have features which limit the damage caused by cabinet vibrations. I was intrigued to note that these differences are done only with firmware. Any idea whats happening behind
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by Andys 18y ago
> "I can't do much to ensure that students will care enough to hit the books to overcome their disappointments, but I can change what I do." > "there were far more 0s in the final grid of grades. I even had a couple of 0s on quizzes
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by Andys 18y ago
For me, it conflicts with Number 5 too much. How do you decide what counts as "not taking shortcuts" versus what is a luxury you can't yet afford?
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by Andys 18y ago
I look at it and almost weep - but I feel like its TOO good. I've grown accustomed to the start-up feel of making do with what you have, spending big on a few items (chair, monitor) and having everything else made of cardboard..
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by Andys 18y ago
I agree about setting up a company - I think if you're not prepared to separate personal and company accounts, you're not ready to do consulting.
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by Andys 18y ago
Yup, in your method signature you simply have one last parameter called &bl and then bl is set to the Proc object. You can no longer call yield(...) but instead you have to use bl.call(...) You can indeed save the Proc object and use it
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by Andys 18y ago
Even just having a photo frame that also displays tomorrow's weather and an NTP-synced clock is a great but simple step forward for photo frames
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by Andys 18y ago
Agreed that diversity is a good thing, but the article asks why wouldn't I, when I am asking, why would I? It doesn't help that today, adding more RAM costs very little, and that the new VM in Ruby 1.9 runs my Rails apps 3x to 5x faster,
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by Andys 18y ago
It doesn't copy anything - it literally is calling "Array.new()" to generate a new array, every time one is needed. To do it the python way, you'd have to use a global variable to store the array - which is exactly what python is doing for
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by Andys 18y ago
It isn't that accurate outside of the USA.
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by Andys 18y ago
Irritating pattern: 1. A free(mium) hosted service becomes popular 2. It inevitably goes down one day 3. I hear about it from every blog, tweet, and news site. I have always hosted my own email and webserver so when it goes down, instead of
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by Andys 18y ago
It should be noted that they only fit 10,000 cores in a full rack (~40 rack units). Each "node" is actually a 4RU box with, I'm guessing, 500 dual-core Atoms, which will probably max out a standard single power circuit.
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by Andys 18y ago
I was pleased to find that Ruby isn't like this. So param=[] means param=Array.new, and it gets called every single time you call the method with a parameter missing.
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by Andys 18y ago
I agree, and it seems there's a very low chance of Obama being able to address any of these issues.
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by Andys 18y ago
Idle thought: Here in Australia, you don't have to deal with sales tax until you've reached about $50,000 per annum income. I always thought this limit should be much higher, say $200,000, since it is in society's interest for small busine
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by Andys 18y ago
The logical consequence of the fact that PCs keep getting faster even though a PC from 2005 did everything most people need (word processing, email, web, chat). And Microsoft didn't see it coming, apparently.
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by Andys 18y ago
You know what would be a better experience for my mother? If she turned on her PC, and a browser appeared, instantly, and there were no other applications, OS updates, viruses, or anything like that to worry about. Just a browser, from whi
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by Andys 18y ago
I'll try it (for the first time) when its released on *nix.
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by Andys 18y ago
I am, among other things, a sysadmin who babysits several RAIDs, including a 10TB one. I can confirm that the large capacity SATA disks have a noticeably high error rate, which I have never seen before. It used to be that RAID protected yo

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