Arwill

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by Arwill 10y ago
I'm wondering if/when will signs of something like the Butlerian Jihad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad show. In Frank Herbert's Dune books, the objection of humanity against "thinking
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by Arwill 10y ago
The things done by people described in the article is not the same as what the work of managers is. These are not managers, and as the article says, these can be more junior people who will "boss around" senior developers too. And
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by Arwill 10y ago
Thats is why i've given up on C++. The new features might be nice, but i don't want to deal with those old hacks.
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by Arwill 10y ago
My bet is that Trump will do what presidents before him did, much the same way. Presidents do what their consultants tell them, and what political and business interests and deals dictate. If he asks an Asia expert, that expert will say to
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by Arwill 10y ago
Its not for free for the viewer either: >clips flagged as containing Gema-protected tracks can now have adverts automatically added to them to recompense the songs' creators. So now you will have to watch more adverts than people fr
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by Arwill 10y ago
>I've always seen design patterns principally as a way of communicating what you are doing to other programmers who come later. I've seen a big project with heavy emphasis on patterns, and it was a hell for new programmers. Tak
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by Arwill 10y ago
This is the consequence of the chosen programming language not being adapted to work with a relational database. The language is made to work with objects, and the access to DB is clumsy, trough library functions, which are deeply encapsula
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by Arwill 10y ago
I would say a cross-platform kernel, and the business logic running in a virtual machine, like Java. That combined with a hardware encryption module. Much of what that article is about, their software relies on Oracle DB for just about ever
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by Arwill 10y ago
Sygate Personal Firewall. It had a simple interface, nothing flashy. It was possible to simply define custom firewall rules. It was a Windows program, yet it felt like it had so much control as what a Linux firewall would. It just worked an
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by Arwill 12y ago
>when the problem is not completely understood at the beginning That was my point too, you just formulated it in a more positive way. If the developer does not understand the problem completely, then he will do what you describe as botto
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by Arwill 12y ago
What i commonly notice is if a developer starts solving the problem at its core, and then builds the interfaces around it, or he starts writing "utility" code, like writing code in hope that the problem will solve itself if enough
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by Arwill 12y ago
The MPEG2/MPEG4 are compressed streams of a program that generates motion images. The codecs are the interpreters for that program.
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by Arwill 12y ago
>build them on multiple threads That was the point of the blog post. Maybe described wrong, but that seems to be the point. The possibility of uploading stuff to the GPU on multiple threads on both CPU side, and the ability of the GPU to
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by Arwill 12y ago
No, the worst is when you get to talk with people fresh out of college, and you can't give them a job, because they are useless. Sober up people.
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by Arwill 12y ago
The problem is, people finish their CS study, and do not have such level of knowledge that they could start working right away. So Haskell might be nice, but is hardly a sought for skill. Sure if students would learn different stuff by them
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by Arwill 12y ago
The list of anti-patterns is good when you don't want to argue with a colleague, you can just send him the link. There are no hard-set rules in higher level software design, the compiler will not normally warn you of these issue. Havin
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by Arwill 12y ago
If you think of it in terms of that they "need to" make such a construct to do business, as opposed to being able to do business without such a big investment, then it makes a bit of sense.
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by Arwill 12y ago
Its a generational thing. Programmers grown up on JavaScript will prefer JSON. Its not a unique phenomenon. My guess is the noSQL was born out of fact that many young programmers simply don't know how to write SQL, if they don't k
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by Arwill 12y ago
The important point that dawned on me watching this video, is that the things you describe weren't done by Microsoft as a faceless corporation, but consciously by specific people, and by Gates himself directing the activity.
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by Arwill 13y ago
In the real world, these (and other) programming principles are abused to no end. OOP is used blindly as some kind of magic that is expected to produce a good system by itself. More objects, more abstraction is not always good. What will yo
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by Arwill 13y ago
I'm pretty sure we'll know in time that the US and Britain were behind some Euro manipulation too. The EU is right now like a big blob of countries. Some of the sovereignty was handed over to it, but its a lame duck when needs pro
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by Arwill 13y ago
Its not about blame. Its about the diplomatic message of the whole story. And the diplomatic message is that Russia can still pressure Poland, with weapons, if it deems necessary. So Poland better behaves accordingly. This show of power and
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by Arwill 13y ago
>Any independent country would, when all of a sudden someone dumps the anti-ballistic treaty and then decides to build a defensive shield along your borders. Look at this from Poland's side. Not building the defensive shield means t
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by Arwill 13y ago
Actually what i find to be the core question in deciding to use a database or not, is whether all data can be loaded at program start into memory or not. Loading all data at start is pretty simple and efficient. In this regards, there is an
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by Arwill 14y ago
The exact point is that the critics remain silent, while the believers (or those doing it on purpose) carry the false news forward. Then those posts will appear on the search engines. Then those searching about the topic will become convinc
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by Arwill 14y ago
Well no, the "class struggle" and "armed takeover of power by the proletariat" is the core of Marxism, not quite so peaceful. But this is irrelevant to the topic.
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by Arwill 14y ago
This is pretty fucked up. So now anyone in the world can expect to be sued in the US on base of US software patents? How do you release anything in a situation like this. Then there is the burden of going to a court in Texas? How in the fuc
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by Arwill 14y ago
Even for that it is not true. I call the phenomenon the "FPS wall". You cram features into the game, and the engine performs slower and slower. At some point you reach a certain low FPS (something like <20 FPS) and there is no way then
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by Arwill 14y ago
As a developer, instead of "oooOOh" i tend to do an "oh shit" whenever i see another MS API.
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by Arwill 14y ago
The problem with current AI is that it is programmed. Thus it stretches to where the programmer programmed it. AI needs to learn, it needs to be let to produce emergent behaviors, not just those which were programmed into it.

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