CPlatypus

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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"Besperk, Ogmerk, Oyake, Verloop" I worked for Revivio. I worked for SiCortex. I can handle bad names, but these are names I'd only use in place of swear words. "This code is ogmerk. Go besperk yourself." If you used these names too of
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"All-star technical team" = "Each developer will tell you the others are stars. Perspectives from outside the circle might differ."
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
The difference between the OS distribution on SourceForge and the OS distribution in the real world only shows how irrelevant SourceForge has made itself.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I don't agree with the "no politics" point. Sure, there might be no politics within the startup, but there can be a lot of politics involving investors and their other portfolio companies, or partners and customers who are large/few enough
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Exactly. Thank you. The student who demonstrates exceptional ability should be rewarded and encouraged, but not with a good grade on an assignment they did not complete properly. Driving toward requirements, no matter how arbitrary or unint
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
The instructor was correct: you didn't complete the assignment. Printing the stack (i.e. from within the code) is not the same as finding where a value is stored in a dump (i.e. when the code stopped running and might not even be available
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
What Jeff apparently meant was that all application programming is web programming. Because of this unstated (and absurd) assumption, Jeff's critique fails to address most of Michael's points - whether you agree with those points or not.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I really like the basic idea, but there do seem to be a few potential drawbacks. (1) Performance. Coercing values that might have been the target type to start with is wasteful. Extracting secondary paths into separate functions is wast
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I see the same thing even from my close colleagues. With one in particular, the first I'll even know he's using my code is when he bitches about it on Twitter. Forget about usable information in a bug report about what he did to trigger i
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Yep, sure, lots of people will remember Zach and talk about him. It's too bad that they won't remember what he was talking about . When the presentation drowns out the content - assuming there was any content to begin with - that's a probl
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"I'm not sure erasure coding vs. replication is a simple change for other distributed storage projects." It depends on a few factors: how modular the architecture is overall, whether the existing replication is synchronous or asynchronous,
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
It's not open source. The code is not currently available. Given that the code for SpiderOak itself has been "coming real soon now" for a year, I'm not going to hold my breath. Even if/when that day does come, it will be "thrown over t
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
"NewSQL" basically means "old guy desperately trying to stay relevant in a post-relational world" See also: VoltDB.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
In other words, it's plain old CA.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
The real fallacy in the article is an unstated assumption - that developers should be homogeneous. Why not have a "rockstar" Jack and a "sensible" Dianne, in dynamic tension? Teams of one are the exception. In multi-person teams, focus
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
The first thing I did on that page was add "membase" to the list. If one adds the "couchdb" and "membase" lines, the result almost - no, not quite - keeps up with the MongoDB line. This is compatible with my first thought that people have
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Nice. This fixes many of the worst issues with excess whitespace, lack of visual separation or contrast, highlighting the most useless button on the screen, etc. Thanks for the pointer.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Passion means wanting to do something. Professionalism means doing stuff you don't like because it's necessary. The acid test is often how the person responds to their work being flamed. * -passionate -professional: ignore it * -passionate
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Different concerns apply to children of different ages or temperaments, and to different situations. My seven-year-old daughter is actually better than most at entertaining herself with books or puzzles etc. She also has a mother who stay
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I've seen a half dozen slide decks by GitHub about GitHub, and I can't remember a single shred of content from any of them. All I can remember is that too-familiar "I want those five minutes back" feeling
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
You have less free time, in smaller increments, and no longer under your control. Let's say you have no children, and work a standard forty-hour week. I know that's not common here, but bear with me. The thing is, that other 108 hours pe
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
This just makes me so sad. The author's work flow cries out for sharing, not syncing, perhaps augmented by some sort of notification system. This is a problem my filesystem colleagues should have solved years (decades?) ago. Arguably the
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Yes, the combination of high pay and time/place flexibility is very appealing compared to the way most people live. You can still apply the same theory within computing, though. For example, a lot of people start out wanting to invent the
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
With respect to your first question, I was wondering the same thing. At $150K, federal/state/local tax - not even including property tax - is going to be over 30% unless there's some seriously dodgy accounting involved. Oh, but a lot of tha
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I know the internet discourages "me too" responses, but... This is awesome. Thanks for sharing it.
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Starting a conversation is a wonderful thing, but how you start a conversation matters. Some questions naturally elicit a defensive response, especially when they make the reviewer's opinion a default and force discussion of that - impli
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
What a terrible list. One of the most important things to do in a review is to keep it focused on improvement and not turn it into a kibitizing session. That's why so many sources recommend avoiding "why" questions altogether. It's nice t
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
I'm going to repeat what I said on Twitter when this first came up - dozba's computationally-intensive-task example doesn't really illustrate the problem. Even if the computation is buried somewhere in a library, you can more or less predi
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Git is the quintessential example of requiring the users to get inside the author's head if they want to avoid disaster, and thus falls into the "steaming pile of crap" category. The things "git merge" will do to your tree are not defined
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by CPlatypus 15y ago
Yes, naming is a huge time-suck. Not only do you have to worry about the domain and the github project name, but you have to worry about trademarks as well. Even if you hate trademarks and have no intention of registering yourself, some oth

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