CodeMage

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by CodeMage 17y ago
See, that kind of hostile attitude is what usually turns people away from any advice you might offer. Your assumption that I haven't read the article -- because my wording of my interpretation of it differs from what you expect -- is unwarr
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by CodeMage 17y ago
-- If you question your own intentions and observations, you can avoid making big mistakes. This is the big fallacy of questioning your every thought and intention. If only I could just monitor every thought, every motive, question my ev
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Except if you pay with cash.
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Absolutely! Just for the record -- since people seem to assume otherwise -- I'm not agreeing with the article. I'm just disagreeing with the idea of ignoring "scalability and performance" and then expecting to solve performance problems by
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Coding Horror initially attracted me as a reader because it had some interesting anecdotes. Since then, I've been growing more and more disappointed, but this post reached a new threshold. Maybe I'm too sensitive, but I find it condescendin
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Yet another oversimplification. The 48 Laws of Power are certainly present in everyone's behavior, but it's a bit of a stretch to label them as the sole culprit for XP's failures.
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by CodeMage 17y ago
You can always throw hardware at the performance problem. No, you can't. That's what scalability means . If you don't have scalability, then additional hardware will only take you so far before you begin wasting it.
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Flash player runs the ActionScript code embedded in SWF. Browsers run the Javascript code embedded in web pages. If there are security vulnerabilities in either of these runtimes, malicious code can take advantage of them. The same argument
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Come on, Butlerian Jihad? Please tell me that was a humorous quip and not a real opinion ;)
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by CodeMage 17y ago
The article started out fine. It's an interesting topic that I've never really wondered about and it made me curious. And then I came across things like this: Instincts are coded for by genes. Genes are made up of DNA strands which use a s
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Am I the only one wondering how Google Wave is going to combat spam?
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by CodeMage 17y ago
In this case, I'd say that the author is trying to stop people from staring at the trees, so that they can tour the forest.
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Those draconian rules are affecting the developers, not the end users, at least not directly. One could argue that every time a developer D cannot publish an application A, it affects the end users, but it seems that the impact is not sever
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by CodeMage 17y ago
I'm curious: how do you propose to use Flash itself as vector for viruses and malware?
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Could you give some examples of contemporary matriarchal societies? Unless you're using a non-standard definition of "matriarchal", I believe you are either mistaken or misintepreting facts.
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by CodeMage 17y ago
The biologically engineered apocalypse has always been a popular bogeyman. Last year, the big scare was the biological terrorism: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/busting_anthrax_myth A lot of the same logic applies to Mr. Lind's article to
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Spam still exists because there are enough people who, upon receiving it, generate profit by buying spamvertised products. Piracy still exists because people want things for free and copying digital content is a lot easier than stealing a p
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Maybe they should call it "ARC" instead ;)
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Wishful thinking. Until it becomes at least as hard to copy digital content as it is to, say, shoplift a DVD, the so called "high profile piracy" will rage on.
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Lots of handwaving, some ad hominem and plenty of condescension. I like Chrome's speed and stability. I really like the idea that if one tab crashes (beyond recovery), the rest will survive. But I still use Firefox and will go on doing so u
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by CodeMage 17y ago
I'm not sure how wanting to avoid reboots makes one sound ignorant. We've come a long way since the bad old days when you had to reboot virtually every time you installed or reconfigured anything. I agree with Yegge when he says "Systems sh
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Not in applications, but operating system. Windows Automatic Update becomes quite unnecessary if you're behind a firewall.
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Not very likely. According to the author, he's behind a well-configured firewall.
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by CodeMage 17y ago
Deja vu. It reminds me of Visual Basic and Access, but with a bigger market. Back then, there was this same idea that "anyone can be a programmer", but the pool of interested amateurs was smaller and it was a bit harder to reach the market.
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by CodeMage 18y ago
Have you any idea how much effort and training is necessary in order to become proficient enough in one game as to be able to compete professionally? Just because the professional gamers are not running around or doing push-ups, doesn't mea