GlennS

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by GlennS 13y ago
Potentially a population density thing? Public transport makes more sense if people are more packed in, because the stations are more likely to be 1) close to the things you wants to go to and 2) close to your house. Meanwhile, private tran
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by GlennS 13y ago
It is real life, but is a problem. Things don't have to stay the way they are now.
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by GlennS 13y ago
Is the formalism of UML actually useful? I don't think I've ever done a collaborative software project without scribbling some boxes representing system components on a piece of paper. Sequence diagrams are also quite useful (inst
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by GlennS 13y ago
What is the government really responsible for? Large and long-term investments. Acting strategically over decades on behalf of millions of people. Most organisations aren't in a position to be acting on those scales.
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by GlennS 13y ago
Would you want to sell your company to Yahoo? Yahoo is where companies go to die.
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by GlennS 14y ago
I kept using Winamp for long after it got rubbish because it was the only thing you could use http://www.milkdrop.co.uk/ on.
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by GlennS 14y ago
I'm not familiar with @Nullable (just looking it up now), but have become quite fond of Guava's Optional<T>. It's a bit wordy, but it seems like a great example of how to make the type system work for you by finding your mistakes as
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by GlennS 14y ago
Caveat: my experience is from the UK (where university is usually focused on a single subject). No, you don't need a degree to work in IT (for almost all areas). I know plenty of people who failed their degrees who are good programmers. But
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by GlennS 14y ago
Is it worth learning grep or ack or a similar tool? When I need to do these sort of tasks, I do them in a scripting language with some combination of split() and regex instead of using command line tools. But, I'm just doing that because it
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by GlennS 14y ago
Antifragility? Why not 'resiliance'?
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by GlennS 14y ago
I recently started a Java job after having avoided it in favour of better languages for some time. I've found the Google Guava library makes Java programming a lot more bearable: https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/ Thinks that will
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by GlennS 14y ago
I find it refreshing too. I find it much easier for my programming to flow when I'm sparing in my object use. But, I'm not quite ready to throw out bundling functions with data just yet. Sometimes there's no other use you'd have for a funct
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by GlennS 14y ago
I'm not keen on XML for configuration files, it's just too full of junk to read quickly.
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by GlennS 14y ago
My instinct is to go back and correct my typos, but it seems like this punishes you for doing that? If so, I think that not correcting my typos is a habit I would prefer to avoid.
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by GlennS 14y ago
I'd suggest it's just as likely that Stack Overflow has a slight bias in favour of .NET. It's written in .NET, its creators blogs talk about .NET, and a lot of the higher profile members of the .NET community regularly answer questions on t
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by GlennS 14y ago
Wait, have they just patented a HUD?
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by GlennS 14y ago
I get that too, if I'm reading or writing then nothing short of shouting or a physical tap on the shoulder can bring me back to reality. But I'm not convinced everyone can learn it. I know people who are light sleepers and get jolted awake
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by GlennS 14y ago
Here's a competitor for that title, the NHS National Program for IT. The plan was to build a patient records system to run in every hospital in the UK. It was billed as the biggest IT project ever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecti
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by GlennS 14y ago
I think you make a pretty good point. This experiment is meant to be about privacy, but there's a good chance that the subject are actually reacting to him moving into their personal space and refusing to leave.
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by GlennS 14y ago
You can use Ctrl+left-click to get the same 'open in new tab' behaviour as middle-click. I do agree that broken middle-click is hugely annoying. I'd much prefer they fixed that though, rather than introducing a non-standard popup as the def
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by GlennS 14y ago
Why do people who like to ask O(N) questions have this obsession with sorting algorithms?
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by GlennS 14y ago
Silicon Valley is successful because it was successful in the past. That attracts talented people looking to make it big, and it attracts money. You can put a narrative spin on it if you like, pin it on West-Coast entrepreneurial spirit. Ev
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by GlennS 14y ago
Except, you know, computers...
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by GlennS 14y ago
The first thing I noticed about this is that it feels slow. If you want people to use it, navigating around the map needs to feel smooth. This could be something as simple as putting in a little delay between the user moving the map and you
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by GlennS 14y ago
There are some things that can help with this: 0. Consider whether string.split could do part of the job instead. 1. Consider writing unit tests for your regexes. 2. Split your regex onto multiple lines. 3. Turn on the option that lets
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by GlennS 14y ago
You could make each hash bucket a tree instead?
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by GlennS 14y ago
Peopleware uses similar studies with similar numbers, but it also adds the caveat that people at the same companies tend to be relatively closer together. So even if you were to accept that some programmers are orders of magnitude better th
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by GlennS 14y ago
I'm not convinced that Python was ever all that beloved of web fashionistas or technology blogs. If you think that NodeJS could replace it, you probably don't understand what Python programmers find appealing in a language. These are people
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by GlennS 14y ago
The USA is very sparsely populated compared to South Korea, Japan, or most of Europe. The Ukraine (mentioned in the video), is a really big chunk of land with a smaller population than the UK, but still appears to have more than twice the p
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by GlennS 14y ago
Power needs to be generated one way or another. Keeping nuclear for longer would mean we can get rid of coal sooner. Those numbers show that this would be a worthwhile trade.

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