Jeema3000

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by Jeema3000 17y ago
I'm always kind of suspect of these 'programming language popularity' measurements because they usually rely on search engine result volume. I think a more meaningful metric would be, say, job openings by programming language.
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
Sounds a lot like a raycaster engine (i.e. what was used in the orignal 1992 Wolfenstein 3D), except in 3-dimensions instead of 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_casting
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
I kinda thought the same thing when I read this. I guess the fraud was that they intentionally went to great lengths to make it look like individuals were buying the tickets instead of a single company.
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
Eve could do that, for sure. Nothing in the license forbids it. Declaring the license invalid and requiring users to re-license it does fall under 'what the fuck you want to' according to my interpretation of the license. But then again,
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
Eh I think you're ok - if they're tracking visitors that closely, they'd know that you came to that link from here after it was already made public. Plus ycombinator.com gets a ton of traffic so I'm sure you're not the only one. :) But yea
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
I disagree. IMO asking someone whether they can program a loop that demonstrates the use of a mod operator is a 'gotcha' test because it proves nothing as far as their suitability as programmer and as an employee and is designed soley to we
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
IMO if you're giving people 'gotcha' programming tests in an interview, then you don't know how to select candidates or interview in the first place. You should be looking for competence by looking at their programming accomplishments, both
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
I tend to agree with you. I'm personally still waiting for my intelligent compiler that fixes mistakes automatically. I mean, you would think if it can tell you that your semicolon is missing that it would at least be able to fix it witho
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
This whole endeavor still doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. If you want to make an idiot-proof OS for Grandma, fine, that's a great idea. But why shoehorn the whole cloud-computing philosophy into it? Most people that a very simple
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
actually $250k is kinda low. a ludicriously talented sales engineer (level 60 of course) can easily make a bajillion dollars a year if not more...
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
Job openings on Indeed.com by keyword: Ruby: 5,978 Python: 9,802 Perl: 22,172 If Perl is dead, then what are Ruby and Python...
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by Jeema3000 17y ago
Wingdings all the way