Jormundir

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by Jormundir 13y ago
Here's an idea: the world doesn't need more ideas, just more people implementing, so throwing out ideas as if they're original and have innate value is unhelpful.
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Nice misquote. Put some numbers out. The evolution of a project as I've seen it at large companies: 1. Build slow app in high level language, build out your infrastructure with cacheing and load balancing, CDNs, etc. 2. See what is slo
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by Jormundir 13y ago
I guess the value fell to zero. :)
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Because performance can largely be displaced to outside the app code itself. Things like cacheing, load balancers and large amounts of front-ends make the optimization differences of these platforms largely irrelevant for large projects, an
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Exactly. It's comparing apples and oranges. Investment in going to college: 12-14 years of school getting good grades along the way, SATs and then $20,000-$70,000 a year. Investment in a MOOC: one button click.
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Dan's arguments aren't very meaningful to me, precisely because I went to college and my experience was not the one he promotes college to be. The vast majority of the classes I took were taught by GTFs (Graduate Teaching Fellows
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by Jormundir 13y ago
PHP the C web framework? PHP a failure? Lol!
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by Jormundir 13y ago
So I want to use this app on my phone with no backup, I just want to start making a journal. In this use case, I have 0 reason to make an account -- the whole point of the use case is avoiding making an account. I just want to use this beau
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by Jormundir 13y ago
I was really happy to see an app I actually want to use. Then I downloaded it, went through the introduction and hit a wall when I had to make an account or log in with facebook. If this is a personal journal, why do I have to make an accou
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Though there are some good points here, my experience has been that this "just get it done" above all else principle has sunk just as many projects as it has launched. Getting it done is a bare necessity of a good programmer, but
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by Jormundir 13y ago
College-for-all is fine, and probably an inevitable pursuit. What's not working is the college administrative model.
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by Jormundir 13y ago
bad_user why don't you go educate yourself and come back when you can make valuable comments. I've seen you trolling several posts now with comments that show your lack of Understanding of CS principles. In your attack on my comme
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by Jormundir 13y ago
No defaulting to private is not backwards. It enforces having a reason to make something public, which is a stronger default when it comes to building well abstracted, decoupled, modular code. C++ doesn't come from the web era, where y
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Well then likewise, your idea of encapsulation is too limited. > If one class is free to use the internals of another then it is not a sound abstraction by definition. So abstraction is not sound without encapsulation.
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Can you give an example? My thought is you can make a bunch of well abstracted objects, but still have a very tightly coupled system. If one class is free to use the internals of another, it's free to tightly couple itself to another c
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by Jormundir 13y ago
I actually really like the graph in the article because I think it portrays the value of engineers. They're expensive up front, but if they use good programming practices, the work keeps paying dividends again and again over time witho
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by Jormundir 13y ago
You're basically asking what if a namespace were a class. > Namespaces in Java, C++, C#, or whatever else is in this family, are simply too dumb. Their sole purpose is to avoid name clashes. That statement is just completely ridicul
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by Jormundir 13y ago
I think of learning OOP much like learning Chess. In Chess it's very easy to learn how the pieces move and start playing, but becoming a master is incredibly difficult, requiring years and years of deliberate practice. When I see peopl
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by Jormundir 13y ago
I've done a couple projects with Go now and really like it, but it does have a big weakness as far as backend -- models and and the tools to make a good model abstraction layer. This may be a personal opinion problem, so I'd like
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Well based on what you said, the claim that there is a "talent shortage" seems baseless, given that companies are unable to judge talent. I suppose the salaries of engineers are evidence enough that there is a talent shortage. Tho
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by Jormundir 13y ago
With all the articles about how terrible just about every company is with hiring, do you think maybe the "talent shortage" is a misnomer and side-effect of companies being outright terrible at judging "talent"?
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Be Skeptical of the 10x Engineer(medium.com)
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by Jormundir 13y ago
This is the whole tech industry... I realized a few months ago hacker news has become boring. I don't really care much for the incremental updates, which is the entire hardware industry. Even the internet has become pretty boring. We&#
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Every generation has their successes and their masses of lackies, their good-doers and their wrong-doers, but every generation will be more powerful than the one before. If my experience with all living generations tells me anything, it&#x2
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by Jormundir 13y ago
I've never understood why anyone feels they have a right to say these sorts of things to anyone. Why should I listen to an old Dean of Admissions speak condescendingly about what I deserve or not? He lost all respect from me, and rever
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Fat vs. Thin does not apply to a specific topic. Fat vs. Thin can apply to controllers and models, but that's an exhausted argument, in models code is more reusable, fat controllers are, in my experience, the most obvious symptom of no
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Agreed, I don't think the conclusion is reliable because we have yet to understand what exactly IQ is. If you don't know what you're measuring, how do you know IQ can or can't be improved? My layman's prediction is
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by Jormundir 13y ago
Excellent points. I certainly know that with much more funding, there could be much more efficient research, though I wonder where the limit is. How many more world-class physicists are there to put on this problem? Are the other theories r
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by Jormundir 13y ago
I think Nuclear Fusion is the single most exciting up-and-coming technology. I can't believe we're not throwing a hundred billion dollars at it. Make fusion, not war.
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by Jormundir 13y ago
You don't seem to understand history.

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