LnxPrgr3

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   by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

   Cynical people will see a new fashionable language and dismiss it as a pointless new thing to learn. Eager early adopters will jump right in and swear it's the best thing ever. Look, it even makes program X a one-liner! Both strategies will
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   by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

   Are you suggesting C++ lacks available libraries? Because for all of its faults, lack of libraries is not one I've run into. Many desktop and server applications are still written in C or C++, including the Web browser I'm writing this on.
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   by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

   > If they have such a low opinion of their customers, who is to say they won't have the same sentiment towards their employees. Anyone remember this from almost a year ago? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57322150-17/zynga-to-emplo..
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   Show HN: message_queue: Fast and easy inter-thread message queue(github.com)

   1 points by LnxPrgr3 14y ago|0 comments
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   by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

   You're right. IIRC, the last non-Java security update I installed updated a bunch of image format libraries to fix exploitable vulnerabilities. We can't even safely decode static image files! I'm not sure how we expect to safely sandbox exe
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   by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

   To be fair, the one thing they don't want to just work is exploits. Neither Flash nor Java has the best security track record. Java lately has been embarrassingly bad: http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/critical-bug-discove... Of cou
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   by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

   Here—have a microbenchmark! Here are two really simple mutexes: a wrapper around the pthread functions, and a no-thought-required spinlock: class Spinlock { private: bool state; public: Spinlock() { state = fal
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   by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

   Google's already on it: https://developers.google.com/native-client/ Some part of this seems unsafe intuitively, but then I'm reminded sandboxed interpreted languages don't have the best security track record either.
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   by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

   I must've read this very differently. I rolled my eyes and skipped over the experience table. I've seen one too many programmers with literally decades of experience but still without a clue. But the rest… I assume it's a matrix for a reaso
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    Reinventing the wheel is a good thing when what you get is a better wheel, or even just one better suited to your purpose. Ever notice we're not driving cars on ox cart wheels?
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    Perhaps it's a minimum viable product of the "landing/signup page only" form. Or maybe that's part of the parody.
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    What kind of job seeker is this looking to attract? Equity's great if that equity turns out to be worth something, but it doesn't pay today's bills. If I've got money saved up and I'm looking to take on a labor of passion, chances are reall
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    And for an (admittedly dated) example of what can go horribly, horribly wrong in some fields: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 It's ok if your Web app occasionally spits a 500 error or your game crashes once in a while. It's not ok
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    It doesn't hurt that a lot of managers have no idea what to expect from programmers and no idea how to find and attract good programmers. They seem to learn to cope with whatever they can get and learn not to expect much. And I have a theor
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    I didn't originally intend to submit this here, but some of the replies at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4620276 changed my mind. I apologize for the political leanings at the beginning and end, but I'm hoping the rest will spark an
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    Rambling on the market for talent(codeanarchy.com)

    1 points by LnxPrgr3 14y ago|1 comments
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    I went to school with people who went into CS because they thought they were pretty good with computers and they saw money in programming. Some of them made it; others dropped out or changed majors. "Despite the enormous changes which have
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    I'm generally with you, but I do hope that this tarring and feathering will drive home one point: Don't trust the client. The user ID in the URL like this is a giant "try editing me and see what happens" sign, even if you came with no inten
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    No AbstractFactory here, but there is XML! And 411 lines of Java: http://pastebin.com/TyNrvRmB
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    My "I'm going to hell" C++ version: https://gist.github.com/3838042 Or, since github's being broken right now: #include <iostream> #include <arpa/inet.h> template <int multiples_of, uint32_t noise&#6
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    On a repo I've been maintaining, I'm horribly tempted to revoke almost everyone's commit access, for two reasons: to add a code review step to the process, and to be able to keep the commit history reasonably clean. It's low-tech, but a hum
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    My first reaction: well duh! During my 9-5(ish) I'm on a real computer. Why would I bother with a tablet? If I'm out and about, the iPad's just one more thing to carry with me, so I'm using my phone instead. I only really use the iPad when
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    Fair enough. I think I (and many others) latched onto the Steve Jobs thing because it's a bold statement and because it's your concluding paragraph. I asked if you thought it was a step backwards because you said you liked the iPhone 4, but
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    Besides, if I could ask anyone today what Steve Jobs would've thought of a design, it'd be the people who worked with him for years. …and I'd still take their answers with a grain of salt.
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    "Now I know everyone must be tired of people asking 'Would this have happened if Jobs was around' …" Personally, I hate hearing things like this because "my concept of Steve Jobs wouldn't have allowed this" isn't an argument. It's an attemp
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    For that matter, they have people working on natural language processing, though my phone's too old for me to know how that's working out for them.
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    Anyone here actually used this version of Maps to find someplace yet? Not just to break it and point and laugh, but to actually use it? I can only see 3D maps as a gimmick, so I can't bring myself to care too much that it's broken. I'm slig
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    I too am largely self-taught, though I took a much more convoluted path to get where I am today. I lucked out several years ago and found an employer willing to take a chance on me in spite of zero real-world experience and incomplete schoo
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    For that matter, no matter what paradigm anyone comes up with, legions of programmers will think they understand it long before they really do and proceed to make a total hash of it. Eventually, some broken form of the idea will become wide
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    by LnxPrgr3 14y ago

    I owe the author an apology on one point. "Minimise" is a correct spelling, though neither my system's dictionary or I realized this.