Luyt

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by Luyt 11y ago
I transcribed an interview with DHH [0] in which he also explains his motivations for choosing Ruby (instead of PHP or Java, for example), and where he explains some design principles for Rails. [0] http://www.transcribed-intervi
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by Luyt 11y ago
Nope, I used to be somewhat nervous too, when someone was watching me. Not knowing where to begin, doing things slower than normal, losing my train of thought, etc... I did two things to overcome this: 1) showing people source code on my la
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by Luyt 11y ago
I just installed Ansible on a workstation and started playing with it to configure a server (the server only needs SSH). Or, use this guide: http://www.ansible.com/get-started
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by Luyt 11y ago
What's your opinion of WordPress?
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by Luyt 11y ago
The word "professionally" suffers from the same ailment. To some, it means that you earn your living with it; to others, it is a measure of quality. And what 'quality' means also differs from person to person...
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by Luyt 11y ago
It was this kind of demo-scene programming in which DHH was utterly uninterested in. "I had a bunch of friends who I loved dearly, but in many ways were exhibiting all the traditional programmer stereotype themes of being just overly
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by Luyt 11y ago
Yes, multiple backups, kept at remote places. Don't store the backup in the server room! ;-)
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by Luyt 11y ago
I've noticed that often one man can accomplish more than a whole group, especially if the group gets larger.
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by Luyt 11y ago
That's correct. Way back in the 90's I was tweaking the VGA color palette registers of my MSDOS computer to make the colors more easy on my eyes at night. I never released that small program...
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by Luyt 11y ago
Nice link! The problem has been solved, by the way: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2072/on-this-infi...
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by Luyt 11y ago
I find this style of formatting specifiers an eyesore: fprintf (stderr, _("%"PRIuMAX"+%"PRIuMAX" records in\n" "%"PRIuMAX"+%"PRIuMAX" records out\n"
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by Luyt 11y ago
Indeed: they serve Google different pages than ordinary visitors. When I set my user agent string to "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; + http://www.google.com/bot.html ) " suddenly forbes.com does
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by Luyt 11y ago
I think uBlock does this out of the box.
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by Luyt 11y ago
Ok, but this only works for literals.
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by Luyt 11y ago
I'd like an ad blocker which retrieves the ads as an unprotected browser would, but doesn't display them on the screen. That will stop some sites nagging me that I must turn off my ad blocker to see the content.
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by Luyt 11y ago
Indeed, more pixels doesn't necessarily mean more quality. A Canon 400D (10 Mpixel) with a kit lens has only an effective quality of 6 Mpixel.
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by Luyt 11y ago
You'll never get good bokeh from a tiny telephone lens. A big (and fast) lens is needed for that. There are laws of optics that will ensure cameras will never disappear ;-)
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by Luyt 11y ago
Even before I took up programming, I used indentation: on my TODO lists, and outlines of ideas. Using indentation is very obvious when you want to group lines of text and/or express different levels of hierarchy.
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by Luyt 11y ago
"Indiscriminate dumping of toxic solid waste along the road, discharge of sewage, and construction of buildings, railway stations and a new road to connect Old Mahabhalipuram Road and Pallavaram have shrunk the wetland to a great exten
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by Luyt 11y ago
The next step is obviously 'functional COBOL'.
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by Luyt 11y ago
How safe is insect consumption, compated to fish and meat consumption?
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by Luyt 11y ago
This is exactly why I wonder why some companies write things such as 'must be passionated about Java' in their job postings. After all, programming languages are just tools. What really matters is the applications you create with
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by Luyt 11y ago
I don't think they will do that, since the Linux kernel is GPLed.
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by Luyt 11y ago
I started WoW in december 2005, and hit 60 in februari. Also, when you reach max level, doesn't mean you finished the game. There is tons of instances to do, special loot to earn, and other stuff; even in 2006.
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by Luyt 12y ago
Some of the examples in that SO post are outdated. However, list joining is faster that string concatenation, but not by much. Assembling a 110 MB string: from timeit import Timer try: from StringIO import StringIO exc
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by Luyt 12y ago
I like the Dorian Gray reference.
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by Luyt 12y ago
I remember having a daisy-wheel printer at the office. It gave nice, crisp, typewritten and kerned output. Much better than the matrix printers. (This was before laser printers became commonplace).
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by Luyt 12y ago
I guess it was visual code inspection... Staring at the screen for hours, trying to figure out why the code doesn't work, while it should work.
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by Luyt 12y ago
Reading the original problem, "Write a function that returns the sum of the two largest numbers in an array", I took the liberty of assuming that the input list would always contain at least two items.
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by Luyt 12y ago
Thanks for the tip! a = [2, 7, 8, 9] highest = nexthighest = None for item in a: if not highest: highest = item elif item > highest: nexthighest = highest highest =

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