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by Luyt 15y ago
George writes (about ayttm): "When I learned programming, about 40 years ago, it was important to write small, fast, and dependable code. I had thought those days were gone forever and I would be stuck in a world of huge, inefficient progr
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by Luyt 15y ago
Glad to see I'm not the only one annoyed by the sluggish feel of .net applications. That's why I still use good old C++, albeit with some Borland extensions around the Win32 API. My clients are grateful for it.
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by Luyt 15y ago
I still use Borland C++ Builder, Delphi's little brother, on a daily basis. Both Delphi and C++Builder are powered by VCL under the hood. VCL = Visual Components Library, a very orthogonal application+userinteface kit. Microsoft has tried
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by Luyt 16y ago
The interviewer states, citing Lennart Poettering: "Linux is the focal point of all Free Software development" ...which is of course bullshit (pardonnez-le-mot ;-). Look at all the open source applications and servers that are developed n
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by Luyt 16y ago
What's a 'mid-six-figure'? 150000? 500000?
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by Luyt 16y ago
"You can also create your own iterable objects. Normally this is done via the yield keyword (discussed below in Generators) but it could be done explicitly by returning an object that has __iterator__" This clearly seems to be borrowed fr
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by Luyt 16y ago
"The secret to underwater swimming is going deep early. The trainees learn that if they swim along the bottom in deeper water, the increased partial pressure of oxygen in their lungs will allow them to hold their breath longer and swim far
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by Luyt 16y ago
"In all fairness, VSS was a great tool." I disagree. Even back in 1995 it had fatal flaws. More than once it got so confused that we had to restore the source tree from backup. There was also the continual problem of files being locked by
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by Luyt 16y ago
Agree, I use iTerm too. I wish it could do proportional fonts.
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by Luyt 16y ago
Intel X25M, in my MacMini this one: Capacity: 80.03 GB (80,026,361,856 bytes) Model: INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC Revision: 2CV102HA Serial Number: CVPO0042012S080BGN In my home unix server: smartctl 5.40 2010-1
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by Luyt 16y ago
What's your idea?
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by Luyt 16y ago
Well, that took me only 5 minutes, a refreshing experience after getting a webstack up on OSX consisting of memcache, oursql, CherryPy and MySQL for the first time ever ;-) $ cd /usr/ports/lang/scala $ sudo make install clean $ reha
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by Luyt 16y ago
That reminds me I once came along code written like this: function MakePrintable(nr as Int) { Str as string if nr=1 then Str="1" if nr=2 then Str="2" if nr=3 then Str="3" ... if nr=27 then Str="27" if nr=2
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by Luyt 16y ago
I must be remarkable lucky. I have seven SSDs, four of them are installed in computers I use often, and some more in datacenter servers. I have never had a failure. And the SSD that's in my home unix server is already doing its job for almo
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by Luyt 16y ago
"So when it came time to apply to college, Tom just printed out a pile of code he wrote and sent it to colleges." I would like to see his actual code that got him accepted, but I wasn't able to find it. Anyone else more luck?
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by Luyt 16y ago
You're right, the code is unimportant. Oracle also acquired Sun's patents, which is IMHO the main reason they bought Sun.
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by Luyt 16y ago
"CONST == variable" is called a 'Yoda condition'. More information on this can be found at http://united-coders.com/christian-harms/what-are-yoda-condi... , which describes its uses and advantages. I tried to use them a while, but not an
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by Luyt 16y ago
"If it’s any consolation, at least we don’t ask gotcha riddle questions anymore. Those were especially offensive." What, no more Fermi Problems anymore? No more reasoning about how many piano tuners there are in Chicago? No more estimatin
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by Luyt 16y ago
Zed Shaw disagrees: http://oppugn.us/posts/1272050135.html , and I think he has a point. "The book is weird, uses antiquated technology, has horrible examples [...] " Dive into Python has code examples which use ODBC: "He has a [...] bo
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by Luyt 16y ago
Raymond Hettinger is a great Python educator, and also very active on the mailinglists. He gives talks, too: Easy AI with Python: http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/71/ Four powerful examples of composing Python tools: h
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by Luyt 16y ago
I think they'll get a fat $2M bonus this year, for their strategic insight that Flip technology should be incorporated in Cisco.
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by Luyt 16y ago
Groklaw isn't shutting down because SCO became irrelevant. It seems Gloklaw continues with a broader scope of interest.
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by Luyt 16y ago
From the same site, stories from back then: "My Cajun country upbringing had never taken me any further west than Dallas. And since I wanted to make a good first impression on my new California friends, I purchased a spanking new three-pie
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iSteve: A Book of Jobs(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
4 points by Luyt 16y ago|0 comments
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by Luyt 16y ago
Would such a thing hold up in court?
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by Luyt 16y ago
A video of a replica of a Newcomen steam engine, together with the braindead, repetitive job of the operator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyLXEK5YwUY Imagine doing that all day long, every day. And here's a version which has been autom
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by Luyt 16y ago
Whoah, that's quick! The result looks nice. Is the code open source? I'm curious how you did it.
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Workplace efficiency, Hot desking, and TPR Reports(lemis.com)
1 points by Luyt 16y ago|0 comments
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by Luyt 16y ago
Very nice idea, but wouldn't the handwriting give away who owns what? Maybe everyone should print their salary in Arial 12 Bold on a 1" by 2" piece of paper, so that there will be no clues to who made what note. OTOH, this might be a bit co
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by Luyt 16y ago
From the article: "Quick tip about “Clever Trevors” – you will always find someone in the audience who tries to show off their knowledge instead of asking a question." Now, imagine this will happen: You: "And in conclusion, we have found

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