PKeeble

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by PKeeble 15y ago
You wont go wrong with either. Javascript is good for in web pages verses python being the server side to produce dynamic pages. You'll find you probably use both in a web project anyway. Learn one, then learn the other - start where you wa
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by PKeeble 15y ago
Right now no one knows when the release will be. What we have here is a limited beta release to 10,000 people or so, not the actual product launch. That will be coming at an unknown point in the future, probably. People are frustrated by th
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by PKeeble 15y ago
Education might be the stated aim of the project but its not the limit of the device. This is a device similar to an Arduino except for the fact its got HDMI, USB, is about 700 times faster and in the order of 256 million times more RAM and
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by PKeeble 15y ago
They ignored a lot of experienced advice given to them freely to get to this point. Its a shame really as this could have been a magically moment where they shifted a million devices in a week. Instead we are looking at 404 pages and there
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by PKeeble 15y ago
Or it could tarnish their reputation and kill the whole product. Lets hope the engineering of the actual product is a little better than the sales process. But I still think its kind of important not to give your potential customers a 404 a
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by PKeeble 15y ago
The one thing you can say about incompetence is that its ignorant of its own condition. This does not bode well to the quality of the product itself, the lack of basic skills and forethought is frightening. After all that "we know what we a
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Godwin's law and SOPA(krazykoding.com)
2 points by PKeeble 15y ago|0 comments
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Scala Actors verses Erlang gen_server performance(krazykoding.com)
2 points by PKeeble 15y ago|0 comments
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We need to start using multiple threads in web apps(krazykoding.com)
1 points by PKeeble 15y ago|0 comments
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by PKeeble 15y ago
One intel X25-M 80GB SSD. According to the SMART information 10% of its write life has been used over 1.5 years. Still going strong in a work machine used day to day. Two OCZ Vertex 2E's 120GB (separate machines). Had both for 6 months and
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by PKeeble 16y ago
Developers do a lot of 4KB operations. Source files tend to be small as do database updates. The current market leader in this is the OCZ Vertex 3, a considerably faster drive than the Intel 510. Indeed intel's X25-M is better at 4KB operat
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Automated gadget software updates and evil companies(krazykoding.com)
3 points by PKeeble 16y ago|0 comments
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by PKeeble 16y ago
One of the reasons software gets released in scripts rather than packages is because the root package installation mechanism is root accessible only. Most companies restrict root access and package installation is blocked by proxies. The co
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The end of Moore's law has already happened?(krazykoding.com)
4 points by PKeeble 16y ago|3 comments
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by PKeeble 16y ago
In industry you often get to set the estimates yourself. Missing the deadline has less severe consequences because its unlikely you'll get fired for missing the deadline by a day. But on your course its a fixed date and a big fat 0 awaits t
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by PKeeble 16y ago
The modern IDE is chock full of features. So many that many less common edits are automated if you know the right keystrokes. It takes years to master all of the features and those features are constantly expanding month on month. An IDE li
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by PKeeble 16y ago
A checklist that gets checked automatically. Once you have good coverage of your code base you can make large changes, run the tests and be confident the system still works without actually starting it up and checking manually.
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by PKeeble 16y ago
Personally I use a triplet of tests. 1) The first test I right is a functional end to end test that assumes the application is deployed and running with all configuration in place. That means there is a database and all the other parts nece
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by PKeeble 16y ago
I refactor at one of two times. Its either after I get my unit test working or its a change to the structure of some code so I can add a feature. So its an activity I am constantly doing throughout the day to make sure the new functionality
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How does our world work when the mundane succeeds so rarely?(krazykoding.com)
1 points by PKeeble 17y ago|0 comments
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by PKeeble 17y ago
The massive difference in random access speeds in comparison to sequential speeds is the thing that changed in the last 15 years. The gap between memory clock speed and CPU clock speed has been increasing for all this time, whereas prior to
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by PKeeble 17y ago
Ring Intel's CEO. You have the means to give him optimal layout for his CPUs saving them both massive amounts of time and more importantly space on CPUs. If you like you can also approach AMD and get the two bidding against each other. They
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by PKeeble 18y ago
As a real programmer I cringe at the Polymorphism example, only because I see the point of objects is to encapsulate data with the associated methods and this breaks all of that. Indeed you try to avoid inheritance and use composition inste
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by PKeeble 18y ago
I installed lots of disks in Raid 5 into my spare machine, stuck it in a cupboard and use it as a file/backup and UPNP server. All my other machines use the drives on their for storage and backup and use small and fast drives such as the WD