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by Periodic 16y ago
I agree that it's definitely not about doing 2-day coding binges 30 days per month. February would be tough, for one. In my mind it's about mindset management. It's about not letting that the validation of your idea be pushed off until yo
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by Periodic 16y ago
I don't think the lesson has anything to do with how hard you work. I think the lesson is that you can build and validate an idea in 2-3 days. We often have ideas for products and think to ourselves that we'll just add a few more features
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by Periodic 16y ago
In another comment, someone compared the PUB/SUB feature of Redis to ZeroMQ. Can the PUB/SUB feature of Redis function as a queue system for many common uses, or is there another significant difference that sets a full queue implementation
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by Periodic 16y ago
A good example is probably progressive enhancement with javascript. You create a page that is just HTML, CSS, and images and send that to the user, at the end you specify the scripts that load and add all the functionality and enhance the
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by Periodic 16y ago
Are we doomed to have heterogeneous data storage? I keep wondering if the NoSQL landscape will settle down. The RDBMS world has really consolidated around SQL and there are a few major databases out there such that it's not too hard to pic
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by Periodic 16y ago
I just put in my resignation at my current job earlier this week. I'm just not learning enough here, as I feel most of my time is spent dealing with bureaucracy and working around bad code. Additionally, I don't want my career to be that
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by Periodic 16y ago
If 1 million people take a large risk, which has a 5% chance of making them a millionaire, then we'll end up with 50,000 millionaires. What is really interesting is what they did differently, if anything.
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by Periodic 16y ago
I think there is a good way to figure out when to apply abstraction. The question to ask is whether the abstraction reduces the cognitive load on the reader. Abstractions that reduce the cognitive load by eliminating redundant code, highl
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by Periodic 16y ago
Where I see rewrites fail is when the company has one huge monolithic and interconnected application which really has to be rewritten all at once or not at all. Dividing your application up into logical libraries and services goes a long wa
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by Periodic 16y ago
For me, the fun part is in getting something to work ! I love seeing an elegant solution come together. I love seeing all my tests pass. I love looking at two problems, seeing they are the same, and factoring out the common parts. I ha
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by Periodic 16y ago
I use Vim as my primary editor. I also have been editing mostly Java lately. Vim already has a way to view a list of errors in the file and jump right to any one of them. I believe it's called the location list. Vim is my editor, but my
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by Periodic 16y ago
A few years ago I stopped thinking in terms of desktops. This was around the time that I settled into system administration and web development for multiple groups at a time. I set up my Linux desktop and began to really develop good comm
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by Periodic 16y ago
I actually switched to using an EC2 Micro instance because my 256MB VPS didn't have enough RAM to compile some of the packages I needed. The compile took a while, but they were for libraries I rebuild maybe once a month. As far as developm
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by Periodic 16y ago
The article mentions that the HTTPS link to the resources is now default on Google's list of AJAX resources. I remember back in the day being warned that SSL connections have an appreciable overhead and so you should avoid SSL use unnecess
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by Periodic 16y ago
Note that the chart uses a logarithmic y-axis, so it is most useful for relative comparisons. Don't try to get absolute data from it as our brains aren't built for doing exponential graph transformations.
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by Periodic 16y ago
That's why the successful companies have to pivot and find a way to monetize those broken windows. When the market shows you a demand, you need to find a way to take advantage of it. In this case there are a lot of men who want to show o
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by Periodic 16y ago
The low-contrast karma-number is a nice touch. I agree that my karma rating shouldn't be as prominent as it is. I hate logging scanning the site, having my eye hit the karma number and mentally doing calculations of how it changed.
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by Periodic 16y ago
These days, if all the pages on a site are publicly spidered, then it's likely that Google will do a great job of searching your site for you. I've seen many sites with terrible search boxes that look like they use the built-in MySQL full-t
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by Periodic 16y ago
It's a case of inverted causality. The author thinks that because a lot of great people he knows about wrote journals that writing journals helps make a great man. It may in fact be that great men that write journals are the ones he kno
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by Periodic 16y ago
I picked up an 80GB disk for my system a few years ago, when the X25-M2 model came out from Intel with a price drop. It was great. Firefox launches in 2 seconds, GRUB to login in < 10s, login to desktop in < 5 seconds. What really
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by Periodic 16y ago
I haven't done the cost analysis lately, but what this does is bring more IOPS in at a lower price point. The cost of RAM is not static, the more you have the more expensive it gets because you need better motherboards and specialized chas
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by Periodic 16y ago
On average, the price of NAND flash memory drops 40 percent per year. This is good news for databases. Flash drives have much better random access performance than magnetic drives. With the price of these flash drives dropping, it will
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by Periodic 16y ago
I just went through the application process (declined by committee) over the last two months and the application did have a space for GPA, but I was never asked about SAT or GRE scores as far as I can remember.
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by Periodic 16y ago
I was asked to write very little code for my current position. One of the questions was being presented with some code and figuring out what it did. I didn't realize how apropos that question was at the time. I just got done doing a serie
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by Periodic 16y ago
I've been in love with the Zebra M-402. I've had two of them now for a few years and they're still going strong. They have a very solid metal build, so they rarely break leads and the advancement mechanism hasn't failed me yet. I will loo
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by Periodic 16y ago
I don't enjoy my current job. However, as soon as I mentioned quitting after six months to my family and friends they reacted uniformly negatively. "You can't do that, it wouldn't be respectful to the people who hired you." "You'll make
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by Periodic 16y ago
Understanding what to avoid can be as valuable as having an idea of what specifically to do. I feel like I'm learning a lot about the software development and management fields where I am now, mostly because I'm starting to realize why som
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by Periodic 16y ago
I would call it a programming position, at least in my case. Most of my time is dedicated to maintaining a legacy application that is horribly written, but my time is mostly spent either trying to come up with inventive ways to code around
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by Periodic 16y ago
The "versioning" is really just there to support their optimistic concurrency model, if I recall. The idea is that you know you need to retry your operation if the version hash of the file has gone up since you last read the data and thus
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by Periodic 16y ago
You want customers to think about your brand, and to do that you want to give them every exposure you can. You might end up with magazine adds, outdoor adds, or t-shirts, all of which can be strong marketing tools. Putting your logo offlin

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