Roboprog

50 ms·

511.
by Roboprog 10y ago
That said... if you are grinding out games on a $200 piece of console hardware (a "toaster emulator"), C/++ is your gig. Possibly with a thin patina of scripting over the top of it, I suppose.
512.
by Roboprog 10y ago
C works great, as an alternate to assembler, to bootstrap unix up on meager, 80s style, hardware. Based on things like the shell tools and languages like awk (and other related descendants), I don't think even the unix creators meant f
513.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Like "Wargames", the best way to win is not to play. Between moving from MS to POSIX environments in the 90s, and the "death" of Borland, this left me with few options other than another Faustian deal with Java-land, ala
514.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Meh. Markup ate my "radioactive pie" (9762 dec / 2622 hex) symbol :-(
515.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Cool! I want a cool non-alpha unicode domain. I guess "square-root" is already taken, but there must be some cool domains left (even though nobody can actually type them in). Actually, some of these would probably be nice aliase
516.
by Roboprog 10y ago
In my case, I'm only using Oracle from a (Java) web app, so I just put the driver directly into the JBoss (JEE server brand of the day) container setup, rather than something else in the Maven build. The driver is only needed at run ti
517.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Yeah, that was going to be my question. (if) I bought and paid for your phone, why do you give 2 shits about what I do with it? Of course, maybe the answer is "we sell the phones at a loss, and you are only supposed to get one, so we
518.
by Roboprog 10y ago
That's why you have to have your archers to protect the castle from the orc hordes :-)
519.
by Roboprog 10y ago
2 stroke. Don't need it. (dirty as sin, though) The engine is just a scaled up version of the motorcycles my brothers and I drove as kids in the late 70s / early 80s. Of course, 500cc is a little bigger than 250, 100 or 80 cc
520.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Ha ha, only serious, as they say.
521.
by Roboprog 10y ago
HN needs (maybe has???) markup to break lines without double spacing as distinct paragraphs.
522.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Yes, but it's a very specific "All your databases are belong to us" license :-)
523.
by Roboprog 10y ago
That sounds similar to my experience at a financial company a few years ago (2010 - 2014). The pay in Hyderabad for devs was in the $10K - $20K (USD) range, with most around the low middle of that. These were offshore employees, though, N
524.
by Roboprog 10y ago
But you see, competent engineers who work for below market salaries are an endangered species! As such, they deserve our full "protection". Thus the word "poached" :-)
525.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I have seem some talent, at various levels, some of which is even quite good. But I surely would NOT call it a "surplus" :-)
526.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I hear you. I took a pay cut (albeit with the possibility of a pension after 5 years), largely so I would not have to deal with offshore hours. That said, the guys in India on our support team were fairly accommodating about working what w
527.
by Roboprog 10y ago
That's a good point. We should be using shops in cheaper parts of our own country (said from a US standpoint, obviously). Of course, there's the tyranny of numbers to deal with when you are looking: Population of India: 1300 mil
528.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I think you've confused a Tesla with a Leaf :-) At least out in my exurban area, upper middle class guys buy Teslas so they can race their sports-car in the carpool lane on the way to a middle management job.
529.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Thanks, passing it on.
530.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Trivial, but it warms my heart to see short-ish identifiers with gaps in the names (underlines, but other languages use dashes, dots, etc), rather than reallyLongStudlyCaps names. I love that Elixir uses the Ruby convention of short names
531.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Dealing with that at work now. Dev added to project won't use the existing structure, just recreates and pastes stuff in over and over :-( Part of that is a political problem, of course, but was not an issue earlier.
532.
by Roboprog 10y ago
FYI: criticism aimed at a certain "Enterprise" language / libraries / culture which is pretty much mandatory outside of the Bay Area.
533.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Checked exceptions Lack of functional composition Mandatory types (for every trivial parameter object or "lambda") Excessive Object-Whatever-Mapping Coping with mutable state in large amounts of effectively global data. Excessive
534.
by Roboprog 10y ago
INDEED. 10K lines RoR = 100K lines JEE. More or less. (OK, I made those numbers up, but reading Java code is bloody tiring due to the silly walks and typical paste-o-graphic work styles)
535.
by Roboprog 10y ago
So, it's slang for plug-in(s)? (services, extensions, ...)
536.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I'm just an old geezer programmer, but my daughter is studying e-tox at UC Davis. I have discussed with her how important computer code is becoming in the ability to recreate results in studies. This is a good example of providing tha
537.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Thanks for that bit. We are working on an integration project with Epic, but I've never really even seen it. (Epic throws some SOAP data at us, then we pop up a sub-view of a web app with a form to complete which Epic puts in a frame
538.
by Roboprog 10y ago
So, you have 3 tiers of rate vs capacity? * Capacitor - high charge / discharge rate (power), low capacity (total energy). (and high risk of electrocution and spot welding) * Battery - medium power, medium capacity. * Small ICE - low
539.
by Roboprog 10y ago
That said, Perl 5 can be quite a bit faster (to run) than Ruby. But Ruby is speeding up, and is generally easier to read.
540.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I guess another way of seeing that would be "fewer chumps use Python" :-)

More ›