Spyro7

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by Spyro7 15y ago
I have worked with ORMs and with raw SQL. In my personal experience, using raw SQL exclusively becomes time consuming when you need to make the jump between the raw sql results and objects. With a well designed ORM, it should be possible to
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Well, if this is the code that is in question: http://code.google.com/p/multi-language-bench/source/browse/... No, there are no ctype libraries in there.
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Actually, the python version has about 328 lines of code, while the scala version has about 216 lines of code. You should visit the Google project page and use something like cloc to analyze the files: http://code.google.com/p/multi-langua
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Am I the only one that misses the infamous turbo button from the old 386 computers? The amusing irony was that it was mostly used to slow the computer down so you could run those programs that were written with a lower clock speed in mind.
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by Spyro7 15y ago
One question that is worth asking is how many of these exploits can be done remotely, and how many of these exploits require physical permission to a system? It is worth noting that there is a difference between exploits that require phys
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"If not, that sounds like a dysfunctional market." No, it is not a dysfunctional market. People are perfectly willing to pay more for the perception of increased quality. In terms of classification, this means that the firms in the market a
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Really? This isn't the first battle that's been fought in this conflict: http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/07/north-carolina-k... I would just like to note the minuscule effect that victory had on the ultimate outcome. It seems to
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"There's nothing savvy about her position." She's a political animal. In the calculus of politics, what doesn't help you hurts you. Picking a fight over this would make her a hero to hacker types, but it could possibly burn bridges elsewher
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by Spyro7 15y ago
There isn't really much that she could do here. The bill has already passed with the 2/3rds necessary to make her veto useless. She took the most politically savvy position possible. It wouldn't have made any sense to lose political capital
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Just for the record, I was not one of the people who down-voted your comment. I personally think that your perspective is interesting. "$12,000 profit per month after taxes is not livable in the US, and probably not Canada." It seems to me
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I wonder how long it takes to recover from the decreased performance. When I was in high school, I could pull an all nighter with ease to take care of an assignment (or to finish a Legend of Zelda game in one straight playing session). Now,
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by Spyro7 15y ago
mojuba, I have to thank you for that link. I confess that I had never read that document prior to today. The thing that I like most about it is that he leaves it open ended. He doesn't pretend to have all of the answers but rather invites t
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"our judgement of what's good or bad in general shouldn't really be a matter of taste and preference. Are we an engineering discipline or what?" You know what. It's a funny thing, but as I was typing my response to your original post, I act
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Thank you, this is a very good comment. "I know what mine are - but it's subjective." Well, see... That's the thing... I spoke vaguely because the benefits themselves are ambiguous, subjective. They are hard to quantify because their intrin
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by Spyro7 15y ago
pstack, I agree with you, but then I wonder how news sites like the Economist manage to make a voting system work even for extremely contentious articles. Any article on the Economist that mentions China or discusses bailing out a small Eur
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by Spyro7 15y ago
There is an incredible amount of hand waving on that page but nothing really solid for "evolving" comments. It seems like a simple comment-voting system will answer the majority of the concerns.
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"Why are so many people using Java (perhaps even more than C and C++ combined)?" Well, one contributing factor is that a lot of universities now have a heavily Java based curriculum (turning their CS programs into vocational schools, but I
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by Spyro7 15y ago
They refer to the rent-ownership ratio and the maintenance work, but they also implicitly dismiss the longer-term argument for owning a house. They keep talking about the costs of home ownership with no talk of the benefits that can result
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I know that C++ has some pretty neat features, but I feel comfortable and productive enough in C. I have never really felt that there was anything in C++ that I just had to have. If I need to something higher level there are plenty of cho
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by Spyro7 15y ago
pstack, my situation is similar to yours. I think that the difference between us and the people that they are referring to in that article is that we consider a house to be a place to live and not merely a medium-term investment. I think th
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by Spyro7 15y ago
When the cuts start, it is the projects with the most politically weak supporters that will get cut first. Bigger ticket items, by definition, had to have strong political allies to get put into place, so they will be the last things to get
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Ah, I didn't know about patent liability insurance. I find it really heartbreaking that the independent developer has to worry about being crushed by lawsuits before they ever have a chance to make it. Just thinking about all of the innovat
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I think that this is the patent in question: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=nA2AAAAAEBAJ&dq=7... If this is the one, then this is an unbelievably broad patent. I encourage everyone to at least skim through this thing, it is in
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by Spyro7 15y ago
"Keep in mind that it gets harder the bigger you are" Generally, this is true, but no one is doubting MSFT's profitability right now, the doubts are with regards to MSFT's future profitability. "The flaw with speculating about the future is
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by Spyro7 15y ago
It is a fantastically profitable company. A fantastically profitable company with the P/E ratio and historical growth rates of a public utility. Why invest in Microsoft when you could invest in Exxon Mobile, Johnson & Johnson, The Coca-
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Ars Technica (surprised no one mentioned this one yet), Economist, WSJ, NYT, Phoronix, OSNews, Financial Times. I used to read books, but then college started. Now the only books I read are textbooks. A tragedy.
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by Spyro7 15y ago
An insane valuation? At the start of January 2000, Microsoft's most recent earnings per share was $0.90. It's share price was about $58 dollars. This would have given it a P/E ratio of about 64x. This was relatively tame by dot com standard
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Note: I do not hold shares in any of the below companies. Apple and Google were in their heydays during this time period. If anyone is interested in seeing a really interesting comparison then go to finance.google.com and do the following
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by Spyro7 15y ago
I have not really studied this issue in depth, but from what I can tell most of the increasing investment activity that they are referring to is occuring in the private investment world - not on stock markets. With that said, it seems that
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by Spyro7 15y ago
Just a few quick points. First, PHP is a great language. It definitely has its strengths. It was the second language that I ever used to create web sites (right after Perl). With that said, the number of people using something does not inhe

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