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by St-Clock 15y ago
Yes. Even if I partly disagree with you, I upvoted you. Actually, I find myself upvoting comments that are in a negative territory and that present a valid point more often than good comments that are in a positive territory! I believe we n
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by St-Clock 15y ago
I agree and disagree: "If I were to write out an explicit loop over the characters of the string, I would be a lot more sure that I wasn't accidentally dropping characters due to an inadvertent failure to make the regexp exhaustive" This is
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by St-Clock 15y ago
clojure is not statically typed.
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by St-Clock 15y ago
You are right: genetics can certainly give you an edge and this is briefly mentioned in the book. But do you mean that someone without the right genetic sequence can't play music? Or do you mean that someone with the right genetic sequence
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Since I'm recommending books today, I really liked "Thank You for Arguing" by Jay Heinrichs. Very fun and instructive intro to rhetoric. I can see how rhetoric (and religion!) can come into play in design meetings :-)
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by St-Clock 15y ago
I completely agree with you that some people, right now, cannot think in abstract terms. My point though, is that they could learn it through deliberate practice, unless they have a severe medical condition that affect the way they think. M
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by St-Clock 15y ago
"I agree with Bill. From what I've seen, there's just no crossing the skill chasm as a software developer. You've either got it, or you don't. No amount of putting your nose to the grindstone will change that." This is a very condescending
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by St-Clock 15y ago
"What you fail to realize" <- ? First, I believe there is a cultural difference between Canada and the US. In Canada, a Master's degree is typically not a professional degree and you usually cannot buy a M.Sc. Typically, half of the cre
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Well, here are a few quotes from the article that seem to target students who have more than a bachelor degree: "So much so that, for some subjects, employers now require at least a Master's degree." "I think CS and SE lecturers could learn
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by St-Clock 15y ago
So the solution to increased cost of education is apprenticeship? Is this part of the current trend at bashing higher education to make sure that we become obedient but efficient drones? There is a lot of things broken in higher education,
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Maybe Google did this partly to acquire patents from Motorola mobility (I don't know if they have any, but they must).
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Hum, I see this on your privacy policy page: INFO WE COLLECT From Clients of our Service Date and time you connect/disconnect to/from the service. Source IP you use to connect to the service. Bandwidth usage E-mail provided by Paypal. Paypa
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by St-Clock 15y ago
I think you are. I took the mustache very seriously.
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Skeptics: Does Apple have more cash reserves than the U.S. government?(skeptics.stackexchange.com)
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Actually, I found vundle ( https://github.com/gmarik/vundle ) to be slightly easier to use.
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by St-Clock 15y ago
For an updated thread on vim bindings: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=221... Github code: https://github.com/lunixbochs/sublimevim Will try it later today.
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by St-Clock 15y ago
I really like this idea of basing your decision on the need to normalize or not. It certainly fits document-oriented databases and key-value stores, but I'm less sure about column-oriented databases (I have no experience with them, except m
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by St-Clock 15y ago
You did not hear about observer, but you probably heard about publisher/subscriber (most gui frameworks use this, even wxPython with pubsub). Adapter is a generic name. Compatibility modules that enable python code to run with python 2 and
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by St-Clock 15y ago
You are right. The GoF only promoted bloated code. Who in their right mind would use patterns like the Observer, the Adapter, or the Visitor?</sarcasm> Not sure if you know the history, but the authors of the book really only collec
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by St-Clock 15y ago
"it didn't really live up to the promise of write-once-run-anywhere" Care to explain this one? All the code I have written for the past 10 years do not need to be recompiled and can run on Windows/Linux/Mac/*BSD 32 bit/64 bit. And I used IO
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by St-Clock 15y ago
I commented on that elsewhere. It's more like a continuum. Many libraries will offer callbacks and some are just based around callbacks. Some frameworks need to be called too. For example, IoC frameworks in Java often needs to be called/ini
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Look at the trend for Britney Spears compared to PostgreSQL ( http://www.google.com/trends?q=britney+spears%2C+postgresql&... ). I'm not sure what to make of it because Britney Spears and mongodb do not offer a tenth of the features of post
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by St-Clock 15y ago
I believe nginx users are more likely to build nginx from source than apache considering that nginx modules need to be specified at compile time and the more you add modules, the more your performance might suffer (unless this has changed l
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by St-Clock 15y ago
I agree with you that a machine may someday make a more "rational" vote than the average voter. We had quite an experience in Quebec recently... That being said, your solution does not improve humanity. It does not make the voters (or the s
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by St-Clock 15y ago
By your standard, we should let the machines vote because that's a multiple choice question.
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Ooohhh. Thank you, it makes sense! (I still stand by my criticism of their article though).
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by St-Clock 15y ago
This article does not seem well thought out. It takes a condescending look on frameworks (and object-oriented programming) and contains many inaccuracies. For example, most ORM frameworks/libraries allow the developers to map an existing da
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by St-Clock 15y ago
With postgresql, create index does not block read, only write. You can also use the CONCURRENTLY parameter and writes/updates won't be blocked, but the index creation takes longer (the db has to wait until no transaction potentially involvi
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by St-Clock 15y ago
I am confused. How hard is it to create an index in MySQL? I don't have much experience with MySQL, but with PostgreSQL, it is very easy. In addition, there are some "advanced" features that may not be provided by MongoDB: you can choose yo
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by St-Clock 15y ago
"Relational databases were designed around the idea of minimizing storage footprint, and we have nearly infinite storage capacity" Well, foreign keys are not just a way to minimize storage: it speeds up future updates. If you duplicate your

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