Stormbringer

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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Actually, running the class straight from the command line can be a really cool way of doing ad-hoc unit testing. You can have a main method that instatiates an instance of the class, populates it with whatever it needs (including mocks if
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
ITWARM (if this was a reddit meme) Scumbag blogger: Takes Tai-Chi for a couple of months, thinks he is qualified to talk about 'qi'. Takes university course that touches on Java, dabbles in Lisp, thinks he is qualified to discuss 'failings'
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Fantastic. Thanks for going to the trouble of finding and linking that. Much appreciated.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Well, all the "christians suck, athiest rule!" posts do give it a more hostile tone. I'm not aware of any other subreddits with what amounts to hate-speech being allowed on the front page. Yes, we, the rest of the world understand that the
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I think Digg is an excellent comparison. Putting paid ads in the stream of Diggs basically killed them dead. Then they had to start pretending that things had more upvotes than they really did, which made it worse. The place ghetto-ised in
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Google also has an ongoing PR problem with regard to privacy, with Eric Schmidt (sp? the recently ex-ceo dude) going on record as saying he doesn't believe in privacy. Facebook at least pretends to care about privacy and then screws th
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
SPYW ...sounds like spyware... ...looks like spyware...
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
While I agree with the premises that (a) doctoring the search results is killing the golden goose and (b) Google is essentially just a big advertising company The reality is that even with watered down results they are still better than the
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
It's some kind of sticky-note board / to do list thingy. Have a look over at JoelOnSoftware (?? Or was it the Fog Creek Site?) They have a free online version of something similar that they are trying to hit the big time with. I forget wh
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
They had recently been increasing volume (and to an extent profit) by cutting prices, of course there is only so far you can cut into prices before profit suffers. Gruber referenced something about this not so long ago - someone had written
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Stupid question time: Why isn't the title "Death sentence for Canadian web programmer"? My naive reading of the article indicates that the man in question is a canadian citizen who was arrested when he visited Iran.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Since your audience includes people who hope to be paid from their creative efforts, your argument that not paying for said creative efforts is perfectly fine may meet with disapproval. TL:DR; it doesn't matter what semantic games you try t
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Yet another standout example of Google's non-evilness.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Redundant explanation that Google has itself been surpassed by $Site as a resource for programmers.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Well, that's not strictly correct. In my experience every interesting question ever asked at any of the Stack Overflow sites consists of: (1) A single question (as you say) (2) (Attached to the question) Some whiny git putting on his inter
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Obligatory StackOverflow Reference
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Wasn't that the database that used to regularly get it's indexes all mangled up? I weep cold salty tears into my stale cheerios at the thought that any large Enterprise was ever seriously considering it as a viable solution.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
He's an expert you say? That was certainly not my expectation from the article. (1) Blind faith in Generics. This alone screams newb to me. He says that he got better performance with a custom data structure (no shit sherlock) but then se
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
It shouldn't be that hard. Serve up basic HTML. If Google can't do simple HTML after all these years, there's something wrong.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
You're all wrong. Firstly, for the crowd arguing about whether this is a good/bad/ugly question, your initial premise is wrong, because you pre-suppose that there are any good programming questions to ask in an interview. Since waffling
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Well, that may be true to an extent. The other day I was working with some code that was adequate for most purposes, but didn't meet my rigorous standards (hence: attention to detail and thinking through every aspect of the issue). So I pu
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
He was also quoting from the article.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
That would be easier if the reply box was bigger than the address window on an envelope. It's like the bad old days of trying to use the Eclipse IDE where most of your screen real estate is taken up with tabs and buttons and you only get a
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I respect you as a person, but yes, oh $deity yes.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
It's more that there are large numbers of people who consistently don't get humour, either for cultural reasons or deficiencies in their humour glands or whatever. On the other hand, in forums where people upvote humour, there can be mechan
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Much as I admire NZ, I think the author misses a crucial point. The thing that makes silicon valley special is not the quality of its computer scientists. Sorry to say this cali, but you're probably average in that regard. The difference i
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
You're full of shit.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I think that RMS is quite happy to cut all ties with the closed source world in order to build a brave new one that is an idealised programmers paradise. I look at the GPL and it seems to me the clear intent there is to have this separatio
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Disclaimer: I'm no RMS fanboy by a long stretch of the imagination. What you're saying is that they should throw their arms up in the air and say "welp, that's how the real world works in reality, so might as well give up and accept it". Bu
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
The problem though, with bills like SOPA is that if the incumbents don't like what you're doing they can just switch it off. #define competition illegal is bad, m'kay?

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