Stormbringer

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by Stormbringer 15y ago
So... what you're saying is that having better tooling is a bad thing? Disclaimer: I've done GWT and I liked it. I did not find any Java<->Javascript paradigm shift problem at all. You simply forget about the Javascript and just wr
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
He probably isn't. I wrote a login system for an ecommerce and b2b site a while ago. Got heavily into the salting/hashing side of things back then. Based on that... I think that most of the people pop-pooing salts in this thread don't kn
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
After attending one of these... you will be
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Quick! Somebody invent software which will allow people to have discussions that branch! Otherwise the dreadful disaster of discussion derailment will doom us daily!
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Gruber is a prime example of this. Exactly as you describe, when Macs didn't have market share it was all about how market share didn't matter. And, to be honest, he made a pretty compelling argument. But every time Apple jumped up a rank
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I downvote meta-discussions about downvotes on general principles
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
If it is laggy, has security problems and the people running it are spreading deliberate falsehoods in order to cover their asses... ... it ain't credible. On the other hand, it sounds like they would have a great career path at the federal
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
You're not discussing the topic, you're committing the logical fallacy of suggesting that the only alternative to your position is some absurd extreme. I.e. readable code is pathologically inefficient. If you want to have a discussion, don
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I've spent enough time reading code written by people who thought that efficiency was more important than readablility to know that not only are they spectacularly wrong, but 9 times out of 10 they suck at efficiency but didn't realise it
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
From the article: There are still reasons to pay attention to efficiency when writing code. Did you even get to the second sentence of the linked article before launching your ridiculous rant? Obviously not. To suggest that nobody
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I upvoted your original post because it is a good point (4chan is dodgy ... or so I hear...). I downvoted your whinge about getting downvoted for the following reasons: (1) meta discussions must die (2) pretending that upvotes/karma matte
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Sleepsort: For each item in a list of items, create a thread that sleeps as long as its number, then prints its number. E.g. 5,3,2,1,10 makes five threads, one sleeps for one second and prints 1, one sleeps for two seconds and prints 2, on
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Wow. An order 0 sorting algorithm (it is O(0) not O(n) because it doesn't make _any_ comparisons). Amazing.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Just on the face of it, it's wildly improbable that you could spend over a billion dollars operating ITMS. Surely it isn't that much of a stretch? I'd be surprised if the music companies weren't taking a big chunk of that, and ser
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
30% on apps caused an uproar because it was so much cheaper than the other alternatives . Not to come across as an Apple apologist, but seriously, it wasn't even that frickin' long ago... even in internet time. Those who do not remember th
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Okay... so if 70% of the take is 2.5 billion, that means the total amount taken in is 3.57 billion and change. So Apple gains 1.07 billion with their 30% cut and spends 1.30 billion? In other words, Apple digs into their own pocket for 230
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
The same can be said of any of the lesser patterns. People who turn _everything_ into a Singleton for instance. Or who want everything to be a Factory or a Command.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Last time I ran into a business process coded as a state machine in the wild it was this horrible mess of code that no one could understand. After staring at it for a while, going through it line by line... finally the lightbulb went off a
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
It's all about the tooling.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
On general principle I downvote meta discussions about karma/upvotes/whatever shiny beads and shells the site in question is using as faux currency. I wouldn't expect anything different from anyone else.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Weren't they looking for help data mining the Palin emails? That'd be a better selection of random gibberish wouldn't it?
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Facebook actually provides useful services. It provides many many pointless services as well, but it does have some redeeming value, particularly for staying in touch with people overseas. What would be much worse is if all these talented
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
As someone who has been recently actually doing Windows development using HTML and Javascript I have a couple of observations. #1 Since I'm the only one in the thread who actually knows what they're talking about, naturally this will get do
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Did you even read the article? It contradicts your first sentence. Also, your initial premise that you are somehow more aware of my memory system than I am... is... deeply flawed. If you want to reframe the debate in terms of Apple is evi
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
This title is a classic example of what is wrong with tech reporting. Every new thing is supposed to be a 'killer' of something else. Whether that be "iPod killer", "iPhone killer", "Windows killer", or, $Deity forbid: "linux killer". This
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
The native apps done by average developers also suck. Going to HTML as your presentation layer doesn't suddenly and magically increase (or decrease) the sucktitude factor of the developers involved.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
It isn't a big tax that is suddenly something new. What it is, is a way to prevent developers trying to rort the system and doing an end run around their fee structure. When this first came out, the ones screaming the loudest were the guys
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
This is exactly why anyone that says they are a web designer - yet does all their work in some 'pixel perfect' tool like Macromedia (or whatever the 'cool kids' use these days) is just deluding themselves.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
From the article it describes the assembly programmer as an: "experienced assembly developer" From the article it describes the ADA programmer as: "This developer had very limited Ada experience, having written only one Ada program, consist
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
In terms of comparing Forth and Lisp, I was able to pick up a fairly large chunk of postscript (a forth-ish language) and work with it with no prior exposure to forth. I haven't seen any Lisp where that is the case. Generally the lisp I've

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