Swannie

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by Swannie 15y ago
Whilst the measures may be objective, the ordering of them is not. That's quite subjective. Personally, a shorter piece of code is only better if it maintains the clarity of the longer that it is replacing - assuming all things being equal.
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by Swannie 15y ago
Thank you for that link. This is a far more interesting presentation than the OT. (Though it does assume some prior knowledge, like what fsync is, etc.)
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by Swannie 15y ago
Agreed. These slides are like "Disks are not memory 101". I'd hope the talk went into more details. After an hour or so reading semi-related material I have an understanding that goes beyond these basics :-/
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by Swannie 15y ago
I'll add one real reason: - Explaining why code is "sub standard" is hard.
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by Swannie 15y ago
It is worth noting this is the handset manufacturing part of Motorola. Google's first foray into consumer electronics? That's big news. Phones and tablets. They are now competing directly in Apple's space. Full control over the handset stac
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by Swannie 15y ago
So it this a question of: Learning new tools and understanding their idiosyncrasies vs. building new functionality on top of existing tools? Where learning new tools is more interesting, so it wins? :P
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by Swannie 15y ago
Brilliant There's a reason StackOverflow is so popular - it makes it easier to find the 'well trodden paths' ("correct way") along with someone pointing out caveats.
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by Swannie 15y ago
Another vote for this! I on;y did about 20% of the exercises... I wish I'd done more. Whilst I understood all the concepts at the time, I'd probably struggle to drop in at a random point and do an exercise now.
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by Swannie 15y ago
My first thought before even reading the article was: http://www.bufferbloat.net/ Good to see someone else commented about it.
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by Swannie 15y ago
"Write once, read never" comes to mind. So many single/double char operators which need to be memorised with Perl, before you can start comprehending the programs. Not to mention Perl hackers used to pride themselves on super succinct code
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by Swannie 15y ago
How long before you were profitable? Have you managed to maintain growth since then?
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by Swannie 15y ago
There will be a JTAG port, so there may/should be the option of some very basic I/O, but not to the arduino level as far as I can tell.
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by Swannie 15y ago
Original article here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=28 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2815724
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by Swannie 15y ago
Indeed, as such I've made a point to always try and identify the company from the advert, prior to contacting the agent. I'd say in about 10% of cases this has allowed me to go direct to the company, via their own job listing. In about 30%
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by Swannie 15y ago
"they seem like a man claiming to starve who turns his nose up at an apple with a small bruise. It feels a little insincere" Agreed, but I am not sure it's just these companies. My general feel of the market in Europe is: if you're looking
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by Swannie 15y ago
I struggled to comprehend what you are trying to say. It sounds like you're saying "Make everything a service and that will solve all your problems". But in doing so, you abstract the complexity from the core of the problem, to some other l
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by Swannie 15y ago
He still didn't clear up the conceptual understanding of "model" very well. The Data Model. Just the data. - pure Value Objects, classes which are little more than wrappers to data, which can be assembled in more complex structures for pres
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by Swannie 15y ago
My original answer was longer, but this is hopefully clearer. Small programs are often split: Input Parsing. Process. Output presentation. We can think of MVC where the View is the output presentation. The Model does the processing. The Con
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by Swannie 15y ago
Well you are making the assumption I am referring to a romantic relationship. The article presents (and this may be the reporters bias) the picture of someone with minimal social contact. Whilst I accept different people have a different le
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by Swannie 15y ago
Nice article. Reminds me a little of the two lead characters of "Makers", the Cory Doctorow book. But this is real, and mildly depressing. You want guys like this to be successful, and to have the choice to live the spartan lifestyle if the
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Force10 VC Fail: $630M raised. Dell Offers $700M(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by Swannie 15y ago|1 comments
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by Swannie 15y ago
I try and reserve down votes for abuse, blatant trolling, etc. Sometimes I find it hard not to down vote on objective things. Especially when the poster has completely missed the point and is getting carried away - potentially they trolling
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by Swannie 15y ago
There is a skill called "critical thinking", another called "report writing", and it seems for this course "comprehension of a market, and competing technologies within this market". Copy paste demonstrates or develops none of these, other
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by Swannie 15y ago
Agreed. Closed source is going to drive things along from a consumer perspective. Car's are a good model, but they generally quite "open". If you want replacement X for your car, there are many choices. From seats, to stereos, wheels, spark
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Open Robotics - Legal Immunity for open robotic platforms(blog.law.cornell.edu)
33 points by Swannie 15y ago|5 comments
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by Swannie 15y ago
As an aside: http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=50 Works rather nicely.
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by Swannie 15y ago
I enjoyed reading along about this on the Langner blog during late last year and early this year. He was often the first to break news about new understanding in the PLC related code, and at the time was given very little credit for it. Yet
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by Swannie 15y ago
tl;dr: The work was varied and interesting. We were trading time for money. We feared firing customers for lack of cash flow. There is too much competition, and margins are thin. We failed to expand our market. We took almost any work, so f
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by Swannie 15y ago
Isn't this the reason for the design of Spring (Java framework/library)? You can work in the whole framework (slightly unusual), or just use components as a library.
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by Swannie 15y ago
Whooo. One less thing for linode sysadmins to worry about. This is a good move, up there with offering bullet proof DNS services in my opinion. Edit: shame that the API doesn't look like it supports alarms/thresholds.

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