Tamerlin

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by Tamerlin 17y ago
They should look at Linq.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I think the reality right now is that, for the most part, they don't. IT centers that have to support hundreds or thousands of users aren't going to buy macs, because they'd run themselves ragged supporting them. That's not meant to imply t
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
No, they're completely clueless about it. There's no doubt about that. I attended a mac users' group meeting once in which an Apple rep tried to convince us that their SAN system was better than Dell's because of the price... I looked on wi
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I'm just amazed the Case actually managed to make something work, given the way things went with Revolution Health.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Let's just hope that it DOES happen again!
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I agree... what he's describing is a sweatshop, and honestly I've never seen code from someone who was working 70+ hour weeks actually work. Every time I've worked with someone like that, I've had to waste a lot of MY time fixing it, making
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
One thing that I found particularly interesting is the way that it partitions groups of processors per application. It reminds me of the way that IBM's Scalable Power 2 system worked. This Tilera chip looks remarkably similar, just a LOT sm
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
They're probably waiting on Intel to launch the next version of the Xeon, which always lags the desktop/laptop equivalent by a bit. Hopefully, the next Xeon won't require FB-DIMMs... those are probably adding quite a bit to the MacPro's pri
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Good point. That probably adds quite a bit to the cost of the machine. I realized after the fact that I implied that the creative industry was the ONLY other one that would be interested in a MacPro rather than in an iMac, rather than just
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"The Mac Pro's target market is probably among people doing research or running render farms" and "Now if even hard-core enthusiasts like Matt and myself are turning to laptops and iMacs..." Makes me think that the author's view of the worl
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
It's very de-humanizing. Even in places that claim otherwise, they tend to treat technical staff like interchangeable parts, rather than people. And they wonder why their best folks tend also to be the least loyal.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Not only that, but making mistakes is often the best way to learn how to do something correctly. People who don't make very many mistakes are usuall also people who don't try to do anything new, so they're not giving themselves a chance to
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
You don't retrieve those particles; an admittedly absurd extension of your reasoning would imply that it takes 200 million years to image a quasar, because that's how long it takes to retrieve the photons that form your image. What we're se
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
True... and so did one of their biggest competitors in the mainframe market (National Cash Register).... :)
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I wouldn't, not in that way at least. Apple's been really good about jumping onto up-and-coming trends, particularly recently. IBM's adaptation was the opposite: do nothing. The mainframe market hasn't changed much; the only real change has
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I agree. It's been what I would call lip service to agile, but that's about it. My experience with agile has been that most managers who seek to lead agile teams wind up equating rapidly typing code to rapidly developing software.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
How'd you guess?
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
No, that's the sad part. But when you have 10 people tromping around the same code in a hurry it's hard to keep things clean and consistent even with code reviews... and there's been such a push for new stuff that there hasn't been time for
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"Using Agile really doesn't guarantee you any of this. You're still very free to abandon separation of concerns and end up with a tightly coupled mess." This is what I find usually happens with agile development. The software tends to start
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
It's also a maintenance nightmare. A LOT of that code is terrible, there's a lot of tight coupling, and a heavy reliance on developers with pagers to keep the mess operating. There's a reason that they have such insane turnover so few peopl
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I guess they gave up on fighting that uphill battle, eh? :D It's no loss... it's just Java. Old... creaky... and why are we still using it again? (Oh, right -- for the progress-averse developers.)
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
It sounds to me like this poster is a little bit late to the party, since he basically described ActiveRecord from Ruby on Rails. In my experience ActiveRecord is very nice for applications that require ONLY CRUD, but for more sophisticated
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
IMO it's more like C# and .NET than that Apple is making it tough to not use Objective-C. First look at .NET... there are a lot of .NET developers who think of .NET and C# development as the same... but there are also .NET developers using
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"Science focuses on tractable problems, not important ones." That doesn't make sense. Science isn't an entity for one thing, it can't focus on anything... for another, do you really think that mechanics, immunology, electricity, and ceramic
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"They share a common set of flaws - both apparently tend to produce overcomplicated designs and generally "enterprisey" solutions." Since when do platforms produce solutions? That's up to the developers... So far in my experience .NET enabl
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
It seems like the problem isn't that people work hard, it's that people equate hard work with long hours. It's not working hard to work 12-14 (or more) hours a day, that's just foolishness. Working 12+ hours a day does have the side effect
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
It's not just the newbies that limit themselves to the Java hammer, a lot of folks who've been in the industry for some time have grown comfortable with Java and are too set in their ways to change. In some cases, they're so set in their wa
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Nope, you're not :)
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Great picture, mediocre article... "... erupted in a pyroclastic flow..." clearly the author doesn't know what that means... the plume isn't a pyroclastic flow, those are flowing down the mountainside.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
That's true, IBM is still one of Intel's biggest server OEM's world wide. Personally, I think that SPARC will end up getting buried by Itanium and POWER, which will in turn get overwhelmed by Opteron and Xeon. :)

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