Tamerlin

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by Tamerlin 18y ago
He clearly doesn't even know what an algorithm is, yet is pontificates madly about how they preclude parallel code. I guess he doesn't think that distributed ray-tracing involves pesky things like "algorithms" either, eh? Naw, ray-tracing i
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
By that logic, real carpenters would also refuse to use staple guns and electric screwdrivers.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
It wasn't really a jump. Apple's market share has been growing more or less steadily since the switch to Intel. IMO I don't think that Vista has had much of an effect on mac sales; it's primary competitor has been XP. All else aside, I'm su
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Wow, someone who actually wants to succeed with a startup, eh? The startup = sweatshop mentality really needs to end if we're to see a higher success rate among startups. In every case that I've seen people working insanely long hours tryin
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Maybe he wanted to provide an example of a linked list? :)
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
That sounds contradictory to me. If you learned to program without testing and best practices, then you're not a good programmer, you're just a hack. I don't agree about the debugger though... it's a tool, when used properly a helpful tool,
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
I live in a fairly large city (Seattle), but it's not QUITE like NYC... I walk a fair amount, mainly to and from the bus, and within downtown Seattle when I go to after-work gatherings and events. I also spend a lot of time in the dojo, bot
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
When I was building Rails apps at RHG, we had a team of CSS folks who converted the Photoshop docs into HTML + CSS for us. That helped a great deal; I basically had to take the HTML and add data + behaviors. That does make things much more
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Hm... # We work long hours. We believe great things are accomplished 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. Translation: We can't plan, so we make up for it with burnout. # We believe the perfect is the enemy of the good. This means we focu
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
There are. I've had the misfortune of working with people like that frequently. It leads to a lot of frustration, because they tend to write very verbose and convoluted code with very little documentation, so in addition to performing poorl
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
MSFT's failure is that some parts of it seem to get that, and others seem entirely oblivious to it. Some of their products really are excellent -- usually ones that are largely independent shops that haven't been entirely squished into the
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
An event-based model would have done the trick. Register a listener to a message queue, and when a message arrives, the queue handler sends it an event. It would make things a little more complicated, but it also imposes less load on the se
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
This reminds me of the CineFX 100th anniversary issue. It was organized as a series of interviews with visual effects professionals, and the running theme basically came down to, "Do it right in the camera, don't fix it in post." It's actua
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
It just goes to show how compartmentalized gov't work can get. My first project there seemed more like a body shop than anything else; a few people developed the software, and the rest of us just fed it data and wondered why they bothered w
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
You could make "junk DNA" a fitness criterion, and kill off entities that have lot of it that way. Natural selection doesn't really penalize that, because it has no effect on survivability. However, it might have a long-term advantage, beca
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
The author of that article obviously doesn't understand the scientific method. Sad.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
That's one of mine also; I'm using How to Design Programs as a way to learn Scheme, and also doing some small Rails project work on the side to de-rust my Rails skills... And getting started on a web site for myself. But that one will be co
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
No one's looking for elegant algorithms for real world problems here. The reality is that most real-world problems are not particularly complicated, yet most have exceedingly complicated solutions, and as a result, disproportionately large
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Same here. Solutions like that are unfortunately the norm, which is leading to the deplorable state of software industry wide, and the general and growing malaise from the developers. When I started out as a developer, I was one of the best
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
Good point. One depressing thing that I've noticed is that most of the best people I know in the field are seeking to leave it. This community is for an exception, although it probably has a lot to do with the fact that I was in the DC area
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
It is remarkable that so many people seem to think that MS was always a monopoly, and ignore the fact that before that, Apple was the big dog, and Microsoft was the puny upstart.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
In the past couple of weeks, I've been spending some time with a friend building a small Rails app in our spare time (which I don't have much of, since I have to work full time for my paycheck), and realized that I'd forgotten how pleasant
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
It continues to amaze me that so many companies, my present one included, recruit people with a lot of talent and experience, pay them a lot of money, and assign them exactly the same work as the interns. In some cases, they end up having t
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
It sounds like you're saying that a pervasive multicore strategy is a good thing, and I agree. Microsoft Research is doing a lot of facilitate multi-processor software, and companies like NEC and SGI have built entire businesses on toolchai
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
This does actually work. Continuous starvation actually conditions the body to store additional fat. A good breakfast also helps to provide fuel to your brain, which burns a lot of glucose. Eating regularly conditions your body to burn what
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
http://coderific.com/employers/7
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
The only thing that makes learning Objective-C difficult for me is availability, because AFAIK I can't compile Obj-C code on anything but a mac, and I don't happen to have one. Other than that, I agree... it's just another programming langu
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
This makes so much sense that it amazes me how many times I've run into shops that haven't even bothered to TRY doing this. Most of the shops I've worked at that have existing systems have setups that require days of effort to get working.
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
It hasn't been every company for me, but I've been through that a few times now... and I think it fits every BIG company I've worked for, and it happens a lot less at the smaller ones. Part, probably most, of the cause for me has been that
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by Tamerlin 18y ago
IMO this is just someone who's jealous because 37Signals has been successful while retaining a healthy work-life balance. Too many people these days take pride in their ability and willingness to work ridiculously long hours for extended pe

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