VexXtreme

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You are being sarcastic right? There are some incredibly complex systems out there where a huge part of the business logic is handled by these boring "servers and databases and real-time technologies" and where it would be inconceivable to
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I have found that in a lot of cases IoC ends up being completely misused and abused in really horrible ways. One of the more common antipatterns I encounter is creating an interface for every single thing in the application ("because hey, t
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The biggest irony lies in the fact that in most traditional companies managers (people who manage developers) are usually the people who were never smart enough to make it as developers in the first place. My company does this all the time.
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I work with Java every day. Java and Spring pay my bills at the moment but that doesn't lessen my contempt for the platform. Overly amateurish nature of the community/ecosystem is a huge issue when you are building enterprise level applicat
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I would love to see that. Java really deserves to die a death at this point.
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" Choosing a random password is actually useful in this case, because even if the computer correctly finds the right key for de-hashing, it doesn't recognize your password as 'de-hashed' and just passes right over it." That's assuming someo
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> One reason I don't enjoy HN as much as I did several years ago is that the default behavior seems to be to attack civil libertarians, free software enthusiasts, file sharers, builders who place idealism over profit... basically everyo
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And your lack of ability to understand what was written is even more breathtaking. The man's point was that it is not suitable for a technical institution like that to be managed and administered by non-technical people. There are a number
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> What is this obsession with to-do list apps? I was wondering the same. I tried using a few of them over a period of time but after a while I'd lose the discipline and stop using them completely. I felt that instead of making me more p
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Why move to San Francisco? One of the benefits of living in this day and age is that you can start a business from pretty much anywhere in the world. Sure, it is presumably easier to acquire VC, talent and deal with general logistics if you
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I am currently leaning toward replacing my Dropbox with Google drive. More (free) capacity, better integration with other Google services, easy creation of notes and spreadsheets, easier file sharing... Anyone else feeling the same way?
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> This has been tried before, but I don't remember why it never succeeded. Because as cool as the project is (from a scientific perspective), ultimately it will end up not being used by anyone. Most developers and companies who build pr
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I think the market needs something like this badly. I have a pretty big Steam library and I've always used my primary PC both for work and gaming. There are some upcoming games that won't be available on PC (GTA V) that I want to play but I
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Well, you can always use Arduino for the main control loop and use Pi on top of that for telemetry and other things. This is probably the approach I'm going to use in my quadcopter... A non real time OS just won't cut it for a UAV.
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I personally avoid reporting errors with null return values, though that approach might actually be useful in some situations. I've seen cases where less-than-skilled developers had an irrational fear of exceptions and just treated them lik
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I was sitting in my office and coding when the earthquake hit. When people realized it wasn't a small one, everyone just started rushing outside of the building. I thought it wasn't the smartest thing to do since many buildings in Tokyo hav
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Same here. I am positive that it was Lego that influenced me to become an engineer. Ever since I was a small kid I just loved building stuff. Making something out of almost nothing, with most of your creation backed by the power of your int
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> So we see C++ being very heavily used, but with development and maintenance being performed by stable teams that will often work together for many years, if not decades in some cases. The lack of near-constant turnover really cuts dow
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Some theorists say this is the first step to achieving technological singularity. Once it becomes possible to replicate human mind/consciousness in computer memory (by running a brain simulation), the line between man and machine will becom
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The biggest problem with Tokyo is a lack of laws against public disturbance in terms of noise people are allowed to produce. All is fine and dandy until one of those stupid delivery trucks shows up near my building at 6am blaring "Hidari e
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I am the same way. I always find it perplexing how most people can't spend literally 10 minutes in complete silence with their own thoughts without getting anxious. I notice this mostly with the younger generation these days (young women es
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> Is there a significant group of people that absolutely abhors all rhetorical figures of speech? Or is it only specific ones, such as metaphors and hyperbole, with simile being mostly OK? Just curious. In medical circles it would be ca
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And this is why we can't have nice things... What is it with TSA and their lack of will to cooperate and listen to people? They just act like a bunch of mindless enforcers these days and have zero regard for common sense.
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This is a big part of it. I talked with a buddy of mine recently who is a big fan of Apple products and owns pretty much every Apple product out there. At some point we started talking about the latest iPad and he said "Man, despite already
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I really don't understand what everyone is moaning about. You all entrusted companies like Facebook (and remember, companies are there to make money for their shareholders) with a massive portion of your social lives and now you're complain
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Actually, Google DOES have data export features. They can be found here: https://www.google.com/settings/exportdata
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My productivity actually took a measurable hit after I switched from one platform/framework to another. The first one was a dream to work with, everything was documented, the framework and 3rd party APIs were well maintained and the whole c
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To me, this is nothing short of amazing. This is the first time we are seeing commercial entities working closely with national/international government run space programs. This is a new era for space exploration because this is the first t
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I agree with many of the things written in the original post. But I definitely disagree with the notion that the barrier to entry in this profession is low and that any Joe Sixpack can start programming for a living because it's supposedly