WorkerBee

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by WorkerBee 16y ago
name a country in the world, and he can perform every dialect in the region flawlessly I'd believe that when I hear that - I'd be flabbergasted if he can convince me in more than one of the three main accents of Cape Town, South Africa. H
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
How does he prevent mosquitoes from breeding in the small pools of standing water?
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
The kindle uses ePaper, which as you say has the disadvantage of a slow refresh rate, but the advantage that it is better visible in strong light. Do you find that this trade-off is in the iPad's favour? i.e. that you never read in strong l
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Do homoeopathic remedies have a "best before" date? If you wanted to given them "best before" dates, how would you measure when the non-existent potency starts to disappear? The next time anyone offers a homoeopathic drug, ask them how long
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
What if water did have memory? What if water somehow "remembered" everything that had been in it, once upon a time? Water is recycled - your glass of water has been rain, river, ocean, pond scum, cow piss, bug poo and dinosaur blood. Firs
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Which law of nature is against the theoretical possibility, though? Even if water could absorb influences from the homoeopathic medicine, what about all the other things that this water has been in contact with over the centuries? It's no
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Silverlight out-of-browser applications. Do I win?
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Sandboxed Execution System ... Self Contained Applications ... Limited APIs This sounds like a good description of Silverlight out-of-browser applications. I wonder why he didn't mention them.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
It seems as though every game I read about, including Germany-England and Argentina-Mexico yesterday, is decided by a lucky goal or a wrongly-allowed goal or a wrongly-disallowed goal. Except that it wasn't. Germany 4, England 1. The wro
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
And by ignoring all the other projects and open protocols that target the same problem. This is because interop with OpenId, OAuth, RDF et al is hard so hey, lets go shopping! ...I mean, lets roll our own from scratch, that always works.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
I was motivated by just how god-awful the ending to the Battlestar Galactica TV series was.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
The kindle's transferability, ease of use, and Amazon's brand trust are almost compelling. But what about openness? http://news.cnet.com/o-reilly-amazon-must-open-the-kindle/
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Those (really) poor and oppressed people are guest workers. That's the official line, anyway. The whole issue of who is a citizen, and who has merely been there for years is part of it. They were desperately poor before they went to Saud
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
the arabs do well Do they? The Saudi Arabian ruling classes do very well indeed, but how does the average Saudi do? Hint: google "Saudi Arabia inequality" and "Saudi Arabia oppression". It's the resource curse at work.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
I think the link is wrong - that article is on the Concorde aircraft.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Unit tests may leave you with remaining subtle bugs. This is better than having both subtle and obvious bugs. Obvious under test, e.g. "the class returns null when it should return object y", which can have subtle and easy-to-miss symptoms
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Why not get a test before the shot?
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Hm. Before deciding that good and useful unit tests are too expensive, spend a week or three doing live support of poorly reported and hard to reproduce issues where the numbers were slightly out or the result came back ten seconds later th
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Because the author wrote poor tests and thinks that you did too.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
This post is relevant to why this advice will not and should not be heeded: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/10/programming-is-hard... In summary: "If it's a core business function -- do it yourself, no matter what." Building runtime
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
Based on other experiences that's "if", not "after". But no, it's not easy, unless things like OAuth and OpenId implementations are easy to you, which puts you in a very select group. What about all the other distributed social media experi
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
What I said in comments on the other story ( http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1344138 ): "When I last thought about it, I became convinced that we don't need an single implementation , we need standards for multiple implementations to
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
I thought about working in this problem space. Maybe I should think about it again, and receive wads of money as a result. Except I'm not that young, or working in Ruby on Rails so I won't just get handed money before producing any working
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
But the logic that I have successfully used LINQ on: - operates on lists of objects, not database queries. - operates on small quantities of data. It doesn't matter if there are only five items in a list. If you have to filter them, you hav
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
The point is that "easier to understand" is, in these cases, subjective enough, and entirely dependant on prior experience enough, to be absolutely meaningless.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
I don't know Clojure. "(= (:" is equally line noise.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
that's the same as var foo= new List<int> {1, 2, 3}; var bar = foo.Select(x => x*2);
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
but I find the following even easier to understand Entirely subjective. To me, "#(= (:" is pure line noise.
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
accessing database data over a connection with non-trivial latency. ... But the toy benchmark doesn't address it I disagree entirely. I know when I'm using LINQ to SQL, and when I'm using LINQ to objects. My experience is that LINQ to obj
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by WorkerBee 16y ago
I have Jon Skeet's "C# In Depth" for C# 4.0 on pre-order. It's not out just yet.

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