andrewbinstock

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by andrewbinstock 12y ago
It's guaranteed to be up for a year at least, and probably much longer after that. If a major host or ibiblio wanted to guarantee its availability by hosting it permanently, I expect UBM (the parent company) would be amenable. Not righ
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by andrewbinstock 12y ago
True. However, brand recognition ads occur more in the consumer space than in technical market. Especially in a market of mostly small vendors, they're trying to sell, rather than establish a perception of the brand.
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by andrewbinstock 12y ago
No, there is no date currently planned. Parent company has guaranteed all content for at least a year, but I expect it will be available a long time beyond that. As I mentioned below, static content is cheap to host.
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by andrewbinstock 12y ago
UBM has guaranteed a minimum of 12 months. But I expect it will last much longer. Hosting static content is inexpensive.
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by andrewbinstock 12y ago
You're very welcome. Thank you
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by andrewbinstock 12y ago
During the last 18 months, vendors have come to realize that advertising on Websites doesn't work at all. You can verify this by counting the number of times you've bought anything by clicking on an ad you saw on a website. Most p
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by andrewbinstock 12y ago
I'm the editor of Dr. Dobb's. I'm happy to answer any questions.
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Farewell, Dr. Dobb's(drdobbs.com)
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Function Purity and Immutability in D(drdobbs.com)
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Puppet server drops Ruby for Clojure(infoworld.com)
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by andrewbinstock 12y ago
I don't know about that. Borges, Sartre, Nabokov were widely translated and read. Among the less purely intellectual, St. Exupery, Coelho, Umberto Eco, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, are regularly found in US bookstores.
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Google to offer $100K in cloud credits to startups(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
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by andrewbinstock 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand the "accidental" part. It was an intentional hoax all along. Funny, but intentional.
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by andrewbinstock 12y ago
Not convinced about point 2. A kind of internal silence that's not always questing for more knowledge has importance as well.
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
I quite agree. I expect in future surveys JS will be broken out separately. (Note: I'm the author of the original article.)
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
I'm the author of the article. Let me try to address your thoughtful observations. >This doesn't seem to be easy. Quite agreed. It's not an easy thing to measure accurately. I believe the explanation for the numbers is indeed the first
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Microsoft Build 2013 Conference to be June 26-28 in SF(buildwindows.com)
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
I did the interview with Alan. Let me give the larger context. The interview was done shortly after Kay had shown a presentation done 50 years ago of one of the very first GUI programs. He wondered then and later in this interview why GUIs
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
I'm the editor of Dr. Dobb's. Sorry about the difficulty you've encountered. Are you using the Dr. Dobb's app or straight browser access? If the latter, what browser? We'll try to get this fixed. TIA.
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
The problem with this study and many others that report on TDD's benefits is that they don't compare the results with a test group that writes unit tests after the fact. So, it's not at all clear what they're validating: the benefits of uni
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
I've used FreeMind for years for programming, for writing, for planning. It's a great tool (as are many mind-mapping products) for design and for building up information in an organized way. However, the model has limitations not mentioned
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Researchers identify phrases in encrypted VOIP calls without decryption [pdf](cs.unc.edu)
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
I have the original book, which is an amazing piece of work. Full explanation for the OS, the assembler, and C compiler. The explanations are remarkably clear and approachable and the author has not stinted in providing explanations of his
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
That's true. But once Bob Martin posits that "Clojure could be the last programming language," he's crossing pretty much all programming domains. The original post is right in taking him to task for that statement.
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
LiteIDE X ( http://code.google.com/p/liteide ) is a small, portable IDE for Go with package management, build management, and compilation from within the IDE. Also, light debugging support. And, OSS, of course. I've used it on smallish Go p
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
Thanks for explaining this, b/c editors I use (albeit inside IDEs) all do what the OP is drooling about. I figured he had to be comparing Sub 2 with some other editor that he doesn't specify.
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
I worked with Jennifer in the 1990s and even then she stood out as a classy person.
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
During the course of the interview, it was clear Kay was very much talking about computers as consumer devices. He's really fixated on making them far easier to interact with and giving them UIs that do not require users to adopt the comput
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by andrewbinstock 14y ago
Drat, the best of the bunch was Eudora. But when Qualcomm abandoned it and turned it over to Mozilla, it became a lost child, stranded between its former self and Thunderbird. That Eudora and now Thunderbird should be end-of-lifed makes for