andrewf

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721.
by andrewf 18y ago
Sounds like he's taking a stab at Python's reticence over removing the Global Interpreter Lock.
722.
by andrewf 18y ago
I'm reminded of this Australian ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnN7c5wZKBM
723.
by andrewf 18y ago
"Good communication skills" go hand in hand with "easy to manage."
724.
by andrewf 18y ago
Can't be a coincidence that they started pushing this a week after Chrome arrived. I wonder what other proposals Google has coming?
725.
by andrewf 18y ago
I suspect the odds of a healthy person getting cancer are higher than the odds of a particular startup making it truly big.
726.
by andrewf 18y ago
Excellent. It always stunk that Qt tried to look like a first class citizen on Windows and Mac OS X but not the dominant Linux desktop.
727.
by andrewf 18y ago
Handy take on this: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/?p=23
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by andrewf 18y ago
From the fsync man page on OS X 10.5: Fsync() causes all modified data and attributes of fildes to be moved to a permanent storage device. This normally results in all in-core modi- fied copies of buffers for the associate
729.
by andrewf 18y ago
Were this to become popular practice, surely: (1) Overall advertising industry spend would remain constant. CPC would go down. Distribution of advertising revenue may shift slightly towards sites with more "savvy" users. (2) If, miraculou
730.
by andrewf 18y ago
The FQA is delightful snark. Thanks for that.
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The new age of OpenGL(cincomsmalltalk.com)
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732.
by andrewf 18y ago
The article links to ExCanvas, and goes on to explain that its performance is inadequate for many applications.
733.
by andrewf 18y ago
If you're building a web service for public consumption, you want random, interested developers to pick it up easily. SOAP has a clear advantage over XML-RPC here: blub programmers have probably heard of it, and it will be supported out of
734.
by andrewf 18y ago
I wonder if, having used an impossible-to-explain algorithm to arrive at your solution, you could compare your solution against a few very simple algorithms, and offer up the best fit as a rationalization.
735.
by andrewf 18y ago
You made the front page of news.com.au as well. Congratulations :)
736.
by andrewf 18y ago
I'm in Australia, and here, mobile charges for calls and SMS fall solely on the caller/sender. The US convention, where the person who is charged for an action is not the person who decided to take the action, has always seemed slightly ins
737.
by andrewf 18y ago
The bar for "lots" isn't that high with SQLite. The primary difference is that Postgres does Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC), which allows readers to continue accessing the 'current' version of some data while the 'future' version
738.
by andrewf 18y ago
Not sure that the "Yesterday" anecdote was appropriate; it's an example of creative thinking rather than learning. It's also unclear as to whether the "same tasks" on subsequent days were exactly the same, or simply the same activity with d
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by andrewf 18y ago
The whole book is an invariant section!
740.
by andrewf 18y ago
The problem is that reading UTF-8 from a web browser, then storing it in an 8-bit clean database (everything), and then displaying that binary data back to the web browser usually works OK. That sounds like something you could fix relativ
741.
by andrewf 18y ago
"I don't want any upgrades and I don't want to pay for them. It works perfectly now. If I want anything to change, I'll ask for it and I'll pay for it. Why should this be any different that anything else that I own?" But with hosted apps, y
742.
by andrewf 18y ago
It works, and it isn't doing any harm.
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by andrewf 18y ago
See a medical professional! That said, anecdotal not-medical-advice: I had mousing-related pain, and I fixed it by mousing left handed. The first couple of days were incredibly frustrating, but after a week I had probably 80% of my right ha
744.
by andrewf 18y ago
Not that surprising. Two years ago I was a fulltime commercial desktop application developer, and our minimum supported spec was Windows 98.
745.
by andrewf 18y ago
You know how some people swear casually, while others would cringe in shame if the apocalypse happened and a curse word passed their mouth? Same for when they're writing code. I don't quite get the shocked reactions.. I can understand think
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by andrewf 18y ago
Something I settled on personally is: You should have a standard build environment in a virtual machine. This comes pretty naturally if you're doing nightly builds and aggregates 90% of any build.txt into: copy this VM from the DVD to your
747.
by andrewf 18y ago
I'm not sure this excludes the use of getters and setters under any and all circumstances. A purist argument is that objects are supposed to do stuff , and that methods should be big, chunky verbs that don't expose unnecessary implementati
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by andrewf 18y ago
I recommend this. Things are painful when development and production deviate - figuring out how to install a particular module or library becomes double the work, as does anything "low level", and you're always running the risk of doing som
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by andrewf 18y ago
Last time I had to pick out a desk for an office I chose this one (sadly I doubt they'll ship to you): http://www.jkhopkins.com.au/showproduct.asp?webno=1 Sitting in the middle gives you a lot of surface area within reach.
750.
by andrewf 18y ago
The biggest thing you need to sort out when caching is exactly how well synced your cache needs to be. Once you've written fresh data to the database, is it okay for you to keep receiving stale data in response to later queries? If you've g

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