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by andrewvc 14y ago
FogBugz in general is terrible. I use it everyday, and it's remarkable insofar as how amazingly bad the UI is. I was shocked to finally use software by Joel, who's essays I'd been reading for years, and discover that it was terrible.
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Yes, it's all doable, but working around JS's kinks is terrible. Why? A programming language has one job, and that is to be a good programming language. Whether I can write a useful program in it is uninteresting, because that's a propert
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by andrewvc 14y ago
If I'm reading up on a new technology it's useful to understand what they mean when they say 'operations are O(1)'. Additionally, when writing an API for use by other developers its useful to say, this operation runs in constant time, that
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by andrewvc 14y ago
I generally agree, most logic questions are useless, but Big-O notation I use every day. Programmers who don't understand the performance difference between Array#include? and Set#include? in ruby are dangerous!
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Building Our Custom ElasticSearch+Rails Integration at Pose(blog.andrewvc.com)
1 points by andrewvc 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Agreed, also, for Vim vs. Emacs, most users of both probably use the GUI variants at this point, which leave no shell history. I still run emacs on remote terms, but then I don't make the mistake of uploading my bash history into a git repo
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by andrewvc 14y ago
I always wonder about the 'good alcohol won't leave you hung over' theory. I mean, if I'm drinking a Jack and Coke or a Jameson Rocks I'm probably at a concert or a dive bar, staying up late and having one too many drinks. Whereas if I'm dr
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by andrewvc 14y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I agree completely, on the other, being a 'first language' has really hindered scheme in the minds of programmers. Many (ridiculously) think of it as a ridiculous teaching language they wer
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by andrewvc 14y ago
That's true, however it's been clear for at least 4-5 years now that Perl 6 was a boondoggle. From the outside the Perl community looks like its barely holding together.
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Ugh, that seems terrible. It smacks of compromise, when what the perl community needs is a fresh set of ideas. They need to name Perl 6 something else fix the image of Perl 5. Perl 6 should never have been named Perl anyway, it's a brand ne
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Only $50/pair: http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/002976.php You all can thank me later; for the jeers and stares that is.
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Eh, even the least charitable would have to admit that frameworks enforce style. On a large project, this matters hugely. I don't care how good your devs are they DO have different opinions re: style.
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by andrewvc 14y ago
That's why I signed as well. The point is that firing should be on the table as the first option. The public needs a DAMN good reason not to fire this prosecutor. I think we're all well aware that she's probably not the worst prosecutor
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Well, that's the beauty of OSS, the work isn't lost, it just may need to be forked.
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by andrewvc 14y ago
You're doing it wrong, skim a bunch of profiles and copy and paste short messages with very slight variations. Investing time in a first message, hell even reading a whole profile on an online dating site is a huge waste of time. Also, stop
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by andrewvc 14y ago
It's basically a way for those who don't have an interest in cultural changes around them to deride others. Fads and trends are actually fun; they bring new music, culture, and experiences to our lives. Deriding people for collectively disc
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by andrewvc 14y ago
And this is why, everywhere I've ever worked, I've had to say RAID is NOT backup. There are varying degrees of receptiveness to this, because actual backups are a giant pain in the ass, and have a very annoying lifecycle.
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by andrewvc 14y ago
As far as redundant kv encoding isn't gzip good enough? Sure, it's more generalized, but tailored compression schemes often aren't the win they're touted as. Additionally, they can't exploit scenarios where multiple pairs are repeated (for
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by andrewvc 14y ago
you are correct sir, the term generally used is source to source compiler.
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Yeah, I'm in a similar camp. I'm white, and a product of the LAUSD (Los Angeles) magnet program, which attempted to integrate schools well. Problem is, you're mostly integrating white kids with the minority kids who have parents motivated e
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Search Trees and Clojure's core.logic(scattered-thoughts.net)
3 points by andrewvc 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 14y ago
If you add in that he was privy to official secrets and would be a potential target to foreign powers then his apparent promiscuity would also be an issue of national security - I think a person in his position now would be vilified by the
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by andrewvc 14y ago
What is this, a troll? The ruby bashing in this article is terribly juvenile, and the talk of disk seeks is so off the mark it reeks of incompetence. Let's talk about the disk seek issue, because that's the most embarrassingly wrong thing h
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Why do Modern Japanese Websites Still Look Like Geocities?(reddit.com)
1 points by andrewvc 14y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 14y ago
That's unfortunate as I was trying to get an r-studio like experience.
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by andrewvc 14y ago
I tried julia last week looking for an R replacement. I was pretty excited but the web REPL is broken on the current OSX build. Try as I might I could not get the web repl to run when building it myself. It still seems quite immature, but I
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by andrewvc 14y ago
I wish 2.0 had focused on speed, not a bunch of features that working rubyists really don't care about. Esp. not ones this poorly thought out (you'd think given 2 years discussion they would have abandoned the idea).
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by andrewvc 14y ago
So, your reply 70 days ago was in reply to me regarding the ruby library Evan and I wrote. Funny enough, this perl regex was one of the inspirations for the ruby library Evan and I wrote (though that uses a PEG for parsing) Weird how things
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by andrewvc 14y ago
Yes, but if they are bound to the child's element and that is removed shouldn't that be sufficient unless the view is binding to other elements or window events?
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by andrewvc 14y ago
They never mentioned using CMS, and CMS isn't the default GC, so I assume they weren't using it. CMS actually isn't the highest throughput GC, it's there for low-pause systems where there are extra cores available to perform GC in the backg

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