angelbob

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by angelbob 15y ago
Ruby is also a bit of a contrived example. Ruby looks a lot like you could come to it from Java and know most of it, but metaprogramming actually takes a long time and a lot of work to really figure out. Similarly, Ruby has many differen
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by angelbob 15y ago
You'll find that there's never a shortage of cool work to do. What if you didn't wait for your boss to come to you, committed to (mostly only) your own stuff, knocked it out of the ballpark, and then only committed to boss-driven stuff tha
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by angelbob 15y ago
If I couldn't run a compiler on a computer for some reason and had to do it all in my head, I could still write fabulous programs. And yet, it would certainly put a dent in some of my abilities.
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by angelbob 15y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. Well, you can become jaded in the normal course of events if you prefer. When that happens, remember that this article exists. It's good for tactics later, when you realize you can use it. I've been programming pro
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by angelbob 15y ago
Right. I might say "I'm a computer programmer", but I usually say it right after "me and five other guys track everything about all video plays for ESPN.com" or a rough equivalent.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Wait, you're saying you're using garbage collection in C++? Or you're saying you're using stack-locked reference counting in C++? If the former, you have the same problem as Java: tuning it. If the latter, you've got different performan
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by angelbob 15y ago
Sure. If you have this problem in 10% of your code, you can save the wizarding for the other 90% where tuning the garbage collector isn't terribly important, and you wouldn't need to write memory management code for acceptable performance.
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by angelbob 15y ago
You cannot escape the world of safety without using an unsafe feature: an unchecked pointer arithmetic or cast operator. Or threads.
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by angelbob 15y ago
By this do you mean unhandled runtime exceptions? Partially. Mostly I mean that bad code can make your runtime unstable by corrupting memory. You could say "but I write code that never does that". Pretending for a moment that I believe
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by angelbob 15y ago
Those are the problems. But often in C++ you've still got problems with mixed collection types, knowing types at runtime, stability (Java's not perfect, but it's better), ability to replace running code at runtime, et al. Getting Java's ga
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by angelbob 15y ago
Rob Walling has a book on doing these things systematically that might be worth your time. You can read the first few chapters for free: http://www.startupbook.net/
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by angelbob 15y ago
Ah, but only if the honeypots are chosen to match the explicit and stated guidelines -- which are currently often ignored. Should that drift, the tone of the site will change slowly, invisibly and inexorably, and the old guard will be auto
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by angelbob 15y ago
This is deviously awful, yet highly effective. It makes for a desperate underclass of the automatically ignored, yet never lets them know that they are members of said class Better yet, it accuses them of deserving it. Ten Machiavelli po
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by angelbob 15y ago
Not at the speed you're seeing there. Also, obviously you're not seeing the keyboard come up blocking the environment :-)
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by angelbob 15y ago
Then the reality is, information-theoretically, less complex and you can use a less complex model to represent it.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Sure. Most of what you lose is opportunity cost, time, bureaucratic overhead, and the possibility that they just take your code and go. Yes, you could sue them. This is harder than it sounds, especially if they're optimizing to be sued --
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by angelbob 15y ago
With this deal structure stringing us along hurts them as they have to pay more. Only if they actually pay you in the end.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Fair enough. That's the most use I've heard of anybody getting out of recruiters. Well done! It's probably worth putting up a blog post somewhere about it :-)
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by angelbob 15y ago
Sure, but do you really want to point this guy at your friends? Your friends could easily find really awesome jobs. How you can you tell what's an awesome job? Well, for starters they don't need desperate huckster/telemarketers to shill f
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by angelbob 15y ago
Actually, he's complaining that it's capriciously regulated and the state refuses to give straight answers. Particularly in a highly-regulated industry, that is the state's responsibility. He's not complaining that it's highly regulated.
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by angelbob 15y ago
The point of an insignificant spoofing attempt, if it isn't just ideological (and ignorable), would be to try to convince more people to do it (i.e. install the GreaseMonkey script). Put it this way - say Richard Stallman suddenly decided t
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by angelbob 15y ago
Fair enough. You're much more confident than I would be about knowing. I work in the Analytics group at Ooyala, a video platform company -- among other things we handle all the analytics traffic for all videos on ESPN.com and its various s
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by angelbob 15y ago
You wouldn't spoof it with an open proxy. This wouldn't be organized crime trying to screw up your A/B testing. This would be individual consumer advocates and reactionaries with a GreaseMonkey script that intentionally sent back wrong nu
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by angelbob 15y ago
You don't think that, say, the same people who resent ads being shown and turn them off might think it was hilarious to send back bad analytics data to companies who are quietly profiting from same? The same people, who, say, use a housemat
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by angelbob 15y ago
Sadly, only for people with bad spelling - I think "Finnish" has two N's :-)
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by angelbob 15y ago
I'm never sure. I've been literally dismissed by execs for a six-page reason written by multiple senior engineers why they shouldn't spend $20 million buying another company with "this is too long. Bring it back under a page and we'll rea
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by angelbob 15y ago
It's been pretty fucked-up before Obama, too.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Unfortunately, clumsiness in implementing security theater has privacy implications.
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by angelbob 15y ago
I actually liked that post, though I can see why Patrick didn't.
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by angelbob 15y ago
You wouldn't architect that in that way in JVM. Instead, you'd use threads rather than processes, use heavier-weight but more capable tools and so on. The JVM is not The Unix Way. You have to do things differently - and in Java-land, they

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