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by angelbob 16y ago
This is true for "average drivers". The math is totally different with, say, racecar drivers. I think there's a strong parallel with programmers here, and whether you're optimizing for average-case job throughput (or hobby throughput) or w
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by angelbob 16y ago
Interesting. If you assume Carnegie Mellon and MIT are parallel (and in this respect, they are), this explains a lot about CMU :-)
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by angelbob 16y ago
We're a little company, but not really a startup so I didn't upvote above. We use DB2 and MongoDB, though.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Sort of. What they're describing has a lot of server-side bits going on to make it all work. At least, as described. Rendering most of the page immediately and then leaving the connection open to shove more through is more server-push tha
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by angelbob 16y ago
Sounds like, if they don't make their solution open, this will become the basis for a fairly nice little framework. It'll be interesting because this will require significant rework to fit with how most web servers work. It would be hard
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by angelbob 16y ago
This post is lovely. I don't think it's realistic to get people to stop saying "HTML5" and start referring to all the little semi-standard pieces individually, so I'm really curious what this "intellectually honest" Mozilla messaging is goi
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by angelbob 16y ago
This is good. Maybe also mention the 30-day UK credit period (with which I, as a California resident, am unfamiliar).
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by angelbob 16y ago
On the other hand, when deciding between offers a couple years ago, the fact that the person on the phone had read my cover letter and thought about what I said helped tip the balance in favor of Scribd Scribd has at least one really, rea
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by angelbob 16y ago
Congratulations! Best of luck on whatever comes next.
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by angelbob 16y ago
It makes me happy that a contest of this kind is hosted at the domain "fighting for a lost cause" :-)
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by angelbob 16y ago
If you lure people in with Scala or Clojure, then mostly make them program in Java, there's a decent chance they'll feel betrayed and leave sooner. At least, that's been my experience in places that lure with something glamorous and then do
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by angelbob 16y ago
I was surprised how far down I had to scroll for Ruby... I expected more people to have a love-hate relationship with it than apparently do. I also totally disagree that blocks should be passed as regular parameters, but that's neither her
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by angelbob 16y ago
No, he's asserting that they're aware that's a problem and that they need to be careful of it. Some succeed, some fail. Rather like using pointers, in most ways, which can also cause some pretty unmaintainable messes, but don't if you're re
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by angelbob 16y ago
A starvation budget is different for different people. If you have a mortgage, for instance, or Silicon Valley rent, it makes a huge difference in how much you have to make before you can even afford ramen :-)
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by angelbob 16y ago
The open source menu on the bottom has a project not mentioned up top, which is slightly odd, and it just links to the front page of GitHub, which is odd. You should either mention it everywhere, or take it off that menu :-)
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by angelbob 16y ago
Can I ask what startup?
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by angelbob 16y ago
People like that making up nearly half the office would be a significant change. What you describe is highly useful and productive, but also a small minority.
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by angelbob 16y ago
I was at Carnegie Mellon University in 1995. The machines in the computer clusters there downloaded a central image from central servers to overwrite the machine, regularly. I imagine it used rsync, though I don't know for sure. This had
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by angelbob 16y ago
One reason is so that your internal testers won't have wildly different experiences. It's much easier to verify one UI than several slightly different UIs. This is similar to the cross-platform user experience, but even companies with very
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by angelbob 16y ago
There aren't great cross-platform tools that provide good native-feeling results, mostly. There are a number of cross-platform toolkits. GTK+, Qt and wxWindows all come to mind as possibilities. But in general, you're going to need to rew
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by angelbob 16y ago
It's nice to see the occasional reminder of this, among all the Web 2.0-ness around here :-) A lot of apps still need to run in the Dark Ages that are desktop development, Balkanization and all.
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by angelbob 16y ago
The iPod isn't trying to go mass-market by exposing a focus group for a short time. It's trying to go mass-market by exposing a minority of vocal earlyvangelists and having them show people why it's useful. So far it's working really, re
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by angelbob 16y ago
Sure. But the argument "it's useless to pirate WoW because you couldn't get on the server anyway" breaks down in this case because you could pirate WoW and run a server. Yes, it's not as good as the real thing. Neither is running Starcr
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by angelbob 17y ago
It sounds like a lot of the complaints are about their ORM layer. I'll point out that Rails (a very comparable project) has a lot of cruft in ActiveRecord, their ORM layer, as well. I can't directly compare it to Django's, but it's a bit
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by angelbob 17y ago
Generalizing from a situation where it may apply (close relatives) to one where it does not apply isn't rational, even if it's a vaguely similar-looking situation.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Interestingly, that "arranged marriage" thing may also compound it. Dating/marrying intelligent, hardworking unattractive people is something that almost all of us approve of -- for other people to do.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Technically I suppose I might be a "Gen Y" something-or-other, though at 33 I feel too old to be a "trophy kid". But I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you change companies frequently, but also get large, valuable projects done, it al
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by angelbob 17y ago
Then it's still not a straight-up numbers game. Followers are not created equal, traffic is not created equal, and people do not spend equally on your product or service (at least, if your pricing is at all smart).
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by angelbob 17y ago
Has anything changed? I didn't think Erlang had changed much recently.
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GCC ChangeLog for newly-released 4.5.0(gcc.gnu.org)
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