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by arebop 18y ago
This article points out a common problem and discusses some ways to avoid it, but http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html describes how to solve it.
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by arebop 18y ago
It seems to me that worlds permit sharing immutable data structures, and that Warth & Kay's operations on worlds do not permit sharing mutations done in parallel worlds. The Worlds paper you cited [ http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008001_wor
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by arebop 18y ago
Yes, I've had good luck with branches for trunk, qc, and production. The production branch is always a copy of qc as it existed at some point in the past, so that guarantees that everything's been tested together and without anything extra.
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by arebop 18y ago
I agree that functional programming and web applications fit nicely together. response = f(request) probably won't mean much to someone who has no familiarity with fp, though. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch...
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by arebop 18y ago
I wondered roughly how that compared to highway costs, and I found that it's about four times as much. One thing I found was that while this article claims $700million/mile for the LA Red Line, the MTA reports that $4.5billion was spent for
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by arebop 18y ago
GreaseMonkey scripts can modify the page contents, and if only GreaseMonkey scripts could run before whatever JavaScript is included with the page could start, then it could completely replace the site's script rather than just modifying it
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by arebop 18y ago
If that were true, why would would the FSF say that "using the Lesser GPL permits use of the library in proprietary programs; using the ordinary GPL for a library makes it available only for free programs" [ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-
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by arebop 18y ago
"Current free browsers do not offer a facility to run your own modified version instead of the one delivered in the page." GreaseMonkey can do that in Chromium [ http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/user-scr... ]. Stallman me
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by arebop 18y ago
Maybe I was unusually naive, and probably everyone's more informed these days, but the thing I'd add is that tech companies are very different from other companies for CS majors. I supposed in my innocence that there were the overtly-sexy a
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by arebop 18y ago
Referential integrity in code-under-test is convenient for unit testing, so unit tests encourage (re)discovery of functional style by programmers who are working in non-functional languages. But unit tests also have value in programs that a
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by arebop 18y ago
This is not for those of us who do not use Windows: "Xenocode WebApps [...] run instantly on any Windows desktop."
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by arebop 18y ago
I consulted for a few hours on a very enterprisey project involving UPS RoadNet Transportation Suite last year. RTS is used by the big company I worked for to plan truck-driving routes. Note: this is a more ambitious technical challenge tha
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by arebop 18y ago
Right. I was tempted to say that our pace was somewhat reduced (not to 50%), and our code was greatly improved, because that was our impression. We did not adjust old estimates to account in any way for pairing, and we saw a trend toward im
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by arebop 18y ago
When our manager discovered us pairing, we had to defend the practice against the objection that it would surely halve our productivity. I think those of us who initiated pairing on our team were the most motivated programmers, and those
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by arebop 18y ago
I've done it, with two others on my team of six. The three of us thought it was good for quality and a preferable alternative to code review. I think each of us was a little shy at first, but once that faded we didn't feel held back by the
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by arebop 18y ago
Contrary to what seems like the prevailing view right now, Git is not strictly better than SVN. Some reasons to use SVN are at http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=90 . It sounds like you want to use SCM in a personal (not collaborative) ca
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by arebop 18y ago
Renting could decouple "home" from "house," allowing everyone to behave more rationally and giving the middle class better real estate portfolio diversification. This doesn't require a People's Barracks. It could be done privately, merely b
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by arebop 18y ago
My last job involved a lot of code review. I usually started with static analysis. Cyclomatic complexity is crude, but it seems like a reasonable heuristic for identifying important or interesting portions of the code.
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by arebop 18y ago
I was nodding in agreement at most every point, and then I wondered why there are no citations and whether Aaron has experience successfully using this strategy.
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by arebop 18y ago
I'm sure most Java recruiters agree with you. But, as a programmer myself, I've only met a handful of other programmers whose knowledge I'd value over their interested-ness. I'll probably never have the opportunity to hire such a person, so
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by arebop 18y ago
Government also shouldn't give free money to failed businesses. We should either properly socialize the businesses by exchanging money for voting shares, or let capitalism work.
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by arebop 18y ago
Then, the idea was to let miners dig them back up. The burying and mining activities themselves are silly and useless, but then the multiplier effect kicks in. Keynes says the important thing is to get money circulating so that resources ca
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by arebop 18y ago
1. Joel makes disparaging remarks about Beck and his ideas without understanding those ideas well. If you're familiar with XP, you can see that Joel's argument is with more of a strawman than the substance of Beck's ideas. If not, Joel admi
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by arebop 18y ago
What if the home movie consists of a completely black frame? Wouldn't a blanket exemption for home movies effectively allow unlimited reproduction and distribution of audio files? For this reason, I think a blanket exemption would involve a
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by arebop 18y ago
I disagree with your assertion that there has never been a "remix snippets" exception to copyright. The EFF posting mentions the principle of fair use, developed out of case law at least as old as 1740 [1] and now incorporated into modern s
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by arebop 18y ago
So what's the cost for the average consumer of moving from Windows to GNU/Linux or MacOS X? I guess Microsoft probably sells more licenses to BigCo than to natural persons these days, and for them the switching cost probably is non-negligib
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by arebop 18y ago
To me, Sugar was the essence of OLPC. The hardware was absolutely necessary and cool, but I cared about OLPC because I thought that constructionist learning could significantly improve the lives of persons living in developing countries. Su
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by arebop 18y ago
Until Windows is a free platform, I think you'll always find that it's relatively difficult to find, use, and develop free software there and that the users of the platform will tend to be people who care less about free software. Having sa
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by arebop 18y ago
The ASP.NET MVC framework is a pretty close imitation of RoR. The traditional ASP.NET framework is an attempt to shoehorn the Web into the Windows Forms conception of the world. One thing that MS MVC doesn't do particularly nicely is to cap
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by arebop 18y ago
As it turns out, this is actually one of the selling points used by the manufacturers: "If time is money, then the time saved jetting from continent to continent is money in the bank." --- http://www.gulfstream.com/products/g650/ They're

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