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by bfung 17y ago
>Somebody kill the term "Dependency Injection" ... Agree enough to take arms and post. Dependency Injection is really just a marketing term; programming via interfaces is mostly what the DI camp is after, and then selling tools/framewo
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by bfung 17y ago
I haven't really been screwed over, but I also become cautious and alert when my name is used (outside of a couple people). My typical name and names for my friends are: Hey, Yo, Dude. Oddly, for members of the opposite sex, I tend to use
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How Real are the Defects in Toyota's Cars?(theatlantic.com)
50 points by bfung 17y ago|43 comments
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by bfung 17y ago
Visual Studio 2010 RC just came out this week and it touts multiple monitor support and other very shiny features. The official release is on March 22; they're not called M$ for nothing =P http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/prod
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by bfung 17y ago
Repost of a link that was on HN before that answers this question. I liked it so much that I bookmarked the submission. http://www.payne.org/index.php/Startup_Equity_For_Employees
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by bfung 17y ago
On Windows, my tasks generally involve using Visual Studio for editing files and Remote Desktop for deployment. On Linux, I think a lot more before I type out that one liner. So, what value does Total Commander provide? I'm always interes
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by bfung 17y ago
More like C# programmers. Java programmers would either not know how to solve this problem (the majority), or write the 3 line static method. Sarcasm based on interviewing experience =P
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by bfung 17y ago
What is bad about the user experience with ActiveCollab?
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by bfung 17y ago
This is amusing, a somewhat related HN story ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=910071 ) If there wasn't a latin language, I wonder how much longer it would've taken for humans to have such rich interactions with computers as we have tod
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by bfung 17y ago
Totally agree. Being academically successful is one thing while leading the life you want is another. Most average people figure out how they fit in our social order ok. I think the appropriate quip would be "Welcome to the real world, n
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by bfung 17y ago
How about a compromise; develop on shiny fast box, test on the generation or two behind box. Personally, I'm like the GP, I don't feel like my older computer (Athlon XP 1800, bought in 2002) is significantly slower for things that I progra
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by bfung 17y ago
from msdn for SQL Server, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998577.aspx in reference to Figure 14.2. Now the query shown is a poorly written query, but the article claims that with a foreign key, the query optimizer can optimize
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by bfung 17y ago
It shouldn't.
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by bfung 17y ago
care to elaborate? Red, Green, and Blue are the primary colors... the color models I know of are RYB and CMYK, and >Without yellow there would be no blue! in CMYK, without yellow, there is blue!
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by bfung 17y ago
That would be a really, really useless certification. Please explain? The ancestor post by huhtenberg says he obtained certification for Visual Basic although he never wrote a single line of it before. My suggestion for the certification
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by bfung 17y ago
How about making the person taking the certification create working, readable programs, and have them submit their answers electronically. Like how programming assignments were in college, except without the rife copying between the partic
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by bfung 17y ago
It is most likely Taiwanese-based since the newsgroup language is Chinese (simplified), with several references to .tw domains in commands. Taiwan teaches traditional chinese, only mainland China uses simplified. http://en.wikipedia.org
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by bfung 17y ago
And as an addendum, I'd like to say that it's really about managing your time well. There are times when focusing and being productive is important, and there are other times when it is ok to not be producing. Knowing when to be which sta
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by bfung 17y ago
basically, like groupon.com. I recently bought sky diving tickets $100 lower than the retail price since there were more than X number of people also buying. The first time I read what the site was about, I thought it was a brilliant idea
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by bfung 17y ago
Out of curiosity... C:\>ruby --version ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32] C:\>irb irb(main):001:0> 999999999999999 - 999999999999997 => 2 irb(main):002:0> 9999999999999999 - 999999999999
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by bfung 17y ago
<sarcasm>I bet they reprinted this article and substituted 1999 with 2007.</sarcasm> Comparing a 30 year trend vs. a 2 year trend is a bit short sighted, especially when there were other dips in some previous years when the
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by bfung 17y ago
Don't worry, you'll learn to sleep through the alarm clock =P
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by bfung 17y ago
I agree. What's to prevent me from cheating the system by having a ton of kids? They'll be provided for by this program. Also, I elect that my salary be $1 and receive bonuses instead... yes, there are arguments against that, but at leas
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by bfung 17y ago
In addition to the other comments, the Utility class used in this example defeats the purpose of OO programming that Java is more in tune with. What's to stop the proliferation of these Util classes with static methods? I believe the more
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by bfung 17y ago
you say that, but our office actually does have one. The sales guys are usually pumped after getting a contract so the ringing is extra loud... when you're deep in thought, and the ringing goes off, it scares the jebus out of ... well, non
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by bfung 17y ago
another +1 to parent's last sentence. If they can copy your site easily, hackers here can probably copy it in a weekend (StackOverflow, cough ). Keep moving forward, improve with features until they can no longer keep up copying (unless
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by bfung 17y ago
This is a "crazy" article, even more so if the audience is for VB developers. Using the assumption that VB developers are "business" programmers, the solution presented in the article adds more code than necessary, and the more code, the m