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by brentb 18y ago
If this guy actually sent that note to his employees (and I don't doubt that he did) he is absolutely a passive aggressive, condescending dick... couldn't have put it better myself. He's also a whiner and an idiot who obviously doesn't tro
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by brentb 18y ago
Whether you'd like to believe it or not, there are a bunch of smart guys who still work for Microsoft. Some really smart computer scientists actually prefer a steady, high salary in a company that's treated them well for a decade over the
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by brentb 18y ago
Yeah, I figured. I just didn't want others coming away with the impression that C# is more concise than Haskell or Python. I mean, I love lambdas as much as the next C# programmer, but there is still a fair bit of clunky syntax to deal
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by brentb 18y ago
I hate to nitpick, but this isn't comparable to the author's code. You're including empty descriptions and your output string will begin with a newline. These seem like small details, but they make a big difference in the conciseness with
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by brentb 18y ago
The author's C# example predated the release of LINQ, which makes the C# syntax much more like the Python's. The author's code: string.Join("\n", mylist.ConvertAll<string>( delegate(Foo foo) {
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by brentb 18y ago
papa, this is off-topic, but your site's "ajax_updates_iframe" architecture needs some serious attention. As it stands now, each time it's updated (every few seconds) it creates a new entry in the browser's history (at least Firefox 3's...
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by brentb 18y ago
I'd argue that you can learn more from internalizing success, simply because I suspect the domain of things you can do wrong when starting a company is much larger than the domain of things you can do right. If you fail and learn not to do
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by brentb 18y ago
I only posted this because when I read it, I thought it was asking whether Steve Jobs was a lisp hacker. Sadly, it's naught but a vapid discussion about whether he has a lisp.
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Does Steve Jobs lisp?(apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by brentb 18y ago|2 comments
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by brentb 18y ago
this isn't evil. there's a very real chance that google will lose the suit if they take it all the way, so settling at least buys them the ability to go forward with their book indexing project and protects them from a potentially very lar
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by brentb 18y ago
I agree that it's very easy to "misspeak" in C++ or C. It's even easier to mislead or obfuscate what's going on (i.e. write correct code that others can't easily understand). So this sort of documentation is great and I applaud you for ad
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by brentb 18y ago
Even in the case of a database that is only used by a single application, there are plenty of circumstances when it's better to interface with an abstract data model rather than the bare database schema. One reason could be a desire to keep
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by brentb 18y ago
Facebook does "attract people's attention", but it does far more than just that. Attracting attention is important to get users to make their first visit, but if Facebook doesn't provide something valuable, how do you explain the unbelieva
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by brentb 18y ago
Sadly, yes, unless your site is aimed solely at technologically savvy users. Or even technologically awake users. Sad as it is, most sources indicate that IE still has 70-75% of the browser market share overall, and ~40% of IE users are st