brianpgordon

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by brianpgordon 12y ago
> To test that theory, they asked college students to imagine using an online company to buy concert tickets for Row 10. The participants then were randomly instructed to consider receiving seating that was either worse than, better tha
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by brianpgordon 12y ago
Reston area, VA. Relocation is OK. Full time. Stack highlights: Java (including concurrency), JavaScript (browser, node.js, and phantomjs), C++/STL, C, SQL. Netty, Jetty, Solr, Storm. Contact: bpgordon / umd.edu I'm an entry
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
> One very key architectural decision for a system is the degree of reliability that it should possess. This is an explicit trade-off between the rapidity of development (in particular the level of indoctrination needed before new contri
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
I don't see why restricting yourself to an array of monospaced characters is necessarily a good thing. You can make an argument that keyboard control is superior to mouse control but there's no reason why a graphical app can'
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
Does anyone know if Google has a similar policy for GMail or Google Hangouts/Google Talk?
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
This is in pretty stark contrast to yesterday's article about devops: > Somewhere along the way, however, we tricked ourselves into thinking that because, at any one time, a start-up developer had to take on different roles he or sh
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
I take it you've never had to work with bad code. It's ruinous to the company's prospects since it slows everyone down and makes' developers lives miserable until they quit. It starts to take an entire afternoon to mak
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
A CDN writing a custom malloc sounds kind of crazy, but I guess it paid off.
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
You can modify copyrighted things, you just can't in general copy your modified version.
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
I'm really amazed that Windows has maintained substantial binary compatibility for so long. To be honest, when I see "one way they could've done it was by squeezing the flag into the one byte of padding between widgetLevel an
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
> It's used to write software where that complexity is a minor cost in return for the performance it provides. Other languages (C, D, Ada, Go) provide similar native performance with far less complexity. > I don't know of a
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
> you're implying that it's basic stuff, _and_ that it's not even worth you telling them that, because they're so beneath you at that point That's not how I'd mean it at all. Maybe I'm overanalyzing our
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
It was in the context of the Java language.
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
Playing out that scene, I can't imagine taking your approach in actual conversation with a peer. Peer: Synchronized? Me: I'm sorry, you've crossed over into an area that I expect you to understand on your own. That kind of ro
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
I know that whenever I'm embarrassed in conversation by my lack of knowledge about something, it drives me to learn everything I can about it.
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
Another way of looking at it is that shame is a good disincentive for ignorance. It shouldn't be OK to ask questions like "what's Lisp?" or "what's synchronization?" (both of which I've heard). We c
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
You'd think that with their mountains of cash Google could afford to replace their engineers' 80-character monochrome terminals.
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
I don't really see a lot to like about C++. It's huge and fiendishly complex, keywords are overloaded to incomprehensibility, it doesn't make satisfactory guarantees about static initialization, exception safety is too hard t
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
You're right on the money. This passage is particularly damning: > Rvalue references encourage a programming style that makes heavier use of value semantics. This style is unfamiliar to many developers, and its performance character
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
Boring is safe. I wouldn't call being boring "living poorly."
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
I didn't see enough of their work to judge the early eliminations. They could have been great, I don't know. Of the last two, Abby should have won IMO.
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
It's still a competition to find the best candidate though. They said that over and over during the show. Dancing with the Stars finds the best dancer out of the group, even if they're not pros. Survivor ostensibly finds the best
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
I didn't feel like Strip Search was a particularly effective way of finding the best cartoonist in the group. Contrived challenges like copying Barack Obama's signature 10,000 times or setting up a convention booth really had noth
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
Really? Well, the underlying population is growing, college is getting more expensive, inflation is making money worth less.. are you sure that they're not actually cuts per unit benefit?
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
I feel like they must have someone working on the April fool's prank year-round.
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
> If "the 1%" almost entirely changes every year, well... what's the problem with that? You're always going to have a top 1%. Don't we want it to have a significant amount of turnover? Indeed, these numbers sound
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
To some extent that disparity is fine- it's the basis of capitalism. But as wealth disparity becomes higher, you have to work extra hard to ensure that poor people have the opportunity to be successful and not become trapped in the u
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
He could link to Falun Dafa exercise videos and watch as their customers disappear one by one...
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
It doesn't, as a cursory glance at the source would show.
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by brianpgordon 13y ago
He's asking whether the number of jobs is artificially limited to the number of processors, not what happens when the number of jobs is greater than the number of processors.

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