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by bsaunder 16y ago
Fair point. Getting to that "a ha!" moment when I figured out that this would help (a lot) was very hard. Forcing my code to behave that way was definitely non-intuitive and challenging. Having merely gotten it working and proving my theo
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by bsaunder 16y ago
"This is very nice in theory, but in practice you can only do it in assembly language, because no commonly used high level language supports the coroutine call primitive." I think you can get a similar effect in a high-level language by tra
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by bsaunder 16y ago
I don't believe there exists a technology company in the world that doesn't infringe on patents (mostly unintentionally). I think if most of them really looked they'd find thousands patents they are infringing.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
It may matter a lot for some data... When you send a binary file, would you like all of the zeros stripped? Your insignificant data from one perspective is possiblely significant from another perspective.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
I've become a JSON and YAML fan as I think they have higher signal to noise ratios (they each have their own issues with white space though). JSON: {"a":{"b":"hi"}} YAML: --- a: b: hi
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by bsaunder 16y ago
I think sometimes what's "readable" to one person isn't to another. The more you hit a coding convention, the more readable it becomes (as with anything). So noted. Move along. There are bigger fish to fry.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Having problems viewing this (video blocked at work and won't play on IPhone). Could someone please summarize?
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by bsaunder 16y ago
This post is over 2 years old. Seems likely that the world has changed at least a bit since posted (slow things tend to get optimized).
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The coming melt-down in higher education(sethgodin.typepad.com)
6 points by bsaunder 16y ago|1 comments
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by bsaunder 16y ago
To all those job hunting... instead of a resume, write something like this.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Gee, I thought they meant "originally" as in: "My code was originally written in C, but I've now ported it to Clojure." ;) Of course as I make changes, it produces C that compiles to normal .o files that are then (without any further trans
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Sounds like Ashburn. ;)
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by bsaunder 17y ago
When you take a technology and unregulate it and let the market operate, you'll get way better results than when you lock a technology up in the hands of one owner. That about sums up my view on patents as well.
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New round of foreclosures threatens housing market(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by bsaunder 17y ago|0 comments
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by bsaunder 17y ago
"Academic research in these areas is almost redundant by the time it is published given the pace of technological change ... " This seems indicative of the rapidly increasing rate of technological change. I think we are just starting to
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I'll buy it for my kids. They would get much better mileage out of it than I will.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
And if had my servers hosted there, I might consider moving them.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
That's it, bring back manufacturing by creating higher quality products than the Chinese. Surely most of those jobs would be higher level support to robotic assembly lines. But the Chinese have set a wonderfully low bar for quality. Furt
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Ah, no variable name ... Sure, that makes sense. Don't know if it makes a top 20 though. ;) Seems like it could be a bit hard to manage beyond a local module scope.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
7a. Write out your mental cache at the end of the day. I always type up a quick todo list (or update the one on the current mental stack). It reduces my boot time in the morning. there will be bad days. Some days just aren't meant f
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Could you explain 12?
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by bsaunder 17y ago
iterate repeatedly over the sequence in question Does that ever seem like a good idea? The description suggests it may be a long list. That should give you a hint that you don't need to do this to solve the problem.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
The weather is nice...
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by bsaunder 17y ago
For me, posts (and the community comments) like this are a large part of the value of HN. Read the title, scanned the linked page, read the insightful comments. Gained a bit of information on the current state of cryptography. On to the n
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I like the MQ stacks (particularly ActiveMQ). I've used a proprietary message bus in the past and it was really nice to just send and receive message at the application level. Of course migrating to an asynchronous model of development ca
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by bsaunder 17y ago
Thanks, that's very helpful, sounds like we'll need to brush up on promotion. You sound rather well versed in this, thanks a bunch for taking the time to write such a thorough relpy.
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by bsaunder 17y ago
I've been programming since I was about 9, I'm now 39, and still learning. There's no end to learning, just new perspectives to see. I believe your starting environment can have a significant effect on your progress. If you pick somethin
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Ask HN: Are marketing problems like technical/design problems?
2 points by bsaunder 17y ago|2 comments
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University of Rochester dethrones MIT in ACM competition(rochester.edu)
2 points by bsaunder 17y ago|0 comments
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by bsaunder 17y ago
don't get all caught up in some kind of false choice Excellent advice. I think often times when we feel 'stuck' there are a world of other options we are not considering. If things are truely that bad on all perspectives, it shouldn't b

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