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by cschneid 17y ago
I'm curious what issues you've run into with regards to memory footprint. I've not seen anything like that myself.
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by cschneid 17y ago
I've been using Sinatra for more than a year now. It's the perfect mini framework in Ruby. It helps you get web dev done, without ever getting in your way. I've written a blog with lots of documentation at http://www.gittr.com . In addit
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by cschneid 17y ago
Like everything else in politics, there is a nice gray area in education. The internet is very bad at gray areas, and tends toward extremism. The gray area here is between "pursuit of knowledge, become better citizens" and "career school, w
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by cschneid 17y ago
I agree, you lose the merging when you work with binaries (for the most part). But when I was at HP, our little team was behind the curve in tool use, and I was pushing for a comprehensive scm, instead of the patchwork we had. My big sellin
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by cschneid 17y ago
Photoshop mockup of a page? On one hand "don't store binaries" on the other, it's a work product for the project, and it makes sense to be stored and versioned.
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by cschneid 17y ago
I'm going to slightly disagree with people here. Using quantitative measurements to track developers is great. But not when done stupidly. Using only one measurement is dumb (ie, # of bugs alone, or lines of code, or number of checkins). An
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by cschneid 17y ago
Mturk might be cool. "Here are 3 30 second video clips. At any given time, hover over the one with the clearest view of the subject matter. Here's 5 cents.
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by cschneid 17y ago
There's a similar article that ran a few years ago (I think) about LA, in the LA Times. It talked both about how hard it is to fire teachers, and also how hard it is to know ahead of time which teachers are any good. I wish I could find it
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by cschneid 17y ago
Come on guys, it's not all about Mac vs. PC, he was using it to demonstrate a company that lets you choose the hardware you want to work on (powerful w/ 2 screens was what he said). The fact it's a Mac means they trust the developers enough
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by cschneid 17y ago
What I want is my prius key as a front door key. Basically it can tell that you're within some very short distance, and opens. It can use strong cryptography instead of using a mechanical setup, and still have a physical "key" that denotes
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by cschneid 17y ago
In the large, yes, it needs to be an economic question, simply because there isn't enough health care to go around, and there likely never will be. So you are left with a question of allocation and rationing (no matter if it's government or
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by cschneid 17y ago
Rails doesn't do anything password related for you. The common authentication libraries (plugins) do salt the passwords for you.
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by cschneid 17y ago
I disagree. Salts are not secret. The passwords are. The idea is that it just prevents massive pre-computation attacks, where the same set of precomputed hashes can be reused. At the point there are salts introduced (different for each user
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by cschneid 17y ago
My favorite negative outcome from self replicating probes is the kind that are sent out to investigate the universe, and report back to a location some millions of years later to report. Except too many of them have been built, and when the
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by cschneid 17y ago
But the issue is that most every person is not going to go "ohh boy! Compound interest!". Even though society is better off when both sides understand mortgages and car payments. They aren't going to go "ohh boy genetics!", in order to unde
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by cschneid 17y ago
Ok, you are quite the optimist to truly believe that every kid will learn enough math by their own choice. No matter how much encouragement and good environment and teachers, there will be kids who just don't want to learn statistics, or co
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by cschneid 17y ago
Question for you then. In high school, should a kid only interested in reading & writing (english class, journalism) be required to take math and sciences? How about a kid who's interested only in physics, should we make him read and wr
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by cschneid 17y ago
I agree, and while the project we were on didn't have strong typing of money, what I described was the database storage of the numbers. We did very few calculations, and the system was explicitly USD, so going deep into "proper" handling o
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by cschneid 17y ago
The last project we did with money, we just treated all amounts as integers storing the number of cents. No accuracy problems w/ whole integers, so 1000 because $10.00. Easy to do math with, and keeps it's accuracy. Might not work for hard-
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by cschneid 17y ago
What's the HTTP error code for "address didn't match" or "over credit limit"? (honest question, not snark) - How do you handle application specific messages and errors using the normal http error codes?
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by cschneid 17y ago
Sorta, not really. Contracts have a lot more leeway than they look like. If the judge thinks you're being abusive in the writing of a contract, they'll say "nope, sorry, you lose", or throw out that clause and keep going. IANAL, etc.
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by cschneid 17y ago
It's pretty useful in unit tests, since it very clearly lays out the sample data you'll be comparing. I rarely if ever used it in the production code.
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by cschneid 17y ago
I don't know if this is why they have that, but that would make a pretty decent approach to restricting and slowing down XSS type attacks, if you can override and protect all the native built-in functions. It should be easy using log analys
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by cschneid 17y ago
So it fills the same niche as cappuccino. It's a full featured javascript framework that happens to be written in a different language from javascript. But it's not like Jaxer, since it doesn't provide a server-side component built in.
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by cschneid 17y ago
Is GWT frontend only, or is it a full stack front and backend thing?
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by cschneid 17y ago
I fully expect an iphone version 8 which docks into a dumb terminal, and runs the same apps as when mobile, with the same data. So you have mobile-text editor, dock, and you get OSX (OS11?) with a full screen that we're used to for desktop
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by cschneid 17y ago
"Yes judge, I truly did photoshop images of him getting..... by a donkey."
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by cschneid 17y ago
He wrote a blog post (which I think was submitted here) that details the first week or two of sales. http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/blog/files/a_week_of_sizeu...
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by cschneid 17y ago
Meh, not going to argue with you over a product neither of us have ever used. You're right, I took stronger than needed stances, and it's most likely that this will be a very cool technology. I am just pointing out that all-in-one tools don
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by cschneid 17y ago
Hey now, I'm saying that the claim of a central "THIS IS THE BEST WAY" communication is flawed, because there are lots of ways to communicate. I based what I wrote on the two articles that got posted to HN, and gave my initial impression.

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