cwinters

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One Danger of Freedom Patches(tenderlovemaking.com)
1 points by cwinters 13y ago|0 comments
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by cwinters 14y ago
I think you'd be better served by looking at his CPAN area [1] where you'll find this ~9 year old module (among others) is nicely formatted and highly readable [2] [1] http://search.cpan.org/~chromatic/ [2] http://cpansearch.perl.org/src
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by cwinters 14y ago
Plus: reinventing date/time without using (or even referencing) Joda? Ouch.
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by cwinters 15y ago
True, but the gap is much, much larger between JDK Date/Time classes and Joda vs that between Joda and JSR-310.
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by cwinters 15y ago
Given the author's reported experience I'm surprised there aren't more posts from him on the mailing list ( http://altair.cs.oswego.edu/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-int... ) where this library, and all the other juc changes, have been discu
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How should we pay for standards development in HealthIT(motorcycleguy.blogspot.com)
1 points by cwinters 16y ago|0 comments
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by cwinters 16y ago
Have you tried to go through this process? Amazon seems to have done a good deal of work to ensure its servers and practices are HIPAA-compliant: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/04/06/whitepa... I think, as you allude, that
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by cwinters 16y ago
Etsy (not surprising since John Allspaw from flickr is head of ops): http://www.southsearepublic.org/article/2340/read/etsys_cont...
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by cwinters 16y ago
Medical dictation is a success for recognition, but it's important to remember that no such system can function by itself. Instead, they're often advertised as making the human transcriptionist's job easier -- reducing the number and type o
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by cwinters 17y ago
True for some patterns, but not all. Unit of Work, for example, is a useful abstraction no matter what framework or language you're using. (It's not a GoF pattern, but it was brought up in the OP.)
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by cwinters 17y ago
I agree that everything is leaky abstractions. The lesson I get from the idea is to assess the probability of leaks occurring and the risks they present when they do. Some of the ORM ones that the author mentions are pretty onerous.
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by cwinters 17y ago
Anybody else get a kick of the 'Oracle/Agile' bubble on slide 41?
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by cwinters 17y ago
Publication date of 1984: 1949. Bad writing is bad writing.
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by cwinters 17y ago
1) Languages and tools should be highlighted if they're exceptional -- e.g., I probably don't need to hear that you used SQL to interact with a database, but if you implemented a set of complex views in T-SQL that's useful. 2) ...which mean
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by cwinters 17y ago
Anyone using emacs would be well served by the Kinesis Ergo keyboard -- Ctrl and Atl (and a bunch of others) are at your superstrong thumbs, not your wimpy pinky: http://kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm
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by cwinters 17y ago
I've had a kinesis keyboard for ~9 years, and after using it for a few weeks I thought it should be required for any emacs user. Putting ctrl-alt (and enter) under your strongest digits just makes so much sense.
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by cwinters 17y ago
If you're walking around for 10 hours that's 50 photos an hour. Given a conservative four photos per shot, that's only ~12 actual shots per hour, or one every five minutes. Doesn't seem like 'looking down the view finder' to me. And knowing