danielbarla

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by danielbarla 14y ago
Yeah, those are some great examples. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the most viewed / highest reated question ("what should every programmer know about web development") closed at one time due to being a "polling" type of question? H
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When programmers came about, SO (StackOverflow) was already a well-established site for technical questions. It has a hard line on questions that are difficult to answer directly, either with simple logic or code, or references. Programmer
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Still, it's pretty cool to see some relatively abstract maths manifest itself on such a practical scale. Here's another site with similar images: http://www.miqel.com/fractals_math_patterns/visual-math-natu... It's hard to recommend parts
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by danielbarla 14y ago
I agree with you, to a degree. StackOverflow is a good example of specific, clearly answerable questions. Many of the SE sites have topics which are, by their very nature, far less clear. Take "the workplace" for example - is anything on
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by danielbarla 14y ago
Some of the best, most insightful and useful answers have been chatty, open-ended discussions on SE... While I get the need for moderation, as the parent pointed out, the answers and debate were very civilised and relatively fact-based.
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by danielbarla 14y ago
Actually, last edited in July 2010, originally asked on Jul 6 '09. And yes, the whole "not a good fit for the site / not constructive" is hotly debated, with many high-profile members of the community having left over it already. Personall
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by danielbarla 14y ago
I haven't gotten through the whole book, but it's also written in a style which makes it hard to immerse yourself in it. Characters aren't described in detail, major events are described in a few words, and entire lifetimes are glossed ove
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by danielbarla 14y ago
Yeah, honestly, I stopped reading at the argument of 20 to 30 bounces not being enough to render a kitchen. I mean, this is still around 19 to 29 times more than what traditional 3D methods are using for environmental mapping. But more im
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by danielbarla 14y ago
As a "fuel", yes, it is pretty efficient. That said, the "optimistic" version of the spaceship (representing the upper bounds of that specific technology), still came in at 400,000 tons, after a sort of miniaturisation. That's a lot of sp
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by danielbarla 14y ago
IIRC, that assumes we don't want to decelerate. Adding the fuel to decelerate also increases the fuel needed for the original acceleration itself, which then quickly becomes less feasible. In any case, I'm guessing they were referring to
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by danielbarla 14y ago
Sure, ravioli code can be a problem, although you are supposed to be aggressively refactoring away trivial classes. Perhaps my experience is different to yours, but I've encountered "under-object oriented" code far more often than "over-ob
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In my opinion, version 2's documentation is superb. I can't compare it directly against version 1's (never used / read version 1), but it's well written, well structured, has clear examples (including some which are non-trivial), and dives
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by danielbarla 14y ago
Having a large base of clients willing to buy through their services is ultimately what matters, and I think they achieved that partially by siding with the customer most of the time. Making a purchase through their services, you know that
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by danielbarla 14y ago
> The lesson learned from this is that with a good and smart dictionary combined with handy rules either for hashcat or John the Ripper even the most impossible password can be cracked. How did they come to that conclusion? Yes, surpri
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Out of curiosity, do Russian developers permanently use an English layout, or just map these keys elsewhere?
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I think it's not a reason only because people's expectations in that regard are extremely low, and also, because anything remotely reasonable is seen as a perk. As such, women might might not leave over something they never knew they shoul