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by dschobel 17y ago
very cool. needs a fast js interpreter though. it bring IE8 completely to its knees.
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's pretty discouraging that most of the experts and people who spend a lot of time in a domain are so cynical about their products. Some examples: almost everyone I know who worked fast-food as a teenager refuses to eat there as an adult
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by dschobel 17y ago
I just logged into facebook and while the option for "everyone" was there, the default was to preserve my old settings. What's the issue here?
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by dschobel 17y ago
Whoever designed the heroku site.
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's akin to the argument Comcast trotted out when they claimed a similar disparity where a few (bittorrenting) users were consuming most of the bandwidth. I guess AT&T can always start traffic shaping, but I'm wondering what exactly th
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AT&T To Curb Smartphone Data Use(informationweek.com)
14 points by dschobel 17y ago|27 comments
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by dschobel 17y ago
As a guy with a systems programming background, I just love how pragmatic the rails community and its texts are. The book I'm going through now includes a chapter on behaviour driven development, an appendix with a crash course in ruby and
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by dschobel 17y ago
Previously, [Michael] taught theoretical and computational physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for six years, where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000. Michael is a graduat
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by dschobel 17y ago
dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=981618
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by dschobel 17y ago
No, I simply found it the easiest way to test understanding of pass-by-value vs pass-by-ref.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I'd love to see C++ plus templates visualized.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Taking issue with the requirements is a perfectly legitimate technical complaint and you see lots of people complain when some new web application is flash-only. There's some hyper-sensitivity going on here today.
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's not an academic point and he's not probably correct. If you don't understand that it's pass by value of references for non-primitives then you won't understand why your variable x is null after the method call: Object x = null;
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by dschobel 17y ago
When I was interviewing java devs of all levels few (less than 10%, I'd say) could flat out say "it's pass by value for everything, for non-primitives you're passing references by value" but a lot more (roughly half) could trace the followi
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's a good solution to any 'spot the terrorist' type problem. As for commercial applications, maybe marketing as it incentivizes spamming your friends and family.
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by dschobel 17y ago
And what it says about Google. +5 years into their life as a big public company and they still "get it". I'm thinking of how many desks such a decision would cross at my company (publicly traded, ~1500 people) and it's amazing that Google t
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by dschobel 17y ago
Cool that it considers automatic domain redirection an error: www.google.com. hijacked (google.navigation.opendns.com.) NXDOMAIN Hijacking
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by dschobel 17y ago
it's not tax-free to him, check his post above.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Great points, #2-4 work in the enterprise world as well.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Couldn't you just defer to functionality when pressed on a design decision? If you can't justify your decisions then I'd say having to humor the client is fair-game.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Nothing to allow tyranny of the minority or majority. It’s all about free speech and open communication. However, this is balanced with the above spam marking, and potentially a “troll rating” that’s similar to a spam rating. How do you r
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by dschobel 17y ago
This is why I’m proposing that Librelist be run similar to freenode.net in that it should be developed by the same community and a not-for-profit operation. What else do you have?
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by dschobel 17y ago
Agreed. The first point is the only legitimate technical point. Everything else is just vague fear mongering about how google might misuse their dominant position and frankly DNS doesn't scare me any more than Google owning my email, docu
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by dschobel 17y ago
More interesting than ping is the resolution speed. Try something like dig to get a better measure of real performance: http://www.madboa.com/geek/dig/
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by dschobel 17y ago
from the post: Google Public DNS complies with the DNS standards and gives the user the exact response his or her computer expects without performing any blocking, filtering, or redirection that may hamper a user's browsing experience.
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by dschobel 17y ago
The $40 equivalent cap is the unprecedented part. I don't see how you can argue that the inflation you see in relatively free-market economies can compare with that.
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by dschobel 17y ago
My guess is that most white collar crimes are already being detected, and the perpetrators are generally getting caught, albeit not as quickly as society would like. I don't think this is any where near the truth in the finance world. It'
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think it's a great thing as long as the punishments are reduced since the deterrent factor goes out the window if you catch 100% (or even 90%) of the law breakers.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I agree with you that this is a discretionary cost which they have justified to themselves and the people whose money they are spending. My objection was his claim of "unfair!". Invocations of fairness are the resort of people who don't und
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by dschobel 17y ago
No kidding. At least when Brin spent company money indulging his wife, it was on a genetics startup. Or maybe that's just my engineer's aesthetic showing how little I care for objets d'arte in the workplace.

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