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by ecoffey 11y ago
Let's say the D represents the duration between when you typed that code, and when you got feedback informally at the watercooler. Pair programming, when it's working well, is just lim(D -> 0) :)
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by ecoffey 12y ago
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/95909/why-is-an-aver...
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by ecoffey 12y ago
Exactly. You can follow SRP, use clean constructors and do it by hand. An IoC container is a nice /mechanical/ helper to do the wire up for you. I really dislike that the majority (all?) of the javaland IoC containers work with a
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by ecoffey 12y ago
The driver license analogy is pretty great, I'll be stealing that :-)
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Kernel developer refuses to commit intel patches(lkml.org)
2 points by ecoffey 12y ago|0 comments
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by ecoffey 12y ago
Since it looks like the author is idling in this thread: I'm a enthusiastic git user, and I've ranted about a few git topics here: http://gitdoctor.com/ I also use the @gitdoctor twitter handle for helping people
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by ecoffey 12y ago
But don't worry, they're committed to Net Neutrality without the need for regulation :-)
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by ecoffey 13y ago
Because if they're falsely passing, hopefully between the code, and tests you could gleam more intent than just through the code itself
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by ecoffey 13y ago
Reminds of the Human-AI relationship in this series : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_Heads
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by ecoffey 13y ago
In Kafka, topics are (partitioned) streams of messages. Consumers of a topic keep track of their "cursor" in that stream. EDIT: should add that morkbot had a great link too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=68
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by ecoffey 13y ago
Different licensing and payments to get realtime stock data from the exchanges. From what I remember, if you don't pay, then you can't get anything fresher than 15 minutes ago (which is what google finance is at actually). (I wor
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by ecoffey 13y ago
Because it's still part of the Republican caucus publicly agreeing to something, so hopefully they can influence some pressure on the Speaker / House. But yes, this still needs to get through the house, and if it does we've j
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by ecoffey 13y ago
Redis Pub/Sub is /not/ persistent. You can go the resque / sidekiq route and use a List and do blocking pops. But you have to make sure you have some persistence in place that you feel comfortable with (maybe a master &
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by ecoffey 13y ago
It would also probably help you feel more confident when interviewing for jobs. You know you have valuable skills that can make a difference to an organization
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by ecoffey 13y ago
I did some brain dumps here the other year, hopefully you'll find this helpful: http://gitdoctor.com/post/24762323164/rebase-demystified
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by ecoffey 13y ago
For actual emails (real, or through linkedin mail) I'll always try to respond with a polite "thanks but no thanks". What absolutely drives me crazy is the linkedin invite spam were they indicate that you worked together at &q
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Jobs Official Trailer(youtube.com)
1 points by ecoffey 13y ago|0 comments
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Boulder, CO - Software Engineer - FULL-TIME ----------------------- Gnip is the largest provider of social media data from a variety of publishers to the enterprise market. Our software collects, processes and delivers hundreds of millions
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by ecoffey 14y ago
This is really really great. Good visualizations of how git works are really awesome and useful, so thanks! That said, the intro lesson introduces commits as exclusively deltas. This isn't accurate, and would probably cause confusion with
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by ecoffey 14y ago
I'm guessing it's syncing a seed to srand(), so neither of you control when the messages pop up
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Agreed. If they develop something that needs that much bandwidth they can dogfood it from their couch!
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by ecoffey 14y ago
I definitely don't think there will be a stampede out to KC. But I think the idea of "arbitrary rallying flag" is a good one. This could be a really great way to evolve the KC tech community. They now have some validation (both Google and B
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by ecoffey 14y ago
There is no downside to having super fast internet in your home/office. So I think this is more about an arbitrary rallying flag for the Kanas City tech community. It gets people excited about working on tech in general in KC, hopefully en
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Well at least you're in "pushing fixes to prod" mode :-D
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New gem security vulnerabilities: httparty, extlib, crack, nori(support.cloud.engineyard.com)
3 points by ecoffey 14y ago|0 comments
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Chef, EC2 Auto Scaling, and Spot Instances for Fun and Profit(engineering.gnip.com)
7 points by ecoffey 14y ago|1 comments
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Tracking Cluster Health With Redis(engineering.gnip.com)
3 points by ecoffey 14y ago|0 comments
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by ecoffey 14y ago
This is a really great article and really similar to the compilers class I got to take in college. Removing left-recursion from a grammar by hand! Woo!
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by ecoffey 14y ago
Yes that is correct, thanks!
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by ecoffey 14y ago
That's a great post! Thanks for sharing. Not criticizing, but just curious: couldn't you have done this with "watch" and multi exec?

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