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481.
by edu 17y ago
mmm... I work with 2 cups of liquid per cup of rice!
482.
by edu 17y ago
The plane will fly, and the wheels will spin at the double of the airspeed. The engines 'push' against the air, not the ground.
483.
Coder Girl (youtube.com)
5 points by edu 17y ago|0 comments
484.
by edu 17y ago
Sure, but I don´t want to scatter all the SQL clauses over the code. Also, what would happen when you want to modify the way the data is accessed? I.e, you want a write-through cache in front the DB? I can agree with you if we talk about ge
485.
by edu 17y ago
I couldn´t disagree with you both more. I´m sorry, but webapps development can be much, much, much harder than desktopapps developement. Take into account a single parameter: scalability . Note: I expect we are talking about real app pro
486.
by edu 17y ago
It's a trackball, I have the same model. Very comfortable (at least is you don't have any smashed finger).
487.
by edu 17y ago
Hilarious!
488.
by edu 17y ago
I recommend you 'Manhattan Murder Mystery'
489.
by edu 17y ago
In Spain there are still some companies that do the same, but this a less common practice each day. I guess it's because the shift from a industrial economy to a services one.
490.
by edu 17y ago
I don't think it is that disruptive, in my company each team agrees when people will take their vacations so there's always a minimum of junior/senior people working in all depts.
491.
by edu 17y ago
This is a good response, accepting his fault and explaining the reason. Transparency is a good thing, and after making a mistake apologizing too. Chapeau Chris.
492.
by edu 17y ago
Probably the great products in "Yeah, but they build great products." is the key. And by this I don't want to imply neither that Apple build great products nor that Microsoft build bad products, but a LOT of poeple have this feeling, so..
493.
by edu 17y ago
It's the good old Canary Trap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
494.
by edu 17y ago
Usually I first get a high level model working either in my head or on paper/whiteboard. I don't really care about the details, is more a general idea of the algorithm (iterative? recursive?), data access (I will need this, go to a cache or
495.
by edu 17y ago
Yes, last week I spend a lot of time to decide what name to use for a method and some vars. The bad thing is that I was extending the system and the existing names for related methods where... wrong .
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Fast, concise and reliable code? Try Perl(onionstand.blogspot.com)
7 points by edu 17y ago|1 comments
497.
by edu 17y ago
So after Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Zed has learnt some R and statistics. Because after reading almost all the article, he basically talks about: average, median, standard deviation. He should learn a little bit of complexity and calculability
498.
by edu 17y ago
"""Alan Kay creates Smalltalk and invents the term "object oriented." When asked what that means he replies, "Smalltalk programs are just objects." When asked what objects are made of he replies, "objects." When asked again he says "look, i
499.
by edu 17y ago
It's a really interesting article, and I completely agree. Sci-Fi is a great genre, and it's a real pitty that some people only think about it as space and laser books :(
500.
by edu 17y ago
contacts?
501.
by edu 17y ago
sorry, but repeated
502.
by edu 18y ago
No, living in cheaper countries is cheaper. Be Nomadic in UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria... and it would be much more expensive than doing a sedentary life in Thailand.
503.
by edu 18y ago
"""We operate one of the most visited Catalyst/DBIC sites in the world with 90 million users and hundreds of millions of pageviews per day""" I would say this is quite good to have in ANY portofolio. And, if somebody disregards anybody with
504.
by edu 18y ago
I've been rised bilingual (Catalan and Spanish) and now I think I'm fluent in English, and I find myself thinking in the three languages (mostly Catalan and English) in different moments. What is more weird is that I'm more or less social d
505.
by edu 18y ago
Yes, it's just what I thought using the web. I like the idea and that I can start reading the articles without clicking but having to go back here to see the comments (which are almost as important, or even more, as the link) make the site
506.
by edu 18y ago
There was no doubt about it: I had discovered The Next Big Thing. Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system Ouch.
507.
by edu 18y ago
I stopped reading after One line of working code is worth 500 of specification and It's never too early to think about performance . I thought this philosophy was proven flawed!
508.
by edu 18y ago
money is not useless, simply it's more comfortable to carry and trade with a set of coins/papers than a cow.
509.
How The Computer Gets The Answer(blog.modernmechanix.com)
2 points by edu 18y ago|0 comments
510.
by edu 18y ago
A game is not an embedded system, a video game console (or a router, or any special purpose computer ) is! I see what he means, but it shouldn't be call embedded system. What about "embedded world", "contained world", "digital ecosystem"?

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