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by efsavage 15y ago
Unfortunately you're not going to see many companies saying "Yeah! We're being sued by that guy too!" because that quickly reduces to "we're being sued!", which never goes over well with investors, shareholders, employees, etc.
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Affinity.txt - Instructive SEO(efsavage.com)
2 points by efsavage 15y ago|0 comments
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by efsavage 15y ago
Thanks, that's a very helpful illustration and gives a good idea of where it ends up. It's actually more readable than most of the other examples I've seen which I think err on the side of being too simple or too clever.
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by efsavage 15y ago
Well, it's asking more, but not necessary a lot, especially in term of the thorough job this particular author did in the remainder of the article. Running through elements in a list is obviously common, but that's not what was done here, h
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by efsavage 15y ago
I appreciate that you can't write entire projects to compare, and for your article overall, just asking you (and other authors who write similar articles) to give people familiar with the incumbent a bit more to chew on. Nobody writes code
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by efsavage 15y ago
The regex version is indeed slower, 5-20x depending on the length of the string and the location of the uppercase character, etc. > It does do the job of showing that simple (and by inference (?) not so simple) > algorithms ca
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by efsavage 15y ago
Fair enough, but mine was not an alternate to his Clojure code, but to his Java code (which only checks String). Perhaps he should have focused on the functional efficiency like you did, rather than just bloated lines of code.
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by efsavage 15y ago
I'd love to be sold on a new language, but using it by showing me ridiculous examples of a language I know reduces the credibility of the seller. It's an otherwise good looking article but when I see this: public boolean hasUpperCase(S
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Ideas are like rabbits(efsavage.com)
1 points by efsavage 15y ago|0 comments
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by efsavage 15y ago
He never mentioned being productive. If you're confusing "focusing my attention" with being productive, you've read too many lifehacker posts. Now, "put up all of your problems on a piece of paper" is a great suggestion, I've started writi
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by efsavage 15y ago
You've got that backwards. The "90s java mindset" is the lib dir. The 2011 approach is Maven, as evidenced by the fact that 100% of my clients use it, and practically every major open source project uses it as well. Perfect? No. But sta
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by efsavage 16y ago
> I am wondering how they could simulate the loss of an AZ. Any ideas? Nelson: How many chaos monkeys will there be? Bart Simpson: One at first, but he'll train others.
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by efsavage 16y ago
Well, we're really designed to walk/run. Sitting at a bar school or standing still all day comes with its own set of health issues (not saying if they're equal or not, but they're present).
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by efsavage 16y ago
Alternatively, free market theory suggests that the reason there is no dialect of Lisp as popular as less expressive languages is that expressiveness is not a trait that increases fitness, or even might decrease it. (for the record, I like
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by efsavage 16y ago
I've actually been conditioned so thoroughly by flaky forum software to ctrl-a-c on every post before submit that I don't even think about it and sometimes I'm surprised when I paste later and get whacked with a giant forum post.
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by efsavage 16y ago
1. Persistence 2. Persistence Everything else is negotiable. I'd disagree with tenaciousness as opposed to persistence because I think it implys a zeal that is important for early success, but less so for success in the long run.
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by efsavage 16y ago
This isn't exactly abnormal. SO is a big site with alot of fresh content, I'm guessing google indexes many thousands of sites at that rate. What's surprising to me is that it surprises them.
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by efsavage 16y ago
Yes.
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by efsavage 16y ago
The yahoo answers that come up in search results may not be as good as those on stackexchange, but they're generally pretty good if they've ranked high enough on a google search. For non-tech questions, I encounter many of the other mee-too
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Why don’t websites have credits?(efsavage.com)
2 points by efsavage 16y ago|0 comments
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by efsavage 16y ago
The notification on WebOS is _fantastic_. As a dual iPhone/Pre user, I cringe when i see one of those ridiculous boxes come up (and cringe again if it's important and I need to see it again).
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by efsavage 16y ago
We don't need to know math anymore because of calculators, now we don't need to know facts anymore because of watson. I guess from their shift to broadcasting opinions that the "news" outlets saw this coming...
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by efsavage 16y ago
The most dangerous problem isn't the markup or extra cost, it's that as soon as UBB is old news, the media companies that are now also the internet companies (comcast/nbc) will offer discounts on "in network" bandwidth, so an NBC show will
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by efsavage 16y ago
I send all my mail through raw, unadulterated, hand-typed SMTP. I compute mime attachments on my TI-85 and type them in on my clicky keyboard. I've taught my parrot to simulate the first 8 seconds of a fax machine handshake, and yet, with
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by efsavage 16y ago
Wow. I actually doubled-checked the location bar to see if this was the real deal or just some designer take on it. It's a really great logo, definitely "with the times" with the bold, sharp lines and flat colors. I'm not sure I'll be put
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by efsavage 16y ago
"It seems like it was originally a good idea: if your startup is dead, let it die." I never saw it that way, or at least at that scale. I see it as a way to move fast by validating assumptions with evidence and being unemotional about sunk
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by efsavage 16y ago
It's called an opinion. Apologies for the lack of footnotes* *Not really** **This is called sarcasm.[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
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by efsavage 16y ago
> require IDEs http://osteele.com/archives/2004/11/ides
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by efsavage 16y ago
It is, but difficulty in requiring diligence in such a creative environment is the reason Perl has failed for larger team development. I was once praised for the readability of my Perl code by a junior teammeate, and immediately scolded by
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by efsavage 16y ago
Perl is great for programming, it ranks high on creativity, expressiveness, conciseness, and general language coolness. Perl is horrible (relative to other choices) for development, it ranks low on readability, refactorability, consistency,

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