eldenbishop

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by eldenbishop 17y ago
Not even close. This is the moral equivalent of putting a new muffler on your Honda. He is tweaking apps he purchased (all android phone owners have such a license) and distributing those tweaks to people who also have licenses for those ap
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
I do feel something similar in that I can't really apply a bunch of rules to something. One of the disadvantages of not thinking in language is that I think it is very difficult to just apply a rule or formula to your thought process when y
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
The number one request in our user feedback forums is to get rid of Flex/Flash.
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
The "cross-browser" compatibility is greatly exaggerated by adobe and "widget" programmers who don't have to do heavy application programming. I have been working with a large team for two years on a website with heavy flex integration and
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
Clicked on omgpop.com just to see and it took 25 seconds before I was able to click something. So uh, flex does take forever to load. Twenty five seconds is your idea of "zippy"?
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
Interesting. I'm surprised to hear people can effectively think about code in a language at all. Code is an abstraction of an essentially physical process (the computer doing things) so it seems rather odd to think about the problem at one
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
Rats run compulsively if given access to an exercise wheel. "Rats offered wheels are known to steadily increase their use of them over time, said Kanarek, whose study appeared in the August issue of the journal Behavioral Neuroscience."
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
MongoDB is very nice. It's basically a bunch of tables with a binary form of JSON they call BSON instead of "rows". You can add an index to an arbitrary JSON "path" and it literally just works. I just wish they had broken out the layers a b
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
This explains more about the relational vs xxx debate within corporations than any of the white papers, conferences or debates I have ever read. Forget relational theory, toss your CAP theorems, no one cares about paxos; This is the real re
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
One thing though. I love this technique but the home built Eclipse compiler is not fully Java language compliant and it will reject certain forms of this as invalid. Specifically, the sun and eclipse compiler treat "this" differently in the
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by eldenbishop 17y ago
I've been using this for years. It is a fantastic way to build up hierarchies. XML, maps, JSON, UI code etc. It is very concise, fast and produces clean code which also just happens to correctly indent when you apply code formatting. Sc