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by fat0wl 13y ago
My sentiments exactly. If they have a well-built internal library that is heavy on specific design patterns I'd expect them to give me a hard time over it because I could break some serious stuff or waste a ton of money writing ineffec
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by fat0wl 13y ago
heh I agree with you conceptually but I've been in talks that are like (given X is a concept/library/framework) "I don't know about X, but --" "Oh you don't know about X? We don't want to know or
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Oh mannnnnnnn do I wish I met some more interviewers like you. I have mounds of experience with programming but not all of it is web-focused, and when I went through interviews I was constantly shut down because I didn't know a particu
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yeah I think this type of stuff will depend a lot on buffering/rendering technology. You can imagine that it would be a terrible experience if it literally sent your keypress to the server, registered it in a game & then sent back
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by fat0wl 13y ago
^ lmm would have sold the methylamine & quit cooking
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by fat0wl 13y ago
It's been shown that it can happen, so it will continue to happen until it becomes unprofitable or infeasible.....
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by fat0wl 13y ago
(which for some reason makes me paranoid that it's always on the verge of erupting into some banking world version of Amway...)
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by fat0wl 13y ago
for anyone unfortunate enough to have clicked this comments link.... the tl;dr is "the GOOOOVernment mannnn money money govt sucks MUGGERS. bitcoin is stupid. bitcoin is GREAT! credit cards are like bitcoin but the BANKS are the REAAAA
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by fat0wl 13y ago
awesome he is a real pleasant & organized teacher for this kindof stuff I will definitely take a look
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I'll try to get around to it, sure. Adept isn't a log-on issue it's after I'm authenticated, just any time you hit "History" it Rails errors, sometimes works after a few refreshes.
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by fat0wl 13y ago
And I remember in flipping through a book on graph DB engines that some can be mounted as an extra layer on top of relational stores, so there is always that backdoor back into it.
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I would look at Neo4j. I originally came across it when vetting Grails (it has a Grails plug-in) and it seems to be one of the heavy contenders in terms of a production-ready graph DB. People (this article's included) seem to say that
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I did the Stanford free online one the first time it was offered a year or so back. Was perfect -- didn't move at a blazing pace and was very lean. Great instructor, highly recommended (though I think it may have been absorbed into Cou
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yeah these changes price adjustments are getting too be too much. And now when I enter the New Relic console I get "login failed"... When I try to look at history in Adept I get a Rails error. It feels like their priority is NEW a
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Heh it's because I was in the RoR world... now that I'm in IBM Java-land I'm sure I won't be hearing it for a while. Eh, trust me I do miss it because I love open source and I think it's more fun to choose your own
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Thanks for giving some credit to plain old CSS. I've used SASS & am starting to use LESS but I'm really appalled when job interviewers give me a strange look when I say I don't use them religiously. Same with COffeeScript
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by fat0wl 13y ago
ah true I was thinking maybe it was an unlocked thing as well. sometimes i don't realize what a true baller i am, paste-wise
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by fat0wl 13y ago
o weird i got an boxed unlocked i7 a few months ago, no paste. it was 3000 series tho (3770k?) so maybe that is a VERY new consideration in packaging
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by fat0wl 13y ago
cool for kids i guess? but growed ups should be making desktops!! it's totally easy. the only step that can not be described as screwing/un-screwing/plugging-in is when you have to put the thermal paste on the processor. &amp
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I was implying that PHP wasn't doing any of the heavy business logic, but then I re-read some articles (most notably this one) & I'll admit I'm a bit confused. https://developers.facebook.com/blog/pos
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by fat0wl 13y ago
My personal (albeit naive) belief is that the limiting factors on most startups is a good idea. Start-ups only work when they are based on real consumer desires. "Necessity is the mother of invention" but what is the mother of a s
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Also, I have to admit that I used to be wayyyy too stoked on scripting languages until I did a thought exercise realizing that the most interesting thing I could then ever do in the web-world is make an RPC to a far more interesting service
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yeah I don't want to get too venty because I'm too cynical/pessimistic as it is but..... I'm a professional web engineer now & especially as the cloud hosting universe stabilizes, most stuff seems so trivial. Can sti
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by fat0wl 13y ago
ha yes but his point is that once these problems reach a non-trivial point the big guns get brought in. It's not the startup team solving them...
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Yeah but they are limiting the ways in which you can use your tools. It sounds like what you really want is just a way to persist your tools & files between OS installations & dead laptops... Imagine having a build script that initi
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Agreed. While conveniences are nice, so much of this cloud tech come at a huge cost. Whenever I see any reduced-feature app I immediately search for an attempt at vendor lock-in. Cloud only + required signup... yikes. I used to code RoR &am
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by fat0wl 13y ago
awesome I will give this a read for sure. Thanks!
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by fat0wl 13y ago
The Shazam algorithm -- I don't want to be all cynical and dumpy because it's not like I remember exactly how it works either (it's proprietary, after all... and even the explanation I was given was not definitive) but one of
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by fat0wl 13y ago
You can actually see it if you look closely -- there is a kind of striping of light/dark horizontal lines, easy to spot at the top & bottom of the image.
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by fat0wl 13y ago
I understand & agree, but my point was that conversions would still be accomplished from the existing site, just entered via a static landing page. The conversions weren't coming from the static page, it was just an entryway into t

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