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by fizwhiz 12y ago
Just noticed one of the infographics mention a pacemaker has on average 0.5-1 million LOC. Does this look right?
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
Thank you, this was really helpful reading material!
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
Awesome visualization! This is embarrassing to admit but I didn't know that on establishing a connection there's 2 distinct stages: "ramp-up" and "full bandwidth". Is this characteristic of every connection pos
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
Seems like the hipster solitude didn't work wonders for their proofreading: I stumbled upon http://www.thebluehouse.io/month-long-program/ only to be greeted by: "HOW MUCH DOES IT COSTS?". I only went th
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
Perhaps it would be helpful if someone from the Civilian team point out the motivation for building this full-stack framework and its particular value prop in contrast to DropWizard/Spring?
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
Indeed. It was particularly interesting how he described the "emergent" nature of the direction in which the celestial bodies finally conform to (clockwise/anticlockwise if applied to a 2d space). Wouldn't it be possible
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Ask HN: Visualizing your web service intereactions
2 points by fizwhiz 12y ago|0 comments
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
>> Don't optimize for self esteem. Optimize for total progress over a given amount of time. I'm stealing this line because it is absolutely packed with wisdom.
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
This entire article could communicated everything it intended by focusing on the motivations behind creating intermediate "safe spaces" to have an open judgement-free discourse. Instead, it was pitched as a pro-feminist piece comi
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
OP seems to have conflated taking a "human-centered" approach with a "feminist" approach. This constant reinforcement in the article about taking the "human" point of view leads me to believe that OP's per
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Why REST Keeps Me Up at Night(programmableweb.com)
1 points by fizwhiz 12y ago|0 comments
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
Are there any startups working on technologies to aid prognosis in a non-trivial way?
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
That's a pretty strong opinion. Scala is statically typed, runs on the JVM, is Java compatible, is both object-oriented and functional, and is not verbose. Care to elaborate why Scala is bound to attract only mediocre programmers?
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
This definitely seems like a cyclical thing. I'm aware that PayPal (owned by eBay) also went through a rewrite from C++ to Java over the last couple of years for its mid-tier web service stack (most but not all). The funny thing is tha
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
>> It is worth noting that Microsoft took note of this competitor, and did their standard "embrace, extend, extinguish" approach That was gold. Thank you for that. Based on your answer, seems like there was an extremely clos
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
You've captured a very fundamental perspective here since the time spent on maintaining software is significantly more than building it (not sure what the Fred Brooks percentage is but I would guess 80/20 for the larger orgs). Do
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Ask HN: Why does the enterprise have such a strong affinity to Java?
45 points by fizwhiz 12y ago|64 comments
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Tips for spotting bullshit startup tech(opensourceandhackystuff.blogspot.com)
2 points by fizwhiz 12y ago|0 comments
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
Hipster-irreverent, too.
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
>> The system is still available if your ring gets an acknowledgement of receipt This is the equivalent of (as per my example) yelling out "I hear ya! Coming..." and then take 15mins to reach the door. I never said that low
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
My thoughts exactly. If you come to my house and ring the bell, but it takes me 15mins to get off the couch to reach the door, I can't really claim to be "available" with a straight face. Sure, I "technically" am av
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Global Rich List(globalrichlist.com)
2 points by fizwhiz 12y ago|0 comments
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
This.
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Facebook has built its own switch. And it looks a lot like a server(gigaom.com)
2 points by fizwhiz 12y ago|0 comments
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
>> And the general professional emphasis in the bay area means that everyone is friendly enough to give you 1-2 minutes, but then they're on to the next thing. I've been in the bay area for north of 1 year now, and I can att
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
Frankly, I think the only thing that really would have made this exclusionary is if the gentleman speaking had his slide titled "Maven is like a girlfriend" as opposed to "Maven is like my girlfriend; in that case I would in
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
>> Finally you just implied that assigning qualities to someone because they are female is equivalent to assigning qualities to someone because they are immature. Are you accusing me of discrimination? See this is the exact sort of th
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
I don't understand. This guy was talking about HIS girlfriend comparing her to Maven and the perceived quirks and similarities. He was not talking about ALL girlfriends or girls in general. Would there be such a massive uproar if the s
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by fizwhiz 12y ago
To quote a great scene from the movie "Waking Life" [1] by Linklater: "When I say 'love', the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brai
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Colorado Sells $19M of Cannabis: 10% Goes to Schools and Crime Drops 10%(themindunleashed.org)
26 points by fizwhiz 12y ago|3 comments

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