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by gizzlon 14y ago
All programs can blow up at run time, the real question is if "strongly typed" is a good tradeoff. How many actual bugs does the compiler catch? Is it worth the extra pain? Also, dynamic languages has a tendency to "blow up" in less serious
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by gizzlon 14y ago
I can't believe Javascrip is really that awful that anyone would rather go through all this trouble, rather than just write JS.. Maybe it has more to do with people being to reliant on IDE's, which he, kind of, admits to anyway.. I can't
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by gizzlon 14y ago
On the other hand, using a higher lever language and ready-made code can mean than someone else has already implemented all those optimizations you would never implement yourself.
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by gizzlon 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4635187
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by gizzlon 14y ago
I think you're right, but I can't remember this ever happening to me . Maybe I just have to think harder.. Or maybe I enjoy learning so much that I don't care that I'm new at something. Or maybe I just avoid things I don't like..
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Isn't it really just "shift+f2" ? But your keyboard doesn't have an f2 key, so you have to press "fn" to get "f2" ? Of course that doesn't help you, but this has annoyed me on mac, and I think they deserve the blame ;)
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by gizzlon 14y ago
" 1. When you work hard at something you become good at it. " Yup " 2. When you become good at doing something, you will enjoy it more. " Hmm.. what now? I'm good at a lot of things I hate. I've spent time doing them either because I had to
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Yeah, my first impression of JIRA was pretty bad as well..
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by gizzlon 14y ago
I wonder if a big part of the problem is I work from home, and I work all the time FWIW, I find that when I spend a lot of time alone, social interaction can get awkward and I need a little time to get into the "flow" again.
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by gizzlon 14y ago
I Advanced UNIX Programming with Linux 1 Getting Started 2 Writing Good GNU/Linux Software 3 Processes 4 Threads 5 Interprocess Communication II Mastering Linux 6 Devices 7 The /pro
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Cool, link! " if your using a product and dont understand how it works, then you only have yourself to blame " Don't we all do this each and every day? And even if you do understand how everything works, predicting the long-term consequen
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Interesting.. how often do you pull from the db's? Do you think about it as a write-through cache?
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by gizzlon 14y ago
"Really? I dunno--I always saw employment as more of a business transaction, and I don't give a damn about the personal lives of those I do business with" Well, I think communication is affected by personality "type". So people more "simi
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by gizzlon 14y ago
I had never expected my coworkers to share my out-of-work hobbies, but I had expected that if the topic came up in casual conversation, I wouldn't be labeled childish or immature for what I like doing outside of work That sounds reasonabl
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Agreed.. I like that they often have examples to get you started quickly, but a lot is simply left out. Especially the quirks, and php has a lot of them. I'm used to dealing with perl 5, which has quirks of it's own, but at least their do
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Maybe they pay to have their add on the top of the page? So adds further down would pay less?? Just guessing here..
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Use something like readability or open all the pages in background tabs (ctrl-click) before you get to the end of page 1. I almost never read long articles to the end, unless I've added them to readability. If I can't open them in the backg
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Well, it's optimized to make the amount of money short term . This kind of testing doesn't tell you what the reader thinks of your site, which is kind-of the OP point. The user might click through to all the pages, but obtain a general dis
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by gizzlon 14y ago
For example, one can send heavy computations to background processes and execute other code while waiting for the result That you can actually do in PHP, for example with gearman: http://docs.php.net/manual/en/gearman.examples-reverse-
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Any one else reminded of Minority Report? The google precogs found you guilty of future crime..
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Flattr is neat, but it seems more geared towards content. I sometimes see a project page with a Flattr button and that just looks stupid. I think you need a lot of Flattr'able content. Like blog-posts for example. For open source projects
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by gizzlon 14y ago
You seem to like "crazy" ideas, for more of them check out the book "Silence on the wire" :) IIRC, it's possible to create a one-way TP cable. Might be a little more feasible :)
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by gizzlon 14y ago
.. but I see this trend toward video when text would suffice as evidence of a societal lack of good (writing) education Think it's because there's so much written information now, I can't even read 1% of the stuff I want to. After reading
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Sure it's not just faster because it's a clean install?
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by gizzlon 14y ago
What if you could get an SMS, or the email on your phone, and type 5 letters into a box on the website? Normally this would be more work, but if you're away from your email it might be a good alternative..
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by gizzlon 14y ago
But aren't most interesting problems impossible to specify, in a detailed way, up front?
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Maybe that's the point? That it's something you parents don't use. Can't use even.. I'm actually much more interested in a MySpace reboot than just another new "music-sharing social site".
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by gizzlon 14y ago
That link says the local time is "4 AM" .. am? What is AM? :) Timeanddate gets it right..
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by gizzlon 14y ago
Bah, the "foo mentioned you on twitter.." SMS' kept me in the loop.. Now I probably won't even notice :(
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by gizzlon 14y ago
It's not. Saying that everyone should murder (all the time), and not doing it, would be hypocrisy. But yeah, you're right. People would probably be distracted by the whole "murder" thing. Even if there's no consensus on whether some belief

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