hamidpalo

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by hamidpalo 14y ago
Tech isn't only the internet. Microsoft and Apple both went public before the Internet and managed to do quite well without it. Correlation != causation. Might as well graph it against the number of World Cup or Euro championships in that y
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
Since this is super handy, I will go off-topic and post the Windows equivalent: start . You can even type something like: start mypicture.jpg To open it in the default picture viewer.
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
In my experience modifying existing C#/Java in such a manner is not a big deal since the type system and the language enable extremely powerful refactoring tools like Resharper. But your point is fair. It is a tradeoff between flexibility a
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
We are faced with the dilemma - a lot of the code is now reliant on Isin, and NullReferenceExceptions are getting thrown all over the place because the field isn’t getting populated Sounds like it's catching bugs. You get to fix a
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
Why is non-blocking IO radical? Tons of libraries and frameworks offered it much before node, including twisted, Java's NIO, and the entire System.Net namespace in .NET. Other than that, surprisingly sensible advice.
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
Sorry should have clarified that it's not run in-house but rather supported for full-on production deployments, from what I have heard.
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
But that's not true. Plenty of .NET users do use other OSs (through Mono) and databases (I use MySQL). Sure, the best IDE is VS and there's tons more docs and support on using it all on Windows, but the same can be said of Rails with Linux
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
What exactly makes it enterprisey? I am always really unclear on what makes something "enterprisey" other than perceptions.
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
What is "enterprisey" about .NET? Mono is a real alternative, many businesses run it production, including the likes of Fog Creek.
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
Optimal solution assuming that you've got perfectly accurate arbitrary precision arithmetic. Which is as likely as a unicorn that poops Haagen-Dazs.
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
Does anyone know how they can provide bandwidth for so cheap? 7 EUR for a TB of traffic is insanely cheap.
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
There are much better ways to implement a concurrent queue than the ones shown. Using locks for every single queue/dequeue is a very good way to completely kill performance. A much better alternative is to use hand-over-hand locking, or use
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by hamidpalo 14y ago
What about busy beaver numbers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
Acela is awesome and I prefer it to flying when going from Boston to NYC and back, but you can really tell that the tracks are old. The ride is nowhere near as smooth as the trains in Europe, especially when you hit 150 mph.
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
Avoiding the Microsoft tax, but bought a copy of Windows to run in a VM? Most universities have full-duplex 100Mbit+, and at those speeds it's not your connection that's the bottleneck, it's the latency of getting your request to the server
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
There seems to be some confusion about the XMPP definition of OTR as defined in XEP-0136 which does not mention encryption ( http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0136.html#otr ) and the colloquial use of OTR which apparently means "encrypted IM."
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
OTR has nothing to do with encryption. All it says is "pretty please don't save my conversation." The only way for fully encrypted conversations is to use a plugin that encrypts messages themselves, or use an ecrypted P2P IM network.
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
There's a bug in a beta release! Stop the presses!
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
Nitpicky but: The remaining arguments &haystack, &haystack_len, &needle, &offset specify the variables to put the arguments into. As you can see, they are all passed by reference (&), which means that not the varia
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
The spaghetti code of node.js callbacks is really a problem of Javascript lacking monads, and in this case something like the Async monad from F#. TameJS is a step in the right direction by adding a C#-style await.
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
Wasn't there a big huge DOJ case a while back about a company using one monopoly to try and create another? I forget.
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
The title is incorrect. The correct title is that there is a stronger correlation between (CS50,Hollywood) than there is for (CS50,Nasdaq). You could probably find that the price of a crate of lemons in Mexico for delivery in 2 months is mo
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
Figure 1 above provides an insight into the relationship between teacher salaries and pupil outcomes, showing a clear statistical association between higher relative teachers’ pay and higher standardised pupil scores across countries. Aaaah
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
Also includes a stunning misunderstanding of the halting theorem. Doesn't really help with the whole node.js stereotype.
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
Why in the world didn't they expose this as MUC ( http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html ) is really beyond me.
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
Underwriting fees are irrelevant. Every single firm charges the same, indicating that they compete on other things. Most of their IPO profit comes from quid-pro-quos with preferred investors to whom they allocate shares. Check out some of t
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
This is very unsurprising. The majority of IPOs are underpriced and in some ways the underpricing is a measure of success. There has been a lot of research done on the topic of underpricing for book-built IPOs (like this one). The most popu
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
No EDM option?
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
Looking at the example given of how lovely obj-c is: filteredArray = [allRecords filteredArrayUsingPredicate:[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"someField == %d", someFieldFilterValue]]; Makes me wonder if the author has ever seen la
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by hamidpalo 15y ago
Virtual Desktops are insanely cool - You mean like those that OS X has and that a billion utilities for Windows give you? The Community support is awesome - And there isn't ##windows or ##macosx, or sites like stackoverflow.com in addition

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