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541.
by herge 14y ago
I wonder how may developers 1.7 million per year buys you? A team of 15? Even less if you count office space, managerial costs, etc.
542.
by herge 14y ago
Or even better, why should the university waste time teaching me petty things like version control instead of focusing on things that I cannot learn by myself.
543.
by herge 14y ago
Is US-east the least reliable of all AWS data centres? Arguably, Virginia is more susceptible to natural disasters than Oregon or Northern California (while we wait for that 1 in a 100 year earthquake).
544.
by herge 14y ago
Because the PIN is not meant to be shared, it is a lot easier for banks to deny all responsibility for any card fraud when using chip-and-pin in court, which is why they are so gung-ho in convincing people to use them.
545.
by herge 14y ago
In all fairness, interact involves fees for the consumer (depending on which bank you are with), and, outside of students who may not be eligible for the, almost everybody has credit cards.
546.
by herge 14y ago
Google Drive or Dropbox.
547.
by herge 14y ago
Fuzz testing involves an automated process commenting out each line of your code one-by-one and running your unit tests to see what lines are actually tested.
548.
by herge 15y ago
I kinda hope I never have to debug or modify any code written by a person who writes javascript like this.
549.
by herge 15y ago
Make is better than SCons if you are not compiling C. Lots of people would use fabric instead. The stock unittest in the stdlib is quite good, especially in python 2.7+. For mocks, wait until mock ( http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/
550.
by herge 15y ago
The next version of javascript will only work on a minority of browsers, even years after it is adopted ( http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/internet-explor... ) while coffeescript works on all browsers now.
551.
by herge 15y ago
Inflation is not directly proportional to the supply of money. If a bitcoin's value versus the US$ drops (as it has since June), there is heavy inflation as the price of goods and services (measured in bitcoins) goes up.
552.
by herge 15y ago
"There are varying definitions of "functional"-ness." I wonder if there are varying definitions of "object-oriented"-ness. Also, I hear clojure is a true scotsman while scala is not.
553.
by herge 15y ago
If Google is using those pictures as captchas, it is probably because they could not write an algorithm to decipher them. If, in the worst case, this results in spammers creating even better pattern recognition algorithms than the current c
554.
by herge 15y ago
The real name is what people who live there actually use. You only sound like a twat when using Eire, or calling Irish "Gaelic".
555.
by herge 15y ago
The real name is Ireland, or the Republic of Ireland if you need to disambiguate.
556.
by herge 15y ago
It's a funny world where selling porn is considered less honorable that selling your user's information to advertisers.
557.
by herge 15y ago
Are you complaining about the backticks or the pass keyword, or both?
558.
by herge 15y ago
Arguably, they both specialized in blowing up stuff in Germany.
559.
by herge 15y ago
Great shoutout to a Montreal hacker called Jeff Preshing http://preshing.com/
560.
by herge 15y ago
It doesn't seem to do task dependency like Rake, which is unfortunate. It's the only thing missing from fabric. I'm half a mind to write my own with pbs ( https://github.com/amoffat/pbs ) thrown in...
561.
by herge 15y ago
I thinks it's more that the downfall of Galaxies was tied to being able to get very cool powers without making much effort, like the new Jedi who killed his character. He encouraged it by feeding a system where players could buy credits wit
562.
by herge 15y ago
How are we supposed to believe that the same phone manufacturers will not have the same problems with fragmentation with 4.0, 4.1, 4.x in the future?
563.
by herge 15y ago
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie - The Privacy Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eIUOUfhoJ8
564.
by herge 15y ago
Sure, for 1.5 grand a month, you can get a crazy amount of dedicated hardware, but then, that's one-half to one-third of one developer's salary. Heroku charges a premium to save on developer time (and hopefully benefit from economies of sca
565.
by herge 15y ago
To quote Donald Knuth, a 64 bit program would "waste half the memory [and] effectively throw away half of the cache". You may double the number of registers, but you are still shuffling tons of data between your caches and memory, and that
566.
by herge 15y ago
Most of the memory used by programs are pointers, and if you double your pointer size, it has a negative impact on the efficientcy of the L1 and L2 cache.
567.
by herge 15y ago
Accountants are not allowed to work for someone that is not an accountant? What about a CFO with accountants under him?
568.
by herge 15y ago
To change the topic slightly, I often hear the blanket statement "Technical people do not make good managers". I wonder if this is true in other domains. As far as I know, accountants manage accountants, law firms are run by lawyers, etc. M
569.
by herge 15y ago
So nothing would have stopped them from using a high end plastic or a nice composite? Something that would tell their product apart from a MacBook Air? It is a pity they did not try.
570.
by herge 15y ago
Why make it out of aluminium? Does it have better heat properties or lighter weight than say some high quality plastics or steel, or any other metal?

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