ilyak

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by ilyak 17y ago
Dynamic linking works just fine. You don't want your every app to carry its bits of glibc inside, same for libx11, same for openssl. And it's definitely more polished than gems or jars or whatever other languages have; maybe only perl/cpan
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by ilyak 17y ago
You know when you update your data. Therefore, you invalidate your cache when you update your data. Timestamps help alot if you're paranoid, also.
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by ilyak 17y ago
You can cache cache that in-memory! Because you've got a persistent app server.
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by ilyak 17y ago
The real problem here is PHP/MySQL, not the dynamicism per se. A blogging platform based on Rhino (EcmaScript) on JVM hosted on virtualized server (or in cloud) would easily resist slashdot effect. And using file-based storage it would be s
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by ilyak 17y ago
Searchable twitter/facebook? Expect a tide of spam soon.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Most languages support multilingual identifiers those days, but I don't see anyone using them. I've wrote a haskell program with greek symbols as variables once, it was fun and neat. There's a language 1C which is fully in russian - identif
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by ilyak 17y ago
It's interesting why the smaller the language is, the dialecty it gets. For example, Russian has no dialects worth speaking about, but Basque has four, for less than million native speakers.
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by ilyak 17y ago
I always thought it's more of a phone thingy?
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by ilyak 17y ago
"One guy asked me 'Havent you ever passed arguments in the wrong order and expected a different return than what you got ?" and I'll be honest: No, I haven't. But for people who have a hard time getting arguments order and return types righ
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by ilyak 17y ago
Didn't say Facebook is dying. Traditional IM is suffering, IMO: Twitter, Social networks and Skype ate its users. And, paradoxically, even Email. Maybe it's just me who use them less and less? No idea.
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by ilyak 17y ago
"Is it just going to be Azure for you?" He does not know anything about foo , let alone on Microsoft's offering on foo , yet he's already decided that he's going to use foo from Microsoft, and asumes it's the default. That's why I wish
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by ilyak 17y ago
Died to what? IM? IM is dying on its own. Whatever Facebook this week? Spare me. Wave? It's too hard. Twitter? How would I fit information in 140 chars and why? Email has no successor technology.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Was Perl backed by a major vendor? MySQL? FreeBSD? If it's already backed by a major version, you're already late. So slow.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Should I?
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by ilyak 17y ago
Is it you who are writing the program or "IBM or Oracle"?
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by ilyak 17y ago
Sorry, but we do want to use actual useful objects (including built-in types) no matter what you'd say. It's viable, it's useful, it's done, it works.
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by ilyak 17y ago
I disagree in full. There's much more than 2k-4k lines in a good javascript library. You've got years of bug fixing/perfomance improving and months of fixing browser bugs. For example, try writing your own css selection framework and I guar
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by ilyak 17y ago
I read quite a few female writers and they're good and relevant. Bujold would be an obvious example, and much more local authors. I'm going to visit a fantasy/role playing convention in two weeks, and I think female participants would accou
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by ilyak 17y ago
Scala is funnier and is readily available.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Arrows are correct because they present on my keyboard. I could wish you to stop being childish but I'd rather wish you die out along with your BSDs.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Which reminds me of: "The relationships between Blizzard and russian gamers community were worsened by the fact that the first Warctaft III tournament were held in Saint Petersburg, one week prior to its release date." However, this time, M
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by ilyak 17y ago
No, this is how refutations to "he doesn't know anything" work.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Most screenshots here are from first pages. Most good looking sites have distinctively looking first pages and much cleaner internal pages with more text, less clutter and unrelated images. Therefore it might be biased.
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by ilyak 17y ago
You should've noticed three things before writing it: 1) His background is C++/Embedded. 2) He does that successfully for a living. 3) He really knows what he's talking about. This leads me to a conclusion: Maybe the subject of your last ph
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by ilyak 17y ago
Why would you need a tiny bittorent image when the first it would download would cover the fattest image, ten to one? Come on, bittorent is for flacs and movies.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Not until they fix their default vim configuration. Arrows, pgup/pgdown, home/end should work out of box in both modes.
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by ilyak 17y ago
This is not enough: you should also set up references to other objects (by id) and deal with underscore_database_names vs camelCaseJavaNames.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Populating objects isn't the hardest part, but it's the most useful part. Writing object populating code is tedious, copy-pasty and uncool. And having that, you don't really need ORM, naive or not.
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by ilyak 17y ago
Same for Russia. Also, we never use MM/DD/YY.
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by ilyak 17y ago
What would you replace them with in statically-typed languages? You see, in database you've got tuples and nothing else, and in program, you've got objects and nothing else. You have to convert one to another this way or that way. Talking a

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