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ilyak
17y ago
That's like steve yegge's http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/lisp-wins Except written by a teenager (in the bad meaning of that word).
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ilyak
17y ago
Russian language is indo-european, therefore the result is much better than if you're translating from chinese or turkish. Google translate is good at lexical translation but still can't bind words together properly (and probably never will
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ilyak
17y ago
Modded up, but please no PHP.
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ilyak
17y ago
Nope, it's russian tastes that would make a huge trollfest of such a title.
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ilyak
17y ago
How much $$$ do you bet on certified developers making fewer (less severe) mistakes reliably? Would it be ten? Thousand? Your yearly salary?
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ilyak
17y ago
Knowledge you need to have changes every three years in programming. They have no chance to catch that up.
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ilyak
17y ago
You do not know how to produce higher-quality software. Me neither. But I just /know/ what MS would donate enough $$$ to certification whores to be sure they teach that "to produce higher quality software one should use a platform from The
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ilyak
17y ago
I think I have nothing against global warning. I hope my money won't get spent on it.
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ilyak
17y ago
I'm just showing that some points that were true in 1992 aren't now.
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ilyak
17y ago
Why not? Thousands of applications run on Cygwin just fine. There's no reason to mistrust Cygwin more than you mistrust, say, MFC. However in most cases you can delpoy to a more optimal platform (actual UNIX).
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ilyak
17y ago
Well! You can force everyone your economy doesn't need to go to military! This way, it's a win-win: you still retain your dominance and don't suffer from having no real jobs! Sad.
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ilyak
17y ago
"Name a product that succeeds by running UNIX as an application." Hmhm, Xen? I think I'd name quite a few.
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ilyak
17y ago
It's cargo culting more often than not. For some reason, people don't follow good advices which require changing code logic, refactoring and such: they follow advices where you need to format everything in the longest possible way and write
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ilyak
17y ago
I hate hardware. Hardware is the thing that prevents microkernels with carefully distributed functions. But hardware is still land where dragons are, therefore you have to do everything with it in kernel-space (it's unsafe and isn't delegat
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ilyak
17y ago
When I hear "best practices" I reach for my Giant Spiked Club of Holy Wrath.
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ilyak
17y ago
Why shake him if he'd for sure cry more and more and more??
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ilyak
17y ago
Still this can be arranged as a well-defined test instead of humiliation crapfest. Everything can be.
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ilyak
17y ago
Yeah, adding stickers on the fly is also the way to go.
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ilyak
17y ago
Why ever shake babies? That's insane.
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ilyak
17y ago
Yuck!
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ilyak
17y ago
I'm curoius why everyone resizes images when they're uploaded. I think the better way is not in any way changing the uploaded file, instead resizing it when it's actually requested by a client. This way, your pages can ask server for whatev
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ilyak
17y ago
Emulate having 16000 different modules all capable of doing something useful.
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ilyak
17y ago
If you don't agree, name your guess and be ridiculed.
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ilyak
17y ago
WTF: I do not certainly see any value in torturing oneself. If you're working too hard and bragging about it, good chance that you aren't performing terribly well and, certainly, rather inefficiently
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ilyak
17y ago
If java is dead, what is alive?
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ilyak
17y ago
Any comments on -ing content?
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ilyak
17y ago
For embedded system you'd not need that much stability.
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ilyak
17y ago
Please no books and no research papers. Just a short article showing how to get things done. Exactly as one we're discussing.
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ilyak
17y ago
"for PHP developers who are PHP developers" One trick pony knows only one trick.
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ilyak
17y ago
It's a damn book, not a quick article. Sad.
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