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by itmag 15y ago
That's actually quite common in the self-help community. google site:stevepavlina.com/blog synchronicity for instance.
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by itmag 15y ago
Thanks. I am interested in the general theory of how every database does it; it bothers me that this area of software engineering is terra incognita to me.
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by itmag 15y ago
Is Notch's coding habits supposed to be common knowledge? Got any links?
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by itmag 15y ago
Isn't that one of the keys to good humanship in general?
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by itmag 15y ago
Best Practices are like patterns, solutions to common problems. Sometime there are problems that require uncommon solution. They are rare, but they exist. This is very interesting, and mirrors some thought I've been having myself. I would
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by itmag 15y ago
True, but on the other hand there is so much money circulating around doing pointless, dumb, immoral shit that even the most inane startup is saintly and ingenious in comparison. Pre-mature optimization, and all that.
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by itmag 15y ago
Most programmers are not pleasuring themselves by writing cute software for other programmers (that's merely a local HN echo chamber phenomenon). Nor are they busy solving real problems for the masses. No, most programmers are probably slav
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by itmag 15y ago
Why is eval evil? Because it's insecure? Inefficient?
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by itmag 15y ago
It seems absurd, but if you can't be happy and productive while accepting these thoughts, you weren't ever really happy; just in denial. Sure, acceptance can lead to happiness. It can also lead to madness. For an example of "dark buddhism
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by itmag 15y ago
In particular it does not calculate all result rows for a query up front (that wouldn't be very 'Lite') but instead calculates the next matching row as you ask for it. That sounds like SQL cursors?
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by itmag 15y ago
Off-topic but relevant: I've been looking for info on just how database software does what it does. Ie from parsing the SQL query to hitting the disk, and everything in between. Anyone got any links or books?
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by itmag 15y ago
I remember a post on here recently which said that sometimes a high-level language can be faster than C, because you can convey more of your algorithmic intent and thus the compiler can optimize better for you. It gave an example where the
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by itmag 15y ago
Not to yank my own cock too hard, but I'm pretty awesome at never being bored. I can always find new exciting shit to read online and new projects and ideas to tinker with. Whereas most people seem to check their Facebook and their daily al
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by itmag 15y ago
The reason that I ask is that I feel I am getting stuck with C# simply due to the comfort of Intellisense. I have to find some way of replicating that experience with other languages... I know other languages of course, but it just feels li
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by itmag 15y ago
What would it take to get it to be as smart as, say, Intellisense?
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by itmag 15y ago
What was it like working for a pr0n site? Do a mini-AMA plz :)
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by itmag 15y ago
Do you include the WP markup in your generated app? Or do you transform the markup into Objective-C code (so no HTML/CSS included in the app)? The latter would be much harder to implement I think.
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by itmag 15y ago
Disruptive tech innovation is pretty much the only hope IMNSHO. Ie invent something that makes politics irrelevant in some area. This is somewhat happening with education (ie Khan, Codecademy, Stanford, etc), for instance.
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by itmag 15y ago
Programmers don't just suck at politics, they tend to be actively apolitical. Or have some kind of abstract view of an ideal system that has more in common with eg Star Trek than real life. Real politics is just too tied to the cool kids in
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by itmag 15y ago
Hehe, suddenly I imagine legislators writing laws called SOPAFactoryHelperMultiplexerWhalesemenAbstractBaseclassTemplateDongleSingleton. shudder
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by itmag 15y ago
Hmmm... isn't lawyer supposedly the most common prior profession for politicians? (Except in Sweden, where it's "high school dropout"). A shift from laywers to programmers doesn't seem so bad to me :)
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by itmag 15y ago
Why is sleeping on the job frowned upon for programmers? I asked for it once and was denied like it was some outlandish request. I thought I was doing them a favor by asking (by wanting to raise my energy levels during the midday slump)
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by itmag 15y ago
5. Code-hipsters on HN ;-)
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by itmag 15y ago
http://maxkle.in/how-to-become-rich-even-if-nobody-is-follow...
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by itmag 15y ago
Very interesting. Tell me more :)
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by itmag 15y ago
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8684955-game...
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by itmag 15y ago
I'm 25 but I feel alienated from my age peers. Probably not uncommon here. I resonate well with this kind of thing: http://tynan.com/youngpeople
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by itmag 15y ago
I didn't RTFA but "programmable universe" makes me think of this: http://www.geekosystem.com/dwarf-fortress-turing-machine-com...
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by itmag 15y ago
Make sure it's good resumé-fodder for attendants.
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by itmag 15y ago
The spread of the LessWrong meme is really positive. A lot of bloggers seem to be linking or alluding to stuff from there these days. And it's leading to increased awareness that rationality is not always easy, nor something to be taken for

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