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by jack9 11y ago
How are successful interviews not improving your job hunting skills? You have another data point for both salary negotiation and the knowledge/communication bar for people in your field (for better or worse). That just makes no sense t
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by jack9 11y ago
A recognizable syntax is a big win, for starters. Do people still cling to the idea that it doesn't matter? How many tens of thousands of "gotchas" and "good parts" do we need to hear about from languages that have
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by jack9 12y ago
The industry doesn't share the same sentiment it seems. Every platform as a service includes some dynamic language binding and parts implemented in a dynamic language. The Java-ists have produced mountains of code, but it is still not
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by jack9 12y ago
> it looks suspiciously like most other programming languages in terms of syntax. Why would this be a criticism? Many languages have been aligning syntactically for decades. > The designers are not going to find anything different mea
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by jack9 12y ago
Re: baggage handlers being called throwers > This is not a common term that is actually used, At the time, it most certainly was. Specifically in Southern California @ John Wayne Airport and LAX. Today, it has been officially discouraged
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by jack9 12y ago
This is a beta-application form for a process that hasn't been released yet.
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by jack9 12y ago
> we have tried the elegance of extremely simple and open language/runtime architectures, and that was always an abject failure. Just because it was tried in the past, doesn't mean it wasn't the right direction. > Attem
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by jack9 12y ago
A few bits of misinformation. > Is There a Big Performance Difference Between Classical and Prototypal Inheritance? Yes (but not the way the writer is trying to imply). Performance as a metric of code production per dollar spent. The amo
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by jack9 12y ago
There's nothing wrong with that attire. In fact, it's not worth commenting on further. The interviewers have a poor understanding of the state of the industry, if that was the actual reasoning (which is doubtful).
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by jack9 12y ago
This problem is used in most wordster/boggle/Wordy Birdies (from the makers of Angry Birds) style games. "In the same order" is an unnecessary additional complexity. Asking for an O(1) solution demonstrates the exact sam
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by jack9 12y ago
So the source is an inspector or nuclear scientist or weapons expert who would know this? No. "Sami al-Araji, the deputy minister of industry" Immediately thereafter attributed as Dr. Araji. Being forthcoming, probably helped him
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by jack9 12y ago
At what point do you recognize that the model you want to be best is not the best? PHP dominates the landscape because it's the best tool for a large portion of developers (ostensibly newbies). For being concerned and critical about, c
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by jack9 12y ago
We are going to have waste heat gather in our atmosphere, from whatever energy sources we attempt to capture, and use and store. This move toward renewables, doesn't solve the problem. We need a lever to offload waste heat and we aren&
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by jack9 12y ago
> Unemployment in the US is around 5.5% That's an official statistic (US Bureau of labor statistics) that is, in all reality, fiction. Might want to look at ANY other analysis, other than the announced statistic. Like simply compari
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by jack9 12y ago
> That’s true only in a very narrow sense. I love his complete willingness to mislead. What an asshole. If a bank can borrow from the Fed at a lower rate, they refinance their existing debt almost immediately. This trickles down to small
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by jack9 12y ago
> Their docs aren’t great and best practices are locked up in fast scaling startups. Their docs are ok sometimes, not good for some products. Best practices are available from AWS reps themselves. Not all the solutions are good (Redshif
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by jack9 12y ago
> POST is protected because it assumes it (1) will change data That's is not correct. That's a community assumption that you're parroting. I have seen and implemented plenty of endpoints where this is not true. There is no
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by jack9 12y ago
> If you ignore HTTP verbs and status codes you're just making it harder for other developers to grok your system That's not what the article suggests (ignoring?). I totally disagree with maintaining (http verb) semantics for o
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by jack9 12y ago
> Code is meant to be executed first, read second. Knuth would disagree, as would anyone who had to maintain code...ever. Nowhere in the convoluted answer, did the carpenter explain the conceptual strategy of the solution. At least, that
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by jack9 12y ago
Yes. Because it's fundamentally flawed. You will not beat physics because you wish it. It will always take the same (relative) amount of power to escape earth velocity. Shunting some of the friction to entropy on substances (wear and t
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by jack9 12y ago
> I don't want your shit OOP and classes, take them back. Most programmers disagree. Get over the fact that you are in the minority and JS has succeeded DESPITE the massive barrier to entry (beyond the simplest of tasks) and the mon
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by jack9 12y ago
> I don't know that I've ever heard anyone say that they prefer PHP over Python I hear it all the time. Primarily by polyglots who are interested in prototyping things. I use both, I prefer PHP and I'm increasingly aware t
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by jack9 12y ago
> In artist-land, it's unethical to not give artists the services they want on the terms they want. It's extortion. So your characterization is flawed. When videos are not popular, unsurprisingly, you aren't selected to be
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by jack9 12y ago
I didn't pay to see the second one and I couldn't sit through the 3rd one, which I downloaded. I don't care that Peter Jackson + LOTR = money. He's a terrible director. Any movie with a traveling montage, is a failure in
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by jack9 12y ago
600 million years (total solar eclipse impossible) has a typo in the last line of the description text. It should say ..."too far away from Earth for total solar eclipses to be /possible/"
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by jack9 12y ago
US citizens aren't ok with their government, but that's not the issue. It's a risk management issue. Be reasonably comfortable and survive, versus die fighting while others watch on.
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by jack9 12y ago
> that's widely applicable Other than Laravel (PHP), Python and Erlang (then Elixir), there's not much to try that's applicable. You'll be pleasantly surprised to see that your Erlang implementations are orderS of mag
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by jack9 12y ago
Lua is quite fast. The algorithms you can implement in Lua are all slow unless you want to make an optimized structure for every kind of lookup you want to do. Lua reminds me of a hobbled javascript.
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by jack9 14y ago
> I actually vastly prefer a language without namespaces, All languages have namespaces. It's clear you don't understand the concept. A namespace is an abstract container to provide context and ensure uniqueness between items with the s
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by jack9 14y ago
Genetically gifted, "a self made man". A dickotomy.

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