japherwocky

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by japherwocky 16y ago
From their application: "Each member must have a moderately full [LinkedIn] profile with a minimum of 2 recommendations and 50 connections." Is this a thing now?
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by japherwocky 16y ago
This drives me nuts; either I'm checking (timestamped no less!) code into the repo, and delivering what I say I'll deliver by the appointed deadlines, or I'm not. It's not like you can fake productivity as a coder.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Maybe more relevant, the offer: http://us.blackberry.com/developers/tablet/playbook_offer.js... (get an app into their market, they'll give you a free playbook)
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Package your web app with 3 lines of code for a sexy blackberry tablet(blackberry.com)
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by japherwocky 16y ago
2 and 3 are not really advantages for PHP, as the same can be said for most any language. I think #1 is the big reason that PHP is as popular as it is, but that "feature" has a funny smell among programmers who don't like to mix languages.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
PHP is the Walmart of languages, everyone uses it because everyone uses it, but nobody really has anything _good_ to say about it.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I'm mostly pumped that tornado is holding up pretty well against a compiled language. :)
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I think his point is that the market won't bear it.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
They actually have pretty mediocre uptime, too. Good for a cheap dev box, not so great for production stuff.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Why is the burden of proof on me? I'm not the one claiming that the MSFT stack is incredibly stable.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Yeah, so this was my point. There's quite a stretch from ".NET isn't that bad" to choosing MSFT because it performs well. And nobody has any numbers or benchmarks or anything that back this up other than anecdotal evidence. Downvote away,
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by japherwocky 16y ago
You know why you don't have a good reason for choosing a language? Because you are a total programming newbie who hasn't actually tried to use other languages for anything! If you use a better language, you will add features faster and spe
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by japherwocky 16y ago
It's the choice of words, really. does it have good documentation, or thorough documentation? The author's argument would be twice as compelling if he backed such a strong statement up, or toned it down a bit. Unmatched? Mmmkay.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
By what metric does Microsoft stuff perform really well? You're seriously saying you choose Microsoft for performance and stability? And you have a dozen upvotes?
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by japherwocky 16y ago
it's in the post
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by japherwocky 16y ago
You'd probably have better luck if you wrote a bit about the languages and tools you're using.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
maybe he wants a truce because he's losing?
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by japherwocky 16y ago
The only good use I've seen for turning a template into a callable bit of code for performance.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
can we get a tldr on this?
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by japherwocky 16y ago
This is a pretty awesome example of how to use Python for it's quick development times to get a system in place, then go in later and write those bits with a faster/compiled language when growth overtakes you.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
http://github.com/facebook/tornado is a pretty simple, useful project. You could set up ab and try to make it faster!
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Twisted is kind of notorious for being difficult to pick up and use, even for experienced Python programmers..
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by japherwocky 16y ago
He's smarter than "normal" people, and jealous that they're making Facebook lots of money.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I built/host a site for a local brewery, and I bill them $X/mo for hosting and small tweaks. We've definitely bartered some of those invoices away. :)
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by japherwocky 16y ago
My experience has been kind of like this. The owners are pretty smart people but don't have the time/energy to figure out website tech.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I think one of the easiest tools to work with is http://tornadoweb.org/ - hacking apart their chat demo will get you most of the way there.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I feel like a lot of the languages meant to be written with an IDE end up being longer in terms of total LOC, but a pretty big chunk of that is all auto-generated noise.
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by japherwocky 16y ago
I think a 100-1,000 line program is roughly equivalent to a small "feature" in a new product, so I think it's a pretty good metric. Think in terms of the budget of whatever you're building - the python guys delivered in a quarter of the tim
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by japherwocky 16y ago
Momentum, in Grand Rapids, MI: http://momentum-mi.com/
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by japherwocky 16y ago
where do you think that building goes when people move out? talk about legacy hardware..

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