jcheng

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by jcheng 13y ago
I'm quite intrigued by your intense reaction to conversion optimization. Or is the particular mindset of GP that you are reacting to? Just curious: in your moral calculus does it matter if the conversion is for Zynga's next Facebo
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by jcheng 13y ago
It's been a while since I've read the book but "And the Band Played On" paints a pretty sad picture about all the missed opportunities to save lives in the early years of the epidemic, due to (admittedly complicated) pol
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by jcheng 13y ago
> And closures for things like callbacks for AJAX etc. -- these are generally fine, because once the AJAX returns and the callback function finishes executing, then once the AJAX object gets garbage-collected, the callback will too, and
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by jcheng 13y ago
This is obviously trolling but I'll take a stab at actually answering the question, based on the javadoc[0]. (I have never used Spring or JDO and haven't done Java server-side programming since 2002.) The JDO framework has an inte
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by jcheng 13y ago
Hmmm, idiomatic Node.js code creates closures everywhere. (And you may be right that this is just asking for memory leaks.)
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by jcheng 13y ago
We're[1] using reactive programming in our web framework to simplify UI programming. If you've done UI programming before you know it's all about event handlers. If you have multiple inputs and outputs, and a complicated graph of what input
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by jcheng 13y ago
Where do you live?
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by jcheng 13y ago
Pandoc's version of markdown has both of those (along with lots of other extensions). http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/demo/example9/pandocs-markd...
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by jcheng 13y ago
According to this[1], $160 million of that was for a new building. > And what of the huge new $160 million (ish) academic building? The trustees still say that it has nothing to do with the fiscal crisis, despite the fact that it’s resp
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by jcheng 14y ago
That may seem reasonable to you but according to Wikipedia, it's not the law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning#Consequences_of...
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by jcheng 14y ago
I think the distinction is meaningful. A rogue employee would not have the power to access your data (as we've seen at Google for example[1]) unless they were able to sneak some code into the application code (as, sadly, we've also seen at
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by jcheng 14y ago
See "Graph Analysis" section on the linked page, they make it pretty clear that there is info that is sent unencrypted but those parts aren't useful for reverse engineering. The data and source code itself sounds like it is encrypted though
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by jcheng 14y ago
It was blurry for me at first so I moved closer, and then it was sharp--but I had to cross my eyes at a pretty uncomfortable angle. Worth the pain though. :)
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by jcheng 14y ago
Googling for the term "hyperfocus" confirms your description. Thanks, I learned something!
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by jcheng 14y ago
That's an interesting and appealing description, but sounds pretty different than what Wikipedia has to say about ADD. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_disorder#se...
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by jcheng 14y ago
Stanford et al are a huge leg up when getting your first job out of school. But do they really matter once you have a few years of job experience? When I'm hiring I care vastly more about a candidate's last two jobs than where he or she w
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by jcheng 14y ago
If the cardiac arrest is the result of something else, does defibrillation hurt anything? Or does it have no effect either way?
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by jcheng 14y ago
GitHub for Windows tries to make easy things easy: http://windows.github.com
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by jcheng 14y ago
More is not necessarily better (for longevity): http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/moderation-as-the-s...
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by jcheng 14y ago
Compared to what we used to have to do to write CRUD apps, Rails et al ARE app generators! Seriously though, my knee jerk reaction was to write all the reasons this couldn't work. But instead, I think you should go ahead and start trying to
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by jcheng 14y ago
When you get to Seattle, check out Office Nomads in Capitol Hill. Sounds like you will find lots of like-minded people there.
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by jcheng 14y ago
I get to work with highly intelligent people, doing work that impacts tens or hundreds of thousands of people. My day-to-day involves taking the most powerful and complex invention in history, and bending it to my will in ever more elegant
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by jcheng 14y ago
The changes to nginx appear to be to support HTTP Upgrade in general, nothing specific for websockets. But I can't think of any other upgrade protocols that general purpose web browsers would give your JS code access to. But for those of us
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by jcheng 14y ago
Ah, "God forbid"--gotcha.
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by jcheng 14y ago
Are you saying "god no" to using an abstract event loop? If so, why? (I've been using libuv for a project, so far so good.)
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by jcheng 14y ago
I don't think it would help at all, as ELB doesn't intelligently route either.
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by jcheng 14y ago
Yes. My point is in the green (or native) thread style, it is not always obvious when you've stumbled into this situation (since you can't tell by looking at a function call whether it's going to yield at some point).
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by jcheng 14y ago
You're fired.
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by jcheng 14y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but STM doesn't help you if your operations include side effects outside of STM (writing to disk, a database, the network)--exactly what async operations are usually used for. Aren't you back to locking at that point
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by jcheng 14y ago
> I am not blocking or using event loops, that's the point. When I call read on a socket, the IO manager handles saving my context, doing the async read, yielding, and then restoring context and resuming when there's data to be read. Do

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