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Ask HN: Is all code worth sharing?
3 points by jfe 12y ago|4 comments
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by jfe 12y ago
I may be a bit biased -- the Bell Labs guys are major influences of mine -- but I think the criticism of Pike, et. al is unfair. I understood Pike's "systems research is irrelevant" presentation to be a tongue-in-cheek observ
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by jfe 12y ago
i still have much to learn about language design, but i believe julia has gradual typing. it uses type annotations for the purposes of multiple dispatch (which is awesome, btw) and optimization.
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by jfe 12y ago
...or you can just use Julia :)
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Optimization: Your Worst Enemy (1999)(flounder.com)
7 points by jfe 12y ago|1 comments
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Getting Up to Speed
17 points by jfe 12y ago|6 comments
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by jfe 12y ago
Management is fixated on On-Time Delivery. We do have metrics showing that QA spends a lot of time re-running automated tests, but there's no direct proof that shows that the crappy framework is the cause.
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What Would You Do?
2 points by jfe 12y ago|8 comments
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by jfe 12y ago
ditto. HTTPy would have been better, methinks.
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by jfe 12y ago
neat, but i'll stick to nasm, thanks.
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by jfe 12y ago
me rikey
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by jfe 13y ago
yes, perhaps i should have titled this rant "we need fewer programmers and more engineers" :)
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by jfe 13y ago
not so much interacting, as harnessing computing resources. plan9, though not terribly popular in the mainstream sense, introduced very simple and effective methods of distributed computing. the engineers broke away from the TCP model and d
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We need less Rails, Node.js, etc. and more systems research
4 points by jfe 13y ago|8 comments
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by jfe 13y ago
i know, and i don't care.
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by jfe 13y ago
this article is ridden with economic fallacies.
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by jfe 13y ago
i wouldn't say that HN or the open source community in general has shut the doors on microsoft as much as microsoft has shut the doors on the open source community. developers who get into the microsoft bubble never seem to make their
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by jfe 13y ago
become as good a programmer as you possibly can, and learn to write extremely thorough test plans. put another way, build quality in from the start. ensure that you don't need to fix/update your code or test plan later. if that&#x
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by jfe 13y ago
How is a 9-week course in Ruby On Rails considered a "programming foundation"? It's sad to me how many people think software development is all about web frameworks.
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by jfe 13y ago
why, God, why?
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by jfe 13y ago
Time to get out of your two-editor bubble, folks; there are other options. In my opinion, Acme puts both Emacs and Vim to shame.
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Assembler.org = Making Art With Machine Code(assembler.org)
2 points by jfe 13y ago|0 comments
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by jfe 13y ago
worst writing ever.
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by jfe 13y ago
if you have other apple devices, i'd suggest sticking with macs to take advantage of icloud et. al. otherwise it doesn't really matter which one you choose.
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by jfe 13y ago
agreed. these metrics mean absolutely nothing. the founding fathers preferred congressional stalemates to passing laws in excess.
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by jfe 13y ago
there's a program called 'grep' that does this, too... >_>