jholman

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by jholman 13y ago
Did you just point out that Scott Kurtz (one of the authors of that book) gave some advice similar to that given by Scott Kurtz (author of PvP)? (hopefully the humour/snark part of that comment doesn't overwhelm the information part)
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by jholman 13y ago
They can get help from a human. But Google will not issue chargebacks for payments made via "send money with GMail".
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by jholman 13y ago
I, of course, know nothing about your case. And if I did, I wouldn't be able to discuss it in public, because it'd get me fired. It must be nice taking shots in public where you know no-one can shoot back. But since I'm completely ignoran
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by jholman 13y ago
You are absolutely proving my point. No, modern life provably does not require any of those skills in order to stay fed and warm and dry. For example, zero of my cousins (I have two cousins) have ANY of those three skills, and both of them
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by jholman 13y ago
First of all, if comments lie, so do function names. So refactoring to replace all your comments with function-names is a waste of time. The same goes for variable names; the difference is that you were presumably going to have variables
906.
by jholman 13y ago
This browser-based-REPL space is getting CROWDED. It also overlaps substantially with the browser-based-IDE space. Let's see the execution competition commence. Time to start a comprehensive list, maybe, to make head-to-head comparisons.
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by jholman 13y ago
I thought he was too. But remember, the best way to avoid dealing with this dogma in the workforce is to use some other language. It's a win/win... not only do you not have to deal with silly PHP shame, but you ALSO don't have to deal with
908.
by jholman 13y ago
Actually, that's precisely the issue. If the entire internet goes down, it will start to impact things like the power grid and the water systems. Every year, utility companies put more and more of their infrastructure behind increasingly
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by jholman 13y ago
What is AT&T allegedly bringing to the table? Are we assuming that there are people who want to work there, who will view this certification as advancing that goal, is that it? I read the http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq/ , and found
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by jholman 13y ago
I think that sentence is perfect as-is. Which part do you disagree with? First of all, pre-civilized humans (and especially our pre-human ancestors) were highly dependent on intelligence for acquiring food, and staying warm and dry. The p
911.
by jholman 13y ago
Let's see. "Cognitive strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not. As humanity has developed throughout history, individual intelligence has become less critical to our daily existence, but no
912.
by jholman 13y ago
I agree with what you said in THIS comment, but it makes it even more obvious that your previous comment contains untrue statements. You think car manufacturers practice TDD with their prototypes? Ha! People who are building physical prot
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by jholman 13y ago
This analogy (machines, cars, etc) is absolutely terrible. No physical-goods manufacturer uses a process comparable to TDD. TDD is not the same as testing. At the risk over oversimplifying, TDD is writing your tests first. AND they need
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by jholman 13y ago
PM usually means "post meridian", far more often than it means "prime minister". You have to work out what an abbreviation means in context. It can mean "project manager" (as georgemcbay said) or "product manager" (which is different from
915.
by jholman 13y ago
There isn't anything official. It's not _incredibly_ surprising, I think, that a workplace doesn't have a tourism programme. ;) If no Googler volunteers to give you a tour, no one's giving you a tour. Google is an amazing place to work.
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by jholman 13y ago
50 people, efforts applied over 18 months, carbon-fiber construction costs, other costs.... they're not in it for the money.
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by jholman 13y ago
I sort of prefer \V, but same difference I dunno, I haven't used it in the past, because... 1) "It is recommended to always keep the 'magic' option at the default setting, which is 'magic'. This avoids portability problems." 2) Nor do I wa
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by jholman 13y ago
I'm not sure "competitive" captures it, exactly. Sort of? I mean, obviously some people like being better than other people, sure. But I think some people just like being _good_, full stop. But of course you don't know what "good" means
919.
by jholman 13y ago
Exactly. Perl regexes have _poor_ performance in terms of running time, but good usability, including by squeezing non-regular features into their allegedly-regular expressions, and also things like numerous and flexible character classes,
920.
by jholman 13y ago
There are some advantages to following your passion, if you unambiguously have one. And often there are disadvantages. But pretending to have one is not a reasonable strategy. As a first approximation, I'm a fan of Cal Newport's thinking
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by jholman 13y ago
Interesting datum you used. That chart shows that, on those compilers, on those programs, with those test data, Perl and CPython are VERY similar in speed. If you compare your link (Perl / CPython) with the inverse (CPython / Perl), you a
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by jholman 13y ago
It's interesting that you have the top comment, MC, and call him a hero, because I was just thinking how much his writing style reminds me of yours.
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by jholman 13y ago
That was a great talk, too great for just an upvote. Thanks! To others considering watching it, the speaker is willing to indulge himself in a bit of self-absorbed wankery, but he gets most of that out of the way in the first 10 minutes, a
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by jholman 13y ago
Yes and no. If someone is attacking you personally, yes. If someone attacks a group that includes you, breaks one of your passwords, and posts a dump on the internet, yes. But if someone gets some password database, bruteforces all the pass
925.
by jholman 13y ago
I agree that Fizzbuzz isn't a trick question or a brain teaser. If I disagree with you about "trivia", I think it's because I disagree what the word "trivia" means, not because I disagree about Fizzbuzz. Whatever. However, I do meaningful
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by jholman 13y ago
1) No one is going to believe that you can accurately compensate for your biases. If you are in fact biased towards Zuckomorphs, meta-awareness is only going to help so much with that. You don't have to be naive, you don't have to be inco
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by jholman 13y ago
Einh, she specifically claims she had a system. "I walked out of the casino at a profit just by being aware of what the actual odds were and sticking to a system that would milk the machine of as much money as possible. That it did this bit
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by jholman 13y ago
It is my opinion that "[citation needed]" can push conversations in a direction that I value, and as such is often a meaningful-to-me interaction. We can't live in a world where every statement has citations, of course. So in practice, app
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by jholman 14y ago
Nice work, and I wish you success. In the same space, I recently discovered http://c9.io , which I'm pretty happy with overall. Very rich feature-set, and it seems to be open source. (I say "seems" because I haven't checked to see if th
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by jholman 14y ago
Agreed. I am in this camp. And see RaphiePS's comment.

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