jlg23

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by jlg23 10y ago
> By definition an optimization being premature means it's not necessary in the present. No, it is premature when it is not necessary for the deployment (at some future point in time). When I was developing for mobile phones (long b
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by jlg23 10y ago
Ouch. Your story has already been the backing of my policy even before I knew it: Never ever fly without my most valuable things in carry-on luggage (and twice I refused to board the plane because of this - both times they relented because
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by jlg23 10y ago
I guess you'd have enjoyed SCWM[0], a window manager built with the cassowary[1] as a backend: Window layouts could be constrainted to get effects like "If I move my emacs-window to top-left, the xterm with the log output on top r
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by jlg23 10y ago
Actually, what is this mobile-phone thingy? Is it accepted in the US to check text messages immediately? Elsewhere in Europe? Should it be? The OP just fails to abstract away from "social media" to "distractions pushed into y
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by jlg23 10y ago
I have run into ageism and it did hurt the company a lot: We were developing a game in j2me for mobile phones and had to minimize the assembly's size and maximize performance (for a few animations and for the AI's turns) - we had
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by jlg23 10y ago
> I've not read your paper, but I'm willing to bet [...] Offloading all burden of proof onto the partner in a conversation strikes me as.. odd - esp. if said partner already provided a paper on the very same topic that you did
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by jlg23 10y ago
That's only true if user [meta] data is a key asset or if one had one too many SAP-koolaids. In reality, most real life companies can be wholly contained in any $20 printer's memory.
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by jlg23 10y ago
Intro: Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ Reference: Common Lisp HyperSpec (short CLHS): http://clhs.lisp.se/
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by jlg23 10y ago
I'm all for using existing tools, but not for the sake of itself. If there is a good reason (and everyone in the team agrees), all now obsolete tools should simply be replaced by the new one. If this did not work in your office, this i
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by jlg23 10y ago
Yes, testing is a skill, no, developers (at least none I know) are not frustrated because they lack the skill. Testing is (usually) debugging without understanding the code behind the application one is testing. Software developers really,
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by jlg23 10y ago
SEO-based "reputation" is just a misnomer; asking for actual people being rated opens the door to easy silencing of critics. The problem is not the media, but our consumer attitude to news: Only a few track down the source of a ne
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Actually, I'd love to see Google require this[...]: reputation tracking of reporters I'm pretty sure I do not want my search engine to assign some "reputation" values. Instead, I'd prefer people to get educated
823.
by jlg23 10y ago
TL;DR: "Since this is just a sample, it is not correct to conclude that no passwords, credit cards, health records, social security numbers, or customer encryption keys were ever exposed."
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Usually I clear immigration in Ireland (one of the few places you can do the immigration before you leave), and those folks are always much more pleasant. FYI: It's not just Ireland that let's you clear US-immigration before
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by jlg23 10y ago
"Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease, for which there is no known cure except in very specific situations. Management concentrates on keeping blood sugar levels as close to normal, without causing low blood sugar . This can usually
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by jlg23 10y ago
As the article pointed out it should not be tried without medical supervision, and the root of the comment thread also pointed out that s/he is using a continuous glucose monitor to prevent low blood sugar levels when changing or adjus
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by jlg23 10y ago
All the links are in the footer of the page.
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Being expected to tip a person for a service you just paid for is NOT normal! In other cultures it is normal. Yet in other cultures you'll offend people when you try to tip them. Can we just accept cultural differences, and, when
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by jlg23 10y ago
> To come into someone else's codebase that has umpteen number of iterations and tough business realities like trying to make money, and proclaiming that it's terrible code and how he would fix it, is delusional and self-aggran
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by jlg23 10y ago
The comment you responded to has a point - even I take WaPo-publications with a truckload of salts of grain nowadays and I don't even have a stake in US-politics.
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by jlg23 10y ago
Thank you for the pointer to the video - the guy really knows what he is talking about (at least it 100% reflects my experience)!
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by jlg23 10y ago
There are two big problems with your question: a) By the time some NGO can specify requirements like "data analyst should do X to prove Y" they also have someone who can formulate those, i.e. some person who at least had some expo
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by jlg23 10y ago
I'd argue that the average monthly income of artists is lower than that of software developers. Same for workers in care.
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by jlg23 10y ago
> I like alternative solutions to this problem, but I don't think yours solves all cases of the problem. If I cared enough about solving "all cases of the problem" I'd probably not post my solution here but patent it
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by jlg23 10y ago
> I hope they make the entrance price high [..] Perhaps if a developer has to put down a chunk of change, he/she will think twice about publishing the 37th zombie-tower-defense erotic (but PG!) visual novel. Please not, the 37th is
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by jlg23 10y ago
I give the comment you responded to that it is really, really hard to read beyond the "30 languages in 30 days" claim" because I have not ever met a developer who could learn a language in depth in a day and therefore my bs-d
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by jlg23 10y ago
> you can't compare performance of tools Of course you can. Unless the newcomer gives me the $800/month the OP saves now with pgsql, performance is one of the key metrics. Nobody cares if you can ride your bicycle hands-free if
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by jlg23 10y ago
Honestly, I don't care whether I am driven over by a Porsche Cayenne or a Willys MB. And while I have not worked in the banking sector myself, lots of my friends did - and it was not cobol. They are catching up and they all know that
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Looking at modern day web development we are seeing the opposite, where the program is many times bigger than it's output, suggesting to me that the modern frameworks do not come from any sound theory. I tend to agree, most "
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by jlg23 10y ago
Or, in the case of international money transfer: They see through the existing system and just openly do what most banks have been doing all the time behind the scenes, passing most of the savings to the customer. The only problem I see wit

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