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by johnzabroski 16y ago
I didn't catch that fish scales joke until you pointed it out. Very nice.
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
Upvoted, but the author cites his own book in his blog post, which I read. I would just have to say, stay away from that book. It is vacuous. It gave a few decent recommendations, but the title was misleading and it was very verbose. I r
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
Fixing their billing procedures and optimizing their price list for services. This is pretty tricky stuff and easy to get wrong, because there are many factors that influence how hospitals get paid, such as stoploss rules, carve outs, work
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
There is a thing in HCI called the End-User Model Fallacy, where engineers try to create an interface based on a prototypical end-user, and then the real end-user spends time trying to figure out how they think the interface works, and it b
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
For a lot of professional needs, the most valuable information is hidden in the deep web. For example, many MIS/DSS/ERP/CRM/TLA systems don't provide a lot of public information about how their systems work, so if you are trying to evaluat
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
> Actually, you have allocated most of your comment for advertising your blog… Sorry if it came across that way. I really don't check who reads my blog, there is no comment mechanism, and I do not like linking it anywhere except to fri
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
You were agreeing that we full circle with from ODBC to REST. I am saying you don't seem to have understood the commenter's sarcasm.
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
I prefer books that are highly rated on Amazon.com. I generally don't care how long they are. I mainly ask myself, Am I the right audience for this book? If I am not the right audience, can I gain a new perspective by reading this book? W
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
If by 'REST+DOM/JS' you mean "Random Bad, Hodge-Podge Code Filled with Callbacks and pervasive use of global variables", then yes, bad programming will always have a place - for PHP programmers. Most really awesome apps being written these
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
Do you know what ODBC is, and why most smart programmers dislike it and try to stomp out its stupidity? The model for writing drivers, and plugging in drivers, in ODBC, is R. E. T. A. R. D. E. D. Edit: I forgot to mention that using the dri
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
RE: You don't have to lay out your GUI's with a markup language designed for typography - The modern VT100. Are you referring to HTML and CSS? RE: You don't have to keep state with a stateless protocol. You are referring to HTTP. RE: Now yo
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
Your view of how to solve problems seems very programmer-oriented and not business-oriented. Stuff like how to process a REST request is simply details. I don't understand why you are focusing so much on this aspect, but I have seen this a
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
Thank you very much for that tidbit.
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
There are some outstanding open source .NET libraries that blow away what you can get in Java. Likewise, some COTS .NET libraries blow away equivalent Java libraries (e.g., for unit testing and inversion of control, query-driven source cod
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
I didn't know that. Thanks for the info about the debugging support. I guess I have to give them credit for that.
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
I'm very familiar with engineering compilers and de-compilers. Have you seen Microsoft Phoenix? It lets you sink/hoist intermediate representations; the key for this would be having an API that allows ordering graph rewriting rules so tha
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
The ripoff is in the fact that they have added nothing significant to the product other than making it more difficult for people to obtain.
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
I could be interested in building a Reflector clone if somebody would write an F# plug-in to the project. I would probably start with looking at the CCI-Metadata project on Codeplex, and the Microsoft Phoenix compiler framework. Mono has
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
Vladimir Safonov's Trustworthy Compilers is another good reference on this subject, in addition to the books already mentioned here on HN. Safonov works through some examples of real-world languages, and argues why hand-written parsers are
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
U.S. primary and secondary schools do not accept the constructivist school as dogma. Perhaps you have simply misunderstood the differences he was stressing. For more information on this, you should probably look at what Seymour Papert has
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
Who said anything about new build systems? All the build systems he was thinking of are not even worth criticizing, including make. Check out Vesta, created about 25 years ago... make is a complete mess. Trying to put lipstick on it and dr
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
You're not comparing it to the state-of-the-art, which, ahem, was developed over 20 years ago: Vesta. Your ideas on how to make it better seem produced by having your head down typing away at the monitor, rather than seeing the big picture.
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
You're aware that the author of this article is the author of a book titled GNU Make Unleashed, right? Who is swalling the snake oil?
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
You need a more complete history of Microsoft to know the full story. Back in the early DirectX days (1996), Microsoft was working on a technology called Chrome Effects that was intended to compete with VRML as the world's ultimate "Network
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
I made some comments on the user's blog entry. For our company, we would have loved to use Google for all our web API needs for addresses, but we can't, due to corporate firewall restrictions and the map display restriction mentioned by a r
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
Correct!
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
Joe Walton wrote a book about it.
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
You may be interested in taking the Mansion's Tour. Stop by the Visitor Center. It costs $20 but you get to ride a energy-efficient Charlie Car. If you get the right tour guide, he will point out to you Larry's house on the tour. For goo
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
Correct. Larry also owns a beach house in the mansions area of Newport, Rhode Island, aka sailing capital of the world (the main street connecting to the dwarfs is called America's Cup Avenue).
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by johnzabroski 16y ago
I posted a comment on the "Open Source" Google blog that was apparently not approved (when I posted, there was 0 comments, and now there are 4 comments, none of them mine). See: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/09/changing-look-

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