justinhj

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by justinhj 10y ago
For me the only downside of strong typing is that code takes longer to write. It's reminiscent of my years writing C++ where often fiddling around with header files, type declarations and templates would seemingly take up more time tha
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I made a graph and it adapted nicely to part 2. An advantage of the graph is that it would have handled the keypad becoming 3 dimensional or some other change that stopped it working as a simple grid. A big disadvantage is I made several er
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by justinhj 10y ago
You're judging the state of the art in video game AI based on your undergraduate classes? I used to work in video game AI having studied AI academically and was also disappointed that a) there isn't a lot of horse power to spend o
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by justinhj 10y ago
I feel your enthusiasm but I think your message will be a little off putting for new users. Personally I've been using emacs for about 15 years and would have no trouble sitting down at a fresh install and using it. I use all the defau
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by justinhj 10y ago
I'm around the developer age you call old and I actively work with microservices. I agree with your comment but I don't think there's anything wrong with reinvention as long as the new techniques, libraries and frameworks are
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by justinhj 10y ago
I don't think it's a joke. Wechat is a highly usable app, but more importantly it is integrated with many parts of Chinese life so you use it for many things. Perhaps most importantly of all it made headway into getting people to
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by justinhj 10y ago
Unless you have a fixed sized header which includes the size. That's all that is needed to avoid people having to pull up a debugger to figure out why things are going bad in production.
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by justinhj 10y ago
I don't know what part of the industry you work in, but the idea that we would hire someone incapable of communication at the level of "you should ask Dave of Simon about that feature" seems nuts to me.
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by justinhj 10y ago
I must be missing something here. Surely the definition of median is that half the population is above, and half below?
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As a counterpoint to that maybe everyone on the team should know who the expert is in any particular area and EVERY member of the team should have adequate communication skills
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If you look at many factors Sweden is way more livable than the USA. Perhaps that explains why culturally they don't mind paying higher taxes. I've worked in the US and Canada. I pay more taxes in Canada but the social services an
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by justinhj 10y ago
Before agriculture and civilization as we know it, people lived all over the world. Their lifestyles were sustainable and included meat.
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by justinhj 10y ago
Ah I missed that capability thanks for the correction
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by justinhj 10y ago
This is the most interesting view of the Chinese Room argument I've read so far. Thank you for sharing.
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This is essentially Searle's Chinese Room. I studied it during undergraduate years and I've never been satisfied with his argument against strong AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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by justinhj 10y ago
Drifting off topic but something about that comic is confusing. Surely by putting down rocks to represent the computation is he is not simulating the Universe, only describing a simulation of it. In the case of the cardboard and marbles the
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by justinhj 10y ago
I don't think that's the recommended way of doing things. Redis will cache compiled Lua scripts internally so after the first EVAL you can call EVALSHA and pass the scripts hash. But you're client code should always be ready
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by justinhj 10y ago
Do you know anyone with long term chronic pain?
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that's a tiny subset of what Prolog can do
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There are plenty of big companies that stay on AWS. Netflix is the obvious example. Companies like Zynga and Activision are moving gradually from self hosted to AWS (from what I hear).
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The first line of Wikipedia's entry states "The Armitage–Doll model is a statistical model of carcinogenesis, proposed in 1954 by Peter Armitage and Richard Doll, which suggested that a sequence of multiple distinct genetic events
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by justinhj 10y ago
I work with a team of 8 scala developers of varied experience. We try to set the bar at the sweet spot of power and readability. If someone's code becomes super dense because they've gone crazy with scalaz constructs then we ask a
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by justinhj 10y ago
A Paul Graham article lead me to Common Lisp and Scheme, SICP, On Lisp which lead to Clojure which lead to being more interested in functional programming, which lead to functional reactive programming and Scala. Quite a long ride, but I&#x
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by justinhj 10y ago
Sounds like you'd be fine with a flip phone from 10 years ago and a small high quality camera. You don't seem to be the target audience for the latest smartphones.
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I plan to run on it on staging while running load test suites. Not brave enough to run it in production yet
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by justinhj 10y ago
I feel your pain, I also worked on a large MMO style mobile game backend, but my situation was a lot better because as you say AWS is a lot more mature at this point. Dealing with limited resources such as MySQL and Redis is a problem you s
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by justinhj 10y ago
We can't argue objectively about an opinion but take a look at this typical page of the php.net documentation: http://php.net/manual/en/function.usort.php It has everything I need to know about the function c
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by justinhj 10y ago
Good questions. Well firstly phpstorm is a very high quality. I can work with php code in various contexts such as running test suites, normal development and connecting to a live server. It definitely has good support for running and debug
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Look at c++ as a counter example. Once immensely popular and yet I don't think many people would say it was well designed
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Disclaimer I worked on a large php app server that ran on about 50 servers and I miss it. The documentation is really good. A model for programming language documentation. Process per request is really simple to understand and scale. Your s

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