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by justinhj 10y ago
I'm no mathematician but this makes sense to me. I'll be interestsd in seeing how the article follow up proves the same.
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by justinhj 10y ago
Assuming MySQL meets their needs there's no hugely compelling reason to choose PostgreSQL over MySQL.
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by justinhj 10y ago
A degree in literature doesn't teach you how to be a best selling author or a get a job writing tv scripts. On the other hand becoming a good a programmer is much more difficult when you don't understand the fundamental inventions
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by justinhj 10y ago
But that means you're heavily biased against programmers that may be very capable and successful but don't work on open source projects. That reduces the catchment size considerably.
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by justinhj 10y ago
Scala makes it really easy to call a blocking function using a future with a configurable execution context. I don't see why one would run out of threads. Currently we use the Typesafe supported Slick library but the mechanism is the s
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by justinhj 10y ago
You're missing out on a huge amount of great things if you let the parenthesis stop your lisp journey. With editor support for formatting and matching they are easy to deal with. In fact the main reason closing brackets are so noticeab
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by justinhj 10y ago
I found that if you advertise for php programmers you get mostly people working on fairly simple web applications. The more talented programmers would apply when we emphasized that we use php for the front of the backend systems, but we als
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by justinhj 10y ago
Have you tried it both ways? some scripted attacks will try 22 find that it is open then spam it with attacks. If it's not open they will have to scan your ports then spam you with attacks
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by justinhj 10y ago
Personally I think both needs are met by moocs. If you want to be taught watch the lectures. If you want a more practical self directed approach do the exercises. Most people will do both
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by justinhj 10y ago
I worked on this for a few years with some others. A fun experience to make a cl library for games that would work on the three major platforms and several cl implementations. We got bored and abandoned it though. https://github
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by justinhj 10y ago
It's actually not the worst UI at all. It's optimized for expert play. After a few days you can quickly do what you need to do in an efficient manner. It's a bit inconsistent but it's very functional. It's sort of l
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by justinhj 10y ago
Actually PHP and MySQL is a pretty respectable stack today if you use it right.
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by justinhj 10y ago
I couldn't help thinking of this Joel Spolsky article as I read this. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html sometimes the dungeon master dragging his feet over a rewrite is right to do so. Iron
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by justinhj 10y ago
Reminds me of the movie Fantastic Voyage [1966] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060397/
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by justinhj 10y ago
I find it amusing that the author asks for an optimal solution that avoids taking up extra space. Then in his example solution he makes two copies of the original string to convert it to lowercase and strip invalid characters. Using a regex
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by justinhj 10y ago
The article seems to imply there is a right and wrong answer to what is a very personal question that depends on your exact circumstances.
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by justinhj 10y ago
> Not necessarily. Most insurers pretty much break even on the insurance, and make their money on investing the premiums. Auto in particular. That's surprising to me. I'm not familiar with the industry but logically I'd ex
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by justinhj 10y ago
I used to live in London (England) and walk and tube everywhere. My first trip to the US was LA. I parked at a cafe and bought a coffee. We saw a store across the street so crossed it. Even though traffic was light and it was easy to do so
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by justinhj 10y ago
There is nothing terrible or stupid about avoiding joins/transactions for speed. The technique of using blobs of data in MySQL rows in this article is perfectly valid and widespread at this point. As long as you understand the trade of
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by justinhj 10y ago
In the mid 90s I wrote some A* path finding code for a game and in the process wrote a programming tutorial about it. The page got a lot of traffic and requests for code, so around 98 I wrote a version of it using a simple api but spent a l
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by justinhj 11y ago
Wonder if they wouldn't be better off going private again
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by justinhj 11y ago
That didn't work for me, I see the paywall.
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by justinhj 11y ago
You just need to find ways to utilize it for its strengths. I've been playing Rovio's Retry which has very skillful twitch gameplay, and since it involves touching with one finger it's easy to play on a bus or in a coffee lin
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by justinhj 11y ago
The concept of countries makes sense legally and practically when it comes to licensing content. That's not netflix's fault.
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by justinhj 11y ago
Putting a wire or a signal across a border doesn't change content licensing between businesses operating in different countries. We wish it did but it doesn't.
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by justinhj 11y ago
How are they screwing you? You pay for a Netflix sub in the country you live in, and you're paying only for the content they can license there. By making sure people can't watch whatever country they want easily, they make it easi
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by justinhj 11y ago
This is where luck comes in. If you wait until something is super popular then you lose the advantage of being one of the first people that understand the technology when it goes into production. Also sometimes you may learn something that
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by justinhj 11y ago
I had an older version of Docker installed as well as the beta, so when I installed Kitematic nothing worked correctly until I reverted everything.
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by justinhj 11y ago
Good review. One thing mentioned is that the author was able to remove Kitematic amongst other things. Kitematic is a GUI for Docker. There is currently no replacement for it.
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by justinhj 11y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I don't really agree this is not an issue. The article itself shows that the git repo can get into a confused state which you have to fix, even if the fix is simple. The experiment itself doesn't em

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