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by keefe 17y ago
how exactly are they at odds? The second statement pertains to services provided by developers, not the developers themselves. Just because you pass a qualification exam, no matter how serious that exam, does not mean you can provide a qual
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by keefe 17y ago
I use http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ and ACM digital library and sometimes google scholar
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by keefe 17y ago
I don't particularly care how it's laid out. The point is that it is an instance of a class, which maintains its own local state - I don't care how that state is organized, but it's crucial to remember that it has such state.
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by keefe 17y ago
my understanding is an object is a particular piece of memory, structured according to a class which may be seen as the abstract data type for that particular piece of data. As far as I understand the JVM, the compiler doesn't replicate fun
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by keefe 17y ago
What percent of people that answer this question are able to accurately identify a weakness and discuss how they are working to resolve it or could compensate for it? Most people with high skill levels are in the middle of a series of incre
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by keefe 17y ago
problem #1 : poor documentation <ctrl+w>
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by keefe 17y ago
I think these are all very good ideals to strive towards. However, the real world often doesn't work that way - there is some pressing "business deadline" that you simply cannot avoid hustling to meet. That's why I would prefer writing for
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by keefe 17y ago
I studied karate for several years and I've been a programmer for 10 and I never quite enjoyed the software kata concept. In martial arts, a kata is about micro optimizations as you attempt to match the unachievable idea of perfection of th
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by keefe 17y ago
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ You should check this book out and contemplate the generalities of programming languages. Java is the most popular example of a whole class of programming languages - object oriented, automatic garbage collec
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by keefe 17y ago
ACM's site has tons and tons of papers, highly recommend joining - it's cheap too
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by keefe 17y ago
nice idea, I am a JSON junkie but I tend to leave it at the transport layer
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by keefe 17y ago
once the technology is mature, it will be 1 ebook reader as a client for thousands of books. They don't use that much energy during operation.
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by keefe 17y ago
To me it is totally clear that ebook readers will dominate. The key technology is e-ink, which is not luminescent. I believe that luminescent displays are more difficult to read and that products like sony reader and amazon kindle will get
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by keefe 17y ago
My understanding is this is a pretty huge field : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_finance and that if you try to roll your own, you are computing against a variety of math and CS phds that big trading firms hire to do analytics
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by keefe 17y ago
It's worth noting that the average person starting a successful company is not in his early 20s. http://www.startups.co.uk/6678842907756695817/the-average-en... That's one article discussing this, there are others. The reason you hear ab
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by keefe 17y ago
mathematica
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by keefe 17y ago
"TOR, or just changing Proxies would still work" it's worth noting that from TOR, you are hitting their site from some exit node - which may very well repeat
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by keefe 17y ago
http://www.w3schools.com/ This site is a good reference for the W3 standards. Flash is currently most easily coded with AS3. Adobe recently redid the flash VM to behave more like a traditional programming language and did away with most o
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by keefe 17y ago
First off, I think is is an interesting article highlighting the difference between pointer arithmetic and array access. As far as the title goes, I think the answer should be a quick and obvious no. Pointers are variables that contain a pa
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by keefe 17y ago
Very nice, coherent tutorial on a new widget!
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by keefe 17y ago
Bit of a waste of time. Caffeine is a stimulant, a real drug just like any other. A drug being legal does not make it less a drug. Caffeine tolerance is real and involves changes to brain chemistry : http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/jour
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by keefe 17y ago
Your website says "Error establishing a database connection" when people visit it?
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by keefe 17y ago
"To improve developer productivity, and easier access to server resources, the application should run on the server only" <facepalm> What a joke! Writing web applications is genuinely writing a distributed, client server system. The
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by keefe 17y ago
Nope, but others have recommended them to me. I haven't even signed up yet - I was just curious because I will likely have to look for that kind of work sometime relatively soon.
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by keefe 17y ago
I don't think anybody has much interest in random people talking about software that hasn't been written yet. I barely keep up with sites that are already up and I'm pretty interested in the space... Where are you looking for the contractin
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by keefe 17y ago
"Yet more to the point, encouraging numbers or not, the technology sector is unlikely to lead the economy out of the recession. More likely, it is the economy, supported by cheap money and stimulus programmes, that is pushing IT." This is n
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by keefe 17y ago
Yeah, I am in a similar position. Are you working on any application of your own? I am, so most of my effort goes towards that. I am interested in the questionairre idea as well and in fact I have a polling piece of code I am working up for
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by keefe 17y ago
For the quiz builder, I think brainbench is commonly used for this - creating good exams is a difficult problem. I personally think contributions to existing open source is the best idea for small projects. imho most apps that are started f
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by keefe 17y ago
It's worth noting to the ethics committee that PokerStars is technically breaking the law and should have ceased accepting deposits like PartyPoker did after the UIGEA was passed.
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by keefe 17y ago
He got a heads up bot working, which is a totally different animal than a full table ring. U of Alberta has a group discussing poker as an open AI issue : http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/ NLHE is not checkers, it's genuinely difficult to crac

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