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by killedbydeath 14y ago
If you need to store arbitrary JSON fields in the database and index them, then you indeed are better of with some NoSQL database. But I strongly disagree with the statement that all new startups deal with that kind of data organization. Ma
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by killedbydeath 14y ago
Not sure what you mean by lack of developer friendliness and what specific tools you find it lacking. Postgres is a great choice for new startups that need an RDBMS and like having schema for their data. There is built-in JSON support in up
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by killedbydeath 14y ago
I liked using IntelliJ IDEA for Java development. However the reasons I now use Komodo Edit and ST2 over PyCharm/IDEA for Python are: IntelliJ has slower startup times, does certain things slower, takes up a lot of memory, does not look as
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
There is Galaxy Player: http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/mp3-players/YP-G70CWY/XAA
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
Silk has the same ideas behind it which Opera has been pushing with Opera Mini/Mobile and Opera Turbo for years. There is no reason why Amazon cannot enjoy the same kind of tremendous marketshare as Opera does.
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
Not sure if this helps, but as an interviewer I found "masters in computer science from a within top 50 state university in US" to be very weak signal of programming skills. Many candidates from schools which I would consider to be top 20 (
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
My understanding is that Castro is quite anti-religious just like any other communist leader (confirmed by Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Cuba ). Hitler was in conflict with Christian churches as well since he was esse
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
The connection between authoritarianism and religion is pretty weak. Most XX century authoritarian countries which terrorized their citizens where anti-religious. Take a look at the history of the Soviet Union where hundred of thousands of
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
We must have had very different experiences. I found Java to be a lot more limiting than C++, and I find them more different than similar. In C++ templates let you implement many interesting ideas in the language. The syntax would be verbos
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
Many alphabets do a good job transmitting sounds. Spanish, French or German are easy to read. English is particularly bad at having any correlation between spelling and pronunciation. "Spelling bee" would make little sense in most languages
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
I would also add inability to create objects in stack, if you are doing anything recursive. The overhead of heap object creation is pretty visible. So I had to either reuse objects and essentially create my own memory management layer or tr
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
I have shipped products in C++ and Java and would definitely advocate C++ over Java in almost every situation. Java manages to be more verbose and less powerful at the same time. Then again I currently use Python mostly, so I guess I am usi
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
There is a very large number of problem where it is very easy to just run a few independent instances of Python. Web servers definitely fall into this category, splitting requests between processes is trivial. GIL would be an issue for a ta
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
C++ had implicit reference counting for many years now (more than a decade for sure).
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
At least when I was studying there (late 90-s), all entrance exam problems were supposed to be solved without any calculus. The motivation given was that algebra and geometry give enough variety of material for hard and beautiful problems a
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
That is not necessarily a math puzzle. Sounds more like a programming task formalization using math notation if you take the brute force search approach. Using math concepts helps too phrase interview questions in a non-ambiguous way, like
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
You must be coming from a different C++ background. I had to program in Java for a couple years after 10 years of C++/Qt and was unpleasantly surprised. Java manages to be slower and more verbose/less powerful than C++.
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
Why do people forget about the Soviet Union when talking about "the war"?
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
Curious what you are trying to say. I program mostly in Python, but never considered ease of refactoring to be its strength. I felt more comfortable changing code in C++ mostly because of the static typing providing additional correctness g
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by killedbydeath 15y ago
Gmail as a product was innovative in many ways (large storage, convenient search). It was much better than competitors, I switched immediately. Not sure if the same can be said about Google Offers.
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by killedbydeath 16y ago
Kids in high school and even in early years of college have a lot to choose from. I was seriously considering medicine and econ but eventually chose a math/CS major.
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by killedbydeath 16y ago
I am really curious what skill are those calculators teaching. I grew up in a country where they were not used, and I went to a math-oriented high school, and math grad school. We had math problems designed for paper which taught us how to
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by killedbydeath 16y ago
There are function pointers in C and they are used to pass logic into C/C++ functions. They are not anonymous, and are more awkward to use than the new syntax, but they covered many use cases.
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by killedbydeath 16y ago
To me the Qt and Cocoa approaches look the same. Qt is built on top of C++ pretty much the same way Objective-C is built on top of C: there is some syntactic sugar to allow dynamic binding and you do not ever have to look at the intermediat
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by killedbydeath 16y ago
Komodo Edit is a nice and very configurable light-weight editor (free): http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit A more functional IDE (paid): http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide I have been using Komodo for a number of languages on a n
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by killedbydeath 16y ago
The allied victory was not a sole American effort. And the US would have had a hard time if the Germans were to take over Europe. It was in its own interests to get involved.
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by killedbydeath 16y ago
The computer you bought boots into someone else's personal desktop?
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by killedbydeath 16y ago
Buying stolen goods is not very ethical either. And it should have been pretty obvious that the computer was stolen. But I personally would not be able to be that angry at someone buying my stolen computer.
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by killedbydeath 16y ago
I am not too familiar with Erlang, but I am very familiar with Python and C++. And you put Erlang between Python and C++ by verbosity, so I made my conclusions accordingly. Also, synchronization and locking (with mutexes) are not the only
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by killedbydeath 16y ago
How are you getting 1:10 LOC ratio over C++? My Python code would be at most 3 times more dense than C++. C++ has some very expressive high level constructs (template tricks mostly), please do not put it into the same bin with Java. And eve

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