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by kscaldef 17y ago
Hmm... I also wrote a concurrent webcrawler in Erlang, and at no point was I tempted to use regular expressions.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Yes, and that's the subject of TFA.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
"bounce" is slang. There's nothing syntactically distinct in that sentence from Standard English, which is the discussion of the article.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It's common to confuse the Peter Principle and the Dilbert Principle, but they are not the same. In fact, they are nearly opposite to one another, despite producing similar outcomes. The DP proposes that those who have shown themselves in
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It also looks like they still aren't releasing the test suite, which makes it very difficult for anyone outside Ericsson to contribute to the project.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
"The Standard and Enterprise Programs allow you to share your application with _up to 100_ other iPhone or iPod touch users with Ad Hoc distribution. Share your application through email or by posting it to a web site or server." (emphasis
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I'm sure they could bang that out in an afternoon. A weekend, at most. </sarcasm> I really wish people would actually read the MapReduce paper before trying to talk about what it is.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I agree. Whenever I read one of these articles, I feel like I should post my own story of how I interviewed at Google and it was completely reasonable, if expectedly rigorous. I really only had two complaints: 1) they sent me to lunch wit
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Or maybe what's sexist is thinking that women don't want to get laid too?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I agree with you that there are wars I wish we had not fought. But at the same time, far more fought and died in wars where I believe our cause was just.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
This is more a comment on his motivation than the body of the article, but it seems to me that if running your tests requires anything more than typing "make/rake/ant/whatever test" than you're Doing It Wrong. And once your tests are that
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by kscaldef 17y ago
What really baffled me about that anecdote is that I wonder what he was "learning about his customers" by migrating hosting providers and database systems. And yet, somehow, foreign keys get all the blame.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Of course, this should also go the other way. As an interviewee, your task is both to prove yourself and to make the interviewers prove that their company is somewhere you want to work. So, ask probing questions about their culture, their
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Absolutely. I've interviewed many "senior" developers who couldn't complete even very basic programming tasks. They could talk your ear off about their "experience", but ask them to actually do something and they were completely lost.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> But asking a programmer to write a complete application for you is like asking an electrician to build a small electrical grid for you before they work on your house. Can you imagine if every plumber had to prove that they could snake
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Sadly, calculus is a pre-requisite for anything more than very basic probability and statistics.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Actually, most of the time they do a trace chemical wipe of the container if you bring saline or other liquid meds through the security line.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
What I find distressing about this example is that it's being used to support the idea of writing such systems in C++, where such errors are very easy to make; rather than in a language where you can protect against it in the type system.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> I don’t have numbers to prove this, but the Erlang implementation can also be made faster with a lot less effort since each recursive call can be run in parallel. Ugh... untrue. Process creation is cheap in Erlang, but it's not that
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I think the author is trying to say that "not good with people" is rather different than "autistic". Yes, as a consequence of their disability, autistic people often do have trouble interacting with other people, but there's a specific pat
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I think it would be better to either find a legitimate use for the feature, or conclude that it might be a mis-feature. For example, I can see the value of allowing a default function argument to be a Proc/lambda. I can even imagine how it
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by kscaldef 17y ago
This has got to be one of the worst pieces of gushing fanboy-ism I've run into lately. "Look how cool Ruby is, because you can do these crazy, unreadable, unmaintainable things. I don't know why you'd want to do them, but isn't it awesome
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It's probably a questionable assumption that screen will be installed on the jump host. Those machines usually have pretty minimal systems.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
He means simultaneously.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Wow, are we really that dominated by the startup culture here? You can't think of a single situation where correctness is more important than speed? I've spent most of my career working on systems handling money, at jobs where we actually
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> After reading this and its complacent I've-learned-as-much-as-I-need-and-besides-I-have-kids attitude If you think he's claiming that he's learned all he needs, I don't think that you really did read TFA. > I know at least five gu
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by kscaldef 17y ago
You spend a lot of time talking about semantics and levels of abstraction, but there's no mention at all of syntax. I find it difficult to consider something a "language" when the syntactic rules are completely decoupled from the abstracti
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Can I suggest that you remove or change the blowjob analogy? It's needlessly sexual, somewhat jarringly out of place in the rest of the article, and also carries an implication that all of the readers of your book are male. We've seen far
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by kscaldef 17y ago
QuickCheck is cool. But don't make the mistake of thinking that it proves that the properties hold universally.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I think there's a classic nature vs. nurture question here. Is there inherently something that causes people to be attracted to people who look like what they see in the mirror; or is it influenced by the media, your peer group, your paren

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