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by kscaldef 17y ago
Serving billions of pages a day is not a particularly hard scaling problem if most of those page views only require reads. It's writes, and particularly transactional updates, that are hard.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I'm an ex-Yahoo, and there were all sorts of things like this in the Research Lab.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
FWIW, Yahoo! Research Labs had a version of their search engine with "more/less commercial" sliders years ago.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I think that you're assigning more meaning to the words "like" and "get along with" than the authors intend. Pretty much everywhere they use one of those phrases it should be qualified like "X _say they_ like Y". But that gets tedious, an
605.
by kscaldef 17y ago
"We are sorry that Jamie ripped into us in public" FTFY
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Well, this is why I mentioned TDD. People (maybe not you) don't have a problem with their tests failing right away, and having to fix the test to go forward. In fact, they call it a feature! But when the compiler _proves_ you have a bug,
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by kscaldef 17y ago
OCaml and Haskell seem to strike a pretty good middle ground to me. Powerful, but generally inferred static types. Haskell is a bit more concise, so I think it can be more appealing to the dynamic language crowd. The major objection peopl
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> Unfortunately, the author seems to be on the verge of falling into one of the fallacies he rightly points out: assuming that one of the main purposes of unit testing is to act as a surrogate for static analysis. I've seen code written
609.
by kscaldef 17y ago
You forgot: can you do something productive during your wait / ride?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
5 gal/min? My showerhead is 1.75 gal/min; and, yes, it has plenty of pressure. Also, you don't need to be heating your water to 150 degrees (65 + 85). In fact, that's dangerously hot. Even if you did have your water heater set that high,
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by kscaldef 17y ago
And I'd argue the opposite. Messy, complex designs are hard to unit test. Writing unit tests encourages clean, well-defined, orthogonal interfaces.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I think you misunderstood me. I know well that it's been a yahoo company for years. Nearly 5 years, in fact. I'm suggesting that the people who are still complaining about this need to get over it.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Given a framework like Moose (entirely fair, since you've dragged Rails into the discussion), I'm not seeing anything yet that can't be done with Perl. I sort of get the feeling you haven't used Perl in a while and aren't familiar with any
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Some content would be nice, rather than the implication that I'm just an ignorant blub-er. So, once again, how about some of that data you say you collected to back up what you're saying? Which "more powerful techniques" are you talking ab
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by kscaldef 17y ago
And an even better way is to do both. You've created a completely false dichotomy.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It's been 5 years. I think it's time to let it go.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Ah, yes, the "I don't have to write tests because I'm perfect" school of programming. 1) You aren't perfect. 2) Your coworkers aren't perfect. 3) Your "abstractions" are still code that can have errors in it Also, you are misunderstanding t
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> ...but after having written several programs in Perl until they became unmaintainable (despite my good coding style), and then rewritten them in Ruby in something like 1/10th to 1/20th the lines... I've got no particular interest in s
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by kscaldef 17y ago
I don't see from your argument how unit tests keep you from shipping. You can still choose to ship a product with failing tests. The difference is now you know what (some of) the bugs are.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> Any reputable designer will instantly recognize both No one is asking about "reputable designers". The tiny minority of people who can recognize hundreds of fonts at a glance are not interesting when it comes to this question. There
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by kscaldef 17y ago
It appears to me that it's synchronizing inventory change records between a store front and the physical warehouse. I could be wrong, but I imagine it's something pretty similar to that. And, as much as I do shudder at this code, the name
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by kscaldef 17y ago
All of which avoids the original question: "Does anyone know of reputable research and blind tests that back up the common designer sentiment against Arial?"
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Let me get this straight. Did he just claim that managers need to be willing to fire someone for having bad breath? And he has the nerve to accuse others of tolerating anti-social behavior?
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> Pair programmers who work 6 hour days can finish a lot of useful functionality in a week or two. They also have social lives, get to take long lunches, go hiking on the weekends, etc., even though they are very productive. This is why
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Okay, but I can write code just as quickly in Perl or Python and it'll be several times faster than Ruby. I can write that's Haskell that's just as elegant and concise (although it takes me slightly longer) and that runs orders of magnitud
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by kscaldef 17y ago
> On the other hand, the Mint guys worked for 3 years, earned $170m No, they didn't. A substantial chunk of that money is undoubtedly going to their investors.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Yeah, it does. And having seen those kids blindly step into the road without looking, as if their reflective vests would magically stop the cars, I'm not sure that it makes me feel that much better. :-(
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Yes, this. Our school also requests parents driving their kids to school to consider parking a couple blocks away and walking the remaining distance. A few people seem to do this, but it seems that the majority still can't fathom doing any
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by kscaldef 17y ago
That's for the full population. It would be more relevant to know the breakdown of in-vehicle vs pedestrian / bicyclist deaths for children.
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by kscaldef 17y ago
Well, I might let my 7 year old walk the 3 blocks to school on her own (or with the neighbor kids) except for the last street crossing onto the school grounds, which I'm not comfortable letting her cross on her own because of the crazy scen

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