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by kunley 15y ago
I'd tend to agree, with one exception: it's sometimes even more desirable to construct own /usr/local version of some critical packages (database, languages, crucial libs) instead of distro versions; then recreate this on your all productio
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by kunley 15y ago
+1. Many programmers who are not admins tend to install stuff according to their one-time desire and then announce it "production ready". In fact, there's something called "release management" and it's a rather different mindset. Please cod
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by kunley 15y ago
Does it have buffers (as opposite to files) abstraction, ie. can you open the same file in different windows and work on different parts of it?
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by kunley 15y ago
This reminds me of one of my favourites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Terrors_(Star_Trek:_The_N... (spoiler there) But seriously, TNG writers managed to capture so many important ideas in sf-fashioned stories... Nice hack.
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by kunley 15y ago
I think the whole SQL vs NoSQL stuff is a bit mislead. Relational databases are not dinosaurs. They solve lots of problems. It's the database schema which is a PITA, so let's just have relational engine (with reasoning, like Prolog) without
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by kunley 15y ago
I think good programmer should aim to know both SQL & NoSQL. The backend should be chosen because of the data characteristics, not because of someone's experience..
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by kunley 15y ago
While this is cool, I must admin it's a bit "worse is better" approach. Wouldn't be cooler just to unbloat existing test tools?
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by kunley 15y ago
Looks like HN has now some focus of link spammers.. see recent submissions.
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by kunley 15y ago
What I find amazing is that the original author is really a Racket newbie: http://groups.google.com/group/racket-users/browse_thread/th... yet she came up with elegant and working solution. My bet is that was possible not only because of
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by kunley 15y ago
http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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by kunley 15y ago
+1 for the pragmatic use of Prolog. One can have Prolog-as-a-service. The SWI-PL implementation has excellent webserver out of the box. We feed the Prolog database from some external sources, do the reasoning and expose results via dead sim
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by kunley 15y ago
On your last sentence: well, dataflow variables plus backtracing are crucial things in Prolog; Mozart/Oz has dataflow vars right away and backtracing can be called on demand. How exactly would you do this in Closure? I'm a big fan of this p
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by kunley 15y ago
In XXIV century you speak to your computer and if you're supposed to point'n'click some panels, you do it in predefined special areas - it's modal work - you're occupied with one panel at time, not with dozens of overlapping windows. It's l
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by kunley 15y ago
Allow downvoting of submissions!
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by kunley 15y ago
Working on an implementation > working on a code by thinking of it > typing code. Still, all activities above are strictly technical. So, is your question really about whether we have as much time for technical activities (as oppo
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by kunley 15y ago
The whole thread worth careful reading as well.
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Origins of Java and a cause of its success, on LtU(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
1 points by kunley 15y ago|1 comments
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by kunley 15y ago
If resumes are gathered and processed by some HR division, it's likely those people will be confused reading plain text. You can please their habits and send a word doc. The same for recruiting agencies for consultants / freelancers. If it
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by kunley 15y ago
Great question. I was going to write an article based loosely around the thought that startups could have a strong mission statement of directly improving people's quality of live. We at http://wisdio.com/ believe we do it. We want to qui
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by kunley 15y ago
it's a pity and a sign of ignorance that people do an implicit assumption that ORM == active record pattern, while the other ORM pattern: data mapper is in fact widely used and superior for many use cases.
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by kunley 15y ago
That's what I didn't know, relying on my previous encounters and specific tests. Thank you for pointing this!
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by kunley 15y ago
I wonder why this is downvoted. Io is beautiful, elegant and slow. The fact that it's slow doesn't mean it's not worth learning or even using in production. Commenter could have put it in other words, well he didn't, but downvoters: you wil
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by kunley 15y ago
Python 2.x doesn't have parameterless super() so apparently most of the article's code doesn't work with old versions.
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by kunley 15y ago
Zed, have you contemplated that git may be written in good old Unix paradigm, as a set of multilayer tools where each does smallest possible subset of things, and they are interconnected with scripts. As in ESR's "TAoUP". Now, you may disli
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by kunley 15y ago
Referring to comments below the original article: So when epoll doesn't cope with regular files as author expected, why not use better interface: kqueue?
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by kunley 15y ago
This is a childish argument based upon an attitude "don't use robots.txt because it interferes with what we do and what we do is aw3s0m3 l337". This attitude is also prevailing in the archiveteam's comments here. I doubt their actions can b
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by kunley 16y ago
Let's just allow to downvote submissions so poor ones will be pushed down. This will also diminish number of comments, because: there are lots of comments because there are lots of (poor) submissions...
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by kunley 16y ago
Interesting idea with the time T1 when comment wuld be so old that the score could be shown. But there's also existing timestamp T2 when the comment is too old to vote. How you'd suggest to relate T1 & T2?
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by kunley 16y ago
I don't see any connection between being "super-hero" and a mindset when you don't know how your code works inside.
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by kunley 16y ago
The catch is in the word hopefully . Wishful thinking is not a successful way of doing things in engineering.

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