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by lrobb 15y ago
I'm well aware of the difference between a set and a list. My point, which was apparently lost, is that the underlying implementation of these structures is the same in PHP.
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by lrobb 15y ago
On the list vs. set... This is an "easy" one if you just stick to the standard CS def, or you just know a language that has a clearly defined library offering that... But in PHP, there's technically no difference between a list and a set:
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by lrobb 15y ago
ftw! "Put it all together and I think we all now see the fundamental utility of LinkedIn — it’s the one place where you can demonstrate how honest, decent and accomplished you are, even if you have to lie and cheat to do it." http://www.cr
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by lrobb 15y ago
I can see it now... Introducing facebook background searches! For a low fee of $2499, fb will comb through your prospective employee's postings and alert you of any trouble spots!
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by lrobb 15y ago
Another fan of Flourish. From the site: Please note that Flourish has undergone a good deal of real-world testing, and can generally be considered production ready.
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by lrobb 15y ago
The design profession is light years ahead of programming in that regard... Probably because of its print history. I'm reminded of this great presentation by the mule design guy (NSFW) F*ck you, pay me: http://vimeo.com/22053820
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by lrobb 15y ago
I'd be interested in how those results were obtained, because when I search google with that exact same query, the results look pretty much like bing's results.
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by lrobb 15y ago
I learned this from a very wise man* about why you shouldn't take VC money: "The fundamental reason is that VCs do not have goals that are aligned with the goals of the company founders." While I don't doubt your good intentions... Isn't th
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by lrobb 15y ago
tl;dr -- young rails fanboi thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread... doesn't know tim toady...
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by lrobb 15y ago
I don't know anyone that actually does 9 to 5... The standard in the midwest is 8 to 5, 1 hour lunch break. So you're really only putting in an extra 30 minutes per day... Minus the dinner you eat... I'm going to go out on a limb and
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by lrobb 15y ago
How are your conversions? I'm looking at implementing this for a new site...
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by lrobb 15y ago
You've got think about all of the specifics though... Here's apache tuned to serve static files of 50kb in length, with 20 requests per client, 500 uniques per hour... vs. Here's apache tuned to serve a wordpress blog that gets 500 uniques
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by lrobb 15y ago
Back in "the day", users were bombarded with warnings to never give out their email address, lest something bad happen... at one point in time, if you did post your email publicly, it would quickly become unusable as the spam tools &
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by lrobb 15y ago
Those would be pretty much meaningless... Apache can be tweaked in so many different ways depending on what your traffic patterns look like, and how you're processing your requests. MaxClients / KeepAlive / MaxRequestsPerChild / etc... e.g.
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by lrobb 15y ago
As Spolsky recently said: "Making a major horizontal product that’s useful in any walk of life is almost impossible to pull off. You can’t charge very much, because you’re competing with other horizontal products that can amortize their dev
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by lrobb 15y ago
Those are mostly valid points/questions... I think some, such as knowing all of the date/time types and their precision really depends on what kind of work you're doing. I've noticed a big difference in interviews between software compani
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by lrobb 15y ago
I think this could be a great route to take. Patrick might be at the point that he has enough marketing work to do though, that he wants to focus on that.
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by lrobb 15y ago
What a memory flashback... I made the decision to focus on low level C++ / Windows right around the time tcl/aolserver was cutting edge. I think my career advice for younger programmers is to stay away from whatever technologies I'm using.
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by lrobb 15y ago
I'd like to register, but twitter only??? And then... An error occurred while trying to retrieve your Twitter username. Please try again.
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by lrobb 15y ago
Some of these comments baffle me. Not me... We work with a bunch of troglodytes... I've worked in a place where I could locate the female programmer by where the flock of nerds were hovering.
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by lrobb 15y ago
That's a lot of work to go through just for an application ... How to "woo" a startup? What was that about a shortage of tech talent?
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by lrobb 15y ago
Speaking of rounding errors... I worked telecom billing about 10 years ago... Our system consisted of a couple dozen fairly large C++ programs, and numerous DBF tables. This system was originally written in Clipper(1), which IIRC defines nu
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by lrobb 15y ago
The next blog post will be about the speedup obtained with serving static assets via CDN?
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by lrobb 15y ago
I think it's because people tend to discount what they know .
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by lrobb 15y ago
That describes the typical job post on angel list... It makes me wonder how guys can make it past an algorithms class yet not be able to do a simple spreadsheet projection.
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by lrobb 15y ago
Why not make SE a family-friendly company instead of just leaving? I'm guessing at this stage he has already lost control and can't influence that decision?
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by lrobb 15y ago
Well, they already root around... That's why they can serve contextual ads. Right now it's "harmless"... But people get a lot more personal in email or google searches than they do on, say, facebook. There's some gold to be mined in there
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by lrobb 15y ago
This is pure gold: dry humping a brand new buzzworthy social media platform to death . I wonder what the survival rate is after being dry-humped by Scoble?
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by lrobb 15y ago
Yep, they data-mine my email anonymously, but they try to not be evil about it. Eventually, as it happens in all public companies, the "do no evil" people are going to be out , and the "maximize the buck" people are going to be in .
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by lrobb 15y ago
Selling a business for a payout is one thing... Starting a business just to get a job is kinda nuts. You say "lose nothing", but there's always a tradeoff..

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