lucifer

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by lucifer 17y ago
His observations on the conflation of identity/state/value in OO are very insightful (and I agree with them with the reservation that they apply nearly equally to simple structs of non-OO languages, as well). But the conclusions drawn seem
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by lucifer 17y ago
I misunderstood.
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by lucifer 17y ago
I did the same (for Java). No surprises. But this did surprise me: try { throw new Exception ("exception"); } finally { throw new Exception ("finally"); }
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by lucifer 17y ago
But that is clearly not the case here. There are no gotchas. Basic scoping rules and an understanding of "finally" and "break".
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by lucifer 17y ago
http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md15.htm
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by lucifer 17y ago
I typically use 3 categories of exceptions when building frameworks or libraries. Two are unchecked RuntimeException extensions to indicate operating environment issues, and, implementation issues (aka bugs). Finally, if the api semantics s
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by lucifer 17y ago
catch (IOException ioe) { throw new MyObjectXYZContractException ("Can't do XYZ", ioe); }
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by lucifer 17y ago
Where is the electron in that picture? It is "the electron density around one nucleus".
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by lucifer 17y ago
The difficulties (or problems) that the 'establishment' has with craigslist are fundamentally philosophical. To wit, I wonder how that 'watch list' scales under load, and whether in the process of supporting it Craig and co. will need to ex
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by lucifer 17y ago
Safari 4, ctl-t. No ads.
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by lucifer 17y ago
You let the cache expire stale objects and update it on db IO. What's the problem, exactly?
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by lucifer 17y ago
If you accept the validity of the cathedral vs. bazaar premise, then the pattern of OSS fragmentation ultimately works against the general community's interests. On the other hand, competition in the course of establishing best of breed con
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by lucifer 17y ago
> You don't know what it's like to see megabyte after megabyte of source code scroll by, and you can't tell who wrote it. Sounds like they have an inefficient meat-machine based code generator. Why not just use their considerable resou
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by lucifer 17y ago
In a perfect world, we would have open platforms and open infrastructure to go along with open source. Just imagine: a hacker organized and run telecom ...
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by lucifer 17y ago
"I’m thankful we had that interview though and was encouraged to make the first cut." (check grammar: http://www.afterthedeadline.com/features.slp ) What ever happened to eat your own dog food?
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by lucifer 17y ago
Try this: Imagine you have a machine to create fabrics that has a set of spools of various colored threads. Now this loom also has the feature of being able to read a sheet of paper punched with holes that automatically selects different
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by lucifer 17y ago
> A construction company that loses money is not going to be worth $50MM any time soon. A tech company with similar financials might be. In other words, it benefits from speculative bubbles.
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by lucifer 17y ago
There is definitely merit to the notion of using persistent memory to address state management. But neither this (nor "noSQL") in any way addresses the other fundamental utility of a database: querying for data. The need for a (form of) s
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by lucifer 17y ago
You can't trisect an arc using only a compass and a straightedge. (You can simulate a straightedge using a compass.) Dividing a line into 3 parts is trivial.
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by lucifer 17y ago
I found the article self-contradictory. In case of Google, he actually makes a pretty strong case for the algorithm, not "data". The data (the links) were always there. It was precisely the algorithm that generated information from that
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by lucifer 17y ago
Read this a while back and remember enjoying it quite a bit. (He talks about vi + other stuff). [Original source seems to be unavailable at the moment]: Interview with Bill Joy, August 1984, Unix Review magazine http://74.125.95.132/searc
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by lucifer 17y ago
http://www.timeapi.org/pdt/7+hours+before+tomorrow+at+noon http://www.timeapi.org/pdt/7+hours+before+noon+tomorrow
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by lucifer 17y ago
You can certainly signal your intent to assume the position by eating ahead of your position. And if you do get away with it, chances are you will be the next king. Same with humor. Review the material on the use of pornography and humor
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by lucifer 17y ago
Actually, the root meaning of the name is 'Light', from which one can arrive at the notion of 'Sight' So what is really ironic is that any sentient would deny their inner lucifer and presume for itself an objective view of truth ...
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by lucifer 17y ago
"Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment." Its probably the most expensive intellectual endeavor known to man (assuming you place a premium value on your time and life.)
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by lucifer 17y ago
Java has always had the ability to reference Class types, and, to instantiate instances of that type using a standard method: Object makeOne (Class fooClass) { return fooClass.newInstance(); } You are missing the point of a factory pattern,
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by lucifer 17y ago
My take on this: 1 - Patterns address (and are formulated using) the semantics of intent. They can not address domain semantics; that is addressed in the specific realization of a given pattern (which some would consider "redundant code" b
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by lucifer 17y ago
"a browser fit for the gods" <G>
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by lucifer 17y ago
That is confusing work ethics with implementation strategy. One could argue that it is more ethical -- your duty to your investors, employees, employers, customers, etc. -- to focus on a more practical solution ("80%") than to seek perfecti
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by lucifer 17y ago
I fail to see how this is "evil". The evil one worries about in context of a company like Google is information privacy.

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