mahmud

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   Project Athena: The accident that invented the modern computing experience(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by mahmud 15y ago|0 comments
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   by mahmud 15y ago

   Web hosting tech-support people are NOT "Engineers". Or for that matter tech.
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   by mahmud 15y ago

   That's excellent! Thanks for the pointer.
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   by mahmud 15y ago

   Speaking of "Bad for Brain", InfoQ's website is the worst thing to happen to exposition in computing since leet-speak. I have seen better aesthetics in an government risk-mitigation newsletter. They get rockstar speakers, but drab them in c
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   by mahmud 15y ago

   Opposite. More like FFI/JNI to Bosch/Qemu. Android NDK, and other foreign-function interfaces are a way to de-secure & de-manage secure code: a controlled mechanism for stepping out of the sandbox. Google NaCL, like other virtualizers,
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   by mahmud 15y ago

   Now that anon denied it, I have a suspicion whoever released this announcement also sent a security resume/bid to Facebook. Looks like someone creating a need for himself.
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   by mahmud 15y ago

   If you're a rural cop in need of funding, any brown guy will look like a Mexican cartel hit-man. You can see the same sentiment elsewhere; here in Australia there are horror stories of Sydney/Melbourne/OtherDenOfEvil gangs moving to the cou
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   by mahmud 15y ago

   Just link to the big kahuna, Barzilay's list of lectures along with descriptions :-) http://pl.barzilay.org/resources.html
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   by mahmud 15y ago

   I love the irony of us communicating in a 1000+ year old language that doesn't seem to have changed (grew, yes, but not changed ;-) يسعدني التواصل معك عزيزي. معظم ابحاثي اللغوية مبعثرة في عدة مواقع، واجهزة استودعت في اﻻهمال. ثمة دفاتر هنا و
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    Scala ate their lunch.
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    Cons is an implementation detail that no longer exists in reality. Most Lisps implement conses as arrays, and some Lisps, like Dylan, don't even use them to represent structure. No programming language will survive a 1000 years. Not many wo
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    Galaxy Tablet + Eclipse and official JDK is what I use. Pretty streamlined. On Unix and Mac you don't even have to install the USB driver. I really have no complaints; there is no live REPL, but you have the second best, code getting static
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    I don't currently own a smartphone, but I develop industrial Android apps for tablets.
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    Lisp has its short comings, specially as an "industrial" language, but it wins hands down as an individual language. I wouldn't use Lisp in my assembly-line, CRUD factory, but it will serve an artisan quite well.
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    Virtualization.
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    That's only because he succeeded. A lot of "visionaries" have become irrationally attached to failed ventures and drove themselves bankrupt. It's not necessarily a good idea to get too attached to a business. The whole point of finance is c
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    The intern was told to rewrite the server for a first assignment? What were the other programmers doing? jquery?
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    Took me a week to be comfortable with it, but would take at least 2 years for me to grok the performance implications of each construct.
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    I was tasked with finding a compute cluster for a small gov contractor research lab. I spoke with IBM, Sun, SGI, Dell you name it. None could inform me more than their brochures. Then I filled a form on LinuxHPC website. Quotes from smaller
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    Thank you. Now I don't have to hate people who leave blank pages without the customary "This page intentionally left blank".
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    So, like Quartz. http://quartz-scheduler.org/overview/index.html
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    ln -s user_info.php user_info
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    If you don't have a facebook account, it assumes you're smart enough to go to engineering.
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    This might not be shared by others, but here it goes. If your CLI program is a file-format conversion utility, please include a way to dump meta-data, header formats, etc. Don't just silently convert from A to B, allow me to get at the info
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    I read all of it and solved a substantial number of the exercises. If anybody knows how to recover lost data from a dead HD with ext2 file system, I would get the adventures of my youth back.
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    If Jamie Oliver critiqued El Bulli, it doesn't mean he is advocating for Burger King. Miranda != Java.
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    Not everyone, some accounts are bots & scraping scripts for apps.
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    I didn't look into any "alternative" ways of doing things. I tried to port ABCL to Android, but for my current needs, the standard-way is good enough, at least then I can hire help and focus on what matters, instead of doing everything myse
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    Hortsman & Cornell's, two volume "Core Java 1.2". I only read the first. Gosling's "The Java Programming Language". And Josh Bloch's "Effective Java". After that, Java Concurrency in Practice. Langr's "Agile Java" is good for just that.
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    by mahmud 15y ago

    It's a "sub-story" only if you make it to be. What you can do also is not give a shit and not look for debacles, existent or otherwise. I'm more interested in how the issue is resolved, not how it's escalated. Does the women get compensated