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by marcus 19y ago
Because I got tired of retirement after a year or so... Because every evening before I fall asleep I ask myself "What have you built/learned today?" and when the answer is nothing for too long I go crazy.
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by marcus 19y ago
S-Corp doesn't allow multiple classes of stocks which can hinder VC funding, as they usually insist on preferential stocks of some kind... The correct answer is it all depends on your financing plans, importance of liability protection, pro
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by marcus 19y ago
At least mention in the title that they are only talking about their Australian division which is less than 200 people or about 1%-2% of their employees. I read the title and assumed they changed their minds on their new slower hiring polic
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40 Reasons Why Software Projects Die(sourcemaking.com)
1 points by marcus 19y ago|0 comments
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by marcus 19y ago
I totally agree with the breaking up of the project to smaller DLLs, as long as you write your tests for each DLL separately it can save a great deal of time, as you only have to recompile the DLL&test with the bug-fix.
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by marcus 19y ago
Because ignorance is bliss.
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by marcus 19y ago
I think you missed Daniel's irony
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Superoptimizer - Using brute force to optimize compilers(research.swtch.com)
2 points by marcus 19y ago|0 comments
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by marcus 19y ago
The beauty of MapReduce is in its elegant simplicity of use (once properly implemented) think of Unix shell commands like grep, sort, cut - simple functional tools (as in functional languages - zero side effects), which do only one task but
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by marcus 19y ago
Doing this on a web application isn't really that impressive and could have been done in almost any language. The awesome thing is that this could have worked with an installed desktop software, without downloading new binaries and installi
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by marcus 19y ago
Oh the hubris and carefree living of youth, how I miss thee
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by marcus 19y ago
Ever heard of the concept of Turing Completeness, Google it...
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by marcus 19y ago
On some regular expressions I tend to agree that there is such a thing as too condensed, but mostly I am a minimalist. The reference was somewhere in the PDFs I linked to, and its not that far from the truth from my experience.
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by marcus 19y ago
So on an every decent sized project in one of those languages most of the code is boilerplate code you didn't even write but which wastes your time and brain cycles when you tinker with the code. Another interesting statistics that has been
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by marcus 19y ago
He lists C++ and C# as his favorite languages, and I tend to agree that with these languages you can't really be x100 more productive than the average competent programmer. That kind difference is only possible in languages that are more ex
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by marcus 19y ago
I don't think we have enough posts per day to merit splitting the site into different categories, and with search on the way, I'm not entirely sure it would be beneficial. An interesting idea would be to add a mechanism to overemphasize/und
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by marcus 19y ago
You don't hold line of codes in your head, you hold a map of interconnected concepts, in various zoom levels. Zoom enough and you'll see lines of codes, but most of the time you just manipulate these larger blocks. As you build up your lang
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Software patent trolls targeting Google(infoworld.com)
1 points by marcus 19y ago|0 comments
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by marcus 19y ago
Google chat couldn't exist without Comet, (unless they redid the entire thing in Flash and please don't get me started on the whole Flash/Silverlight mess) A lot of tech decisions don't deliver 10x improvement in the value-add for you users
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by marcus 19y ago
The question is do they let you purchase the domain after they automatically register it? If they do, this can simply be a very effective automatic reservation of pages, so they don't get grabbed while you fill in your personal info/credit
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by marcus 19y ago
Those are implementations not languages, the language is the same language. And when people don't mention a specific implementation they usually mean CPython.
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by marcus 19y ago
Example if GMail used Comet, your Inbox would get updated the second you got a new mail instead of every x minutes. You can achieve something close to it by using very insistent polling but this causes an unreasonable load on the server. Wh
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by marcus 19y ago
For most blogs, just don't bother. You can make more money from getting your message out there and from linking to your other work than by advertising other people's stuff.
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by marcus 19y ago
Survey questions like this one are not effective, monitor the usage & behavior of your users, which features are they using , which are they ignoring. Compare the usage of users which are happy with your product (defined as continue usi
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by marcus 19y ago
Apparently a working UI isn't considered best practice... Probably much easier to write secure, fast, elegant code when it doesn't need to do anything or interact with users...
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by marcus 19y ago
Is my code hot or not? Thats just sad
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by marcus 19y ago
Norvig doesn't really update the list any more, so a lot of the more recent stuff/people is missing. Also in the YouTube age, a ton of very interesting lectures/demos/talks are online in video format and he doesn't catalog any of it.
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by marcus 19y ago
Who said that?
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by marcus 19y ago
Naah, we're all sane.
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by marcus 19y ago
I can't wait to have an excuse/time to play with this and hadoop.

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