markbnj

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by markbnj 11y ago
Props to the author for posting the "testimonials." Got a chuckle out of it. Did not look at the code.
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by markbnj 11y ago
A great talk, pithy and full of insights gleaned from a lot of experience. Thanks for posting it.
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by markbnj 11y ago
A hardware ICE or a copy of this was pretty much all I wanted when I was doing C++ back in the early 90's. All I had was Bounds Checker and Turbo Debugger.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Despite twenty years of software engineering I am nowhere near mathematician enough to engage with the author on this topic, however this ... >> In programming you have a compiler/interpreter that just dictates how an ambiguity r
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by markbnj 11y ago
If art has a downside, it may be in the fact that there is always some very smart person at hand to analyze it for you and explain why you don't understand it.
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by markbnj 11y ago
That's what I get from it.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Heh, not to mention that the Kindle does a lot of phoning home.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Excellent tips. Thanks!
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What are your experiences using a Macbook for back end work?
1 points by markbnj 11y ago|2 comments
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Very strongly prefer matte.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Very smart! I love it when a simple algorithm has a big impact on a problem space. You know it's the real thing when, after hearing it, your reaction is "Of course!"
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> All social shares are reset because the links are different. Won't they continue to work if you maintain the http: link as a redirect to https? We did this with haproxy on my last project, and it's also worth noting that
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by markbnj 11y ago
I'm a software engineer, and I'm sure there are many other professions which, like my own, require powerful machines and lots of screen space. I run two 24" monitors and would love to have a third. I could see myself with a p
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by markbnj 11y ago
I agree with all the main points here: caching adds a significantly complex component to the system. You should only do it if you absolutely must pull data closer to a consumer. Adding caching "to pick up quick wins" is always dum
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Blackwake, a multiplayer pirate FPS, funny game play trailer(youtube.com)
2 points by markbnj 11y ago|0 comments
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by markbnj 11y ago
Kind of an interesting idea. You might consider opening up the back end as a platform for freelancers, including ratings and testimonials.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Ok, yes, it's going to be cool to have a Youtube-like platform for video on Apple devices. I agree with other commenters who suggest it's not that revolutionary. This is the sound of another brick being knocked out of the wall, bu
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by markbnj 11y ago
Fascinating. I learn something new every time I read a Nautilus piece.
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by markbnj 11y ago
This is really cool. I especially love what it came up with when it combined the M.C. Escher "Hand and Sphere" print with the Golden Gate Bridge.
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> In light of that, I'm moving away from thinking that using tools like this as a sort of spray-on tan for cleaning up code is unwise. Great metaphor, and I agree.
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by markbnj 11y ago
I love how the first question is presented so the answer is the completion of a string literal, which is then printed. Very interesting approach to getting people engaged right up front. Nice job.
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by markbnj 11y ago
I won't say it was my worst job ever, at all, but I can empathize. I joined a consulting company a few years back and ended up doing performance optimization on a legacy point of sale system written twenty years before, in C, for a lar
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by markbnj 11y ago
Yep, agreed, and like you I tend to favor passphrases over passwords. I find a sentence related to something meaningful in my life to be more memorable than a single word, especially when it's munged up with obfuscating character subs.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Short, yes, but with a significant amount of entropy for their length. In any case, what strikes me is that this approach just makes the algorithm the secret instead of the token. Are people more likely to be able to remember algorithms for
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> Looking at "modern" C++ makes me angry. I wasted so much time learning all of this incidental complexity that just gets in the way of software development. C++ was a huge part of my life as a developer back in the late 80
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> So if you have a felony conviction, or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude — e.g., petty theft or making a false statement Ironically, these are just the qualities that make you most suited to be a municipal politician.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Nice walk down memory lane. We used Orbix in 1995 to build a production banking platform, one of the first true web-enabled banking services, and it was a nightmare. It wasn't necessarily the complexity. Our engineers could understand
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by markbnj 11y ago
Ha, well, not all of these are negatives. i.e. >> You'll be expected to do much more than you know how to Good! >> You'll need to know how to figure things out on your own Good! >> Every day is a new adventure Go
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by markbnj 11y ago
Really the last two things I use it for are games and my irrational attachment to a 2 GB Outlook file containing stuff I will probably never look at again.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Quite cool. Must not stare any longer. Must work. >> Do you say "made" or "discovered" with cellular automata? Discovered feels more appropriate, but I think they end up being the same thing. Have you documented th

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