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by martinced 14y ago
It's cool to see how all these little examples are run for a variety of languages -- which most devs haven't used. A Clojure example would have been really slow because Clojure adds even more slowness to the already incredibly slow JVM st
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by martinced 14y ago
See that: yet another issue with characters in filenames/directory names with aren't printable ASCII characters. This kind of stuff is precisely the reason why we make sure that every filename we create is only using a subset of ASCII (an
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by martinced 14y ago
All these commands are very fine and handy but... Typically they're better when you can put them in context: you should run all these regularly on fully working servers which you know are operating normally so you have "something" you can
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by martinced 14y ago
Immutable data structures are harder to implement yourself , not to reason about. Anyone who has spend a few days with Clojure realize how much more easier it is to reason about them and to work with them. Immutable data structures combine
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by martinced 14y ago
"Having a 50K lines of code dedicated to just inversion of control or O/R mapping makes a problem a lot more complex than it probably needs to be." Exactly. That's the terrible stuff with all this "enterprisey" mindset: people are workin
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by martinced 14y ago
+1 for the cool monitor stands but geez... Invest some $$$ in a real keyboard: scissor switches are the most painful type of keyboard switches ever : (
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by martinced 14y ago
Your second metaphor ain't correct. Google and FB's normal way of executing doesn't consist in sending regular trafic to a bicycle (server) until it crashes and then re-dispatching that legit trafic to non-crashed servers. Sure a server do
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by martinced 14y ago
Oh the memories : ) Would put a smile on my face too but... I decided to make part of the computation on the server-side so that my desktop software cannot be cracked without rewriting what the server-side does. My desktop app only makes
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by martinced 14y ago
What an opinionated piece of crap TFA is. This kind of stuff is precisely why I stopped reading The Reg a long time ago. Seriously: "4. The editor should contain no implementation of Lisp." Why do they do that? Because of course Emacs t
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by martinced 14y ago
"...when exactly does any computer bought at the same time (or since) have actual problems of running out of memory?" Ah yes, I remember the days being a dev that didn't use VMs. It kinda sucked as a development environment that said: no
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by martinced 14y ago
I've got always at least three different Google accounts logged in: personal one (GMail + G+ + Google Docs), professional one (Google Apps for Domain / Business : GMail + Google Docs) and a "fake identity one" (GMail + G+). The way I do it
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by martinced 14y ago
It seems questionable but... Even if it was true, couldn't it have been organisms from earth ejected into orbit after a meteor strike and, thousands of years later or more, falling back to earth? Now if we find a definitive proof of pansper
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by martinced 14y ago
The double-talk on HN never ceases to amaze me. On one day Google is close to dying and there are lots of alternatives out there and on the next day the very same people are writing that "SEO = Google pagerank ownage" as if Google was the
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by martinced 14y ago
Interesting... I've been consulting for one of the biggest of the biggest you could dream of. There's a tendency which you may have heard of: mobile (smartphones and tablets) and there's a lot of push for making these supported and availa
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by martinced 14y ago
People trading security (sandboxing) for performance (lower memory usage and faster speed in Firefox) deserve to be a) owned and b) have their whole browser crash when one tab crashes. I'd be using Firefox if they started to sandbox all the
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by martinced 14y ago
Which is why I hate laptops on which you cannot physically block the webcam. Laptops used to have a little slider that could cover the webcam but nowadays they don't anymore!? I love my MacBook and MacBook Pro but... I'm putting a little
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by martinced 14y ago
Oh woaw. When I saw that Californication episode I thought that such an app was pure fiction : )
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by martinced 14y ago
Medium enterprisey project with a medium budget, I see people picking C#/CLR> But really big enterprisey stuff with really big budget? It's all Oracle DB + Java on Unix there. Just as all the really big infrastructures (Google, FedEx
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by martinced 14y ago
"What's funny is the JVM is completely irrelevant on mobile compare to .NET/Mono" I think you meant "on iOS", not "on mobile". Android has a huge share of the mobile market. And Android is pretty much Java (but maybe you don't consider
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by martinced 14y ago
>>Even something generally considered beneficial like antibiotics causes problems if selfishly misused. >What problems do antibiotics cause, besides lessening their own future effectiveness? Are you really saying us that antibio
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by martinced 14y ago
This is very easy to crack due the 2D board, which is trivial to "OCR". Now the concept is interesting: one could probably do the same in 3D (with random camera angles -- up to a limit) and then it would prove more problematic for AI becaus
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by martinced 14y ago
Woaw. HN, the place created by pg, who advocated trying to "beat the average" and have "frighteningly ambitious startup ideas", etc. Yet HN has become the place for the status-quo. Where people are going to vote everything encouraging the
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by martinced 14y ago
If your nickname here can somehow be linked to the company you're working for ( e.g. by checking previous messages you posted to HN or on another board) I think it's not very smart to write what you just wrote. Now the bad guys knows that
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by martinced 14y ago
We should first now the size of the attack and how many zombies are participating. With all the exploits out there coming out on a nearly daily basis it's not exactly either as if having an army of a few tens of thousands of zombies was exp
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by martinced 14y ago
If several countries, distribute across various continents, have managed to put in place three-strikes and six-strikes (not that I think it's good), it means that the one and foremost knee-jerking argument saying "You can't do anything abo
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by martinced 14y ago
"You're not the XXX, you're the product" Oh boy that one we're going to hear for a long time apparently :( I know lots of people who paid $$$ for MBAs. And then they went on to make more $$$ than they would have without their MBAs. In a
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by martinced 14y ago
Spot on. People do not realize that in some countries virtually all the citizen are carrying a Java SmartCard on them at all time (either an ID card or a medical security card). People do not realize that there are billions of devices runn
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by martinced 14y ago
In which alternate universe would the exact formula needed to compute the GDP be absolutely crucial to explaining what a liquidity trap is? And of course his "appeal to authority" consists in citing an article from the totally and utterly o
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by martinced 14y ago
Sun used to go after companies using "Java" in their names. Even events haven't been spared: Javapolis (in Belgium), where even Gosling came to speak, got renamed "Devoxx" due to trademark issues. I somehow doubt that the french person who
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by martinced 14y ago
You're missing that the whole point here is that when read-eval is set to false then, precisely, you're making your intent very clear: you do NOT want to execute code you didn't write. The problem is that there's a hole due to Java co

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