meekins

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by meekins 11y ago
While doing custom enterprise apps in Java isn't the sexiest or the best paying job in IT I enjoy it quite a lot. Working on a standard and stable stack with well-established conventions minimizes the hassle of jumping through the tech
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by meekins 11y ago
This is one of the albums that are nicer to have on cd instead of vinyl. I mean who wants to interrupt a good dopesmoker session by having to get up from the couch every 20 minutes to flip the lp?
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by meekins 11y ago
This is funny. It looks that the face recognition algorithm needs better training to identify klingons [0] and eyewear [0,1] though. [0]: http://facehero.co/i/f8xmw5f [1]: http://facehero.co/i/k68wg4
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by meekins 11y ago
I'd be really interested in the actual technical problems The Guardian had with OpenStack and what's the current situation with the OpenStack project. The company I work for has some interest on the platform but I am not aware wha
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by meekins 11y ago
Windows actually has a Javascript (well, the JScript dialect of ECMAScript) interpreter out of the box in the form of Windows Script Host. It also supports VBScript. You can play with it on the command line using the cscript command.
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by meekins 11y ago
Funny, that's exactly how I moved from Basic to Pascal... And eventually to C since I realized that my awful self-implemented 2d graphics library would never have the performance nor the set of features of for example the Allegro game
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by meekins 11y ago
Java EE is currently an excellent framework for complex distributed enterprise applications.
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by meekins 11y ago
JRebel is awesome and well worth the price ($365/yr). Especially when iterating on a complex and messy JSF UI it really saves time on repackage/deploy cycles.
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by meekins 11y ago
That's interesting. Instinctively due to lots of statefulness an adventure game would feel like a problem most naturally solved using an object-oriented or structural approach so how would you compare the experience writing the game in
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by meekins 11y ago
That's hilarious :D Due to its status in the enterprise and the amount of existing business critical codebases in various stages of rot I tend to think of Java as the COBOL of tomorrow.
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by meekins 11y ago
Looks handy. However how do you differentiate from dozens of alternatives on the market already? Also, running your web pages through a proofreader might be helpful to give a more professional impression. While small typos on a FAQ page mig
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by meekins 12y ago
Agreed. An architect should be a knowledgeable generalist able to facilitate the discussion. Personally I'd hate to be the "smartest guy" in the team about anything. However I spend a large part of my work days collaborating
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by meekins 12y ago
no