meshko

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by meshko 10y ago
Here's what I don't understand -- every discussion about static typing is full of people saying static typing is so good and useful. Everyone i talked to, everyone i work with, we all prefer static typing. And yet... Javascript
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by meshko 10y ago
these are just lack of good product management, nothing to do with engineers. I do suspect Google's PM culture is... lacking.
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by meshko 10y ago
I got rejected just this month and I can certify that there was no crazy bullshit in the process. I mean, I feel like you made a mistake rejecting me, but I also can imagine a valid process behind the scenes which would reject me based on
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by meshko 10y ago
1) His level of knowledge is reasonable for someone who does networking programming full time 2) We are getting description from him. When I interviewed at Google, they asked me to prove that P is equal to NP, and I did, but they said that
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by meshko 10y ago
I've interviewed at google for a lower position, and recruiters don't do phone screens or ask technical questions.
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by meshko 10y ago
I'm not terribly sure about this, might be my skewed perspective, but it feels like Scala is being dragged into mainstream by Spark.
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by meshko 10y ago
Oh, cool. Can you expand on that? What kind of logic had to change? I mean, SQL queries are SQL queries? Is that because you were using low level C Oracle drivers of some sort? Also if you could say a couple of words about the MySQL fai
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by meshko 10y ago
it wouldn't have been 10 man years if they had less PL/SQL. I don't understand why people keep falling into that trap of putting complex logic in stored procedures.
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by meshko 10y ago
I'm saying there was hope. I remember 2005. IE was getting better. Chrome/Firefox/Opera were close enough, once I got one of them working i barely had to do anything. So it was essentially targeting 2 platforms (IE and non
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by meshko 10y ago
ActionScript was all right, I don't disagree. Especially compared to JavaScript. But i think it would have been nice to have the same language on FE and BE.
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by meshko 10y ago
it was a nightmare (because of the browser support), but it was a nightmare with a hope that it will get fixed (browsers will get better, there will be simple thin abstraction libraries added, etc).
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by meshko 10y ago
Right, that too. For example, the amount of work that every serious web app puts into implementing some kind of hierarchical system for storing, naming and accessing objects and then allowing users to share them with each other is astonish
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by meshko 10y ago
They settled in 2001. OS X was released same year, signaling the beginning of the end of that monopoly.
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by meshko 10y ago
Sure, as said in other threads here -- large companies full of brilliant people can build good RIAs. Small companies full of OK people are suffering. Java Applets security could have been solved. I'm not even sure what problem you
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by meshko 10y ago
Sure, that's possible, but not necessary. Devs might have been smart enough to stay away from extensions. Microsoft might have been smart enough to not push it too hard. Your example of ActiveX actual supports that -- ActiveX never
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by meshko 10y ago
It is scary how most commenters here are missing the point. No, not all programming sucks. Yes, web programming sucks more than other things. No, it doesn't have to be like this. Yes, even web programming was better 10 years ago.
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by meshko 10y ago
I suspect they are talking about metadata pieces found in the Office documents. It could serve as a relatively strong proof that documents where processed by someone at least Russian-speaking.
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by meshko 10y ago
What makes you think they failed terribly? We haven't seen full analysis (or much of anything yet), but there are mentions of potentially specially targeted malware. Very few organizations will withhold a direct targeted attack by a
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by meshko 10y ago
example please
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by meshko 10y ago
Oh totally. I assumed that unicode bs immediately. And anyone would make this mistake easily. That's the point -- gotta have it imprinted in the brains, that regexes are for finding things in files, not for your production code. I&#
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by meshko 10y ago
i wish people would stop using regular expressions in situations where they can be replaced with a substring function.
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by meshko 10y ago
|but the wifi URL for GEO still points to | https://www.google.com/loc/json maybe it a cry for help? Someone "accidentally" left a single https request there, hoping google will redirect North Korean requests
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by meshko 10y ago
Will you marry me?
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by meshko 10y ago
Frankly I don't understand what are these terrible secrets that people are comfortable sharing on a public web site for everyone to see, but not comfortable with everyone seeing them. I just fail to see the pain. Discomfort, sure, bu
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by meshko 10y ago
Making something viewable by a group of selected people is one thing; making something viewable by millions of users of a website with a free and simple account creation mechanism should be equivalent to making it public in people's he
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by meshko 10y ago
I dislike them as I dislike all human activity which doesn't produce useful good or services; probably more so as these are probably harmful and parasitic. But I'm not sure how this is related to the subject at hand.
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by meshko 10y ago
yeah, absolutely; but the guy in the linked article claims to be a lawyer and says it's ok.
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by meshko 10y ago
I think journalists are constantly publishing information obtained through illegal means and it is legal. http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/is_it_illegal_to_do...
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by meshko 10y ago
Another bad analogy. 1) In public places I usually speak at the volume level at which others can't hear me; if I start yelling in a public place I should expect things that I yell to appear on youtube, in the local newspaper, in the po
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by meshko 10y ago
Terrible analogy. You are putting your money into the bank in order for the bank to preserve the money and perhaps pay you interest on it. When you use a website like OKCupid, you are getting a service from them in exchange for ability to

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