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by mpk 18y ago
They aren't. But solid Ruby programmers use them this way and audit third-party code before using it and avoid it if it contains such code smell. One of the fun things about Ruby is that you can open up, override and chain just about anythi
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by mpk 18y ago
What, you mean this? ~ $ irb irb(main):001:0> Object.methods.size => 90 irb(main):002:0> require 'activesupport' => true irb(main):003:0> Object.methods.size => 177 [ugh, no preview..]
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by mpk 18y ago
Sorry for being pedantic, but it's 'Hiro'. Good call, btw.
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by mpk 18y ago
Well that's just great. I'll have to add incompetent law-enforcement to the BCP/DRP list of stuff you have to take into account along with network outages, terrorism, fire, flood and all the rest.
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by mpk 18y ago
For small stuff I'll just use Firebug, but for the heavy lifting it's still Venkman for me. You can debug chrome with it, set breakpoints, read the stack, set it to trigger on errors or exceptions, etc.
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by mpk 18y ago
In our company almost everyone uses Skype for voice. But that also means adding contacts for everyone you want to talk to, so it's not really a company standard. We use IM extensively and have a public (as in 'on the open net') Jabber serve
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by mpk 18y ago
"The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman." (from fortune)
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by mpk 18y ago
>> Atlas Shrugged is a fine novel [..] No it's not. It's really not. I don't want to get into a big AS bashing here, but if you're looking for a good Ayn Rand novel on individualism I suggest you try 'The Fountainhead'.
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by mpk 18y ago
I have a list of startup/tech stuff related job sites I've collected over here, http://www.moondust.dds.nl/jobs.html (No ads, static html, not a blog, etc).
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by mpk 18y ago
It's EUR 279 over here (according to http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=nl... ), which converts to about USD 368. Doesn't really seem like a major bargain..
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by mpk 18y ago
This trend has been going on for years. I always thought Aloe Vera was something used in women's shampoo. Imagine my surprise when I recently found it popping up in the supermarket in the drinks division. (Not bad, btw). Lets not even start
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by mpk 18y ago
Designating one or more devil's advocates is a good strategy. That way the naysayer isn't perceived as a negative person. Of course, the company culture also goes a long way in facilitating this.
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by mpk 18y ago
Same here. English is not my native language but I just do everything in English. Code, documentation, blogs, requirement docs, etc. Really, everything. Is this even remotely controversial these days?
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by mpk 18y ago
Cool project. Much like Ruby, Python seems easy to match to JSON. Also, check out JsonML : http://jsonml.org/ . The focus lies more on the client side templating (where it's all JS anyway), but it has additional goodies like XML-to-JsonML
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by mpk 18y ago
I generally agree, but I'd like to point out that there are actually technology certification courses out there that are impressive if you've passed them. For example, having CCIE on your resume will certainly grab my attention.
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by mpk 18y ago
If it's sequences you're looking for, try this technique I came up with a year or two ago, http://blog.mendix.com/?p=4 Doesn't use global variables and provides sequences that can be nested.
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by mpk 18y ago
.. so perhaps he's pulling the data from some of the same sources as Maxmind does and hence is on a similar update schedule, is what you're implying, right? Anyway, I'd still like to know what those sources are.
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by mpk 18y ago
The big boys seem to be a little reluctant to publish information on their DDoS strategies. (If anyone has information that says otherwise, it's much appreciated). I spent some time googling around and in case anyone's interested, these lin
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by mpk 18y ago
This works fine when there are tens or even a few hundred source IPs. However, malicious DDoS attacks are often orchestrated using zombie machines (maybe your parent's unpatched Windows box, for example). This way the perpetrators remain ou
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by mpk 18y ago
This bodes well for QuakeLive. IIRC it's totally free and revenue is going to come from in-game advertising. But then again, the environment lends itself to ads. In World of Warcraft, for example, you'd be breaking an illusion if ads for Jo
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by mpk 18y ago
I think it was Linus Torvalds who said 'Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's really, really good and when it's bad it's better than nothing.' But apart from stuff like javadocs (which usually is just type information and fairly r
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by mpk 18y ago
Never heard of snipt, but having just taken a look I have to say it does, at a first glance. Snipt seems to be a more general code-snippet site, though whereas commandline-fu focuses solely on the command line. While we're off on a mild tan
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by mpk 18y ago
Hm. The site admin uses the name 'root', which is generally frowned upon by the unix community... (I kid! I kid! I'm taking it out of context! Don't flame me, bro!) Cool site, picked up two gems after only about 20 seconds on the main page.
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by mpk 18y ago
I disagree. Leaving out the backend stuff, the front-end of web work usually ties into generating reasonably complex HTML or XML. In dynamic languages it is almost trivial to keep the overhead to a minimum because it's fairly easy to tie in
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by mpk 18y ago
Well, experience goes a long way. After having built software in different languages for different targets on different systems a few times, you start recognizing patterns. One of the strategies I use to become comfortable with new environm
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by mpk 18y ago
.. that and NoScript. There are plenty of FireFox plugins I use (primarily FireBug, but Chrome has good debugging tools and it's only a matter of time before someone builds an equivalent of FireBug for Chrome). AdBlock Plus and NoScript giv
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by mpk 18y ago
Pair-programming as a dogmatic part of the development process is, IMNSHO, very overrated. Coding standards, simple interfaces, commit policies, etc are far more important. Pair programming is useful for, * Building small but critical piece
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by mpk 18y ago
And .... still no linux build.
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by mpk 18y ago
The main point he seems to be making is that LISP is terribly inefficient from an early 80s point of view because there's an abstraction layer between LISP code and the CPU. These days of course that's a moot point, as almost all day-to-day
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by mpk 18y ago
Flock is built on Mozilla using XUL. As far as I can tell (and I really haven't done my homework on this) Google Chrome doesn't have this kind of extensible architecture. Having raised 30 million (most of which I assume is still in the bank

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