mrgoldenbrown

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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Scala and Clojure both involve lots of new ways of thinking. This is why I like them. I suspect it is also a reason many hesitate to try or switch to them. People say you can use Scala as basically java with less boilerplate, but if you w
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Does anybody have any data on how many people program in greek, cyrillic, or hebrew characters? I suspect that 90% of programs that are out there could be written with 10% of the glyphs that he is proposing to hand hint. Why not focus on
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
It should replace anything with script tags in it with "I am currently trying to break this page"
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Advertising is saying "free ice cream this weekend at EE's ice cream shop". What EE does though is say "free ice cream" in their ad on tv, and then inform customers at the cash register that the ice cream is only free if you purchase a $50
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Running Collect periodically probably won't help much in this scenario - the huge data structure isn't actually being collected during the GC.Collect. But the GC doesn't know this until it spikes the CPU while it walks a bajillion referenc
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Some languages solve this problem by not having a GC at all :) However, with a problem involving huge in memory structures like this, even manually allocating and deallocating everything properly would probably be a non trivial thing.
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Apple goes out of their way to make it difficult for end users to install apps that are not approved by Apple.
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
your "etc" glosses over a lot of other reasons apple will reject your app, ranging from "we're not going to tell you why" all the way up to "your superior implementation makes our built in functionality look dumb, so we'll ban your app to p
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Would you react the same way if they had boring but equally expensive professional photos instead of bobbleheads?
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
I doubt this is significantly more expensive than sending the execs all out for professional portraits. And better yet, it got them free advertising on HN, and who knows how many other sites. I'd say this scheme has already paid for itsel
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Having a good resume with skills A,B and C: 5-10pts. Interview confirms that your resume wasn't full of BS: 10-20 pts You can perform skills A,B,C on a whiteboard or laptop interview session: 20-50 pts 1 year of seeing you exhibiting ski
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
At least this might force the recruiter to admit what his true assessment of your chances are - if you don't call their bluff, they will forever tell you that you are a perfect fit, and that the job is the best ever.
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
depends on the system - 30 minutes is not enough to convert users, groups, permissions, threaded conversations, voting, keywords, etc, especially if both systems do not use the same data model.
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Designers doing mockups for free is probably a symptom of more designers looking for work than there are clients willing to pay designers. Why aren't people willing to pay? Is there a glut of people offering high quality services for chea
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
I live and bike in Cambridge. We have separated bike lanes in some places, but pedestrians generally don't respect them in my experience. I used to think pedestrians that walked in designated bike lanes just didn't know it was a bike lane
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Nearly all of what you say is true. However, you neglect to mention that it all applies to pedestrians as well, and drivers of course have their own version of each. I have observed (and swerved to avoid) many pedestrians who don't use cro
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Sorry, but seeing a privacy policy and about page is not a valid way to judge if an app is malicious or not.
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
Right, because Facebook would never change their privacy policies on a whim without giving users warning ahead of time. At least they probably won't. Anymore. Well, only if they really need to.
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
I hope they are able to get past the lovefest of the recent media coverage, and dig into some of the more interesting issues. Did he really think that taking LSD was one of the most important events in his life? What did he do with all hi
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
I don't have a textbook in front of me, but I doubt textbook Scrum says "be inflexible"
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
You are assuming that only people that you have friended will be able to see your stuff. How long before facebook changes their polices again, so that all information is viewable by default to the public? Or before they sell it all to mark
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
I would have liked to see a more realistic discussion of when QA helps the bottom line and when it doesn't. Plenty of software is sold and tolerated by users despite having bugs. If Microsoft waited until the bug count in Windows was 0,
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
this was the first thing I noticed as well. I think the extra space required for words is worth the lack of confusion.
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
I like the fact that an experiment was done. I don't like the conclusion that batching is always bad. Yes, for this arbitrary subset of tasks, batching was slower. But if we had included walking to the nearest mailbox to the flow, batchi
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
This headline is misleading. They are not reviving the TouchPad. They are just using up the leftover parts and manufacturing capability they already had, and which would be considered sunk costs. Reviving would imply they had a plan to m
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firefox on XP here, and I couldn't submit the form either.
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by mrgoldenbrown 15y ago
If IP rules had been enforced better, the industrial revolution wouldn't have come to America. Samuel Slater, "Father of the American Industrial Revolution") was not famous for inventing stuff, but for successfully sneaking the tech out of