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Whack: Compile and run path-independent Linux programs(github.com)
35 points by mwilliamson 13y ago|26 comments
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by mwilliamson 14y ago
There was an article in NYTimes a little while ago that suggested that getting six hours of sleep a night for two weeks was equivalent to being awake for 24 hours: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sleep-t.htm... All told,
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External code quality and libification(mike.zwobble.org)
1 points by mwilliamson 14y ago|0 comments
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Test reuse(mike.zwobble.org)
1 points by mwilliamson 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: spur.py: A simplified interface for SSH and subprocess in Python(mike.zwobble.org)
1 points by mwilliamson 14y ago|1 comments
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by mwilliamson 14y ago
As an example of taking this to an extreme, I was at a coderetreat where we had to implement Conway's Game of Life without any if statements (or similar, such as switches) -- we had to use polymorphism instead. The result was that my partne
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by mwilliamson 14y ago
When I was learning to drive (in Hemel Hempstead), I found it easier to get around the magic roundabout if you just thought about it as a road that happened to be a small circle with a few mini-roundabouts on it. Even when it's busy, I've f
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Don't make big decisions, make big decisions irrelevant(mike.zwobble.org)
3 points by mwilliamson 14y ago|0 comments
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Peaks and troughs in software development(mike.zwobble.org)
1 points by mwilliamson 14y ago|0 comments
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Red Gate Coder interviews: Alex Davies(simple-talk.com)
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Red Gate Coder interviews: Jeff Foster(simple-talk.com)
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Red Gate Coders: Peter Cowan(simple-talk.com)
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by mwilliamson 14y ago
I remember reading a comment on another story which I thought was a wonderful explanation of why estimates tend to be too short: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3522910 To quote one part: Let's say that you have 20 tasks. Each involv
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by mwilliamson 15y ago
> It would seem that the tasted of Coke is affected as much by its branding as by its recipe! There was an interesting experiment where some researchers put subjects inside an MRI machine, and then fed them two samples of cola. Sometime
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by mwilliamson 16y ago
Or even simpler: var collected = $('a').map($) However, map as defined on jQuery objects takes a function that takes the index as the first argument, and the element as the second argument: http://api.jquery.com/map/ So, what you
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by mwilliamson 16y ago
I regularly see people getting 12am and 12pm mixed up -- using midnight and noon definitely reduces confusion.
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by mwilliamson 16y ago
In my opinion, one of the big problems with formal methods is getting the specification right. You might be able to prove that your program conforms to your specification, but what is to say that your specification is any less buggy than yo
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by mwilliamson 16y ago
What about XenSource? I believe they were later than VMware, and they made a tidy sum when Citrix bought them.