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by nathanb 17y ago
I see...thank you for correcting my false assumption.
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by nathanb 17y ago
Just the way I like it :)
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by nathanb 17y ago
Correct my ignorance, please, but people are talking like cryptosystems using 768-bit keys have been cracked. These folks showed that you can factor a single 768-bit number in under four years, if you have the computing power of a moderate-
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by nathanb 17y ago
Dropbox + vi?
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by nathanb 17y ago
Until you're comfortable enough with the syntax that you can hand-write code out on a blank sheet of paper, you don't really know the language. How you learn the syntax is up to you, but especially for your first language spending time that
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by nathanb 17y ago
I don't agree with many of the assertions made in this post. > and you will receive just as good of an education It depends on what you're being educated on. For the cookie-cutter classes every first- and second-year undergrad has to ta
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by nathanb 17y ago
Agreed...since when is "ship early and iterate often" either new or controversial?
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by nathanb 17y ago
As history teaches us, the answer is 'yes'. Personally, I think it most likely that Facebook will end up stopping Facebook, by failing to ameliorate ways that it currently annoys its users (or allows its users to annoy each-other) and by co
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by nathanb 17y ago
This isn't surprising...people tend to project their own beliefs onto everybody, and unlike our fellow humans God doesn't give us any opportunities to disabuse ourselves of this notion.
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by nathanb 17y ago
I agree with cabacon that the title is poorly-chosen. I was expecting to read one of those inane "I have transcended the debugger" posts, but instead found something insightful. How my team tries to fix the problem of log files being insuff
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by nathanb 17y ago
He showed her that he called her more often than he called his bandmates.
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by nathanb 17y ago
Let's see...they don't abuse their employees, they compete on quality, they frequently expand through acquisition rather than duplication, they're not known for exploiting third-world countries, and they appear at least mildly interested in
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by nathanb 17y ago
So what you're saying is that if my bus is stuck in stop-and-go traffic for too long I will have to get out and push?
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by nathanb 17y ago
I don't think so. I think smart, individualistic people are naturally "weird" and that more software developers tend to be smart and individualistic than the standard distribution would seem to imply.
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by nathanb 17y ago
I agree that this method might work for statsheet.com, at least in its current incarnation, but it's a bit of a special case. Just because you can rely on spot-checking and only reacting to critical errors when you're strapped for resources
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by nathanb 17y ago
...not anymore, it looks like. ( http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ )
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by nathanb 17y ago
Obviously as storage becomes plentiful and cheap, those who care about their data will use filesystems that are intelligent enough to deal with latent sector errors (such as ZFS or NetApp's WAFL). Perhaps storage servers will also incorpora
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by nathanb 17y ago
For me, showing that you're familiar with general concepts is better than specific software. If you have extra space, write "version control", don't write "svn". If you don't have the space, don't bother. If your interview doesn't make me c
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by nathanb 17y ago
Formerly successful speculator loses all in what he thought was a sure-thing bet due to economic downturn. Stop me if you've heard this before.
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by nathanb 17y ago
I assume that this will only work if you've executed the program inside of GDB, not if you load a core file that was dumped earlier outside of GDB?
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by nathanb 17y ago
But this dumbness is transitive. If it's dumb for a company to make assumptions about a developer because he's certified, it's dumb for a client to choose a company based on the percentage of developers who are certified. > Playing an a
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by nathanb 17y ago
There will always be ways to game the certification process by teaching the test. And there will always be talented, passionate developers who don't test well or don't see the need to memorize something that Google could reveal in a single
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by nathanb 17y ago
Would have been more enlightening if the poster elaborated on why each item was in the list. I can make guesses, but don't make me beg your question.
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by nathanb 17y ago
Probably because Apple made theirs hiding, Microsoft copied it, and the X Window System copied both.
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by nathanb 17y ago
Heck, this is just replacing a numeric unique-identifier with a textual unique-identifier. Many companies have already gone this route by getting phone numbers that spell clever things according to the letters on the phone keypad. Technolog
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by nathanb 17y ago
I think in English. Whenever I'm thinking about a problem, my solutions are immediately described in my head at a high level. This allows me to rapidly iterate over the solution space without having to venture down into the pseudocode or co
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by nathanb 17y ago
Sure, but now there's a variant of C that will only work on Apple platforms...
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by nathanb 17y ago
So basically Apple is pulling a Microsoft by adding a platform-specific extension to an otherwise cross-platform, portable language?
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by nathanb 17y ago
I haven't heard anything specific, so certainly take it with a grain of salt. I was considering using ZFS on my home backup server a while back but didn't want to deal with OpenSolaris, so I did some Googling to see if the BSD port was wort
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by nathanb 17y ago
Well, the BSD port of ZFS has the reputation of being less reliable and difficult to administer due to lack of certain features and tool support, so possibly Apple ran into similar problems. The NetApp lawsuit can't help, either.

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