nikster

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by nikster 13y ago
Yeah well... Great code needs no comments. Bad code needs lots of comments. I've seen examples of both recently. I randomly met a guy who told me of his idea to implement a UX framework with windows, buttons, views, etc in python. A we
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by nikster 13y ago
This is probably just me but... I often write code backwards using the IDE capabilities. Say I instantiate an object, I'd write "[[Foo alloc] init]" (most of that auto-completed), then use the keyboard shortcut to assign it t
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by nikster 13y ago
And AppCode... AppCode is the reason I still have hair. If I had been using XCode for the last 2 years I'd have it all pulled out by now. Or I might have given up on iOS altogether.
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by nikster 13y ago
This. The text editor people don't seem to get it but _not_ spending significant amounts of time each day looking up method names / parameters does add up. The other reason is because. It annoys the shit out of me when something t
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by nikster 13y ago
Summary: iOS is missing a file system. Even just a simple shared folder where all apps can share whatever they're producing would be enough. Those who don't understand file systems are condemned to reinvent them...
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by nikster 13y ago
Isn't a think tank basically the same as lobbyists, e.g. legalized corruption? Think tanks push an agenda, which creates laws beneficial to the business interests of the think tank's backers, which creates $Bns in profits. In that
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by nikster 13y ago
Conspiracy theories aside, every programmer has probably made that mistake. The better ones learn to just avoid if statements without blocks ;) But one thing that pisses me off is that they go and implement SSL and don't have any auto
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by nikster 13y ago
I like that theory. Generally the problem with science is that it's turned into a belief system almost akin to a religion by many people. Strangely, even by very smart physicists. They seem to overlook the fact that we don't know
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by nikster 13y ago
Been in Thailand 10 years - honestly most Thais don't care one bit about the letter of the law. A banal example might be that unless there's a helmet check stop, you can drive by any policeman without a helmet on - nobody cares. T
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by nikster 13y ago
Two observations: - The worst programmers work for big corporations. Because there the overall level of competence is so low they can scrape by barely doing anything. - Very true about keeping skills sharp and developing new skills. It&#x27
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by nikster 13y ago
If I was the interviewer I'd just check how they go about it - do they just start typing or do they read the docs, that's a big one right there. I wouldn't expect bug free code, just a reasonable attempt, clean code, and some
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by nikster 13y ago
I think the difficulty of the malloc question is a bit hard to assess for non-kernel programmers. Best I could do is some educated guesses that would probably be wrong. But then I am not a kernel/systems programmer The LRU cache on the
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by nikster 13y ago
"We'll make you watch a 10 minute video before you find out what this is all about". Meh, no thanks.
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by nikster 13y ago
It would be up to the client to install PGP for true end to end encryption. What I was wondering - why don't they keep the email service but reject all emails that are sent without PGP? Then people would have to go through the pain of
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by nikster 13y ago
I live outside the USA and there's two messages to be heard out of the USA: - "We'll catch this guy and kill him" and - "Give him up, or else..." The US administration sounds like a foaming-at-the-mouth psychop
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by nikster 13y ago
"FWIW Obama's cancellation of the summit is getting rave reviews from basically every major paper I've looked at" The NSA is out of control, and calling the shots. The government is run by a cozy coalition of secret serv
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by nikster 13y ago
Maybe I am an eternal optimist but in my opinion, it's impossible to keep all that crazy stuff under wraps for long - information wants to be free, and it will get out one way or another. The USA is in a very bad situation thanks to th
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by nikster 13y ago
In my experience the opposite is true. Some people have an easy time programming, and the specifics - libraries, languages, etc - don't matter at all. They'll pick up that new stuff in their sleep. I recently hired a Java guy afte
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by nikster 13y ago
Why would you even go to the BoT? The only reason I can think of is so that they say no, and you get some free publicity?
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by nikster 13y ago
[I live in Thailand] Thanks I was just about to write that. This story smells. If you go up to some officials in Thailand and ask them whether or not something is legal, they'll say it's illegal. No laws have been passed that woul
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by nikster 13y ago
Thanks for sharing your own experience. It makes me incredibly happy to see that; Hurrah! As Byron Katie says: "I find that every time I fight reality, reality wins."Once you accept what is, new ways to move forward emerge almost
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by nikster 13y ago
You are having a very strong reaction so I assume it's personal for you. Past experience? A strong reaction like this is normal if the topic "pushes your buttons" - and we all have buttons to push. When you notice anger risin
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by nikster 13y ago
I guess he's learning to have thicker skin. It requires only one insight - that what people say about you, what they think about you, is not reality. Understand this deeply, and nobody will be able to insult you anymore. You'll re
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by nikster 13y ago
It is a little sad. Those days where one could rule out foul play by the US government in a case like this - those days are most certainly over. That said in this case we'll have to trust his family.
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by nikster 13y ago
A friend of mine died from pneumonia at 30. He went to bed not feeling well and never woke up.
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by nikster 13y ago
Have some respect, please. R.I.P. a great hacker who left this planet before his time. PS: Also since it's not suspicious we can rule out your theory as anything like that would most certainly be suspicious.
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by nikster 13y ago
The truth is, there is no inconvenient tasks. The only way to remove inconvenience is to enjoy the things that you do. The only way to do that is to be completely present in the here and now - concentrate on setting one foot in front of the
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by nikster 13y ago
It seems the most likely would be that most planets are inhabited by life forms that aren't intelligent. Out of 13Bn years, humans in any form have been around 1M years. Civilized societies only a few thousand. We'd find many mo
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by nikster 13y ago
Maybe none of these guys would have done what they've done. Maybe they'd never even have been born, their parents being to lazy. Maybe we'd never have evolved from being pretty comfortable monkeys sitting around - why would w
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by nikster 13y ago
Same for most user interfaces. I am writing client side iOS apps and frankly doing most of that stuff in Obj-C, or any text based language - seems to make very little sense. It's a tool that seems ill suited to the task.

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