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by nupark2 14y ago
> Yes, this is a trite and negligible truth of PHP. A developer suffering any significant loss of productivity due to problems like mismatched needle/haystack parameters just isn't very competent. It's a non-issue if the developer is b
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by nupark2 15y ago
It's easier for PHP developers to write it off as "a pissing contest" than to face the cold hard truth: PHP is, objectively, awful. There is literally no reason to choose it over today's alternatives other than market inertia, which is
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by nupark2 15y ago
Even those of us entirely outside the PHP economy (mobile, desktop, big-iron server) occasionally stumble into a monster of a mess that some PHP idiot left behind, and have to clean it up (usually by just replacing it outright, because PHP
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by nupark2 15y ago
Or, rather, simply never commit code that logs authentication credentials, in production or otherwise.
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by nupark2 15y ago
> That's true, but my point is that there isn't such a visceral hatred for C and C++ even though they are widespread and notorious for memory leaks, vulnerabilities, indecipherable corporate quagmires (perhaps due to an over-engineered
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Crashlytics raises $5M for mobile app crash reporting(techcrunch.com)
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by nupark2 15y ago
The money in YouTube is in professional and editorially selected content. Music videos, trailers, some guy crashing a music video audition, etc. There's almost no room for that kind of content from a photo sharing system.
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by nupark2 15y ago
> WTF? If you can't trust your network, OS, and user level access ... You can't trust them all equally, and allow for a failure in any one of them to result in a total failure of all security. That's the M&M security model -- crun
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by nupark2 15y ago
> Speed, battery-life, ease of programming are 3 of the main reasons we are motivated to build a Couch-compatible storage and sync layer on the device. If you have an intelligent sync solution, you can use significantly less radio time
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by nupark2 15y ago
You can't directly equate contract rates to salary rates. In terms of costs, the contractor has to cover taxes, equipment, insurance (of all types, including health). Additionally, the contractor has to set aside sufficient profit to cover
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by nupark2 15y ago
The problems on mobile are so incredibly different than server, I don't see that CouchDB would be useful client-side. The focus client-side is on speed, battery-life, ease of programming, and perhaps most of all, maintaining separation of c
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by nupark2 15y ago
Are EBS snapshots not block-level atomic? In theory you should get a PITR image without stopping anything, assuming that: 1) The file system correctly orders or journals operations (I'm not familiar with XFS, but this is the case with FFS
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by nupark2 15y ago
I don't know about the OP, but I have a chip on my shoulder about professionalism in the industry, of which the alcohol and brogrammer culture is just a part. We're on a long, slow slide away from CS and towards hacking out yet-another poor
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by nupark2 15y ago
"or equivalent experience" is now a pretty standard addendum to the CS degree requirement.
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by nupark2 15y ago
Confirmation doesn't necessarily require password input.
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by nupark2 15y ago
Your comment should be sitting higher. Dalvik is unlikely to be more expensive than a similarly complex JS VM.
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by nupark2 15y ago
Multiple successful low-cost copies demonstrate the barrier to entry is low, and in doing so, improve the efficiency of the market. Unsuccessful copies may demonstrate that the barrier to entry is high (for whatever reason), and may in do
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by nupark2 15y ago
Prior art (also mentioned elsewhere in the comments): http://likethought.com/opacity/
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by nupark2 15y ago
Suits are generally overbearing and a seeming affectation if you wear one in what others assume to be a casual environment.
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by nupark2 15y ago
How is ChromeOS doing?
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by nupark2 15y ago
This approach is exactly the opposite of what users want on mobile devices.
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by nupark2 15y ago
> Developing native apps for various platforms is not easy, and frankly, unnecessary for most services [emphasis mine] I think the fact that you've developed a native app here provides sufficient falsifying evidence for this declarati
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by nupark2 15y ago
I very strongly disagree. ARC still reveals the underlying nuts and bolts, necessitating a basic understanding of reference counting systems. It doesn't solve retain cycles, thus requiring the judicious use of __weak in cases where a retain
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by nupark2 15y ago
I think you either misread, or I was unclear -- we're in agreement. Company network with company devices: sniffing traffic is fine, insofar as it's done by configuring the devices with a private CA. Company network with personal devices (in
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by nupark2 15y ago
> Installing organization-specific self-signed roots in all company devices is more than just 'a pain'; it's fundamentally impractical for any organization that wants to let employee-owned or public devices onto its network. So just do
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by nupark2 15y ago
Harvesting power is a bit questionable, but in terms of an input mechanism, Square built their reader on the idea. As far as it being a hack for a closed platform, I'm not sure why that matters if your goal is to interface with the primary
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by nupark2 15y ago
Only reason I can think of is to traverse firewalls that block outbound sockets but don't block HTTP+WebSocket. That aside, it seems a bit ridiculous, given that we already have sockets , to bolt on a protocol that exists almost solely to
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by nupark2 15y ago
I believe toyg already covered the split between humanities and science/engineering, but I'd also like to cover the Continuing Education departments themselves. The course offerings are generally constrained, and the courses themselves are
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by nupark2 15y ago
This is something I wish universities would provide: open enrollment for adults without the cookie-cutter bureaucratic undergraduate track and the 18-year-old-focused high-bar on-rails admissions process. The "continuing education" progra
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by nupark2 15y ago
Khan Academy provides a low-overhead, on-demand learning environment. The format is good, but it's not novel, and the format isn't the point . Khan Academy allows me, with no overhead whatsoever, to pick (or refresh a skill), whenever I wa

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