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by orclev 13y ago
Most new development isn't done in C++, all the things you're referencing are primarily legacy applications (legacy in the sense that they were originally written a long time ago, not deprecated). Most new software even at the com
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The point is, C is worth learning because of what it teaches you. Likewise Haskell and OCaml are worth learning because they'll make you a better programmer. C++ is only worth learning if you're looking for a career in the gaming
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by orclev 13y ago
They've started to crop up around all the gas stations and most of the chain stores around here. You can usually find one in any given Walmart, although they mainly seem to be targeting the gas stations currently. I do wonder at what p
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by orclev 13y ago
Similarly on the Java side you've got JSF which is basically ASP.Net ported to Java. It was a dumb idea when ASP.Net did it, and it was still a dumb idea when it was ported to Java. Now we have the same dumb idea ported to Javascript.
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by orclev 13y ago
I'm sure 10 years down the line someone will be raving about how the latest NinjaScript based framework is going to be the death of Foo#, and anyone who doesn't think so should go back to their crusty old enterprise Ruby legacy co
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by orclev 13y ago
Ruby and Java don't really compete in the same space, it would probably be better to compare Ruby and PHP as those two are the primary competitor with each other. If you wanted to point to a competitor to Java, .Net would probably be t
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by orclev 13y ago
I had to accept cookies from the site before it would even show me anything but a blank page.
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by orclev 13y ago
I've worked with a lot of languages and a lot of frameworks over the years, and the ones from Microsoft are always hands down the most needlessly complicated and poorly documented of the bunch. PHP may be a double claw hammer, but at l
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by orclev 13y ago
Basically this, particularly that last part. MS Research is awesome, they do great work. People like Simon Peyton Jones are doing really cool stuff and really helping the industry grow. That said, MS proper is basically in the exact opposit
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You still need some kind of mapper though to go from the SQL results to your record type, even if it's using convention such as the records fields are named the same as the table columns you're pulling from. I'm not arguing t
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by orclev 13y ago
I've not been impressed with Go. The type system is painful and weak, and some of the choices with the way packaging are performed seem poorly thought out. It's not a terrible language, but I don't think it's a good lang
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by orclev 13y ago
also without an ORM do you just hand roll all your object graphs? I'm picturing a sea of builders and factories which amount to a hand rolled ORM anyway. Or are you practicing stringly typed programming? Ultimately in any strongly type
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by orclev 13y ago
For me at least I liked the concept of CoffeeScript, but had a couple issues with the implementation. I was originally very interested in it, but after experimenting with it for a little while decided not to use it as I felt it didn't
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by orclev 13y ago
To my understanding this is what I would expect to happen. He handed over the cert to the FBI, so from a security standpoint it's useless now and should be considered compromised.
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by orclev 13y ago
Well, we've now heard two different stories. According to Ben, there were two events. The first time they took your server offline and contacted you to tell you about it, they did not however lock your account. When the second event oc
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by orclev 13y ago
A far more thorough response than I expected to see. It does look like, best case scenario his instance was compromised and being used for malicious purposes, worst case scenario he was actively doing something malicious himself. In either
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by orclev 13y ago
The dictionary does not capture the full context of a word, only by using it regularly and being exposed to its usage in literature and speech can the full context of it be appreciated. The closest you can come to that from a dictionary def
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by orclev 13y ago
The fundamental difference is that a privilege is something given while an advantage can be something inherent. Privilege isn't something you're born with, it's something someone else has given you (and there's a strong
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by orclev 13y ago
I knew there was something that was bothering me about the way they abuse the word privilege, I just couldn't put my finger on it, thanks for pointing that out.
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by orclev 13y ago
I already told you what I was doing, which is pretty much everything I can. Being that I'm not management, don't run a company, don't have anyone reporting to me, and am generally low man on the totem pole what I can actually
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by orclev 13y ago
Two things. First, it's fine to try to stop discrimination in tech in the general sense, but it shouldn't be framed as a problem specifically with tech, doing so narrows the focus to the point at which it can't actually addre
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by orclev 13y ago
I'm not even going to bother with your first point, particularly as it isn't really a point per say and I don't think anything constructive will come of it. Your second point on the other hand, that has some meat to it. I&#x2
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by orclev 13y ago
But that's the thing, every time someone does something misogynistic that's even remotely connected to tech in any way we get a storm of "stop the rampant misogyny in tech" rants and comments, never a "stop the ramp
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by orclev 13y ago
This is a high school class, not the tech industry. You can't blame the tech industry when a bunch of highschoolers act like idiots just because the class they did it in happened to be a programming class. If they had done the same thi
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by orclev 13y ago
My initial thought is this is working via the microphone/speakers on the computer and phone. My second thought is if you don't need to unlock the phone and activate anything I bet this absolutely kills your battery life. I'd
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by orclev 13y ago
Anyone have link/info on what this is about? I haven't been following what happened with TechCrunch so I've got no idea what idiotic thing whoever this is has done now to earn our ire.
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by orclev 13y ago
That was pretty much my reaction as well. I built a small system similar to this for my grandmother a couple years ago. If I recall I paid about $150 for the base system, and another ~$150 for an SSD for it for a grand total of $300 plus a
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by orclev 13y ago
I noticed that as well. There's actually quite a few apps in there that have screenshots of a Chrome tab. I think whoever submitted them just re-used an existing screenshot they had sitting around.
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by orclev 13y ago
You are awesome and we need more people like you. I've gotten so sick of all the rants lately about how unfair women in tech are treated, it's great to read one that's actually encouraging people instead of trying to convince
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by orclev 13y ago
Funnily enough it's almost the opposite in the rest of the USA. Indians in general have a very bad rep in tech because of the cheap offshore tech companies and the tons of low wage H1B tech workers that certain headhunting shops flock

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