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by orib 18y ago
From what I've seen helping people I know handle pointers, they're really actually having trouble with the concepts of pointers. Getting them to draw the box diagrams with pointers correctly is challenging. The notation is an extra challeng
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by orib 18y ago
Exactly. Moreover, most programmers will simply use high level primitives from some library where concurrency is deep buried, so they won't need to worry about it at all. And who writes the libraries? I'd suggest that if you're only gluin
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by orib 18y ago
Of course it doesn't make software worse, but you make it sound like it's the only factor in software quality. Far from it, and IMO the degree to which it has become a religion is disturbing. I suspect that might be the source of the downmo
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by orib 18y ago
Or how much thought goes into it. I remember reading about a study about a very different style of development from years ago, where automated testing was NEVER done, but instead formalized models of the program were created and mathematica
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by orib 18y ago
What symmetric high bandwidth applications? I can't think of any consumers that want to upload as much as they download.
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by orib 18y ago
Yes, yes I did.
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by orib 18y ago
Spoken like someone who truly doesn't understand C. You even managed to confuse it with C++ (you might as well have said "Java" in the place of C++, it's about as close to C as C++ is) Well done. edit: Ignore this post. I misread. I'm an i
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by orib 18y ago
100 ms is still a pretty big latency. Add to that the slowdown of propagating in a fiber optic cable, and you've just increased the time to 150 ms. So, for a server 1/4 of the way around the world, you're stuck with a minimum round trip tim
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by orib 18y ago
My personal pet peeve is that a language for the browser was standardized, instead of a simple generic bytecode format. But then I have a whole lots of pet peeves about the browser as a development platform.
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by orib 18y ago
As a business, it's certainly not a success. It gets massive number of page views, and is very popular, but business isn't a popularity contest. If you can't figure out how to make money, you're not a successful business.
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by orib 18y ago
Parse tables or regex compiling are a perfect example of this style. Lookup tables are another good example.
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by orib 18y ago
This is why I don't jump on bandwagons, but instead use software based on my own evaluation. I try to avoid letting hype influence my decisions. I find a pinch of skepticism goes a long way.
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by orib 18y ago
http://codesearch.google.com
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by orib 18y ago
Yep, Ted is a bad writer with very few points to make, so he fills in the gaps with anger and poison. Some people can pull off the angry rant in a a worthwhile way. He can't, and I generally despise his writing. As far as Ubuntu's update pr
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by orib 18y ago
To be fair, the Ubuntu quality assurance process seems somewhat shoddy. On stable releases, I've seen 2 rather serious issues with minor updates. In one update, Ubuntu pretty much broke the PCI detection code in X, so that X always thought
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by orib 18y ago
This was all freely available and common knowledge. Part of being young is not listening and trying to find your own way.
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by orib 18y ago
I use it, but only because it mails me notifications about events. If my non-technical friends understood mailing lists, and enough of them were on the same one, that would easily beat facebook for it's primary usecase (at least in my situa
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by orib 18y ago
Take this with a grain of salt, since I am not an economist. However, I think that Government intervention isn't evil. For the free market economy to work, a number of assumptions are made in the model. For example, we assume that consumers
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by orib 18y ago
To quote the CSS 2.0 spec: The 'em' unit is equal to the computed value of the 'font-size'... Therefore, em is in units of font size, and is not independent of it. It's totally unrelated to 'px' values, except by luck. Not all browsers de
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by orib 18y ago
They could simply use em measurements everywhere before. Actually, the size of an 'em' isn't even defined relative to the size of a pixel by the CSS spec, so the claim in the article is dead wrong about it helping you use em when you mean
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by orib 18y ago
What part of respecting a user's settings makes a website ugly? If a website is properly designed, it should scale just fine no matter what the font size is. If you need a fixed pixel size for a font to make your design work, you're doing i
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by orib 18y ago
From the article: My suggestion for you is to do the following: start your CSS stylesheet with html { font-size: 62.5%; } NO, NO, AND NO! I set my font size to what it is for a reason. Web designers need to
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by orib 18y ago
http://www.openusability.org/
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by orib 18y ago
Why git? It's popular, which means it's easy to find people to ask questions when you need to. Really, I'd be fine with any fast distributed VCS, which means nearly all of them these days. (sorry Darcs). The ease of setup ("If you have SSH
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by orib 18y ago
Hm? Why would you think that? Did you realize that your master/ branch is just one such long-running branch, and one that's not special in any way other than being the default for some commands... As far as multiple committers on one branch
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by orib 18y ago
[digression] I find it interesting that "what's old is new again" theme strikes again. In this video, near the 7 minute mark, he's talking about moving applications off of mainframes/servers and running them as desktop clients for ease of d
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by orib 18y ago
It implies that he's not even looking for a way to make money, as well as sounding rather arrogant ("Well, we're obviously going to be the next google whether we try or not")
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by orib 18y ago
And how would you do that? what would make the economy more fault tolerant, specifically?
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by orib 18y ago
The one that fits the problem at hand is the best model to use. one's not clearly better for all cases than the other.
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by orib 18y ago
as for the guy's problem with the lack of HTML() in pygtk, there's pywebkitgtk: http://code.google.com/p/pywebkitgtk/

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