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by pacaro 10y ago
I like this question! I think that working in constrained environments early in my career gave me lasting instincts both for efficiency and maintainability/sustainability. I wrote a lot of code on Win16, GeoOS, Epoc32, and a variety of
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by pacaro 10y ago
Always, but with regards to writing clean code, it pays to just learn how to do this upfront. An analogy is of cooking. I used to be a very messy cook, the food is just as good, but when I was done the kitchen looked like a bomb had hit it.
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by pacaro 10y ago
The NT team had the advantage that they (Cutler et al) had worked on a previous OS and had the opportunity to revisit design decisions in many places. I have no idea if/how VMS solved this problem
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by pacaro 10y ago
This is why the drug companies love biologics so much. The patent can expire, but without access to the cell line that produces the drug, it can't be relocated. An equivalent cell line would have to go through clinical trials. Humira i
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by pacaro 10y ago
Ha! I guess I'm showing my age. There used to be an associated vulnerability, which is why some frameworks won't let you do it. It appears that the vulnerability was fixed in what are now fairly old versions of browsers. More info
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by pacaro 10y ago
I'm in my mid 40s, currently a Principal Engineer at Amazon. My experience is probably not typical for all sorts of reasons
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by pacaro 10y ago
My path, with an allegedly irrelevant degree (History and Philosophy of Science) was 1) tinker with computers as a kid 2) go to university and study something I wanted to learn about, randomly learning C in passing (from a friend and a stol
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by pacaro 10y ago
On an unrelated note. If human readability isn't a primary concern, I'd recommend requiring that < > & all be escaped, this prevents some crappy attacks Also, no top level lists!
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by pacaro 10y ago
Yeah, as with the trailing zero, you're being burned by JavaScript's decision to just have a Number type. As far as js is concerned 1 and 1.0 are the same number.
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by pacaro 10y ago
ASN.1 uses the name DER Distinguished Encoding Rules for this purpose. There are some other edgecases that you aren't considering (or that I missed) Min and Max integer values - JavaScript has some pretty tight limits here Keys should
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by pacaro 10y ago
While YMMV, from a patients perspective, with severe psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, you want to get to biologics as quickly as your healthcare system (or budget if you have fu money) will allow. Insurance companies love methotrexate bec
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by pacaro 10y ago
Forgive the nitpick, but it is "make do", if only because "make due" reads very awkwardly in British English where "due" is pronounced as if it is spelled with a U and an E, not as if it is spelled with two O&#
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by pacaro 10y ago
Back when EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. It's salutary to consider that the memory for a reasonably spec'd machine a little over 20 years ago is now a rounding error I remember at about that time having 80MiB
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by pacaro 10y ago
I feel that you are being intentionally obtuse. The article is about sail theory, and as such it is entirely reasonable to consider the sail in isolation.
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by pacaro 10y ago
As with all things, it depends on what someone is prepared to pay. It seems unlikely that Amazon is overly concerned about the domain name (Disclosure: I work at Amazon on the totally unrelated product "Go")
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by pacaro 10y ago
Absolutely agree. As you get further into a project you tend to need subtler tools. But for the rough work when starting out, my preference is to be stricter, which can be relaxed as necessary, rather than starting out lax and reaching a po
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by pacaro 10y ago
Yup. I'm a big fan of -Wall -Wextra -Werror If these options are set before you write any code, then these problems don't arise.
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by pacaro 10y ago
True, I guess I was hung up on the "plants as pixels" idea!
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by pacaro 10y ago
Hmmm, I wonder if you could do something similar with hydrangeas and an irrigation system that controls the ph of the soil on a per plant basis
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by pacaro 10y ago
Thanks in advance! I'm experiencing the same problem on iOS. If i keep a finger on the screen and try to scroll gradually as I read, then it jitters. If I just scroll then release, read, scroll then release, etc. it is smooth.
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by pacaro 10y ago
On the "hating your job" thing, you really need to internalize better reasons for wanting to change jobs. Desperation is as unattractive in a job interview as it is in other areas of life. Maybe focus on what attracts you to the c
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by pacaro 10y ago
I'm in the same boat w.r.t. tomatoes, and like very few of the nightshades, potatoes and chili peppers being the exceptions. I find the smell of tomato plants to be totally repulsive, far worse than the tomatoes themselves. My gagging
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by pacaro 10y ago
As someone with an autoimmune disorder this is a poignant metaphor! Putting aside the over-simplification, when we no longer have to contest with discrimination in the workplace, then sure, we have to be cautious about misuse of those prote
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by pacaro 10y ago
The false equivalence was deliberate! This is one of those subtle things that can be problematic, we don't have a good moral calculus on where to draw the line. Slippery slope or reductio, your choice. Large companies often run a simpl
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by pacaro 10y ago
But Japanese has the extra wrinkle that it uses different words depending on what is being counted...
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by pacaro 10y ago
Nah, I disagree. It's time for housecleaning in this industry. If it is true that he jumped before he was pushed at Google, then they must have had some serious evidence against him. Should Hans Reiser be given a second chance because
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by pacaro 10y ago
Pure speculation, but an apron (or 'a napron' if you prefer) is (or was) a very personal item, compared with a napkin which is usually part of a large set of similar-to-identical items. So the expression 'mine napron' (h
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by pacaro 10y ago
Addendum: given a known good repo, an infected repo can be detected by diffing all elements of the repo. A parallel hash scheme with a strong hash function (SHA-3 at this point) could be used, which would easily detect if parties have diffe
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by pacaro 10y ago
No. Linus' answer is correct, as far as it goes, but the threats he considers are only a subset of the real problems. Laying aside the fact that this attack isn't the one you need to attack a hit repo, and recognizing that the the
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by pacaro 10y ago
I think that once you make then decision to use another companies chat system, you have to recognize that just about any information might end up on it. I can't imagine trying to educate users (outside of an environment in which this t

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