pcowans

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by pcowans 18y ago
We're currently using ActiveMQ with ActiveMessaging as the Rails bindings. One reason for this was that we wanted something which would be fairly language/platform neutral if in the future we decided that Ruby/Rails wasn't the right choice
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by pcowans 19y ago
... and also, if you have a laptop, force yourself to only use it at a desk, not on the couch or in bed.
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by pcowans 19y ago
One important point is to take breaks often - get someting like Workrave and set it to force you to stop typing for 30 second every 5 minutes and take a longer break every hour. This doesn't really affect productivity, as you can think abou
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by pcowans 19y ago
How would that work in Java (or any other compiled language)? You recompile every time you want to change the settings?
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by pcowans 19y ago
Windows Power Shell addresses some of these issues.
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by pcowans 19y ago
I'd caution against using the filesystem unless you think things out very carefully. Typically you'll have a binary tree for the index in an RDBMS which gives you log(N) scaling on lookups for joins etc. If you use the filesystem your looku
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by pcowans 19y ago
I don't see the point of this - system programming in C/C++ looks like this on pretty much any platform, and you almost always have a higher level alternative which avoids it.
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by pcowans 19y ago
If you read the article, please also read: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steven_J._Milloy
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by pcowans 19y ago
I agree completely - SVN is very standard, seems to be stable, and basically does everything most people will need. TortoiseSVN is a great client if you're using Windows.
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by pcowans 19y ago
My favourite: An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are staying overnight in a hotel having attended a conference. The engineer wakes up in the middle of the night and sees there is a fire in his room, so he goes out to the corridor,
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by pcowans 19y ago
Can you give any specific examples (references to academic papers) you've already tested it on and shown an improvement - no need to give details if you don't feel you can, but it would be interesting to know which tests you've done and aga
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by pcowans 19y ago
Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay is excellent, and freely available online. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html
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Ask YC: Any good Rails log anlysis tools?
2 points by pcowans 19y ago|1 comments