philwise

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by philwise 5y ago
Are there vendors who provide support for tool qualification for frama-c? By that I mean documentation support that can be provided as part of the certification process, so when you say "Frama-c verified this code does not contain any
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by philwise 7y ago
Talk to your line manager. It is quite possible that there are some skills around building long-term maintainable codebases that you haven't learnt yet. Different companies have vastly different ideas about what 'good enough'
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by philwise 8y ago
My wife taught the kids at primary school how to use PowerPoint. After they were given a camera to take some pictures around the school, some of them randomly figured out they could make stop motion animations. I was blown away. Six year o
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by philwise 12y ago
How about using Scrum stories? Each story would be a 1-2 page Word doc, with a long form description of the behaviour required and mockups of the UI.
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Improving the lives of ½ billion people(phil-wise.com)
1 points by philwise 12y ago|0 comments
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by philwise 12y ago
This is a really nice programming environment. It reminds me of playing with forth for the instant feedback and interactive working.
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My 20% project ships your code every time you hit save and the tests pass(simple-talk.com)
2 points by philwise 14y ago|0 comments
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by philwise 14y ago
I think that the UK.gov were forced by the IOC to promise that they would get the law passed before they could submit a O *c bid. Basically they waited until the last minute then it just happened without any consultation.
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by philwise 14y ago
The article misses the point of Khan Academy. The point is that the world only ever has to find _one good example_ of how to teach something. If someone comes up with a theory on a better way to teach something, cool. A/B test it and keep t
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by philwise 14y ago
Have you looked at SQL Azure? Microsoft have really good BI tools. I think 200GB of SQL Azure will cost a couple of hundred bucks a month.
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by philwise 14y ago
I can't see how the online business can afford to allow Do Not Track. Put the other way: you can only have gmail if you agree hand over your personal information to Google.
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by philwise 14y ago
In the UK the Royal Mail works similarly: http://www.royalmail.com/marketing-services
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by philwise 15y ago
That would be my guess too, especially as two crossed yagis are a well known way to receive circular polarized signals: http://www.qsl.net/dk7zb/Cross-Yagi/crossyagi.htm
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by philwise 15y ago
One thing to note is that dedicated server suppliers will foot the capital cost of servers for you, so there is no need to find the cash for the server up front. 100tb.com do this (I've not used them, know people who do) for example.
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by philwise 15y ago
I would see this as a move towards 'enterprise' (yes I know people here hate that word), but look at the url... $9/app/month means that it doesn't really make sense for tiny hobby sites any more: it is comparable in cost to a tiny VPS host,
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by philwise 15y ago
That is pretty pricey. 1GB of RAM from crucial is $10. 1 GB of Memcache from AWS, (assuming 3 year amortization) $1900. Obviously there is overhead, but if you have machines already and they are not maxed out on RAM then the $10/GB price is
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by philwise 15y ago
Using jquery will avoid this issue, because it automatically removes event handlers when a node is taken out of the DOM tree.
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by philwise 16y ago
I used to work in the FPGA industry, and we had quite a few people looking at trying to do hardware acceleration of stuff currently done on CPUs. In short, it is hard. There are plenty of suppliers who offer stuff in the market, for example
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by philwise 16y ago
Why is this interesting?
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by philwise 16y ago
'Sharding' and 'a rest interface' are not really business requirements. Sharding is only a solution to handling certain types of high load, and REST is but one solution for IPC.
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by philwise 16y ago
"We store a lot of data... 2TB" Given that a pair of 2TB drives is less than $250 on ebuyer right now, 2TB of data is not 'big data'. You could comfortably stuff that in any decent database (SQL Server for example, I'm sure PostgreSQL would
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by philwise 16y ago
This appears to be a bike designed by someone who has never ridden a bike, and who never got a handful of bits of wood and mocked the thing up. For example: 1) The handle bars have two hand positions, yet no brakes. Dual brakes are possible
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by philwise 16y ago
I've twice tried (unsuccessfully) to use it for small projects. Last week I had to re-write an app to port it off the platform because it suddenly stopped being served correctly when accessed via my own domain name. Basically it stopped wor
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by philwise 16y ago
Here is an alternative for the Duct Tape Programmer: http://www.brightyellowcow.com/blog/A-thin-13A-Plug.html
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by philwise 16y ago
Please, this is ridiculous. Find me a professional programmer who doesn't consider garbage collection and threads to be a useful thing.
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Using Comet on Google App Engine(brightyellowcow.com)
1 points by philwise 17y ago|0 comments
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by philwise 17y ago
One advantage that SimpleCDN has over Cloudfront is that it support http pseudo-streaming of flv and h264 video. I wrote some notes on it here: http://www.brightyellowcow.com/blog/Video-Streaming-Be-your-...
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A faster/cheaper version of the folding 13A plug(brightyellowcow.com)
1 points by philwise 17y ago|0 comments