rcoder

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   by rcoder 19y ago

   I think we're agreeing more than disagreeing here. My assertion was that business domain knowledge and internal workflow were far more important than programming languages or algorithms as a determinant of business success. Revealing the ma
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   by rcoder 19y ago

   Personally, I think that you should be worried if you think that secrecy is your best chance at a successful business, at least on the technical side of things. Unless you really, truly employ the best programmers in the world, chances are
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   by rcoder 19y ago

   You put a lot of thought into how to "get [your] products into schools," and you thought Facebook was the right platform to work with? If you're just using Facebook as a quick marketing plug to get folks interested in your service, that's
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   by rcoder 19y ago

   There are a few problems with trying to take on the WebCT/Blackboard gestalt. As others have already mentioned, out-of-the-box integration with ERP systems is a big selling point for the commercial solutions, even though it largely doesn't
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   by rcoder 19y ago

   Okay, I'll bite... 1. Recursion and cons cells naturally complement one another. They can stand in for n-ary tuples, vectors, and arrays reasonably well for small values of n, and when your dataset gets large, well, you switch to a more eff
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   by rcoder 19y ago

   Disclaimer: it's been >10 years since I did any HyperCard/HyperTalk programming, so I will admit that I may mis-state some of the points below. That being said, HyperCard served as a major training ground for me when I was getting start
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   by rcoder 19y ago

   First, I'll second the folks who have already responded by saying that you shouldn't be typing for 15 hours per day. Coding , perhaps, but easily 1/2 or 2/3 of the time you spend programming should be spent thinking, reading code, etc. If
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   by rcoder 19y ago

   This looks suspiciously like an outbreak of common sense amongst the record labels: royalty payments directly to the artists? Free full-length playback of sample tracks, with opt-in for unlimited numbers of plays? Tight integration with iTu
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   by rcoder 19y ago

   While I agree that trade schools are a Good Thing ™, I have to respectfully but strongly disagree with your assertion that theory of computation and programming language semantics and implementation are somehow unimportant for any
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    by rcoder 19y ago

    There are a number of reasons not to put critical business systems on top of EC2. First and foremost, if you don't have control of who can physically access your hardware, you can't make any real assurances about the privacy and integrity o
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    by rcoder 19y ago

    Actually, MySQL could really use an embedded procedure-writing language. Java wouldn't be the worst choice they could make, especially given the proliferation of other languages implemented atop the JVM -- being able to use JRuby for stored
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    by rcoder 19y ago

    I'm going to call BS on this one, for one simple reason: submitting source code to an application is both unlikely to fly with independent developers, and a pretty poor way to protect the underlying platform from malware. The former is espe