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by ribs 10y ago
What are those?
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by ribs 10y ago
I'd like to see something about dependency and package management here.
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by ribs 10y ago
Yes, I'd never heard it called that before
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by ribs 10y ago
Now come on. Oracle and PostgreSQL and MySQL and the others all overlap a lot, but there's one thing that Oracle does much better than any of the others. It makes money for the Oracle Corporation!
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by ribs 10y ago
Yeah, especially with those two! "My mentors were Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison." Who wouldn't want to be able to say that?
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by ribs 10y ago
Wry writing.
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by ribs 10y ago
I profoundly agree and note that voting (at least in any reasonably-sized electorate) is an inherently irrational act, and so the barrier to good judgment is high. It's inherently irrational because one's vote will almost certainl
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by ribs 11y ago
Indeed. It's the best (shittiest) way to deploy code on as many people's desktops as possible.
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by ribs 11y ago
Difficult to machine, though, I'd expect, being among the hardest of all known substances (the moissanite polymorph being just a bit softer than diamond, at a Mohs scale hardness of 9.5.)
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by ribs 11y ago
I've been diagnosed with AD/HD. Eventually I moved into sales engineering. It's been great. You leverage technical skills but get to talk to new people all the time and see what kind of problems they're trying to solve.
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by ribs 11y ago
Go to Burning Man, or a regional event. It's the canonical way. You can make some serious friendships there.
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by ribs 11y ago
I've been taking chemistry courses, online, with some labs in person. Oregon State ($$) and Coursera. I've finished general chemistry, took a little analytic, and now I'm making my way through an organic chemistry sequence.
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by ribs 11y ago
I bet if you gave extra cash to someone who regularly uses heroin and who "maintains", they'll put that extra cash to good use.
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by ribs 11y ago
I moved into sales engineering - it's cool to work on the sales team, and it gives one a wider grasp of the development organization.
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Everyone with a security clearance: now they know your secrets(bbc.com)
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by ribs 11y ago
Blatant sales pitch: Klocwork (which I rep) is what you want. Our static analysis tool is fast enough so that your developers can run it just before a commit, but for many environments it will run when they save code, or even as they type.
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by ribs 11y ago
A very good read. Odd that there's no mention of Andy or of ABBA.
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by ribs 11y ago
Sure, but it seems terribly near-sighted to me. Why would you want to?
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by ribs 11y ago
I'm several paragraphs in and there is no sign of deep insight. "In simulators, work is efficient, productive, and fun; it is goal oriented, quantifiable, and successful; the player can always win." No kidding. We're on
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by ribs 11y ago
Yeah...I like to say that I want to die by getting hit by a bus from behind. Thinking about it now I would amend the scenario to include me listening to music on headphones, so I don't hear it coming. It's good to be alive.
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by ribs 11y ago
Only place I've ever seen the word "hamartia" (before I Googled it) was in a clue from a very, very hard crossword puzzle.
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by ribs 11y ago
3rd party systems - since they're complex and poorly documented and don't work like they say they do, the obvious thing to do is to simulate their vagaries and test against that. Trader don't know what they want - you could s
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by ribs 12y ago
This just totally completely sucks!!
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by ribs 12y ago
I'm worried by the lack of package definitions in the Java source I looked at. You shouldn't be putting Java classes into the global namespace. I have to wonder what they were thinking.
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by ribs 12y ago
My guess is because it's bullshit. Detoxing off sugar. Give me a break.
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by ribs 12y ago
Every year I've gone to Burning Man I've lived in a tensegrity-supported structure. See http://shelter-systems.com
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by ribs 12y ago
Isn't this story just about a single anecdote? To me that makes it nearly meaningless.
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by ribs 12y ago
The musician analogy is poorly chosen. Playing an instrument is a highly physical, hand-eye(-mouth)-coordination challenge. But mastering a platform - be it a language, a framework, a library - will help make you a much better developer, it
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by ribs 12y ago
C'mon man, keep those threads fresh. The clothes that is. Stuff gets worn and it no longer gives you the boost. Go buy some more fly duds.
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by ribs 12y ago
Paul talks about this subject like it's a breaking of the code or something, but it's just economics. If there's a commodity you can get for cheaper than other people, you stand to gain. In this case the commodity is pleasure

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