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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Most people who use FB chat are probably going through the FB site. Dealing with authorization/privacy/spam/abuse for federated users would be a pretty difficult UI/support challenge since it's not integrated with FB's existing friend/profi
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
These dudes have been doing something similar: http://voicecentral.riverturn.com/
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Then they should work somewhere they can do that. Most likely that's a small company or a startup.
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Sounds like a combination of FS-level VC (implemented several times) and GoboLinux or Zero-Install (probably more Zero-Install.)
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
No, it didn't: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
touchmove, apparently: http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/07/10/touching-and-gesturin...
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
In this case, if you're not an expert with bash, a good rule of thumb would be to pipe your glob-expanded list of junk into perl -nle 'print' (or echo, or... etc) before running something destructive. Every time. Until you're an expert.
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Filenames can contain plenty of happy stuff. $> touch -- -- $> rm -- usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ... unlink file $> rm -- -- $> touch \ $> touch \\ \ \ . \- favorites of malware authors everywhere.
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Well, it looks like the entire footprint (Ruby LOC) on github is smaller than port.tcl in MacPorts, so I imagine it seemed more approachable.
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
I completely disagree (with the article) when it comes to startup staffing. There are a few cases where having a domain expert is necessary (e.g. if you're writing, say, a new database system or doing realtime software, or if you're selling
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Looking at http://net2apps.com/Product.aspx , they obviously were directly copying some of your graphics/design at one point. It looks like they've moved away somewhat. You probably have a case, but I'm skeptical you'd recoup the cost of p
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Well, Groovy has never been "sexy" (in a CS sense) in the way Scala or Clojure are perceived to be. Despite that (or perhaps because of it) my experience has indicated it's in wider use than either, and it has some enterprise-y backing (Spr
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
This article is really terrible, and it's sad because most of the pieces of software discussed are at least interesting. Several are indispensable to anybody in the business of dealing with PB-scale data. (I'm pretty sure Hadoop is seeing h
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
If you anticipate having to write a report, obviously you should use the right tool. If you don't, use what's simple and gets the job done. It's not incredibly hard to switch later. On the low-end, administration for MySQL is certainly not
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Indeed, "kids" (by which I assume you mean "assembly-line CS grads") these days are pretty much using Hibernate, ActiveRecord or (I guess?) LINQ. This is a good thing: The O/R mismatch exists. For good programmers ORMs are more productive
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Bleh. This seems like yet another article that starts out with a basic premise of "oh hey, programmers are special and have bad social skills because they're rationally-thinking ubermensch". Spare me.
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
I disagree with the article too (and don't think it's well-argued), but... Stating your position in firm (i.e. "conclusive") terms is generally an advisable practice. The reader can judge the merits of a position for themselves, and counter
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Awesome. I actually fired up Sinatra on JRuby for a micro-app that needs to talk to some Java stuff last week. All of the existing stuff in Scala was way too heavy for the purpose. (Clojure/compojure has comparable overhead to Sinatra assum
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
(setq custom-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/custom.el"))
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Indeed. (I mentioned Fortran in one of my replies above.) As far as I know, Fortran isn't used much for new development projects, though; I hear more about using the C interfaces to LAPACK or whatnot even in very crunchy (e.g. genome) apps.
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Any of the "academic" languages (Haskell, ML, Lispen, etc) are probably more likely to be found in math/physics-heavy development than in general development shops, but C/C++ is probably the standard (for fast-math libraries and realtime wo
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Somebody mentioned Clojure, which is a great language but has some baggage. If she's coming from a rigorous background, I highly suggest Scheme and the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/s
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
I don't have a dog in this fight, but a major thesis of the article is that this is effectively not true for C++ (vs C) because the language is so complicated (thus the implementations so inconsistent/subtly incorrect) that it's incredibly
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
I don't think your first paragraph follows (I think you can certainly contest every assertion in favor of a position without being illogical), although I agree the style is usually unproductive. I'd rather not get into debating it here, tho
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
This is both a bad argument and kind of lacking a sense of humor, since programmers do this (point by point rebuttals) all the time (see: every popular thread on the LKML, ever)
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Also worth reading (edit: if you've got an hour to kill and care about the subject): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/brows... The author defends his position pretty coherently and civilly; you can disagree with his
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Sure, having used (and appreciated) Erlang I agree it would be interesting (I'm not a .NET user either or likely to become one.) I'm not surprised they omitted it, though I won't speculate why. I just think it's worth reinforcing that there
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
I'd bet this originated from MS Research, who have plenty of people who have worked on/invented actor systems predating Erlang.
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
It varies; you'll want to know quite a bit of Java for Scala and Groovy but less so for Clojure, in my opinion. Clojure has a quite distinct flavor and you see things like ring being used instead of servlets directly in compojure, etc. It'l
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
I moved here when I was 18 (in 2006) with $1500 in the bank (and no parents to fall back on.) It's tough but doable. I ended up taking a job with an existing startup, but at the time my first priority was being able to eat :) If I were you,

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