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by robfig 15y ago
Why would someone use J2EE or Spring over the Play Framework (which we use at work for our "mission critical enterprise applications")? Basically, what enterprise features am I missing out on by not using one of them?
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by robfig 15y ago
I think that much rich world unhappiness stems from spending a lot of time watching TV or playing video games. If you spend your time playing (e.g. hanging out with friends, playing sports) or working (e.g. accomplishing something), then I
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by robfig 15y ago
Better ads are ads with higher click-through rates, which provides more dollars for the site whose content you are freely consuming. Higher click through rates come from a better match between the user's interests and what the ad is offerin
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by robfig 15y ago
So MVC frameworks are going away for thick-client apps because their routing is not convenient for defining resources? And that their templating abilities are too powerful (or not powerful enough?). Not sure I get it. (Current routing sche
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by robfig 15y ago
Jeff Dean uses emacs
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by robfig 15y ago
I wonder how such cultural messages could be introduced, if they do not exist presently. It doesn't seem like something that the government can do anything about, so it makes sense that the govt reaches for new laws and restrictions to addr
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by robfig 15y ago
Disappointing that it didn't even touch on what I see as one of the central items of Khan Academy: the "watch lectures at home and do homework with teachers" methodology. That seems like the most interesting bit -- one that could get a grea
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by robfig 15y ago
It's required to maintain a linear history, no?
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by robfig 15y ago
In violent agreement here. Git and HG: 1. Require you to be sync'ed to tip before pushing. 2. Cannot selectively check out files. The former means that in any reasonably sized team, you will be forced to sync 30 times a day, even if you are
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by robfig 15y ago
Rarely use ifs? What do you do if you want to see if, e.g. there are any results for the user's query? I would do if (results.length > 0) or something
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by robfig 15y ago
I'm curious -- how would the author's example look using greenlets?
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by robfig 15y ago
You didn't have to take off your shoes or take anything out of your bags. And they wouldn't randomly force you through a scanner that takes nude pictures of you.
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by robfig 15y ago
I'm interested to use Go, but probably couldn't justify introducing it at work until they hit version 1.0. The built-in RPC is nice, but it seems like one would still want to use something like Thrift -- I assume that non-Go servers cannot
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by robfig 15y ago
Google doesn't "rewrite" things in the traditional sense.. they develop new versions of old systems when the old system has reached the limit (or is just grossly inefficient). The new systems generally are not at all architecturally simila
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by robfig 15y ago
In two full days of effort, I couldn't get a simple set of pages done. I found Play! right after that, and finished the pages completely painlessly in roughly no time. I would chalk it up to terrible terrible documentation, and being unabl
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by robfig 15y ago
This article is working ME too hard in order to read a dark grey font on a darker grey background
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by robfig 15y ago
We use Play heavily at work (eg. 50k SLOC). I love it. However, I'm pretty nervous about 2.0, due to the tight coupling with Scala. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from trying to use Lift, and I did not care for sbt at all. While typ
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by robfig 15y ago
Yep, you figured it out. JPA requires you to set it on both sides. (Well, really you only HAVE to set it on the owning side of the association, which is what Hibernate monitors, but you should do both. Otherwise, a future programmer may
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by robfig 15y ago
Boy, I really have a different opinion of enterprise software. The number and complexity of all of the various cases is astounding! To make it worse, they frequently come with no underlying framework, so you have to extrapolate and hope t
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by robfig 15y ago
""" Food: I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up. """ Love it. Anyone know why?
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by robfig 15y ago
Can someone explain why diplomatic cables should be free and open?
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by robfig 15y ago
What is the distinction between struct and a class with all public members?
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by robfig 15y ago
Obligatory http://xkcd.com/552/ I read an article in The Economist some time ago about speculative trading in oil markets. People were raising a ruckus about how it raised the costs of heating for the poor. Turned out that the evidence
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by robfig 15y ago
One thing that seems to genuinely have changed is that the stock market no longer prints money for everyone. The average adult that saved and invested in the 80s and 90s had their wealth grow enormously. I've been saving and investing sin
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by robfig 15y ago
"Now, I don't mean to imply that Wave did not have some very smart engineers working on the UI, we certainly did. But talent is different from experience. The latter is a guard against 3.5MB of compressed, minified, inlined Javascript. Agai
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by robfig 15y ago
"Your Silverlight plug-in has crashed." gg
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by robfig 15y ago
Where do you get that information? A large fraction of Google's frontends are written in Java.
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by robfig 15y ago
The article's premise of Yahoo's value being "behavioral data of its users" seems pretty silly. It's all about the ads (search and display). Maybe it was a roundabout reference to ad targeting?
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by robfig 15y ago
Has anyone worked on this kind of modeling software? The article is very light on technical details. Specifically, it seems like humans are required to accurately model the problem domain and assign weights. I find it surprising that the
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Game Theory modeling software in practice(economist.com)
1 points by robfig 15y ago|2 comments

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