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Google under fire from European media tycoon(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by room271 13y ago|0 comments
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by room271 13y ago
The main benefit of having an actual API layer is decoupling - between your front end clients and you back end service(s). This article seems to forget this major point. Decoupling has loads of benefits - for example, it gives separate de
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by room271 13y ago
This page crashes my browser (FF 28 in Ubuntu). Ooops. Anyone else experiencing this?
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by room271 13y ago
I'm actually surprised at how short the list is. Presumably they use a lot more open-source projects than this?!
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by room271 13y ago
There is a new responsive site which is going to be phased in soonish (no definite time frame though). It's much better performance-wise.
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by room271 13y ago
Small webshops are also rife with this kind of programming environment. Mostly because their clients have no idea about code quality and the projects are small enough that you can still just about be productive with terrible programming sta
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by room271 13y ago
It is, but it's definitely not a good way to treat new people to the team, especially people on their first job. Much better to explain the bug/problem and let them fix it.
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by room271 13y ago
Thinking about 'us' is definitely the best thing to do and it is definitely a failing of (some) young but talented programmers to develop a certain arrogance which only puts others off. However, at some point it will become obviou
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by room271 13y ago
That is very similar to my first job. The truth is that most programmers are not very good at writing software. Some don't care about code quality, and others haven't learnt (yet) how to program well. When you apply for your next
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by room271 13y ago
I like a lot of things about Erlang. But the main reason I would be wary of using it is that it seems like an all-or-nothing kind of thing. The distributed actor model effectively means Erlang everywhere. This contrasts with RPC, queues, ht
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by room271 13y ago
I think you are slightly underplaying the challenges of making one of the biggest domain changes ever. Yes, the technical details are not too complex. But the risk is massive and the legwork still considerable. If you work for a very large
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by room271 13y ago
Ha, the issue there is really about domain availability and cost.
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by room271 13y ago
They do for large organisations like The Guardian.
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by room271 13y ago
This may require a bit more lengthy answer than makes sense here, but I'm curious about what was causing your GC issues and how you fixed them (we have GC issues at the moment).
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by room271 13y ago
I'm not sure you have this right. CAP says nothing about ACID - it only mentions consistency. NoSQL was in large part about precisely what the name implies - giving up relational (SQL) data in exchange for better performance and the ab
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by room271 13y ago
No. The choice of datastore is still incredibly complicated in the distributed world; it's all about tradeoffs really. For example, Elasticsearch has poor availability characteristics - both because it is master-slave and because it fo
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by room271 13y ago
I would learn (as someone who is interested in backend stuff - scalability, high-performance systems, apis) related to web-work: - HTTP - C (because it teaches you how computers work a bit) - One of the new JVM languages (either Clojure or
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by room271 13y ago
Do you think that private companies that use bug bounties are being inefficient then?
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by room271 13y ago
How did this make it onto Hacker News? Squabbles like this happen at every university (or at least the ones I have been to). Universities are often quite conservative places with a tendency to restrict student activity beyond what is sensib
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by room271 13y ago
Mobile phones (via apps) are a lot more monetisable. Part of the decision may have been motivated by this (i.e. push mobile users towards the apps by limiting the responsiveness of the main website). I'm not saying I agree with this (a
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by room271 13y ago
I sympathise to some extent. But this is not an entirely scientific perspective. The NYT will undoubtedly have performed significant user testing and also looked at the metrics (articles read, time spent, etc.) before making this switch.
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by room271 13y ago
He actually addresses this question. His advice is: start with any idea, even a bad one, and write about it. You're ideas will develop (and new ones will emerge) as you go. (Thoughtful) writing is the discovery mechanism.
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by room271 13y ago
I'm surprised you describe Europe as lacking in world class innovators. There are loads of conferences in most of Europe and the scientific and academic output in general of European countries is incredibly high. The same is likely tru
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by room271 13y ago
While I do not agree with much of the sentiment, I enjoyed the article. My question to the OP: even if you believe that at the moment abuses are rare and that your colleagues are trustworthy and law-abiding, does the capability and level of
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by room271 13y ago
I use Scala in my job and, though I never formally studied CS, I would be concerned at using it for an introductory course at university. Scala is fundamentally a pragmatic language - it is about compromise between functional purity and JVM
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by room271 13y ago
Not true. I don't have time to complain about most things that upset me. Of course, I will complain about the very worst things, but this is a pretty high bar. I was upset by this but have not complained anywhere.
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by room271 13y ago
The author is very clear that you can scale Java and Scala in the same ways. But doing this in Scala is much more idiomatic and concise.
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U.K. Official Urges U.S. Government To Adopt A Digital Core(npr.org)
1 points by room271 13y ago|0 comments
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by room271 13y ago
People might be thinking of scripts here. I did when I first responded.
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by room271 13y ago
Set a minimum wage to a reasonable level (i.e. enough that you can eat without extra support if earning it) and the issue goes away. The idea that you can shame companies into action doesn't work - it might in one or two cases, but peo

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