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by russell 18y ago
Commandment 8 reminds me of the Brace Wars in C and the Indent 4 vs Indent 8 camps. Those who dislike Python's significant white space haven't seen real bloodshed.
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by russell 18y ago
Agreed. I did big launches in the pre-internet days, when the sage marketing advice was that you only had one chance to make a debut. No one was going to write about a 6 month old product. It was hugely expensive and the risk of failure
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by russell 18y ago
I agree. My advice on the sysadmin problem is to get a hosted development machine. Use it for email accounts and backup or source control. It's cheap and you have solved a bunch of sysadmin tasks in an hour or so. I do think scaling shoul
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by russell 18y ago
Sorry. I meant source to source, as in Python source to Java source. Python to java byte code, as in Jython, is a reasonable thing to do, but not easy.
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by russell 18y ago
I have, first edition even. :-) The first algorithms book that I really found readable was Sedgewick's Algorithms now updated to C, C++ and Java. Even now I will read Sedgewick first for clarity and go back to TAOCP or CLRS for analysis.
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by russell 18y ago
He's grandstanding, for example "limited error checking." I have written commercial compilers for a computer manufacturer and a number of translators, DSL compilers, and an application generation framework. I wrote a Pascal to C translato
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by russell 18y ago
Greenspun's tag line is "A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months." This isn't one of the interesting ones. It's about as useful as your typical /. comment.
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by russell 18y ago
Steven Pinker pretty convincingly demolished S-W (for me) in "The Stuff of Thought". He argues that there is an abstract linguistic framework upon which the concepts in a language are built, things like content-locatives, container-locativ
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by russell 18y ago
I've been using UltraEdit for a long time. It's feature rich and easily configurable to your editing style. Windows only and costs $50. It has auto-indent, syntax highlighting, FTP editing, and all that good stuff. For Java I also use ec
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by russell 18y ago
Not at all surprising given the large number of disks involved. Here is a very interesting analysis of actual Google failure rates: http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-exper...
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by russell 18y ago
Sounds dead on to me. The typical sort is O(N logN). O can be slightly different between the 1T runs and 1P runs, e.g. slightly difference latency or pattern of disk failures. Every sort is sensitive to the data distribution. There is pro
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by russell 18y ago
I had a minor remodel recently. The electrician installed cat-5 for everything, phones, ethernet, etc. He said he always does it. The wire is too cheap to mess with anything else.
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by russell 18y ago
Any salesman, good or bad, can sell himself to an engineer. I too learned that the hard way. Another good rule for a startup: never hire a VP from a major corporation. They are too used to a support staff that does everything for them, w