russtrotter

9 ms·

31.
by russtrotter 7y ago
If this was a simple change of preferences due to all the vegan/vegetarian talking points, I could agree with your premise. The thing I wonder about C19 is that what kinds of agricultural processes involve humans ensuring that beans&#
32.
by russtrotter 7y ago
I remember learning RE in the context of finite automata so I'm gathering that they are questioning the novelty of that implementation strategy?
33.
by russtrotter 7y ago
For as much as it seems comical, I enjoy languages like Java and C# so much because while I cut my teeth on lots of C (then C++) from the early 90's onward, once the web began to drive so much development, you needed to be able to slin
34.
by russtrotter 7y ago
I cut my teeth on making the jump from turbo pascal programs to GUI via the Win32 API. Its "rawness" felt fun, i.e. slinging around "long" pointers to stuff and big event handling switch statement state machines. As lon
35.
by russtrotter 7y ago
I did this for the first time 2 days ago on two medium-size GH repos and it while was crazy slow, it eventually completed after about 8 hours or so. The actual bits seemed to finish in a relatively quick amount of time, but the project lan
36.
by russtrotter 7y ago
I'm sitting here typing this response on a 2016 MBP (the first gen with the butterfly keyboard and touchbar). Due to some thermal issues, I unscrewed the cover to blow the dust out and discovered my batteries are all swelling. Yikes.
37.
by russtrotter 7y ago
AFAIK, AWS's EMR and Glue leverage Hadoop under the covers. Does that count towards that market? and/or at least keeping Hadoop development active?
38.
by russtrotter 7y ago
I don't think the statement is entirely unreasonable given that JC is a facebook employee, he's one of the tech masterminds behind their VR initiatives and the optics of having the tech face of Occulus dog-food your social media p
39.
by russtrotter 8y ago
I'd say, all things being equal, yes, choose languages on tech merit or suitability to task. But look at what's happening with Java and Oracle's handling of it. I think the Google vs Oracle lawsuit is still going through app
40.
by russtrotter 8y ago
While make, for me, fell out of day-to-day use once C/C++ projects waned, it's still a great and powerful tool. I really appreciate its consistency to a Unix philosophy where it provides the essential feature of target building t
41.
by russtrotter 9y ago
seems like articles like this are always read as justification for KFC, butter, cheese and burgers rather than "hey maybe eating all those nuts and avocados is a good idea???"
42.
by russtrotter 9y ago
Fascinating read, but i'd be lying if the old Unix nerd in me initially thought this was about signal(3)
43.
by russtrotter 10y ago
That approach is generally how many web platforms do their server-side session management. As with anything that is more or less home-grown (vs using that platform session implementation), you'll want to ask yourself: 1) how easy can
44.
by russtrotter 10y ago
I've always held Carmack in very high regard. He's one of the few folks in our field where if he says he didn't my gut tells me to believe him. Here's to justice being served, one way or another. There's a great
45.
by russtrotter 10y ago
Ha! ture, i feel like the sport trifecta for developer types might be climbing, cycling (road and/or mtb) and ultimate frisbee :-) Am I out on a ledge here ? (pun intended )
46.
by russtrotter 10y ago
Yep, I agree with your argument. I can't see how this model Casio is any better than the equivalent Timex, Armitron, etc. Is the beeper signal approach you suggest viable?
47.
by russtrotter 10y ago
A long but a fascinating read. I'm old enough to remember dreaming of owning a Schwinn 10-speed as a kid. The dream never materialized as by the time I had the means it was a whole new world. A plethora of options and bike types rul
48.
by russtrotter 10y ago
Ya good point. Radix sort is not a comparison-based sort so maybe it's in a different niche. I've always had a soft spot for it :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_sort
49.
by russtrotter 10y ago
I get it: low-carb, hi-fat works for people and high-carb, low-fat works for people. Let's just get that off the table, but can we, for the love of the sustainable planet, have a hi-fat person give their testimony on how they did it w
50.
by russtrotter 11y ago
I'd encourage anyone in the twittersphere to follow @ID_AA_Carmack. His musings there waste few words and he often tosses questions out there that will get you thinking. Congrats to him on the BAFTA, but yes, he really is just getting
51.
by russtrotter 11y ago
One technique you might look into is "Materialized Path": * usually one single query to fetch an entire tree or subtree * more work on reconstructing tree from query result * requires prefix pattern matching operator, e.g. "l
52.
by russtrotter 11y ago
Just visited DC area, USA and went to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum. That have a V2 on display there. It gives one a palpable impression of their power especially in WWII.
53.
by russtrotter 11y ago
+1 on Zapier! I'm a big fan of the service and platform. With YC news a more tech-focused crowd their web interface for building integrations is really effective. Point-n-click for most stuff, and you can fallback to JS should you ne
54.
by russtrotter 11y ago
I enjoyed this article! The quote from the person who was upset about a car lane being replaced with a bike lane sadly expresses a common sentiment with the populous. I'm a year-round commuter in Phoenix AZ USA. Gets really hot here fo
55.
by russtrotter 11y ago
Wasn't Ogg Theora created under just the same principles? I'm not smart enough in all things codec to know how it stacks up technically, but best I can tell, it's unencumbered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
56.
by russtrotter 11y ago
I'd add my vote for using Groovy's shell (groovysh) for Java REPL. The shortcuts and conveniences the Groovy lang provides make it perfect for this kind of application.
57.
by russtrotter 11y ago
Is it possible that technical impression was not the sole reason somebody isn't hired?
58.
by russtrotter 12y ago
I can't your extent of sarcasm from the comment, but the final sentence made me cackle: "If I was a bug I wouldn't want to live in there"! ha!
59.
by russtrotter 12y ago
Hmm... just how much stuff in the JS universe is actually not 0.x.y?
60.
by russtrotter 12y ago
An Aug 2nd tweet from John Carmack started "Onboarding at Facebook went well...". My thought was "nobody onboards that guy?!?! he onboards YOU!!" I just hope talent like John Carmack can still spread their wings in th

More ›