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by sah 18y ago
I didn't mean to imply that linked lists aren't a useful data structure, just that arrays and array-based lists are well suited to an apparently wider range of problems.
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by sah 18y ago
In languages that can mutate data structures using side-effects, linked lists are rarely the best choice of data structure. Note, for example, that Python and Ruby have built-in array-based lists, but no linked lists. Similar structures a
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by sah 18y ago
If everyone shuts up, how are people supposed to figure out where to move to? I hate the idea that no one should ever be critical of anything.
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by sah 18y ago
This problem applies to using any new or non-standard technology without abundant interfaces to a wide variety of tools. That's the downside. The advantage is that you get to use something better, and maybe it makes you more productive, a
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How Not to Handle Streams(hackerdashery.com)
6 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
Yeah, mine too. I guess we're on the cutting edge of swearing.
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by sah 18y ago
This is pretty meaningless. Vista [...] managed to record 639 unique vulnerabilities over roughly the last half year [...] Windows 2000 [...] experienced 586 over the same period. Windows XP [...] had 1,021, with Windows 2003 Server reach
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by sah 18y ago
Are you nuts? ATMs get away with margins around 1% (say, a buck or two on an average withdrawal between $100 and $200). That looks low compared to the margins bookstores make, but the warehousing costs are negative!
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by sah 18y ago
This reminds me of that fizzbuzz thing. It's surprising how effective a low bar like that can be.
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by sah 18y ago
That could be the case at Facebook. I had the opportunity to talk with Jeff Rothschild, Facebook's VP of Technology, last year. He was very obviously both experienced and smart.
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by sah 18y ago
300 requests per second is pretty slow for database queries, isn't it?
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by sah 18y ago
It throws a NoMethodError, because strings don't have that method. And you can introduce that kind of syntax at roughly the same time you'd have to in Python.
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by sah 18y ago
What's so mysterious about puts "hello, world"? I think you have a mistaken impression of Ruby.
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by sah 18y ago
I've had good results backing up to S3 with Brackup: http://search.cpan.org/~bradfitz/Brackup/ It optionally encrypts data, though. I don't do that, because encrypting backups seems like playing with fire to me. What if you lose the pri
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by sah 18y ago
I think this is one of the best points for Python as a teaching language. It's not just approachable, it's also practical. I think most of the positive points mentioned here also apply to Ruby.
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by sah 18y ago
There's a difference between "mandatory indentation" (good!) and what Python does. I wrote a rant on this subject: http://www.hackerdashery.com/2006/09/close-block-delimiter-s...
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The Terrible Legacy of Legacy(hackerdashery.com)
15 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
This is neat. A complete Ruby-to-pyc compiler might be a faster implementation of Ruby than the original one.
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by sah 18y ago
Think about other important areas of human endeavor: driving a car, flying a plane, running a company, designing a house, teaching a child, curing a disease, selling insurance, fighting a lawsuit. driving a car, flying a plane : These a
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by sah 18y ago
I've been working standing for the last few months, with similar results. It's definitely easier on my back, and seems to be good for my wrists as well. If you try it, make sure you mount the monitor up at eye level. When you're standing
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by sah 18y ago
Debugging other engineered systems is clearly just as much a science as debugging software. But there are other aspects of engineering that don't seem like science to me, like design and optimization.
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Rediscovering Standard ML(locut.us)
1 points by sah 18y ago|0 comments
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by sah 18y ago
Oops, you're right. I misunderstood Platt to be quoting Bacon where he wasn't, and didn't check up on it when I skimmed The New Organon. I'll update to point out the mistake.
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Debugging Science(hackerdashery.com)
15 points by sah 18y ago|5 comments
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by sah 18y ago
Microsoft is entering this market?
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by sah 19y ago
Pandora's matching doesn't have a very good hit rate recommending music to me. But it's okay for automatically generating a radio station, so that I don't have to be involved in selecting every song. With books, I can't listen passively wh
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by sah 19y ago
Best quote, near the end: "Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it."
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by sah 19y ago
Standard runtime environment to target instead of the 'mess' of ((DOM + CSS + JS) x browsers) we have now? This is what I've always wanted. When the web first took off, I was constantly whining about how remote application UIs were going
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Syncplicity launches beta (Dropbox competitor)(venturebeat.com)
7 points by sah 19y ago|4 comments
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by sah 19y ago
In general, what does App Engine mean for AWS?

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