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by shubber 16y ago
Just to amplify: there's more than a pedantic difference beteen the two. REST has a lot of serious advantages related not only to application architecture and interoperability but also to system architecture and scalability. There's a lot
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by shubber 16y ago
At the risk of sounding merely contrarian, I can offer a handful of counterexamples that I know personally.
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by shubber 16y ago
Okay, maybe I'm missing something crucial here, but "devices have direct access to the PCI bus" sounds kind of terrible. Forget keyloggers: I can log your proc talking to the drives and monitor now. Am I wrong?
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by shubber 16y ago
Am I the only one who find w3schools more annoying than expertsexchange? Maybe it's just the searches I perform, but I usually want to see w3.org results, not the often misleading webbed CF results.
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by shubber 16y ago
"Does your team usually write code whose correctness relies upon undocumented and unreliable correlations, correlations whose magnitudes can vary widely as a result of implementation details?" I loved this implication on a Microsoft website
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When to use alias_method_chain – metautonomo.us(metautonomo.us)
2 points by shubber 16y ago|0 comments
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by shubber 16y ago
Mobile browsers don't support it. I've never been clear on the reasons, except maybe that there's a tension with the carriers over airwave bandwidth. Honestly: there's a Javascript interface in mobile Safari to access the location sensors
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by shubber 16y ago
Neither is every geek, but fair point.
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by shubber 16y ago
Funniest thing is "RPN sounds like a joke" - like they're discovering it for the first time. Isn't RPN the next chapter after hexadecimal in The Short Course for Computer Geeks? New tech interview question: 1 2 + 3 * 4 - 5 / =
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by shubber 16y ago
Well, that's a huge surprise. Something to remember when topics of gender do come up: we are most of us male, and that influences the outlook.
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by shubber 16y ago
I think the real story would be when you were collared by the SEC for insider trading.
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by shubber 16y ago
Can anyone quote the opt-in language that Microsoft uses for the Bing toolbar? Although I'm still not sure about whether there's a difference, I think there's a clear distinction between watching users of your site and taking action based
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by shubber 16y ago
I'm just glad to see I'm not the only one who's been led to think: if Google can demonstrate that Microsoft is picking up search correlations from the Google site, and Microsoft just explained that, no, it's just that we pull in clickstream
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by shubber 16y ago
I for one have heard a lot of stories of interesting technical work being done at MySpace. Sure, as a website it's terrible, but there's a lot of demand for scale that was happening much earlier than it was elsewhere.
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by shubber 16y ago
It saddens me to reflect that every time I felt like a company was with was failing, and that we might recover, ultimately, we failed. So, the most rational advice I could give any employee would be: if you're invested in the success of yo
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ArXiv blog(technologyreview.com)
3 points by shubber 16y ago|0 comments
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by shubber 16y ago
Right. "Mousekeys to the rescue." The painful, awkward "got it takes forever to move the cursor... Ah! Missed!" rescue. If Mousekeys is the solution, your problem is pretty bad.
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by shubber 16y ago
The claim is that the author's partner checked a few domains for a website client, went to the client for sign-off, and attempted to register the domain a few hours later. Shock: the client's domain is already registered, the registrant is
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by shubber 16y ago
One of my favorite, under-known Bash tricks: Ctrl-O. "Enter current command, put next history item on command line." It works like this: You're doing 3 things over and over again, but you need to see each step finished before you want to g
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by shubber 16y ago
Which is great if you can implement the idea in a weekend. Much harder if it'll take 2 years to build before you can see if the time was worth spending.
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by shubber 16y ago
I think that, frankly, it probably is a handicap whether she thinks it is or not. There are going to be folks who write off the female single founder where they wouldn't a male single founder. It's worth recognizing that there is a barrie
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by shubber 16y ago
'gem -r -d search' works pretty well.
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by shubber 16y ago
As much as I agree with you, if you're writing a public missive about the future of your company, it doesn't make sense to publish the draft, much less the draft you wrote through heartbroken tears. There's a professional context to consid
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by shubber 16y ago
What do you mean, exactly? Chrome + Safari don't crest 10% of web share.
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by shubber 16y ago
While there's a correlation between dynamic scoping and explicit "this", it isn't universal: Ruby being the obvious exception.
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by shubber 16y ago
I for one would like to see a discussion of why the decision was made to build AReL in the first place, rather than adopt DataMapper. Now that's I've gotten a chance to dig into AReL and it's integration with Rails, I'm less impressed than
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by shubber 16y ago
In a field where (at the rosiest count) 25% of the practitioners are female, and an economy where women get paid (again, optimistically) 75% of what men are, how is it that repugnant to hire one CS prof who must be a woman? If these things
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by shubber 16y ago
Why aren't your tests "the future of documentation"? Or automatic documentation - check out Knuth on the subject of Literate Programming. Because, you know, writing Cucumber step definitions feels like more duplicated effort to me.
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by shubber 16y ago
Both Python and Lua share this characteristic with Javascript. Is there a name for this language feature, or for languages that share it? I tend to think of them as "bag-of-things" languages, since they also all share the fact that objects
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Let's do something a little more fun that NoMethodError(github.com)
2 points by shubber 16y ago|0 comments

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