slightlycuban

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by slightlycuban 10y ago
I feel the premise of "the OS as a Language" is missing a very critical point: our common definition of what "a computer is" has changed drastically in the intervening years. Take a close look at those early computers. I
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by slightlycuban 10y ago
We're trying. Our not-too-far-off alternative is to require whoever owns the physical cable within the city to sell services to other providers (usually for a regulated fee). Basically what we did for long-distance phone service. The r
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by slightlycuban 10y ago
> I don't get the general negativity around Windows. For me, it's that the system is completely closed and opaque, and there routinely isn't much I can do about it. Not saying the other guys are perfect--far from it--but a
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by slightlycuban 11y ago
Point of this article is not the point of this article. The clever bit was: > ...the IPv4 address will convert into a number... Many fancy, post-modern app developers might insist, "You won't do math with an address; it's
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by slightlycuban 11y ago
Depends on the resolution and scan area you're talking about. I think the .5km can go off every 15min. But the 2km can go out every 5. But that's nothing. IIRC, the Mesoscale (a 1000km x 1000km box somewhere in the hemisphere) can
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by slightlycuban 11y ago
Interesting. I take a similar approach, but then I add testing (which usually coincides with fixing some bug). Find an entry point to the system, then make it compile, then make the test run, then just keep on nudging the code until I'
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
With Gimp? Explain.
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
Setting up the projection is the most difficult part. Also one a lot of people have worked on, PROJ4 [ http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ ] Were I to grab a projector and a hemisphere screen, I'd probably just reproject to
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
It's Mapserver [ http://mapserver.org/ ]. At NOAA, if the license cost is $0, its good.
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
> ...my thesis was that the Great Firewall is economically beneficial for China. Not quite. While protectionism can help bootstrap a domestic industry, shutting out competition doesn't always build an industry that can compete inter
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
> I don't understand the whole "If you behave logically as a business we hate you" sentiment. FWIG, Cuban's attitude sounds like "what is good for the business isn't always good for the investor". In a
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
I work in government contracts, so your example of complying with the tax code was oddly relevant. There are plenty of places that follow along your example: I can build a general solution that will withstand a wide range of changes. This d
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
Part of my point is that you don't feel over-engineering nearly as much. If it is under-engineered, it probably doesn't work, and at least has a list of pain points that are fairly obvious. Over-engineered components will work (so
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
The issue I deal with isn't in choosing a design that scales better, it is uncertainty in how things will scale. Say I need to handle group permissions depending on the context. I could hard-code the permissions changes for the one gro
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
Sounds like you have a good idea of what I'm on about. Still leaves me searching for a way to deal with my system. Take your tax-software example. You need to start work before the law is written, but there could be changes in the law
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
In my line of work, either I'm building a new component, or I'm dealing with requirements change. So dealing with the shifting sands of what the system should do is a major concern. Requirements come and go for me. And losing re
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
I'm not really a fan of the story-point example. The article begins with: > it’s something that you get when you delay design decisions for later But then presents us with a problem where we can "spend" 21 story points now
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
> Good architecture is almost timeless. Never dismiss the dangers of over-engineering. While not as terrifying as under-engineering, how useful is a feature that exists only for the purity of design?
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
So, I could get on my soapbox of "your students are adults, let them make their own decisions on note taking" or go on about how useful I found a calendar for remembering class schedules, but: > We still haven’t made it easy to
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
The age distribution in China is not that far off from the US[1]. This gives China a similar entitlement expenditure per person as in the US, but without the same level or distribution of income. US population growth has been outpacing Chin
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
(I'm not up to date on the 2014 season, so a more avid fan might show me up) While the driver may be making adjustments to road-condition or in response to immediate problems detected in the car, the biggest reason he is going to have
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by slightlycuban 12y ago
Orlando, FL; Local; Full Time | Contract Stack: Java, Python(numpy), & some .NET for work; HTML & SASS for fun Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/mtracy Contact: slightlycuban [at] gmail.com Backend developer